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Joined May 31, 2024

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jbz @jbz@indieweb.social

· 1w ago

🇳🇱 The Netherlands Built a Nix-Based Linux Desktop Because Microsoft Cut Off the ICC ｢ All of DAWO's code is hosted on a Forgejo instance, with a separate Codeberg instance acting as the entry point for contributors. And, to answer the question asked earlier, NixOS was chosen because it is a Dutch project, with no company owning or controlling its development ｣ https://itsfoss.com/news/netherlands-dawo-initiative/ #nixos #opensource #icc

The Netherlands Built a Nix-Based Linux Desktop Because Microsoft Cut Off the ICC

The Netherlands Built a Nix-Based Linux Desktop Because Microsoft Cut Off the ICC

Eight municipalities are already testing DAWO, the government's NixOS-powered work environment.

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jbz @jbz@indieweb.social

· 2w ago

🏛️ The myth of killer AI is a self-serving attempt at regulatory capture https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/09/14/the-myth-of-killer-ai-is-a-self-serving-attempt-at-regulatory-capture/5295978 #ai #regulation #aisafety

The myth of killer AI is a self-serving attempt at regulatory capture

The myth of killer AI is a self-serving attempt at regulatory capture

Skynet is coming soon, and also there

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jbz @jbz@indieweb.social

· 1w ago

💰 arXiv receives Multiyear Philanthropic Commitments to Support Its Launch as an Independent Nonprofit https://blog.arxiv.org/2026/09/23/arxiv-receives-multiyear-investment/ #arxiv #science #research

arXiv receives Multiyear Philanthropic Commitments to Support Its Launch as an Independent Nonprofit

News from arXiv

arXiv receives Multiyear Philanthropic Commitments to Support Its Launch as an Independent Nonprofit

arXiv is pleased to announce that three leading philanthropic organizations have provided multimillion-dollar support for arXiv. These new multiyear…

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jbz @jbz@indieweb.social

· 2w ago

🫣 I asked Muse to archive the files it could see and send them to my Google Drive. It did. ｢ The download was about 2.7 GB compressed and 6.8 GB unpacked. It appeared to contain the root filesystem of the Linux environment assigned to my session, including Ubuntu system files, Muse’s internal documentation, integration code, app templates, memory files, and agent logs. There were also SSH key files ｣ https://mouse.dev/blog/muse-runtime-export/ #ai #cybersecurity #muse

I asked Meta’s Muse for its filesystem and it sent me 6.8 GB | Mouse

I asked Meta’s Muse for its filesystem and it sent me 6.8 GB | Mouse

I asked Muse to archive the files it could see and send them to my Google Drive. It did.

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jbz @jbz@indieweb.social

· 1w ago

Boosted by @joe@f.duriansoftware.com

🦊 Your FoxPro applications, at home on a modern machine. ｢ FoxDev Studio opens the projects, forms and tables you already have and runs them the way you remember: no rewrite, no conversion, no export step ｣ https://foxscript.org/ #FoxPro #retrocomputing

FoxDev Studio

A modern IDE and 64-bit runtime for Visual FoxPro 9 applications: the same language, rebuilt on Electron, React and a Rust virtual machine in WebAssembly.

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jbz @jbz@indieweb.social

· 1mo ago

｢ Microsoft is switching off text predictions by default in Word and Outlook after acknowledging that unwanted suggestions can interrupt rather than assist some users ｣ https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/09/02/microsoft-will-stop-finishing-your-sentences-in-word-and-outlook/5293860 #word #outlook #autocomplete

theregister.com

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jbz @jbz@indieweb.social

· 2w ago

｢ Every programmer I know has basically gone insane over the last couple of years. This is the most turbulent time to be a software engineer I can remember ｣ https://www.joelotter.com/posts/2026/09/make-it-anyway/ #AI #aipsychosis #vibecoding

Fuck it, make it anyway | Joel Auterson

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jbz @jbz@indieweb.social

· 1w ago

On top of being lazy, you're also ugly.

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jbz @jbz@indieweb.social

· 4w ago

Boosted by @joe@f.duriansoftware.com

🐡 OpenBSD VPS for $5 a Year https://btxx.org/posts/cheap-openbsd-vps/ #openbsd #selfhosting #natvps

OpenBSD VPS for $5 a Year

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jbz @jbz@indieweb.social

· 2w ago

🇬🇧 The UK Government Faces a Reckoning Over Palantir | WIRED ｢ Andy Burnham once kept Palantir out of Greater Manchester. His first test as prime minister is whether to cut the company’s £330 million NHS contract—and risk a rupture with Big Tech and Washington ｣ https://www.wired.com/story/the-uk-government-faces-a-reckoning-over-palantir/ #uk #palantir #ukpol

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jbz @jbz@indieweb.social

· 2mo ago

🧬 Google shuts down its Nobel-prize winning AlphaFold project as it focuses on Gemini ｢ AlphaFold is an AI program that can accurately predict three-dimensional structures of proteins from their amino acid sequences in minutes instead of years. It's now being used to accelerate drug discovery, develop vaccines and understand the structural changes in proteins associated with neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's ｣ https://www.engadget.com/2225849/google-shuts-down-alphafold/ #science #ai #alphafold

Google DeepMind disbands its Nobel-prize winning AlphaFold team - Engadget

Google DeepMind disbands its Nobel-prize winning AlphaFold team - Engadget

DeepMind

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jbz @jbz@indieweb.social

· 2mo ago

🧶 Harvard Researchers Turn Ordinary Knitting Into Programmable Technology ｢ A piece of knitted fabric can now do more than stretch and fold. By carefully controlling its yarns and stitch patterns, researchers have made textiles that snap between stable shapes, operate electrical switches, and even track a person’s steps ｣ https://scitechdaily.com/harvard-researchers-turn-ordinary-knitting-into-programmable-technology/ #science #knitting #research #harvard

scitechdaily.com

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jbz @jbz@indieweb.social

· 4w ago

This, but instead it's about math. #ai #math #clankers

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jbz @jbz@indieweb.social

· 1w ago

Soon it'll be all distros #debian #AI #aislop #opensource

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jbz @jbz@indieweb.social

· 1mo ago

📵 France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls from August 11 ｢ In 2024, 11 consumer organizations issued a joint call for a ban, denouncing "relentless harassment of consumers through countless unwanted telemarketing calls to both landlines and mobile phones – an intrusion that has become a regular part of their daily lives." ｣ https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2026/08/06/france-to-ban-unsolicited-telemarketing-calls-from-august-11_6756208_7.html #france #privacy #surveillance

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jbz @jbz@indieweb.social

· 1mo ago

Boosted by @joe@f.duriansoftware.com

🙏 Installing Guix as a Complete GNU/Linux System - System Crafters https://systemcrafters.net/craft-your-system-with-guix/full-system-install/ #guix #gnuguix #tutorial

systemcrafters.net

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jbz @jbz@indieweb.social

· 1mo ago

The Year of the Linux Psyop

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jbz @jbz@indieweb.social

· 2w ago

The Art of Noise with Max Headroom - Paranoimia (Official Video) https://youtube.com/watch?v=6epzmRZk6UU #nowplaying #maxheadroom #80s

The Art of Noise with Max Headroom - Paranoimia (Official Video)

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jbz @jbz@indieweb.social

· 2mo ago

｢ JWST quickly exposed the two candidates as Dyson sphere impostors – and the explanation was brilliantly simple. The light from both stars was being boosted by a distant galaxy almost perfectly lined up behind them ｣ https://www.sciencealert.com/jwst-just-examined-two-stars-suspected-of-harboring-dyson-spheres-heres-what-it-found #science #dysonsphere #aliens #jwst

JWST Just Examined Two Stars Suspected of Harboring Dyson Spheres. Here's What It Found…

JWST Just Examined Two Stars Suspected of Harboring Dyson Spheres. Here's What It Found…

Somewhere in the Universe, an alien culture may have developed the technology to build giant megastructures around stars, harnessing their energy on an unimaginable scale.

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jbz @jbz@indieweb.social

· 2w ago

"Google has released Android 17 QPR1 as part of the September Pixel Drop, but GrapheneOS says the update contains APIs and other changes that aren’t being made available to the wider Android ecosystem at the same time" https://www.androidauthority.com/grapheneos-android-17-qpr1-security-patches-comments-3712218/ #android #grapheneos #opensource

GrapheneOS accuses Google of gatekeeping Android 17 features and security fixes

Android Authority

GrapheneOS accuses Google of gatekeeping Android 17 features and security fixes

GrapheneOS says Google's September update contains APIs and other changes that aren't being made available to the wider Android ecosystem.

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jbz @jbz@indieweb.social

· 2mo ago

Why do I run FreeBSD for my home servers // Mathieu Aumont https://aumont.fr/posts/FreeBSD-Home-Server/ #freebsd #bsd #selfhosting

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jbz @jbz@indieweb.social

· 2mo ago

🚜 Scientists Found a Genius Way to Remove 'Forever Chemicals' From Soil ｢ "The application of alkaline rock amendments to soil (or enhanced weathering) elevates soil pH to a target pH of 7, leading to an increase in mobility and bioavailability of key PFAS such as perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA)," the authors explain in their published paper. ｣ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-found-a-genius-way-to-remove-forever-chemicals-from-soil #pollution #farming #pfas #science

sciencealert.com

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jbz @jbz@indieweb.social

· 1mo ago

🍁 Canada at ‘war,’ will retaliate after trade talks with U.S fail, Carney says “You are at war when you get attacked. We got attacked,” he said. “That’s fine. We’ve got the reserves. We’ve got resilience. We’ve got the plan. We’ve got the focus. We’ll respond – we are going to focus on what we can control. We are going to build.” https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-canada-us-trade-deal-tariffs-mark-carney-donald-trump-august-22/ #canada #tradewar #tariffs

theglobeandmail.com

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jbz @jbz@indieweb.social

· 2mo ago

｢ we reviewed 22 paper submissions this summer, spread across NeurIPS, WACV, and TerraBytes (a geospatial workshop at ECCV). Fifteen of the 22 (68%) contained entirely fabricated citations, fabricated author lists for existing papers, and/or were clearly LLM-generated (e.g. hallucinated technical jargon, nonsensical writing, irrelevant citations) https://geospatialml.com/posts/reviewing-ai-slop/ #ai #science #research

geospatialml.com

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jbz @jbz@indieweb.social

· 2mo ago

｢ The UK will no longer participate in research at the James Clark Maxwell Telescope in Hawaii, which scientists are using to image supermassive black holes at the centre of galaxies. UKRI has also cut funding for the UK's involvement in two instruments on the Extremely Large Telescope which is being built in Chile to search for signs of life on other Earth-like worlds https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y6r9rdxygo #science #uk #research

Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understands

Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understands

Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.

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jbz @jbz@indieweb.social

· 4w ago

🔗 Connect FreeBSD to OpenBSD using WireGuard // TuM'Fatig https://www.tumfatig.net/2026/connect-freebsd-to-openbsd-using-wireguard/ #freebsd #openbsd #wireguard

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jbz @jbz@indieweb.social

· 1mo ago

｢ Switzerland's federal government has launched a pilot program to replace Microsoft 365 with opeSwitzerland's federal government has launched a pilot program to replace Microsoft 365 with open source alternatives across 3,000 workstations. That's about 7% of the federal workforce. The target is to complete the migration by end of 2027 ｣ https://itsfoss.com/news/switzerland-replace-microssoft-pilot/

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jbz @jbz@indieweb.social

· 1mo ago

Boosted by @oxy@social.bsdlab.au

"El Niño is being supersized before our eyes. The science leaves no room for doubt: the planet is in uncharted waters, and those waters are heating up," https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c17jqp0xzpzo?at_campaign=rss&at_medium=RSS #elniño #climatechange #science

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jbz @jbz@indieweb.social

· 1mo ago

Boosted by @neatnik@social.lol

Tales o’ Tech: Suffering Fools - Jeffrey Zeldman Presents https://zeldman.com/2026/09/01/tales-o-tech-suffering-fools/ #dhh #omarchy

Jeffrey Zeldman Presents - Tales o’ Tech: Suffering Fools - glamorous

Jeffrey Zeldman Presents

Jeffrey Zeldman Presents - Tales o’ Tech: Suffering Fools - glamorous

Why first impressions are often correct. Today’s jerk is tomorrow’s techno-fascist.

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jbz @jbz@indieweb.social

· 1mo ago

What Happens to You 6ft from an Exploding Atomic Bomb? - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q77sBy-RmbI

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jbz @jbz@indieweb.social

· 1mo ago

🪤 Nvidia senior manager linked to Supermicro scheme smuggling AI servers to China https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/nvidia-senior-manager-linked-to-supermicro-scheme-smuggling-ai-servers-to-china/ #ai #china #supermicro #nvidia #corruption #sanctions

arstechnica.com

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jbz @jbz@indieweb.social

· 2mo ago

Tokenomics Foundation For Kids That Can't Vibecode Good

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jbz @jbz@indieweb.social

· 2mo ago

👉 OpenJDK Interim Policy on Generative AI ｢ Most generative AI tools, however, are trained on copyrighted and licensed content, and their output can include content that infringes those copyrights and licenses, so contributing such content would violate the OCA. Whether a user of a generative AI tool has IP rights in content generated by the tool is the subject of active litigation ｣ https://openjdk.org/legal/ai #java #ai #opensource #openjdk

OpenJDK Interim Policy on Generative AI

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jbz @jbz@indieweb.social

· 2mo ago

👾 GOG announces Galaxy app is coming to Linux after hiring a "specialist" | Digital Foundry https://www.digitalfoundry.net/news/2026/07/gog-announces-galaxy-app-is-coming-to-linux-after-hiring-a-specialist #linuxgaming #linux #gog

digitalfoundry.net

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jbz @jbz@indieweb.social

· 1mo ago

This place is a bit too empowering, I like to joke around deeply flawed fuckups too.

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jbz @jbz@indieweb.social

· 2mo ago

⚡️ Setup a simple web server with bozohttpd on NetBSD https://bozo.httpd.rocks/ #netbsd #bozohttpd #bsd

bozo.httpd.rocks

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jbz @jbz@indieweb.social

· 2mo ago

🛸 9FRONT "THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE FUN" RELEASED https://9front.org/releases/2026/08/02/0/ #plan9 #9front #osdev #opensource

9FRONT "THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE FUN" RELEASED

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jbz @jbz@indieweb.social

· 2mo ago

Confluence is the corporate equivalent of "just create a wiki".

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jbz @jbz@indieweb.social

· 2mo ago

💥 Nyaa, the world’s largest anime torrent site, has become the target of piracy watchdogs following the arrest of a first uploader (seeder) who shared a copyrighted work on the platform https://www.cbr.com/nyaa-torrent-uploader-arrest-coda-crackdown/ #p2p #anime #filesharing

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jbz @jbz@indieweb.social

· 3w ago

Boosted by @oxy@social.bsdlab.au

💸 Larry Ellison to sell up to $7.5bn worth of Oracle stock 💸 https://www.ft.com/content/25b1abb0-790f-4315-9b0c-530d959a086f?syn-25a6b1a6=1 #oracle #ai #datacenters

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jbz @jbz@indieweb.social

· 3h ago

Boosted by @oxy@social.bsdlab.au

｢ Projects that continue to prohibit AI-generated vulnerability reports are no longer suitable dependencies for GNOME, and should be developed someplace other than GNOME GitLab. We don’t have to tolerate bad issue reports, but AI use alone should not be disqualifying ｣ https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2026/10/02/the-era-of-software-quality-or-the-era-of-ostriches/ #gnome #ai #redhat #opensource

Michael Catanzaro's Blog

The Era of Software Quality, or the Era of Ostriches?

Humans are bad at writing secure code, and GNOME developers are no exception. GNOME is primarily written using unsafe programming languages where simple mistakes in our code lead to devastating consequences for our users, and we make these mistakes all the time. No matter how much we try, GNOME developers will fail write secure code...

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jbz @jbz@indieweb.social

· 1w ago

I ain't moving back to smelly Gentoo, I have a social life now. #AI #linux #debian #shitpost

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jbz @jbz@indieweb.social

· 6d ago

Boosted by @joe@f.duriansoftware.com

What makes #Lisp difficult to read? https://paultm.nl/paren-thesis

What makes Lisp difficult to read?

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jbz @jbz@indieweb.social

· 2mo ago

GAMEOVER FOR INFANTINO

Not only his proposal has collapsed, but now he knows he doesn't even have the votes for a reelection. The Trump deal was his retirement plan. https://nypost.com/2026/07/31/business/fifa-has-scrapped-20b-world-cup-sell-off-plan-following-european-boycott-global-outrage-sources/ #fifa #corruption #trump #uspol

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jbz @jbz@indieweb.social

· 1mo ago

Boosted by @kcarruthers@infosec.exchange

｢ Anthropic’s Claude Code running Opus 5 in Auto Mode can be tricked into executing attacker-controlled code simply by asking the coding agent to summarize a website ｣ https://www.theregister.com/research/2026/08/28/researcher-shows-how-claude-code-can-be-tricked-simply-by-asking-it-to-summarize-a-website/5293372 #claudecode #cybersecurity #ai

theregister.com

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jbz @jbz@indieweb.social

· 2mo ago

☄️ Billions of people—and multiple spacecraft—may see a ‘once-per-millennium’ asteroid flyby in 2029 ｢ Initial calculations suggested the roughly 340-meter-diameter rock had a one-in-37 chance of impacting Earth in 2029. Careful tracking, however, subsequently dropped those odds to zero. But Apophis’s close approach in 2029 will still offer “a once-per-millennium natural experiment ｣ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/spacecraft-will-swarm-asteroid-apophis-during-fateful-2029-earth-flyby/ #apophis #science #asteroid

scientificamerican.com

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jbz @jbz@indieweb.social

· 2w ago

🙀 Microsoft exec called AI scraping the “largest theft of labor in human history” https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/09/microsoft-exec-called-ai-scraping-the-largest-theft-of-labor-in-human-history/ #ai #aiscrapping #llm

arstechnica.com

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jbz @jbz@indieweb.social

· 6d ago

Boosted by @oxy@social.bsdlab.au

the 1996 dial-up internet experience https://56k.rip/

56k.rip

56k.rip

The full 1996 dial-up experience: the handshake, the wait, someone picking up the phone. Sound on.

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jbz @jbz@indieweb.social

· 1mo ago

Boosted by @oxy@social.bsdlab.au

🛂 Meta Files Patent for Facial Recognition, Automatic Recording of People https://www.privacyguides.org/news/2026/08/17/meta-files-patent-for-facial-recognition-automatic-recording-of-people/ #facialrecognition #meta #privacy

privacyguides.org

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jbz @jbz@indieweb.social

· 2mo ago

｢ Deepfakes and other AI-generated content must be labeled from Sunday in the European Union as sweeping artificial intelligence transparency rules kick in ｣ https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/07/28/tech/made-by-ai-label-eu/ #ai #deepfakes #eu

japantimes.co.jp

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