Just finished “The Nerd Reich” by @gilduran.com . The closing chapter literally kept me awake half the night, so clear and urgent is it. This is the statement, with all the receipts, that every single person needs to hear yesterday: this world belongs to us, the 8 billion. It is not the playground of the 3,400 deluded billionaires who think that they alone are worth saving.
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Am I to understand from this that SearXNG is in the process of becoming AI poisoned?
#SearX #SearXNG #SearchEngines #AlternateSearchEngines #MetaSearchEngines #web #dev #tech #FOSS #OpenSource #AI #AIPoisoning #AISlop #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #ChatGPT #Claude #Perplexity
https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/2163
https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/2008
https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/2273
#SearX #SearXNG #SearchEngines #AlternateSearchEngines #MetaSearchEngines #web #dev #tech #FOSS #OpenSource #AI #AIPoisoning #AISlop #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #ChatGPT #Claude #Perplexity
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FediCon kicks off tomorrow in Vancouver 💫
And... our co-founder @michael is making the trip across the Atlantic to be there - that's over 7,460 km!
We wouldn't make these trips if we didn't believe in the Open Social Web and how it can be used to better the world.
In particular, Michael is looking forward to meeting all the amazing faces we speak to regularly online in person.
If you're there, say hello!
#FediCon #Fediverse #Mastodon #SocialMedia #OpenSocialWeb #Tech #Event
Signal is developing a standalone desktop app without requiring a smartphone for setup or use, based on recent open-source code changes. 🖥️
The update adds more desktop controls while keeping end-to-end encryption, improving device independence with a privacy-first design. 🔐
#TechNews #Signal #Messaging #Privacy #E2EE #Encryption #EndToEndEncryption #OpenSource #FOSS #Cybersecurity #Security #Data #Internet #Freedom #Software #Tech #Communication
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For anyone using the @surf beta and enjoy the #WorldOfWallpapers posts that I do, you can now enjoy those via the Surf app itself by using the link below.
https://surf.social/feed/surf%2Fcustom%2F01jjdephk6vybfwxe5v61h25c4
You can also contribute to that Surf feed by simply using the #WorldOfWallpapers hashtag in your posts and that content will then show up in the Surf feed.
If you haven't gotten an invite to the Surf beta yet, feel free to DM me as I have invite codes I can provide to get you invited quicker!
#SurfApp #Feeds #SurfFeeds #Beta #App #iOS #Android #Tech #Technology #AllThingsTech
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How to Solve Spotify Public Key Unknown Error
A full explanation of what the Spotify public key unknown error message means along with a step-by-step guide on how to resolve the error message.
https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/solving-spotify-public-key-unknown-error/
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Every time you click this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website
"#DOGE did NOT reduce spending – at all. But it did reduce federal employment; 271,000 people lost their jobs in the federal government"
#StartMakingSense talks w/ #SashaAbramsky, author of #AmericanCarnage: How #Trump, #Musk and DOGE butchered the US Government
https://www.thenation.com/podcast/archive/sms-012026/
#USpol #USpolitics #DOGEbags #SiliconValleyRight #austerity #tech #BigTech #TechBros #books @bookstodon
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Southern states take up #redistricting_battles after bombshell #Supreme_KANGAROO_Court decision.
💭 Memory Lane! Trump REMOVED from Virginia Ballot?? The legal move invokes the #Fourteenth_Amendment and claims Trump's #candidacy #taints the #election with #illegality.
#Trump, #Virginia, #ballots, motion, #Fourteenth_Amendment, #insurrection, federal office, eligibility, district court, legality, #Colorado, Truth Social, #Republican primary, #disqualification, political drama, #removaL.
In fact all elections have been RIGGED for the last 3 decades by both parties and by AIPAC.
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Memory lane of a crooked SUPREME COURT THAT NEED TO BE ARREST AND HUNG IN FRONT OF WHITEHOUSE!
🔥 BREAKING NEWS: A #MOTION has been #FILED to #REMOVE #Donald_Trump from #VIRGINIA #BALLOTS too!! 14 HOURS AGO. #MERRY_XMAS;)!
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🔥 A major development unfolds as a motion is filed to remove Donald Trump from Virginia's upcoming ballots, citing his alleged #engagement in #insurrection against the #United_States.
The legal move invokes the #Fourteenth_Amendment and claims Trump's #candidacy #taints the #election with #illegality.
If Virginia proceeds, it would be the #second state, following #Colorado, to take such action. Trump had previously criticized Colorado's decision on Truth Social, deeming it a "SAD DAY IN AMERICA" and a "WHAT A SHAME FOR OUR COUNTRY!!!" The question now arises: should other states also remove Trump from their ballots, considering the serious allegations against him?
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — A motion has been filed for an injunction to remove former President Donald Trump from presidential primary ballots in Virginia in 2024.
The motion, which was filed on Monday, Dec. 18 in district court in Alexandria by Roy L. Perry-Bey of Hampton, alleges that Trump is “constitutionally ineligible under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment” to run for federal office “based on his engagement in insurrection against the United States” following the 2020 presidential election.
Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol Building on Jan. 6, 2021, emboldened by Trump’s unproven claims that the recent election was marred with fraud. He is currently set to stand trial, facing numerous charges, as the U.S. Department of Justice works to prove that he was directly responsible for the violence that day.
“Mr. Trump has declared his candidacy for president again in 2024,” reads the motion. “However, under the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, Mr. Trump is constitutionally ineligible to appear on any future ballot for federal office based on his engagement in insurrection against the United States.”
https://www.wric.com/news/virginia-news/motion-filed-to-remove-trump-from-virginia-ballots/
#Virginia #Tech’s Enter Sandman Entrance vs. #West_Virginia | 2022 College Football
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Who's ready for even more slop on their YouTube feed?!
YouTube CEO promises more AI features in 2026
#YouTube #CEO #AI #ContentCreation #Tech
Microsoft Copilot putting ads in pull requests on Microsoft Github is expected behavior.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #github #tech #dev #SoftwareDevelopment
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🚀 New on #TheFutureIsFederated 👩🚀
"My Year of Fediverse explorations"
https://blog.elenarossini.com/my-year-of-fediverse-explorations/
with shout-outs to @pixelfed @dansup @pfefferle @gotosocial @yunohost @phanpy
#tech #Fediverse #BigTech #socialmedia #FOSS #FLOSS #blog #Friendica #Pixelfed #Lemmy #GoToSocial #YunoHost #Mastodon #ActivityPub #Wordpress
Hello, I created a new Website
URL: https://portal.thebigbonlinux.tn
Enjoy!
(I wanted to host #Loops but it requires #S3 which is unavailable in #Tunisia)
#Tech #Internet #OVH #Debian #BanisraeliContributors #Palworld #TheBigBonLinux #ClaudeAI
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I put the text below on LinkedIn in response to a post there and figured I'd share it here too because it's a bit of a step from what I've been posting previously on this topic and might be of some use to someone.
In retrospect I might have written non-sense in place of nonsense.
If you're in tech the Han reference might be a bit out of your comfort zone, but Andrews is accessible and measured.
In retrospect I might have written non-sense in place of nonsense.
If you're in tech the Han reference might be a bit out of your comfort zone, but Andrews is accessible and measured.
It's nonsense to say that coding will be replaced with "good judgment". There's a presupposition behind that, a worldview, that can't possibly fly. It's sometimes called the theory-free ideal: given enough data, we don't need theory to understand the world. It surfaces in AI/LLM/programming rhetoric in the form that we don't need to code anymore because LLM's can do most of it. Programming is a form of theory-building (and understanding), while LLMs are vast fuzzy data store and retrieval systems, so the theory-free ideal dictates the latter can/should replace the former. But it only takes a moment's reflection to see that nothing, let alone programming, can be theory-free; it's a kind of "view from nowhere" way of thinking, an attempt to resurrect Laplace's demon that ignores everything we've learned in the >200 years since Laplace forwarded that idea. In that respect it's a (neo)reactionary viewpoint, and it's maybe not a coincidence that people with neoreactionary politics tend to hold it. Anyone who needs a more formal argument can read Mel Andrews's The Immortal Science of ML: Machine Learning & the Theory-Free Ideal, or Byung-Chul Han's Psychopolitics (which argues, among other things, that this is a nihilistic).
I wonder if there's a psychological price that a web developer has to overcome to make a non-trivial web page with no pop-ups of any kind. It seems like a compulsion.
At least in the way I use computers as a low vision person, pop-ups are extraordinarily anti-accessibility. Yes, even tooltips and alt-hovertext, depending on how they're done. Some websites are close to unusable because of these things.
#tech #dev #web #DarkPatterns #accessibility
At least in the way I use computers as a low vision person, pop-ups are extraordinarily anti-accessibility. Yes, even tooltips and alt-hovertext, depending on how they're done. Some websites are close to unusable because of these things.
#tech #dev #web #DarkPatterns #accessibility
🚀 New on #TheFutureIsFederated 👩🚀
"Supporting the Fediverse, one small act at a time"
https://blog.elenarossini.com/supporting-the-fediverse-one-small-act-at-a-time/
with shout-outs to: @elduvelle @nacly @nclm @thek3nger @docpop @angie_marie2 @frank @dansup
#tech #Fediverse #activism #BigTech #SocialMedia #FOSS #FLOSS #blog
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TikTok's transition to U.S. ownership involves collecting even more data about its users, including precise location and AI interactions. It's also likely that the new privacy policy will lead to you seeing more targeted ads. Here's the lowdown from @WIRED.
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Today, May 15, at 23:59 CET we are closing both the Call for Proposals and Early Bird ticket sales for #DWebCamp 2026 🏕️
💡 Submit your idea for a workshop, talk, or presentation to build modern, decentralised technology that follows the values of the early Internet and the DWeb Principles.
😲 At DWeb Camp it’s not unlikely to wake up and find yourself brushing your teeth next to sir @timbl, or to end up chatting with @brewsterkahle over lunch.
🎟️ Buy your ticket and join us for an unforgettable and exciting retreat in Alte Hölle, ~1h from Berlin, on 8–12 July 2026.
📣 Invite your friends, both techies and not! We need the contribution of passionate, motivated, and inspiring humans to make the tools we actually need.
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We have a media ecosystem for you. Our newsletter digests and podcast are here to keep us rooted amidst the outrage and chaos.
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New from Francesca D'Annunzio: Under Governor Greg Abbott's multi-billion dollar border security bonanza, Operation Lone Star, the Rio Grande no longer holds back law enforcement efforts. Today's digital border reaches across Texas and beyond. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-dps-surveillance-arsenal-artificial-intelligence-lege/
This story is presented in partnership with the Pulitzer Center.
#surveillance #tech #SocialMedia #GregAbbott #police #border #privacy #security #USpol #politics #news
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This is probably fine, right? @ProPublica reports on how Trump's transportation department plans to use Google Gemini to draft regulations. The agency's remit includes practically all transportation safety. "We don’t need the perfect rule on XYZ. We don’t even need a very good rule on XYZ," said Department of Transportation general counsel Gregory Zerzan in a meeting. "We want good enough."
#Technology #Tech #USGovernment #TrumpAdministration #Transportation
Nowadays programming in a programming language I don't use daily seems to always require an upgrade cascade of editors, tools, plugins, dependencies, libraries, my DNA, ??? I put some effort into keeping my environment static but all it takes is one autoupgrading thing I missed to kick off one of these cascades, and it feels like whack-a-mole trying to find and lock down every possible cause. This time it looks like a newer version of scala metals might have stopped supporting Java 11 and somehow got updated without my knowledge (maybe? I'm guessing).
P.S. This is not an invitation to post critiques about any of these technologies or recommendations about what I should be doing instead.
#scala #dev #tech #SoftwareDevelopment #coding #programming
P.S. This is not an invitation to post critiques about any of these technologies or recommendations about what I should be doing instead.
#scala #dev #tech #SoftwareDevelopment #coding #programming
The UK's love affair with Big Tech is toxic.
A small number of companies have captured the market for the UK’s critical infrastructure from the NHS to defence.
From this position, they’ve influenced policies that entrench the UK’s dependency.
It's time to course correct with Digital Sovereignty.
Read more ⬇️
https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/15/uk_big_tech_dependence/
#DigitalSovereignty #bigtech #tech #opensource #ukpolitics #ukpol
Here is the beginning of the 3rd #thread on Elon Musk's takeover of the US government:
Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew
https://projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-doge-tracker/
"Musk’s team, known as the Dept of Govt Efficiency, has already thrown entire swaths of the federal #government & its programs into disarray — programs that serve millions of #Americans.
#Musk himself has made no secret of his intentions, saying that #DOGE is a “wood chipper for bureaucracy” and that he is “deleting” agencies."
#introduction Hi!.
I'm Michael, or Fubsepude.
I'm a 30's #blind and #autistic person from Denmark.
My interests include:
#accessibility #music #tech and connecting with folks.