I got a typical spam today, mimicking my bank's notification whereby my mobile application is expired, and I should renew it by clicking on a link. So far (alas!) nothing particular. Out of curiosity, I looked up the link that would be the target on my expected click, and it was on the following […]

My niece comes to the U.S. most years from Europe to visit her grandfather. This year she was stopped at the airport, taken into an interrogation room, accused of being a prostitute, had her phone taken and scanned, and released. You know, in case you were wondering why tourism to the U.S. is […]

Don't say you don't need feminism. You do.

Yes yes yes and yes. And analysts in Europe have been saying this for quite a while too.

Someone may help. I've just joined pixelfed, and my posts appear only to followers. As if my account was private, which is not the intention, but I find no way to make it public. The faq refers to a privacy setting but I see no options there. Interestingly my first two entries were all right […]

I suggest you support Standard Ebooks 📚 “Standard Ebooks is a volunteer-driven project that produces new editions of public domain ebooks that are lovingly formatted, open source, free of … copyright restrictions, and free of cost.” ⚖️ See what’s free to read […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

it's truly amazing what LLMs can achieve. we now know it's possible to produce an html5 parsing library with nothing but the full source code of an existing html5 parsing library, all the source code of all other open source libraries ever, a meticulously maintained and extremely comprehensive […]

Nicolas Sarkozy reçoit le “prix de littérature” de la FIFA https://www.legorafi.fr/?p=49565

Meata has announced to discontinue the messenger app on Mac (and, I presume, PC). Use the browser instead. So far ok, use Web apps, etc. But, in the browser, initiating audio or video calls is only possible if you’re on Chrome/Chromium. Not on Firefox, not on Safari. That is not ok, to say the […]

Good to be aware of this, if you plan to travel to the US. B.t.w., I'm wondering how exactly the US administration interprets the "free speech" principle, which they consider to be under attack in Europe... https://edition.cnn.com/2025/12/10/us/us-visa-waiver-social-media-check

RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@brucelawson/115694468117247294 Good reason for _not_ using the google services like mail or chat... Sigh...

Magical sight at the festival of lights in Lyon last weekend.

The two relics of exploding stars are black holes and neutron stars. Both were discovered by women. Jocelyn Bell discovered neutron stars, in the guise of “pulsars”, in 1967. Since then, three Nobel prizes have gone to male scientists for their work on pulsars, but none to Bell. Louise Webster […]

National parks offered free entrance to the public on Martin Luther King Jr. Day and on Juneteenth. Donald Trump is ending this. Instead National parks will offer free entrance to the public on Trump's birthday. This is called adding insult to injury. It is also called #racism […]

About the power of Big Tech and the importance of privacy | Meredith Whittaker (interview on a Dutch public channel) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTD5Am-KWNY&t=827s

Interesting... "The mysterious black fungus from Chernobyl that may eat radiation" https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20251125-the-mysterious-black-fungus-from-chernobyl-that-appears-to-eat-radiation

Sen. Mark Warner calls 28-point plan for Russia-Ukraine truce 'a historically bad deal' - POLITICO « the Trump administration’s 28-point plan for peace between Russia and Ukraine “would go down, frankly, as a historically bad deal, rivaling Neville Chamberlain giving in to Hitler before World […]

Live streaming from Hawaii of the Kilauea volcano... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqmpkUdMtyA

An Introduction to RDF and SPARQL 1.2 https://www.w3.org/Talks/2025/iswc-tutorial-rdfsparql-12/

Holodomor: the famine in Ukraine in the 30's, claiming millions of victims — organized by Stalin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-YJ-IWpQww

The Murky Plan That Ensures a Future War - The Atlantic "Even if the plan falls apart, this arrogant and confusing ultimatum, […] will do permanent damage to America’s reputation as a reliable ally, not only in Europe but around the world.[…] The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, with its secret […]

Sales of AI-enabled teddy bear suspended after it gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives https://edition.cnn.com/2025/11/19/tech/folotoy-kumma-ai-bear-scli-intl

If you are a 1Password user, this may be of interest to you: "The new unlock with device setting lets 1Password open right alongside your Mac or PC. It unlocks as soon as you pass your device's own lock screen using a secure authentication method, whether that's Face ID, Touch ID, a PIN, or a […]

Bubble Burst FAQ #ai #aibubble https://www.theringer.com/2025/11/04/tech/ai-bubble-burst-popping-explained-collapse-or-not-chatgpt

Trump-brokered peace deal between Thailand and Cambodia breaks down after border landmine blast https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/11/thailand-cambodia-trump-peace-deal-suspended luckily, the Ukraine-Russia peace that he achieved in the promised first 24 hours in office still holds.

Ein Ingenieur entdeckte, dass sein smarter #Staubsauger heimlich #Telemetriedaten an den Hersteller ohne Einwilligung sendete. Als er den Datenfluss blockierte, wurde das Gerät per Fernbefehl blockiert. Nach Analyse und Reverse Engineering konnte er das Gerät mit #Python-Skripten und einem […]

"libraries find themselves at the center of the AI debate, […] The very cataloging practices […] have become the hidden scaffolding for machine prediction. Metadata […] is the context AI craves[…] […] AI companies have too often behaved like opportunists, deploying indiscriminate scrapers that […]

Big Tech Helped Bankroll the East Wing Destruction https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/white-house-east-wing-destruction-google-meta-apple-microsoft-amazone/

W3C Standard ODRL Policy gaining industry adoption | 2025 | Blog | W3C https://www.w3.org/blog/2025/w3c-standard-odrl-policy-gaining-industry-adoption/

As part of DMA compliance, Microsoft have slightly redesigned the "OMG Don't download another browser you already have Edge and it's fast, and secure and MODERN and will save you time and money, try it now!" scare banner that you see if you try to download […] [Original post on social.vivaldi.net]

Influencers in China must prove their training about certain topics (Thanks to @simone for this link) https://marketing4ecommerce.net/en/china-influencers-training/

Number, currency, and unit formatting in javascript (or typescript) https://w3c.github.io/i18n-drafts/questions/qa-number-format.en.html

Interested in Data and working on related standards? https://www.w3.org/careers/data-strategist-2025/

Fusion nucléaire : l’IA change déjà la donne https://theconversation.com/fusion-nucleaire-les-systemes-dia-changent-deja-la-donne-265006

Disgusting. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/25/trump-hangs-autopen-photo-instead-of-biden-portrait-in-new-presidential-gallery

It goes without saying that London is not “under Sharia law.” However, the statement itself is (also obviously) a xenophobic dog whistle in the first place. To their credit, BBC did a good piece picking this apart https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cre53qn8v07o and putting it in context.

Fédivers, je fais appel à ta magie… Y a-t-il un spécialiste Apple Mac autour de Paris qui est prêt à ressusciter en #urgence un MacBook Pro M3 coincé suite à tentative de MàJ vers MacOS #tahoe? Le firmware de démarrage est endommagé. J'ai (et après moi une société de réparation indépendante) […]

Mastodon has a new plan to make money: Hosting and support services for the open social web https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/19/mastodon-has-a-new-plan-to-make-money-hosting-and-support-services-for-the-open-social-web/

Some publicity for a program I have been using for a long time on my Mac: https://sourceforge.net/projects/grandperspectiv/. Use it if your disc is getting full, and you want to have an overall view of your disc usage. It is hugely helpful to find which are the […] [Original post on w3c.social]

Malignant narcissists can't stand when you make fun of them because they lack any real sense of humor or introspection. And they're totally fine with trampling on the First Amendment if it makes their critics quiet down and self-censor. From NYT: "President Trump threatened on Thursday to […]

If any other president took a multi-billion-dollar bribe in return for computer chip shipments that endanger our national security, Republicans and Democrats would have impeached and removed him instantly. Trump is an absolute criminal, and he's getting away with it […]

These iPhone features are getting ridiculous! (By Simon Meyer on IG (simonmeyer_director)

The US Dept. of Justice's NIJ Journal #285 included "What NIJ Research Tells Us About Domestic Terrorism" which notes that far-right attacks "outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism". As 404 Media reports ( […]

For the fun, and a bit of nostalgia, I re-read some Asimov classics on robots as well as part of the Foundation saga these days. Also, as a coincidence, I was also playing with an LLM prompt for some specific job today. And it stroked me: this requires the same skills as given a clear order to […]

🕑 **EU Citizens have 4 days: the clock is ticking!** European countries are finalizing their positions on Chat Control **this Friday.** If your country supports Chat Control, it is vital you contact your representatives and voice your opposition to […] [Original post on mastodon.neat.computer]

"What one feels oneself to be is what one is.“ https://www.eunews.it/en/2025/09/04/eu-advocate-general-states-must-issue-id-documents-consistent-with-the-persons-lived-gender-identity/