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Smart glasses are 'an invasion of privacy' - Meta's are selling better than ever
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What we need is regulation. These companies will not show ethical behaviour on their own.
See e.g. right to repair, USB-C.
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Smart glasses are 'an invasion of privacy' - Meta's are selling better than ever
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What we need is regulation. These companies will not show ethical behaviour on their own.
See e.g. right to repair, USB-C.
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Mozilla, Stop Killing Games and more team up to tell the UK to stop making the internet worse
Good move.
But... The open internet? Unfortunately those days are long gone. Every other website requires a Google/Microsoft Single Sign-On. And the majority of the web is hosted with a few hyperscalers, so federation is broken as well.
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The EU Commission's "Follow us" links no longer include X. The first one is now Mastodon
Lead by example 👌
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A Security Researcher Decompiled The White House App, & What They Found Is Pretty Alarming
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Extra nerd nit: If you want to abbreviate the postscript announcement, please use "p.s" because PostScript is a different thing!
p.s. thanks for pointing out the difference between Java and JavaScript
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A hotel check-in system left a million passports and driver's licenses open for anyone to see | TechCrunch
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Sovereign identity and Solid are the way. But governments will have to play a role in large scale implementation.
For some reason people seem to trust commercial organizations with misaligned incentives over governmental bodies.
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Places worldwide where the most journalists/media workers were killed (2025)
I feel like we should name the biggest offenders to journalists as well. Israel, Russia, etc
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Ford Energy plans to deploy at least 20 GWh annually, with first customer deliveries planned for late 2027
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It can still be a game changer. In making people see that pickup trucks are ridiculous vehicles. Especially in countries that aren't USA and thus do not have tax/insurance benefits for pickups.
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White House ordering agencies to place its new app on all employees' govt phones
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Smart glasses are 'an invasion of privacy' - Meta's are selling better than ever
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I believe the way EU enforces those regulations is through a supply chain sales ban. Banned products are just not sold here.
Fines are for software products and behaviours which.
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Honda indefinitely suspends $15B EV plant in Ontario
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I thought your comment was about US automakers and public charging infrastructure, until the second to last word.
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Congress Wants You To Pay $130 A Year Just To Drive An Electric Car
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Damage to the road scales with axle load using a fourth power. Yes a fourth power. So an average truck does roughly 3000x more damage to road surfaces than an average EV.
Yet, weather influences account for the majority of road wear, so the weight of cars really does not matter at all.
I'm aware that vehicle weight is the mechanism to tax cars in many countries, but within groups this makes little sense if it is to compensate for road wear. Whether its fair to exempt EVs from road taxes is a different story, and depends on other externalities and the type of travel behaviour a government wants to promote.
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What happened that time someone just outright lied to your face? Did you know at the time or find out later?
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I fee sorry for you bro. Hope life treats you better these days.
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Companies Are Just a Graph of Algorithms
Yea, anything can be represented in a model.
No, ghat does not make it 'just an algorithm thatbis easily repeatable'.
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Pope urges 'disarming' of AI in major manifesto
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Is an instititute not allowed to develop into something better over time?
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If I had 8x the budget yearl-on-year in my household, company or team, things would go sideways as well. That's unsustainable growth.
This is bad policy even if you want ICE to be effective.
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I don't know man. The outliers don't seem to align with the outliers on this map: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Population_density_map_of_the_world.svg
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Proton Mail introduces post-quantum encryption | Proton
It seems that I can set it from the Android app, not from the web interface.
Does anybody know what the (potential) repercussions are of enabling PQC? I would hate it if I lost access to some emails this way.
edit: see this message. The feature is temporarily disabled as some users of Proton Drive for Windows (Tux is still crying..) reported issues with sync after enabling PQC. PQC only applies to new encrypted emails going forward.
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Mistral's CEO: Europe has 2 years to stop becoming America's AI 'vassal state'
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We need good AI, not necessarily big.
Yes, in the current paradigm these go hand in hand to a certain extent. But if we we prioritize size, we will need to beat US mega-corps at their own game.
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Whats the best minipc for selfhosting nextcloud.
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And what's your electricity cost per kWh.
Payback time of a Pi 5 vs an old laptop could be well under 2 years depending on where you live
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You can now use your Gmail account in Proton Mail
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To be frank, it also pauses the transition. The gmail address will remain the façade because no one even sees the proton address this way.
I fins the University email use case mentioned above a better one.