@cbarbermd

Not real.

TikTok - Make Your Day

(www.tiktok.com)

Here they use the same plane stage:

TikTok - Make Your Day

(www.tiktok.com)

@krypt3ia haven't seen it yet, but as long as we allow patriarchies to exist, we most certainly are.

@david_chisnall @mkljczk @jonxion @libreoffice No "layout before format before content" document type is ever good. But that's besides the point at this stage. Really happy at least one more vendor lock-in tool is off the table.

Now for the rest of Europe to truly adopt this (both odt and ods).

@jerry Understand what the personal risks are for the board. Usually it is tied to shareholder value and/or profit loss.

Play on that. In for-profits, nothing else will work.

Sorry to sound so cynical.

@threatresearch @thomasfuchs

That’s not AI. That’s your boss hiding behind AI.

@GossiTheDog

Bitcoin, nft, VR, AI.

Seeing as all these things are not worthy of our time and effort to fight, but needing to die, I am happy to let Meta do the killing.

@go_shrumm @silkjag one of these days we're gonna need a concerted effort to rephrase these "traits" (read: externally evaluated and valued against neuronormative ideas) as positive and/or neutral behaviors.

For me, just as one example, it is not "Difficulty starting interactions with others without prompting", it is "I'm not willing to spend effort in performative, deeply insincere nonsense, establishing our mutual hierarchy and position within a group for your comfort."

@joost_rekveld @marleenstikker

"Rather than reconsidering its censorship laws and changing its attitude towards free speech, the European Commission seems to be doubling down on its censorship efforts by attempting to hide them from the public.7" ¹

7: Eliza Gkritsi, EU tech enforcer tells officials not to be scared by US threats, POLITICO (Feb. 16, 2026). ²

So this is,

1. Propaganda and posturing. In the second sentence to all parties, they frame "the European Commission and European Union (EU) Member States" as "foreign censors".

2. "Ill doers are ill deemers", or as we say in Dutch: "Zo de waard is, vertrouwd hij zijn gasten". Jordan et al know how they scheme in secrecy with their US company collaborators, so they immediately assume EU officials are doing the same.

¹ ) https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2026-03-16-jdj-to-alphabet-pichai-re-preservation.pdf

² ) Referencing https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-tech-enforcer-tells-officials-civil-society-not-to-be-scared-after-us-threats/

@neil

https://minvws.github.io/beleidsontwikkeling/

First that came to mind, most in Dutch. It’s about Open Source, where #DigitalAutonomy can also be done (imho, only up to a certain degree) through proprietary software.

My current take is that most of the investments, short and long term, should go towards companies and organisations that use, support and fully comply with open standards, from blobs to APIs.

This breaks vendor lock-in/dependency, promotes a healthy ecosystem, and creates the freedom on the buyer/investor side to say “no” at any time and move away.

TL;DR: Digital Autonomy through investing in Open Standards.

@marleenstikker Slightly confusing, as using secure communications between EU officials makes sense, but this subpoena is about communications with EU officials.

Makes no sense to use secure communications there.

The fact these companies cannot be trusted to keep anything handled by them secret, is another problem all together.

@lcamtuf TIL about timecube

@lcamtuf For this to be in any way a statistically plausible string of words, what was grok trained on?

Joy [...] is insurrection.

https://mastodon.social/@GurdeepPandher/116137921337640452

@cstross @evacide @encthenet

Reddit - The heart of the internet

(web.archive.org)

@artemis

US has burned through ‘years’ of munitions since start of Iran war

Rapid depletion of stockpile including Tomahawk missiles raises pressure on Trump over cost of conflict

https://archive.is/Y8KR4

@artemis

Okay, okay, one more example, just for fun.

The sober comment of a NATO commander afterwards: “We’re fucked.”

https://militaeraktuell.at/en/nightmare-ukrainian-drone-pilots-wipe-out-entire-nato-battalions-during-exercise/

@artemis Asymmetric warfare is a real thing.

https://www.raf.mod.uk/news/articles/raf-f-35-conducts-first-combat-shoot-down-on-operations/

Just one example.

The British RAF celebrates taking down two drones (I'll take those to be Shahed-136 drones, unit cost about $35.000) with two ASRAAM (Unit cost >£200,000) by scrambling a F35 (probably the F-35B Lightning II, unit cost $109 million to $135 million+) and two Typhoons (unit cost about $200 million to $300 million).

So that's roughly (not calculating fuel, deployment, training, personnel, etc. and taking the cheapest known costs)

$264.857 + $264.857 + $109.000.000 + $200.000.000 + $200.000.000 =

$509.529.714 versus $70.000.

LMAO.

When they poured across the border
I was cautioned to surrender
This I could not do;
I took my gun and vanished

I have changed my name so often
I've lost my wife and children
But I have many friends
And some of them are with me

An old woman gave us shelter
Kept us hidden in the garret
Then the soldiers came;
She died without a whisper

There were three of us this morning
I'm the only one this evening
But I must go on;
The frontiers are my prison

Oh, the wind, the wind is blowing
Through the graves the wind is blowing
Freedom soon will come;
Then we'll come from the shadows

Les Allemands étaient chez moi
Ils me dirent, "Signe toi,"
Mais je n'ai pas peur;
J'ai repris mon arme

J'ai changé cent fois de nom
J'ai perdu femme et enfants
Mais j'ai tant d'amis;
J'ai la France entière

Un vieil homme dans un grenier
Pour la nuit nous a caché
Les Allemands l'ont pris;
Il est mort sans surprise

Oh, the wind, the wind is blowing
Through the graves the wind is blowing
Freedom soon will come;
Then we'll come from the shadows

#LeonardCohen #ThePartisan #Fascism #Resistance

neat trick: wget can continue downloads where they failed, but the webbrowser left me with an empty placeholder bar.zip file and an almost finished bar.zip.part file.

So, this seems to work:

-c = continue
-O = (capital o, "OSCAR") download to this filename.

wget -c http://foo.com/bar.zip -O bar.zip.part

@david_chisnall nice feature to have in an OS. Not so nice feature to have because of a law.