I'll tell you what I'd do, man: five CRT’s at the same time, man. #vcfwest
Microsoft, AWS, and even France-based OVHCloud say that they can't keep the US Government's hands off your data, if requested under the CLOUD Act.
👉 You can't guarantee data sovereignty using a provider that is subject to US law, even if your data is housed outside the US.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/25/microsoft_admits_it_cannot_guarantee/
Being in tech and having a single modicum of critical thinking is just screaming "this isn't what LLMs are designed for" over and over as people shove a bunch of word predictors into critical decision making processes because some glorified used car salesmen told them it would fix all their problems.
@juliank has brought some extra speakers for the APT talk.
life is extra surreal for french speakers right now because in french, phonetically, “chat gpt” sounds exactly like “cat, i farted” (chat, j’ai pété). everywhere, on TV, in the news, people going “cat, i farted” over and over with a straight face. is cat, i farted going to steal your job? how are schools dealing with cat, i farted? lawyer caught using cat, i farted. it’s incredible.
If you don't know the universal hand signal for help, please check this out. I just learned myself, years after it was created. It could save a life. The fingers folding over the thumb is to represent being trapped. Please boost for everyone
#DebConf out of context
@zacchiro wrote:
> “I'm not the most qualified person to answer this question, the camera operator on your left is.”
Frankly, this does not need context for anyone who “gets” #FOSS to see what this is about:
In true FOSS communities like @debian , everyone pitches. The person running the camera, or serving the food, or cleaning the kitchen may well be the developer who packaged or even wrote your favorite program.
Sorry to not be there with you all in Brest.
#DebConf out of context
- I'm not the most qualified person to answer this question, the camera operator on your left is.
In Final Statement, Jewish Anti-Zionist Congress Calls for Suspension of Israel from UN
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Israel’s war crimes and crimes against humanity could not have been carried out or sustained “without the active and enthusiastic support of Western powers” A meeting of over 1,000 anti-Zionist [...]
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Every once in awhile, I think of my favorite “…the fuck did you just say?” phraseology, which is from Homer’s Iliad, proving we have never, ever changed as a species, only become less fancily inclined.
“What nonsense has escaped the barrier of your teeth now?”
Well, didn't want to be here but I'm now blocking Firefox from accessing Mozilla dot com and dot org :/
Why they needed to add AI-slop to a browser, I don't know. Then again, I find myself wondering what the hell is going on with Firefox lately.
Sad.
People: OH MY GOD you can't use wikipedia because ANYONE can just EDIT and write WHATEVER!
The same people 20 years later: Oh I LOVE chatgpt, I can ask it anything and it always has an answer!
Harper – an open-source, privacy-friendly alternative to Grammarly
Is this some futuristic segregation of toilets? I did not see that coming :-) #startrek
The way a tool is used is the purpose of the tool. “Stablecoins” (which are neither stable nor coins) are used 88% of the time as an intermediary for other crypto transactions. It’s not a payment system. It’s a liquidity bridge for financial crimes. https://www.morningstar.com/news/marketwatch/20250611248/stablecoin-supply-is-growing-fast-heres-how-it-compares-to-cash