If you support "age verification" online, you are supporting a system that GUARANTEES privacy meltdowns -- endangering all of us -- because the giant databases of scanned IDs are perpetually hacked by criminals who sell private data. https://www.techdirt.com/2026/09/03/hackers-had-a-live-feed-of-every-id-this-verification-company-scanned-for-over-a-year/
This affects the Fediverse.
This affects the Internet.
This is the equivalent of the "rubber hose method" of decryption.
All technical solutions (read: all technology) is subject to politics. To political power. To political interactions.
You cannot rely on purely technical approaches. You have to have social approaches, too. Like. Actual policy and procedure geared around social and political group dynamics.
Like. How will we react when the US Govt requires that @jerry to shut off infosec.exchange servers.
Or how we'll react when a specific Mastodon server is declared part of a terrorist infrastructure. Will federating with it mean any other Mastodon server is now part of the officially designated terrorist network (what then of people that federate with a server that federates with a server that is classified as part of a terrorist network. And so on)
You cannot carry the conceit that tech alone or a purely technical approach will save you.
Update. "Switzerland's federal government has launched a pilot program to replace #Microsoft 365 with #OpenSource alternatives across 3,000 workstations. That's about 7% of the federal workforce. The target is to complete the migration by end of 2027."
https://itsfoss.com/news/switzerland-replace-microssoft-pilot/
I learned today that POSIX specifies a tool designed to assist you in reviewing & modifying LLM-generated code. In typical Unix fashion, they shortened "reviewing & modifying" to just two letters:
$ rm code.rs
It even has command-line options to [r]ecursively [f]ix whole directories of LLM-generated code:
$ rm -rf project/
If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this.
Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how.
Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places: https://tuta.com/blog/google-gemini-ai-email
la rentrée des oiseaux
Frank J Llamas
tags : les jambes de la colombe, #rentree #birds #streetphotography #photography
1968 : le discours de rentrée du Général de Gaulle sur le capitalisme à la fête de l'humanité
INA
tags : ruissellement, #rentree #politique #histoire #economie #gauche
Stolen bike trailer
simulation of the eclipse, non-computer-generated
vous avez raté l'éclipse solaire ? voici à quoi ça ressemblait (If you missed the solar eclipse, here's what it looked like)
tags : reconstitution, astronomie capillaire, #astronomy #science #eclipse
HHS Replaces Childhood Vaccination Schedule With List Of Recommended Animal Bites
WASHINGTON—Revising the former timetable to reflect its latest public guidelines, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services replaced the childhood vaccination schedule Friday with a list of recommended animal bites. “It’s highly important that kids receive at least 15 bites from a variety of ma…
#theonion
https://theonion.com/hhs-replaces-childhood-vaccination-schedule-with-list-of-recommended-animal-bites/
PSA for #mesh #lora people: FIRE HAZARD! there is a possible design flaw in RAK Wireless WisMesh Pocket devices https://lora.reseaulibre.ca/news/2026/08/26/fire-hazard-on-the-wismesh-pocket/ #meshtastic #reticulum #meshcore please boost widely
l'humeur aqueuse
In Phu Langka Plateau (National Park) in Bueng Kan Province, when rainwater accumulates on a natural rock near Naga Cave, it resembles an eye, earning it the name Naga's Eye (the eye of the serpent deity)
tags : l'oeil du serpent, #meteo #photography #sante
Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines.
When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.