I'm going to upload 4 photos to pin on my profile. I enjoy photography and it is something I'm trying to get better at. Not only that, but I am planning to add more with ALT TXT, of course.
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Across #China, tens of thousands of people tagged as troublemakers…are trapped in a #digital cage, barred from leaving their province & sometimes even their homes by the world’s largest digital #surveillance apparatus. Most of this #technology came from companies in a country that has long claimed to support freedoms worldwide: the #UnitedStates.
#HumanRights #Uyghurs #police #government #dissent #PredictivePolicing #DigitalPoliceState #InternationalLaw #law #geopolitics
https://apnews.com/article/chinese-surveillance-silicon-valley-uyghurs-tech-xinjiang-8e000601dadb6aea230f18170ed54e88
This is important.
The Dutch government is blocking a United States-based company's attempts to acquire a key online identification IT supplier.
And says something about the mistrust of US tech companies by now.
#techsovereignty #digital #infrastructure
https://www.politico.eu/article/netherlands-blocks-us-takeover-vital-digital-supplier/
OFFER TO HELP
I’m a #generalist with a varied career path.
I’ve experience in:
- #technology consulting at Accenture
- project, program, and B2B #banking #product delivery at JPMorgan
- commercial #insurance data governance at AIG
- #digital product management at American Express
- #data product #transformation in private equity-backed roll-ups
- independent product & platform strategy around #EdTech, #CollabTech, and #energy
If you’ve questions / need info around any of those, ping me!
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Good day all! Upcoming episode of Fireside Fedi! TOMORROW
The #livestream will be on: https://stream.firesidefedi.live
Special Guest: @JoBlakelyArt
#Artist working in #oils, #acrylic, #digital, etc. Creating #portaits of people & pets in oil for commissions. Political and symoblic personal work. Social justice and compassion. Non Binary disabled, AuDHD, intersectional feminist artist.
So don't miss it!
It will happen on 09 December 2025 at 14:00 US Eastern Time ( UTC-5 )
If by any ungodly chance you miss the show:
#PeerTube ( #VOD ): https://video.firesidefedi.live
#Castopod #Fedicast ( Audio ): https://audio.firesidefedi.live
Or, even on #YouTube: https://youtube.com/@btfree_org
#firesidefedi #fediverse #fedi #interview #freesoftware #opensource #userfreedom #freedom #resistance
No thank you.
Sorry, I won’t even use #FaceID or that #fingerprint shite, #tech knows far too much about me as it is.
#iPhone users can now add #US #passport info to their #digital wallets
#InfoSec #privacy #BigTech #surveillance #law
https://apnews.com/article/apple-iphone-travel-passport-ae7ab15d6a32e6005d9c85def4e39737?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-11-13-One+Tech+Tip
I have a new #project - #mapping the digital service infrastructure in the UK. Specifically all those tools, products, services and platforms that underpin the development of other services.
I've created a site and I really hope that any #UK #digital folks will help me boost this, because it's pretty empty right now, and I need help filling it up.
https://alternatives-in.uk is an act of #resistance - I will eventually create a dedicated Mastodon account, but for now, I'll put updates here.
You are invited to join my new mailing list for people interested in internet resiliency clubs:
https://lists.bowshock.nl/mailman/listinfo/irc
I also updated the internet resiliency club HOWTO with some more hardware info and links to talks:
Suggestions and corrections welcome!
I wonder whether the digital age has led to a decline in the use of atlases, which in turn might be expected to imbue a false sense of increasing objectivity as scientific practitioners of become less acquainted with analog methods.
#science #PhilosophyOfScience #objectivity #digital
#science #PhilosophyOfScience #objectivity #digital
Working on a little experiment, trying to convert a Batman artwork by the skilled Max Grecke to 3D as faithfully as possible.
Instead of focusing on modeling, as I usually do, I'm putting the emphasis on transferring the texture, which takes a lot of work in Blender Texture Paint.
Updates will follow in this 🧵…
#batman #comic #comics #artwork #sculpture #3DModeling #illustration #digital #DigitalArt #style #art #artist #arte #3D #blender #Blender3D #B3D #MastoArt #FediArt #CreativeToots
📢 Wir haben Neuigkeiten! Flipboard erweitert die Föderation in Deutschland: 21 neue Publisher sind jetzt im Fediverse.
Diesen Publishern kannst du ab sofort direkt folgen:
AZMuenchen, @AZMuenchen
BASICthinking, @BASICthinking
Business Punk, @BusinessPunk
BUNTE, @BUNTE_DE
CURVED, @curved
DER SPIEGEL, @DerSpiegel
DerStandard, @DERSTANDARD
Filmstarts, @Filmstarts
FitForFun, @FitForFun
Futurezone, @Futurezone_de
GIGA, @Gigade
Gruenderszene, @Gruenderszene
Harvard Business Manager, @harvardbusiness
Kino.de, @kinode
Men’s Health, @MensHealth_de
Metal Hammer, @metalhammer_de
n-tv, @ntv2019
Photografix, @Photografix
Premium Quarterly, @PremiumQuarter
SZ, @SZ_de
Ze.tt, @Zett
Mehr dazu in unserem Blog: https://flip.it/cxfY1U
#Fediverse #Flipboard #Publisher #ActivityPub #Federation #Föderation #SocialMedia #Nachrichten #Politik #Unterhaltung #Journalismus #Digital #Tech #Wissenschaft #Wirtschaft #Klima #Musik
How interesting.. a friend has twin daughters who are in their early 30s. One had a load of hassle getting through passport control in Poland because the EU digital ID system clearly doesn't know how to handle identical twins! Immigration was convinced she was not herself but her sister (who had been on holiday recently and already been through the new ID system.) Presumably whichever one goes through the system first becomes the 'default' twin. #Twin #Doppelganger #Digital #ID
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Started a new 2D scribble.
I usually start in greyscale, to focus on the shapes first.
Work will continue tomorrow. I'll post updates in this thread…
#dragon #CharacterDesign #graphic #design #artwork #2D #vector #cartoon #illustration #illustrator #cute #picture #DigitalArt #digital #experimental #style #art #artist #arts #arte #designer #GraphicDesign #minimalism #ArtLovers #FineArt #drawing #MastoArt #FediArt #CreativeToots #ArtistsOnMastodon
Wow, I never knew there was a hand-held LCD version of OutRun. 😃
https://www.igdb.com/games/outrun--2
#OutRun #LCD #HandHeld #GameDev #gaming #games #game #gamer #RetroGaming #RetroComputing #RetroGames #RetroTech #VintageComputing #retro #history #arcade #computer #computers #computing #IT #1980s #tech #technology #vintage #nostalgia #digital #DigitalArt #graphics #CGI #CharacterDesign #design #artwork #art #artist #arte #arts #GraphicDesign #MastoArt #FediArt #CreativeToots #ArtistsOnMastodon
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This one might be interesting to anyone interested in computer gaming history.
I spent the last couple of weeks finally finishing a project I started for Bletchley Park about 20 years ago. Recreating the original MUD and MIST on a mirror of the original Essex University system that finally closed in 1991.
Roy Trubshaw and Richard Bartle wrote the first online multi-user game (MUD) on Essex University's DECSystem-10 in 1978 and it ran till I closed it in 1991. I diligently backed everything up so I could potentially recover it one day, but as far as I can see, all the DECSystem-10's went to the great scrapyard in the sky, my backups were mostly stolen when my first museum was stolen, and I had huge issues recovering the Essex BCPL compiler to compile what I had left when I finally got a decent TOPS-10 emulator running on a VAX for Bletchley Park.
One good thing about being an unemployable whistleblower is free time, so I finally hunkered down to some 90 hour weeks and built a software replica of the Essex system I think reflects it well. It's running on a KS10 not a KL10 but I had to let some things slip.
I put the latest known versions of MUD and MIST on it, and miraculously found ROCK too.
So, to meander to the point, if you want to see and relive exactly what online multi user gaming was like from 1978 to 1991, you can go to:
Or:
telnet telnet.dec10.uknet.net
(Port 2653 is available for ISPs that block 23)
And then follow the terse instructions from there.
In those days, you were generally faced with a "." prompt and left mostly alone, so for authenticity, I will leave it at that.
I should note that although they were, in their day, wildly popular games with a relatively huge community, this is a museum peice in snapshot-form at the moment. But I will leave them up and running to see what happens and as a useful reference. I wasn't going to, but Richard seemed happy to have MUD running, and former MIST players wanted it back, so...
Pop this a share if you know folks who might be interested.
** Update: New web client that works better.
** Another update - I added a telnet client.
Historically, the telnet connection is much more true to the traditional experience, where you were connecting to a working machine that didn't care about the MUD Guests, so there were no pointers at all. Just rumour and hearsay :)
If any of you Unix/Security people notice I messed up something, please tell me. I left "^], !sh" open on the telnet link for about 2 minutes and nearly had a heart-attack once I spotted it :D
#history #digital #retrogaming #retrocomputing #games #mud #muds #mist #rock #computers #emulation #emulators #vms #tops10 #museum #history #bletchleypark #simh #essex #uk #computinghistory #36bit #engineering #Linux #Security
(don't try this on a phone!)
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Il lisait le présent avec une clarté chirurgicale. Il voyait déjà dans les années 80 et 90 la déshumanisation du système,la toute-puissance de l'argent, la surveillance et l'utilisation de la peur ("la haine comme un bouclier") comme outils de contrôle.
Using #AI makes people less likely to be correct
Accuracy collapsed when AI was available
- Baseline: 27% gave correct answer
- With AI advice, 9% gave #correct answer
Fact: Some would-be correct people got AI advice & became #wrong
AI advice made people #confident there're correct
- Baseline: 30%
- With AI help, confidence rose to 76%
People became worse, accuracy was only 1/3, but they were twice as confident
#digital #DumbedDown #DDD = Digitally Dumbed Down
💥@robin – Fireside
"how to bring democracy to the internet"
much words spilled
#digital #sovereignty #Eurosky #AI #W3C #HTML #privacy
https://html5accessibility.com/stuff/2026/07/21/robin-berjon-fireside/
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Hi! I'm Kalvin, an IT student. I focus on my IT studies, self-hosting, and open technologies. Glad to connect and share notes on building our own digital spaces.
#introduction #IT #selfhosted #technology #opensource #learning #student #infrastructure #digital #community #building #sharing #Malaysia #developer #sysadmin
A time-warp to my room around late 1992, where I show how exhilarating it was to be a game developer. 😆
#TeamHoi #PixelArt #GameDev #gaming #games #game #gamer #RetroGaming #RetroComputing #RetroGames #RetroTech #VintageComputing #retro #history #commodore #amiga #computing #1990s #tech #technology #vintage #nostalgia #digital #DigitalArt #designer #artwork #art #artist #arte #arts #GraphicDesign #MastoArt #FediArt #CreativeToots #ArtistsOnMastodon #hoi #MoonChild
