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Toots in English and Dutch. And on a saxophone once in a while.
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We're close to reacing 1 million signatures demanding the full suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement in view of Israel’s violations of human rights. If-when- we reach 1 million, the EU parliament will have to discuss the suspension of this agreement in light of the atrocities and war crimes committed by Israel against Palestinians and Lebanese civilians.
Please sign if you didn't, and share widely
#BoycottIsrael #EUpol #FreePalestine #petition
https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/2025/000005_en#statements-table
Quite unfathomable that Posit basically pointed a Claude bot at an open source project and essentially copied it almost line by line without proper attribution.
The "skills" of LLM too often turn out to be copying someone elses work.
This is sad but unsurprising.
In the search for something that isn't paint and allows me to do quick and dirty adaptations to figures for courses etc, I came across @Krita@mastodon.art .
Wow.
Just wow.
Free, pretty intuitive (more than paint!), a whole set of features for both bitmap and vector, and a nice and helpful community. What's not to like?
I've been donating monthly to @wikipedia@wikis.world for years. As of today, that donation is cancelled until this is resolved appropriately. It's only 10 euro, but they won't contribute to this abhorrent treatment of workforce.
My little niece got a mobile phone and as her godfather I want to send some silly cartoon/dad joke every day. So if you have some good ideas appropriate for a young teen that is learning english, would love to see them in a reply. Much appreciated.
RE: @serigala_tropis@lgbtqia.space
Who would've guessed that Wall-E could be an accurate prediction of where mankind is going?
OK, after 2 days of messing around with Linux Mint next to working on a fresh Window 11 enterprise set up for our organisation, I can tell you that Linux Mint is more stable in its behaviour.
Whether or not my new Windows laptop wakes up from sleep when docked, is a seemingly random event: sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't and there's no way of knowing when it is one or the other.
Let's hope #UGent shifts to Linux really soon.
For decades climate deniers have been using dodgy statistics to "prove" there's no effect of global warming on "the number of hurricanes".
It's never been about the total number. Dr. Masters summarizes the research on how global warming increases the number of _strong_ hurricanes, as hurricanes got stronger over the past decades.
#climateChange #climateResearch #weather #science #research #hurricanes
More proof of #Russia specifically targeting Europe with "cognitive strikes" to disturb public discours. They need the extreme right in power, as -just like Trump- they can control them, and they need to know the EU's military and nuclear secrets if they want to start nuking Ukraine (which they seem to be preparing for...)
Personally I just use startpage.com, but this one is nice if you insist on Google.
We used to have software that let you use fill in between lines, and add some text here and there, without having to download full artist suites like Krita (very impressive though). But they seem to be gone. Anyone tips? I just need to fill these circles with different colors and add a letter, that's all. Microshit wants me to log in when "opening in designer", and fuck that.
In my search for a setup to introduce an 11 year old to the internet, I came across Firefox policies. It allows me to block settings so the kid can't easily override the default DNS.
I tried @Waterfox@mastodon.social and theoretically I should be able to do something similar, but couldn't get it to work. If someone can help me, would be nice (prefer water over fire tbh).
It's on Linux Mint and I used flatpak for waterfox install.
Question: I'm going to flash a linux distro on an old Dell I have lying around, and I want to have something kids friendly (as in: something a non-tech parent can easily control so their kids don't do silly stuff on the laptop and the interwebs).
I wanted to start with a Linux Mint, but if there's some tips and tricks I need to know for setting it up, please tell me. (apart from "teach the kid", bcs we know. But they're kids, remember?)
A gazillion stochastic parrots playing on the stock market, that can never go wrong...
#AI #finance #stockmarket #portfolio #banking #technology
OpenAI launches ChatGPT for personal finance, will let you connect bank accounts | TechCrunch
Once users connect their accounts, they will see a dashboard of their portfolio performance, spending, subscriptions, and upcoming payments.
For those who love vinyl, brass and steampunk nutcases : We're doing a crowdfunding for a vinyl of our latest work. If enough people are interested, we can make that happen.
So Israel -again- attacks citizens of other nations in international waters, and not a single effort is done to actually protect those citizens.
One law for them, one law for the rest of us I guess?
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/29/israeli-military-speedboats-block-gaza-bound-aid-ship
@jeffcliff@shitposter.world define "permission culture"
@jeffcliff@shitposter.world oh wait, that's the CC guy. So yeah, I've read his stuff. That's why I refer time and again to "commercial use". Ever read the licenses of the organisation he founded?
You know what the NC stand for? The SA? How do you think your "learning"(as in copying stuff to train big collections of logistic regression to sell back) complies to that stuff? Asking for a friend.
