Surprise finding by Conference of Swiss Data Protection Officers: " identified five critical problems with international cloud providers:
Most SaaS solutions lack true end-to-end encryption. Global companies offer insufficient transparency for compliance verification. Cloud services create significant loss of control over data. Legal uncertainty exists for data under confidentiality obligations. The US CLOUD Act allows data access regardless of storage location"
Only rediscovered in 2006, Blonde Capuchins are highly intelligent critically endangered primates of Brazil threatened by palm oil and meat deforestation
Boycott palm oil this Christmas ๐ ๐ with 10 yummy, #palmoilfree and #Veganย #recipes ๐ฆง๐ฆ๐๐๐ and your #health ๐ฅฆ๐ #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife
the fake scare about Gmail smart features enabling AI scanning was the final push for me to move all my email business to Proton and utilize the email aliases, it's great. There are a couple of service providers who blocked the default passmail domain address, or all the additional domain addresses (like github and netlify) and one that didn't support use of "." except after "@", so businesses are catching on and I expect it will be more difficult to successfully use soon.
Also keep in mind that ECC doesn't make the hardware 100% secure, I also had a kernel panic once in a server using ECC and was a huge problem.
I never got to know the exact problem, but I am almost completely sure it wasn't the RAM, it was something with my hard drive, but I don't know if it was OS's fault or drive's.
Mrs F has wanted her mother's white hair for a long time but only 50% or so has changed so far. Should I give her something to worry about so she will get her wish?
My bro-in-law who is much younger than me has Scottish heritage and his dark black hair went to pure white fairly young. I envy it. I suspect I have my dadโs genetics, he didnโt go white til his 80s.
You may be assuming that 008 means the British in Great Britain instead of any that may temporarily be in Wisconsim. I'm trying to imagine you in an American jumper, and am thinking about how a kilt would look on you.
I have no kilt, despite some Scottish ancestry. Mrs A might question my actions if I tried to take a selfie whilst wearing one of her skirts as a stand-in. Particularly as they all would be well below my waist size. Although, she usually wears trousers these days, as well as "the trousers".
I'm a decent married woman, my name is Mrs. Magee, I'm a native of this County Down convenient to Donaghadee, I had a faithful husband, oh whom I liked so fine, But now he's gone and left me and I'm nearly out of my mind.
Chorus: He wears a pair of laceless shoes, knickers of corduroy, He's a swallowtail coat and waistcoat, he's only got one eye, His hair and whiskers both are black, he wears a castor hat, And can anyone kindly tell me, have you seen my darling Pat?
On the morning that we parted, the tears rolled in his eye, Saying "Biddy dear, I'm going away my fortune for to try. They say the harvest is pretty good in Scotland this year, So Biddy dear, I'll send you the price of a pint, don't you be feared."
Chorus
"If I can find a postbox, as soon as I arrive, You may expect a letter as sure as I'm alive." But my Pat's away three months today and he's left me in a stew, Since I lost my darling husband, oh what am I to do?
The African golden catโs striking coat varies from radiant red to elegant gray. They are a symbol of wild grace in the African jungle. This feline enchants a cacophony of sounds, from gentle โฆ
A new study that takes advantage of a change in availability of the shingles (*Herpes zoster*) vaccine in Wales finds that vaccination reduces dementia symptoms in those already diagnosed with the disease, and reduced deaths from dementia by approximately 30% over the following nine years.
I sat for a long while with my complicated feelings about "vibe coding". It is _genuinely_ empowering for many โ opening a door to creating with code that otherwise would never exist. Also? It enables a dangerous dependency that could be a path to serfdom for coders. anildash.com/2025/12/02/vibe-cโฆ
Software engineering is often compared to actual engineering. Would it be good if everyone could design buildings, bridges, and elevators without any kind of education? Most software applications involve user data in some way, and some go as far as touching upon actual human safety. The argument about empowerment does not hold, especially considering how easy it is to be autodidact in software engineering in the first place.
@Gargron I think that's a fair argument for the segment of coding that is software engineering. I would argue a *lot* of coding isn't really... software engineering? Like, the front-end code on my blog certainly doesn't count as that for me. If I get an LLM to help me, and it has an error, there's no security or privacy implications, nor any real danger except maybe a rendering error. So it seems like a fair domain to just muddle through. There are a lot of things in that space these days.
@Gargron there is a lot of discussion in the US about a Professional Engineering license for Software. It goes in and out of favor, but I think that it should be required for at least life-critical software.
There is some gatekeeping there, but I think when human lives are at risk it is justified.
For this #GivingTuesday I'm going to make the (biased) argument for why you might consider donating to @spritely, especially if you care about a healthier future for the internet! spritely.institute/donate/
*None* of the decentralized social networks today are robust enough to handle the threats facing vulnerable people and activists today. Not the present-day fediverse, not Bluesky/ATProto. What can we do?
What can we do? Is there hope? Is it possible to build something better?
Spritely was born out of this work, and the strive to create infrastructure allowing for "Networks of Consent". More on that here: spui25.nl/programma/we-can-chaโฆ
Christine Lemmer-Webber, best known as co-author of ActivityPub, the decentralized social networking protocol, will speak about the crisis technologists face. Why must we revise the default assumptions of the web 2.
User-empowering technology is a lot of work, corporations aren't motivated to build it. We need research and development of new tech that changes the game from an org that isn't bound by pushing profit.
And that's why @spritelyinst.bsky.social is a nonprofit research lab.
We're big believers in having tangible examples of tech so people can understand and it's not just vaporware. Sometimes that's challenging to do with low-level tech in development. But games are a great way to show things off!
It's the year of dogfooding and Spritely has been using its own tech *every day* this year with a project called Pumpkin Chat codeberg.org/spritely/pumpkin-โฆ
Alas, it's what's called "dogfood". Not fit for human consumption. But it's possible to use this tech every day, and we are. We're working on getting it out to others too.
And we're still building key infrastructure. Goblins recently got a major upgrade to its persistence system: spritely.institute/news/spriteโฆ
And it's about to get another one. Not really yet announced, but we're working on a hot-cache system that loads actors from store on demand. It's neat!
We also have another mini demo coming out soon. It's not our main focus, but @tsyesika has been working on a mini demo of an ActivityPub server built on top of Goblins. (Someone with money wanna fund this? ๐)
That's a teaser, some blogposts coming out soon (but again, not our main focus until we can get funding for it)
But what does it mean for systems to be social? Here's something you can't do on either ActivityPub or ATProto, but is a demo we built with Goblins and OCapN: a collaborative farming game! spritely.institute/news/goblinโฆ
Earlier I mentioned that fun and joy are actually very important. Indeed, the success of *all* social networks, and indeed, almost every kind of tech, has been rooted in people having joyful, often shared, experiences together.
Joy is part of resistance. And joy is part of our tech.
๐ We Are Hiring! May First is Looking for a Technical Support Advocate!
We seek individuals with technical skills who are also excellent communicators. Our ideal candidate can explain technical concepts clearly and provide warm, human support to our members.
๐ ยกEstamos contratando! ยกMay First busca Acompaรฑante de Soporte Tรฉcnico!
Queremos personas con habilidades tรฉcnicas capaces de explicar conceptos tรฉcnicos de manera clara y ofrecer apoyo cรกlido y humano a nuestras membresรญas.
๐ป Tipo de trabajo: 20 horas/semana, completamente remoto ๐ฐ Salario: $24,000 anuales ๐ Fecha lรญmite: 11 de enero de 2026
Brain Computer Enterprises, Cooperative Inc. believes privacy and security is important for all, which is why we run a TOR (Transparent Onion Router) node to support the Tor Project:
Documentos presentados ante la Justicia de EE.UU. exponen testimonios internos y miles de pรกginas de documentos que describen cรณmo la compaรฑรญa dirigida por Mark Zuckerberg priorizรณ el crecimiento por encima de la seguridad infantil.
"epstein me lo recomendรณ como estrategia de negocios...y ese tipo sabe de negocios, no esperaba que el traficante de menores amigo de trump y cuya campaรฑa financiรฉ a sabiendas de las movidas de ambos iba a promover pedofilia masiva por internet!"
me he cansรฉ de reportar posts y perfiles que clara y abiertamente violaban las normas y mucho mรกs.Y la respuesta de Meta era siempre la misma "no encontramos que viole NUESTRAS normas",Meta es un caldo de abusadores.
@Didimo @Sursiendo les pongo un detalle curioso y una razón más sumada a las miles que tenía antes de este incidente para abandonar la red de Mark Zuckerberg:
Frecuentemente me pasó que Facebook me mandaba notificación de que mi publicación violaba las normas comunitarias, díganme ustedes si publicaciones como esta que pongo de ejemplo de lo que hacía por allá tiene algo de malo, les parece ofensivo o contiene discursos de odio o muestra o dice algo inapropiado o ilegal:
"Muy buenos días tengan todos por aquí! el sol empieza a salir y en mi mano tengo ya una taza de café deseando a todos ustedes que su jornada sea ligera y el día esté lleno de buenos momentos memorables.
Bendiciones
¿ cuáles son sus planes para hoy?"
Ah, pero public
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@Didimo @Sursiendo les pongo un detalle curioso y una razรณn mรกs sumada a las miles que tenรญa antes de este incidente para abandonar la red de Mark Zuckerberg:
Frecuentemente me pasรณ que Facebook me mandaba notificaciรณn de que mi publicaciรณn violaba las normas comunitarias, dรญganme ustedes si publicaciones como esta que pongo de ejemplo de lo que hacรญa por allรก tiene algo de malo, les parece ofensivo o contiene discursos de odio o muestra o dice algo inapropiado o ilegal:
"Muy buenos dรญas tengan todos por aquรญ! el sol empieza a salir y en mi mano tengo ya una taza de cafรฉ deseando a todos ustedes que su jornada sea ligera y el dรญa estรฉ lleno de buenos momentos memorables.
Bendiciones
ยฟ cuรกles son sus planes para hoy?"
Ah, pero publicaciones donde hay gente semi desnuda, videos que claramente contienen discursos discriminatorios, publicaciones que hacen apologรญa del delito, fan page que hacen todo tipo de negocio ilรญcito, grupos de trolls Unidos dentro de un grupo, una larga lista de acosadores y gente que persigue a menores son cosas que segรบn Facebook no violan ninguna Norma comunitaria... ๐คท
Fanatical are running various new game bundles during their Bundlefestive 2025 event, with a just launched Play on the Go Bundle that's great for Steam Deck.
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anecdotal reports are that this makes Firefox noticeably faster
that list of settings to disable:
browser.ml.enable
browser.ml.chat.enabled
browser.ml.chat.menu
browser.ml.chat.page
browser.ml.chat.page.
La famille s'agrandit ! Je voulais n'en garder que deux et offrir les deux autres, mais finalement je vais garder les quatre. Ils sont beaucoup trop mignons. ๐ #plushtodon
unbenownst-eth to most, every John Mastodon plushie comes with a nuclear-battery-titanium-shieleded chip that makes them able to moderate the instances used near them.
"The irony was hard to miss: the same month our union received layoff threats, OpenAIโs education evangelists set up shop in the university library to recruit faculty into the gospel of automated learning. The math is brutal and the juxtaposition stark: millions for OpenAI while pink slips go out to longtime lecturers. The CSU isnโt investing in educationโitโs outsourcing it, paying premium prices for a chatbot many students were already using for free."
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
Originally called Wild Blue and now Wild Blue Skies, recently we had a fresh proper gameplay reveal and it's clear this is the spiritual successor to Star Fox.
From the creators of The Binding of Isaac and The End is Nigh, Mewgenics is promising to be one of the most interesting roguelites released in forever.
The #Borneo Forest Dragon, also known as the Borneo Anglehead #Lizard is a vividly coloured lizard native to Borneo. This arboreal #reptile is known for their prominent crest and beautifully camoufโฆ
Valve released the statistics from the Steam Hardware & Software Survey for November 2025, which shows once again that Linux use is trending nicely upwards.
@gamingonlinux Oh, yeah it wasn't meant as critique towards you at all ๐ I just spent the better part part of a career in tech strategy on how to run a successful company by being quick at identifying exponential trends.
I think Linux adoption is in such an exponential right now.
Tucuxi, small freshwater dolphins of Peru Ecuador Colombia and Brazil are Endangered due to fishing nets, deforestation, mercury poisoning from gold mining.
Valve released the statistics from the Steam Hardware & Software Survey for November 2025, which shows once again that Linux use is trending nicely upwards.
Known affectionately as โhuana titiโ or โthe cat from dry placesโ by locals, the Andean mountain cat captivates with their mystery and elegance. This cat boasts an exceptional sense of hearing, attโฆ
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in reply to It's FOSS • • •Surprise finding by Conference of Swiss Data Protection Officers:
" identified five critical problems with international cloud providers:
Most SaaS solutions lack true end-to-end encryption.
Global companies offer insufficient transparency for compliance verification.
Cloud services create significant loss of control over data.
Legal uncertainty exists for data under confidentiality obligations.
The US CLOUD Act allows data access regardless of storage location"