NepoRC 2.13.7 is starting up enbyOS
 * Mounting gender filesystem ...
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/null, missing codepage or helper program
 * Setting pronouns to they/them ...
 * Setting timezone to UTC+2 ...
Starting about-me runlevel
 * Greeting user ...
Welcome to my page! (doasu.dev)
snac login: me
Password:
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Dinner after a first productive day at the #KDE #dev #megasprint
@kde

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Group of KDE contributors at dinner

Feel free to take a look.

https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/snacwer/

Source code:
https://codeberg.org/fidiben/SnacWer

X is where you find the people who think they run the Internet.

Bluesky is where you find the people who think they ought to run the Internet.

Mastodon is where you find the people who actually do run the Internet, and kind of wish they didn't.

(WIth apologies to Yes, Minister)

If you use AI-generated code, you currently cannot claim copyright on it in the US. If you fail to disclose/disclaim exactly which parts were not written by a human, you forfeit your copyright claim on *the entire codebase*.

This means copyright notices and even licenses folks are putting on their vibe-coded GitHub repos are unenforceable. The AI-generated code, and possibly the whole project, becomes public domain.

Source: https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/LSB/PDF/LSB10922/LSB10922.8.pdf

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Excerpt from the linked document. It reads "The AI Guidance states that authors may claim copyright protection only “for their own contributions” to such works, and they must identify and disclaim AI-generated parts of the works"

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Excert from the linked document: Three copyright registration denials highlighted by the Copyright Office illustrate that, in general, the office will not find human authorship where an AI program generates works in response to user prompts: 1. Zarya of the Dawn: A February 2023 decision that AI-generated illustrations for a graphic novel were not copyrightable, although the human-authored text of the novel and overall selection and arrangement of the images and text in the novel could be copyrighted. 2. Théâtre D’opéra Spatial: A September 2023 decision that an artwork generated by AI and then modified by the applicant could not be copyrighted, since the applicant failed to identify and disclaim the AI-generated portions of the work as required by the AI Guidance. 3. SURYAST: A December 2023 decision that an artwork generated by an AI system combining a “base image” (an original photo taken by the applicant) and a “style image” the applicant selected (Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night) could not be copyrighted, since the AI system was “responsible for determining how to interpolate [i.e., combine] the base and style images.”

#psa

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DO NOT TALK TO COMPUTERS Should you ever find yourself in the company of a computer attempting to communicate, do not engage. Talk to computers damages your health. Educational poster

For all the Proton fans

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A screenshot saying Proton helped FBI unmask a protestor

for context, I opened a pull request with Arc<SyncRwLock<HashMap<TxnKey, Receiver<Option<Result<send_transaction_message::v1::Response>>>>>>

Quote in September last year for a high-memory compute server. £28,000.

Quote today for the _exact same machine_. £90,500

This is for medical research. Saving lives. When I say LLMs are killing people by killing research computing, this is what I mean.

@davidgerard.co.uk @edzitron.com

If you're on LinkedIn and are thinking about verifying your account with them, maybe read this first. It walks through LinkedIn's privacy disclosure to identify 17 companies that may receive and process the data you submit, including name, passport photo, selfie, facial geometry, NFC data chip, national ID #, DoB, email, phone number, address, IP address, device type, MAC address, language, geolocation etc. Unsurprisingly, it seems the biggest recipients are US-based AI companies.

https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/

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A screenshot from thelocalstack.eu // THE 17 COMPANIES THAT TOUCH YOUR FACE Persona maintains a public list of subprocessors — third-party companies that process your personal data on their behalf. Here's the ful list: COMPANY WHAT THEY DO WITH YOUR DATA LocATION Anthropic Data Extraction and Analysis San Francisco, USA Openal Data Extraction and Analysis San Francisco, USA Grogeloud Data Extraction and Analysis San Jose, USA AWS Infrastructure, Image Processing Houston, USA Google Cloud Platform Infrastructure as a Service Mountain View, USA Resistant Al Document Analysis New York, USA FingerprintJs Device Analysis Chicago, USA MongoDB Database Services New York, USA Snowflake Database Services Bozeman, USA Elasticsearch Search and Analytics Engine Mountain View, USA Confluent ETL Services Mountain View, USA DBT ETL Services Philadelphia, USA Sigma Computing Data Analytics. San Francisco, USA Tableau Data Analytics. Seattle, USA Stripe Gredit Card Processing South San Francisco, USA Twilio Communication APs (Phone, SMS) Denver, USA Persona Identities Canada Gustomer Support & Development Toronto, Canada

people think LLMs are good at rubber duckying and dont write down their thought process or talk to a rubber ducky like bro you could save the tokens
save the planet buy a duck

Alright fedi, just got back from the Nix Store, ended up buying /etc/nixos#nixosConfigurations.Infini-FRAMEWORK.config.system.build.toplevel

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An extremely long receipt, starting with "Nix Store", "Everyone's favorite package store", "You were looking for: /etc/nixos#nixosConfigurations.Infini-FRAMEWORK.config.system.build.toplevel", "Your closure today:", Then the entire NixOS path closure for that flake output, totaling 5930 store paths

Tiredmoding rn

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A digital sketch of a girl leaning back in her chair with one leg up She's described as: - too lazy to use an agent - doesn't know what's OpenClaw - writes 2 months of code in one stimulant hyperfocus - attention span too short to read AI output - would rather sleep

who else

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A close-up of a piece of sheet music featuring the text "Suddenly very gay" above a musical staff with notes.

Three years ago I blogged about #nuget serving outdated #curl packages.

They then removed the packages I found.

I checked nuget again *today* and immediately found a nine year old curl package that is downloaded at the rate of 1,000 times/week from there... with **64** known vulnerabilities.

The blog post from back then: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/03/02/the-curl-nuget-story/

Charity Auction for Kansas Trans Folks and/or Minneapolis ICE Relief.

Related to my 1 April Kickstarter.

https://mwl.io/archives/24580

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my hand, holding something that's blacked out

@linux_is_best No, that's not how it's going to be at all. GrapheneOS is going to have our own updates and we won't have to depend on the stock OS updates being released. We already provide security updates months before Pixels. You know we already had all of the March 2026 updates for a while before today's release, right? We have a lot of the June 2026 and later patches already. We're shipping them way earlier than anyone else and will continue it. We'll ship Qualcomm, etc. stuff on time.

Narrator voice: "A common initialism in gamer culture, GG is shorthand for 'good girl' and is widely used for praise"

I like the fediverse :-)

a detail you probably didn't know: nowhere in any #curl documentation do we use the word "very". It is a banned word enforced by a CI check. This rule encourages us to rewrite and instead use more appropriate words. Makes us write better English.

@purpleidea We no longer care much about getting improvements upstream or broadly adopted outside GrapheneOS. We'd happily start using GPLv2 for more code. We're not going to include GPLv3 code in the OS itself though. We have no problem with GPLv3 code in apps we can include in our app repository but packaging a bunch of stuff is not a focus and we prefer having a separate project handle most of it right now.

What is the problem with us choosing the licenses which are the best fit for us?

As a child, I thought the lesson of history was that the good guys always win. As an adult, I realized the actual lesson is that the winners declare themselves the good guys.

This year counts as #curl 30 years, counting from the first httpget 0.1 release in November 1996.

I'm thinking we could fly a special logo for the occasion on the #curl front page throughout the year.

Maybe *you* can make one that looks festive and still confident and trustworthy?

To trigger some thoughts, here's my take:

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curl logo, 30 years, 1996 - 2026

KDE supports the "Keep Android Open" campaign

#Google will cut off independent developers to #Android if they do not register with Google first. This will kill independent platforms like @fdroidorg and severely impede FLOSS devs from creating apps for Android.

https://keepandroidopen.org/

Many KDE apps are deployed for Android: KDE Connect, Itinerary, Tokodon, and there's even a test version of Krita for Android.

KDE calls on Google to reverse course and @keepandroidopen.

https://keepandroidopen.org/open-letter/

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The logo of the "Keep Android Open" campaign is an Android robot dressed as Darth Vader. Across the top it says "I AM ALTERING THE DEAL" in all caps, and below the robot it says "Pray I don't alter it further". This is a reference to how Android acquired a massive catalog of apps be making access open to the platform back in the day, and Google assuring it would remain open, as opposed to the iOS platform which was (and still is) very restricted. And, of course, Star Wars.

The Cards Against Humanity people know how to play the room.

https://www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com/

@kouhai to download firmware updates. because of security vulnerabilities found in its internet connectivity module.

My favourite piece of internet today is the theory that Jesus was actually a type of yeast.

Turns water into wine
Floats on water
Makes bread for 5000 people
Put in a cave for 3 days and lo - he has risen!
Jesus was a sourdough starter.

Also this would imply: We should be calling him 'Mother' not 'Father'

I will not verify my identity or age for any online service, other than clicking on an "I am over 18" button, ever. I will simply stop using the service, if it is required.

I encourage you to do the same. It's not "for the children". It's to harvest even more information from you so corporations can try to squeeze even more money out of you and to be able to track you and everything you do.