Totally agree with Cory. Today’s “AI” may or may not be useful to you or your company, but there is no way that it is financially sustainable. And giving the sheer outrageous magnitude of money involved, when the crash comes — and it will — it will likely be worse than any other crash we’ve ever […]

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With a couple of days of delay, the @EUCommission just hit #google with a €2.95B fine for abusing its dominant position on the online ads market. 👏 After some bad press according to which the Commission had delayed the fines to appease Trump, this is a welcome development. Google now has 60 […]

Meta may be scanning you camera roll. Here's how to ask it not to. https://www.zdnet.com/article/meta-might-be-secretly-scanning-your-phones-camera-roll-how-to-check-and-turn-it-off/

Oh, I should link the essay: https://theconversation.com/spacexs-starlink-satellites-are-about-to-ruin-stargazing-for-everyone-149516 And the follow-up I wrote a year later after publishing a scientific prediction […]

Every once in a while, someone says something like: “I do this, and that makes me safe from Facebook’s prying eyes!” It’s all complete nonsense. If you use our Meta products or services in any manner, we know who you are, where you are, what you’re doing, who your friends are, and so much […]

For pete's sake, @mozilla : if you want to measure whether the AI/ML features are worth a damn, put a big green "disable all AI in my browser" button on the version update screen and put some telemetry around how many people instantly click it. Just about everyone I know who has taken the 142 […]

@dennmans Odd how Microsoft has always made good hardware, but crappy software, and yet, they're a software company. I've got a Surface Go2 with Debian, and it is a marvel.

Finally got round to reclaiming my tablet's digital sovereignty. Amusing to watch OpenSuse installing on a Microsoft Surface. It even keeps the windows splash screen but with a little Suse logo underneath. Even more amusing is that it went from a pretty […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Great to see that tariffs are working to create local autonomous collectives and a sense of belonging. Is Trump a secret anarchist? https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-bye-bourbon-us-trade-war-1.7602431?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Best alternatives to #instagram in 2025 https://tuta.com/blog/instagram-alternative #pixelfed #privacy #meta #foss

Why would a numberplate scanning vehicle check for illegal parking in a free parking lot? This is in Amsterdam Noord. Is it that municipal vehicles all have numberplate scanners now? Are they checking for something else like drug-taking or stealth-camping? […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

De hoofdaanklager van het internationaal Strafhof kan door Amerikaanse sancties niet meer bij zijn email & bankrekeningen. Het strafhof functioneert nu niet meer. En dit is waar we in Nederland massaal onze (overheids)email en gegevens neerleggen, binnen bereik van Amerikaanse […]

https://nos.nl/artikel/2569392-overheid-leunt-veel-meer-op-amerikaanse-clouds-dan-bekend-meelezen-is-makkelijk 'De Vereniging Nederlandse Gemeenten noemt de risico's "beperkt" en wijst op de betrouwbare diensten die bedrijven als Microsoft leveren.' 🤡 Hoe vaak moet @bert_hubert dit nog […]

1/ A poor management student put a quarter in me in my DMs so I might as well put it in public: Why Lean Software Dev is wrong. I think a big misunderstanding has been to think of software development as manufacturing. That also goes to my gripe with how Lean was translated to software […]

Within about 1 HOUR and 40 MIN the new #Meta AI training policy goes into action There is little time left to opt-out for those with Meta accounts https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/712876720715583

Onze collega @tomootes schreef een blog over de hoe de Haven Kubernetes standaard gebruikt kan worden om meer Digitaal Autonoom te worden als organisatie: https://developer.overheid.nl/blog/2025/05/21/hoe-haven-jou-helpt/

For weeks I have been telling reporters that #trump could have the power to switch off our tech in #europe. It felt a bit alarmist until I just read the #microsoft, on the behest of the #US gov has suspended the email account of Karim Khan, #ICC chief prosecutor. One of the most important […]

Last month I went on a short trip with Marja, a member of Fonetic and someone for whom the world was not designed. Here's a short travel log (in Dutch): https://fonetic.blog/2025/04/02/marja-gaat-op-reis/

I would rather see your shittiest most half-assed doodle on a napkin than a single frame of your finest AI slop.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-administration-accidentally-texted-me-its-war-plans/682151/ I always suspected that international politics is run like the mafia of Hollywood.

do not turn off the bus.

Turns out Zelenskyy is good at standing up against dictators.

#fosdem25 look, FLOSS has governance too. Just much simpler.