OK, this is on me - of fucking course installing iOS 26 included auto-updating to be re-enabled, even though I had disabled it before. Of course that should have been the first thing I checked.
God, I hate these intrusive, disrespectful tech assholes so much, sometimes I can literally taste the bile in my mouth.
#tech #Apple #ux #enshittification
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 devs tweet “Blame the French!” after losing every 2025 Game Awards category to Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, but it was in good fun: They partied together after | Warhorse Studios had its memes ready for a win or a loss.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 devs tweet "Blame the French!" after losing every 2025 Game Awards category to Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, but it was in goodBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
From Project Gutenberg:
Timid Lucy
by Sarah S. (Sarah Schoonmaker) Baker
Get it at: gutenberg.org/ebooks/68677
Timid Lucy by Sarah S. Baker
Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.Project Gutenberg
one aspect of LLMs is what they can actually take as input. What it does with it, use it to predict follow-up words, is well described.
Here is a fascinating read on some of the input functionality, the lack thereof, and the LLM plainly lying to users: doi.org/10.59350/v5fkf-hnf20
Amazing! People are paying willingly for software that lies to them. What a post-fact world we live in.
In samenlevingen waar niet onbevreesd geprotesteerd kan worden, sterft de ziel
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"Het wetenschappelijk onderzoeksbureau van het ministerie van Justitie haalde er alle denkbare juridische experts, ervaringsdeskundigen, onderzoekers, burgemeesters, handhavers en instituten bij om in meer dan vijfhonderd pagina’s uiteen te zetten dat de discussie over inperking van het demonstratierecht, inderdaad, feitenvrij gelul is."
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✊ La federazione è il modo in cui rifiutiamo l’oppressione dei big tech.
Mentre i Big Tech centralizzati vengono multati per nascondere pubblicità e manipolare visibilità, su Mastodon stiamo costruendo qualcosa di radicalmente diverso: uno spazio dove non si compra visibilità e la pubblicità non esiste
Qui il potere è distribuito, i controlli sono reciproci e la gentilezza non è uno slogan.
💜 Se credi anche tu in un Internet libero, sostienici:
👉 it.liberapay.com/mastodonitali…
Siamo su @fediverso
Profilo di mastodonitalia - Liberapay
Mastodon Uno, il social network etico, senza padroni, senza pubblicità, rispettoso della privacy.Liberapay
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L'immagine è su uno sfondo blu. Nella parte superiore c'è una serie di caselle blu disposte a forma di cornice con quattro caselle colorate disposte in una fila orizzontale all'interno. Le caselle colorate sono rosso, nero, bianco e grigio. Sotto la cornice di caselle c'è una fila di quattro cani stilizzati che stanno uno accanto all'altro. I cani sono di colore rosa, giallo, bianco con macchie nere e verde. Sono su un'isola verde con bordi irregolari.
alt-text: Immagine con caselle blu disposte a forma di cornice contenenti caselle rosse, nere, bianche e grigie. Sotto la cornice ci sono quattro cani stilizzati, di colore rosa, giallo, bianco con macchie nere e verde, su un'isola verde. L'immagine è su uno sfondo blu.
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In September, I put in a purchase request for Enshittification at the library. In October, I was notified that Aarhus library now has it in stock. I reserved the audiobook. I just got a notification that it's ready for me to borrow. In one click, I have borrowed it. The library's simple, free, reader-oriented process is like the opposite of enshittification.
#Books #Libraries
#Enshittification
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Wishing a peaceful and happy Saturday. Please stay safe and sound.
"You are the light of the world. Shine, and darkness will disappear." ~ Paulo Coelho
Photo: The Cat Man from Aleppo catmanfromaleppo.com
Today is St. Lucy's Day, the festival of lights.
anydayguide.com/calendar/1548
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#catsofmastodon #mastodoncats #cats #pets #catsdaily #catoftheday #animals #compassion #rescue #shelter
St. Lucia’s Day | History, Sweden, Italy, Traditions, Food, & Facts
St. Lucia’s Day is a festival of lights celebrated in Sweden, Norway, and the Swedish-speaking areas of Finland on December 13 in honor of St. Lucia. One of the earliest Christian martyrs, St.Britannica Editors (Encyclopedia Britannica)
Kim Jong-un admits North Korean troops clearing landmines for russia
Leader praises his soldiers for turning ‘danger zone into a safe one’ during ceremony in Pyongyang welcoming them back from #Ukraine war
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Kim Jong-un admits North Korean troops clearing landmines for Russia
Leader praises his soldiers for turning ‘danger zone into a safe one’ during ceremony in Pyongyang welcoming them back from Ukraine warGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
6 Winter Jobs To Transform Your Garden, According To Sissinghurst’s Head Gardener - All For Gardening
The idea of gardening in winter can be deceptive. With dormant plants and borders stripped back to their bones in hibernation, it's easy to assume there'sGardening (All For Gardening)
Osaka Expo, ‘Kokuho’ top 2025’s sumo-style consumer interest rankings
The expo’s ¥3 trillion economic impact and the three-hour kabuki film captivated shoppers in Japan this year.Mark Schreiber (The Japan Times)
Ooooh so noooow its bad if ICE agents get taken to a police station to prove their identity.
"The agent, who’s assigned to another HSI office and is in Minnesota on “temporary detail for an operation,” is unfamiliar with the Twin Cities, did not know where they were going, and “was in fear that he was being abducted.”"
mprnews.org/story/2025/12/11/m…
#ICE #FuckICE #ChingaLaMigra #USPol #minnesota #FuckCBP #FuckHSI #ACAB #Immigration
FBI: Man, woman drive to police station with Homeland Security agent trapped in vehicle
A man and a woman are facing charges of assaulting a federal officer after Homeland Security Investigations agents tried to arrest the man Wednesday for overstaying his student visa.Matt Sepic (MPR News)
In a second claimed report from a responding officer at the New Hope cop shop the officer describes BOTH the woman driving the car AND the fed car jacking them calling the cops.
The officer seems to vary at times from taking the Fed's claim of "ICE goon kidnapped" at face value... also seeming to get a bit less clear cut after interacting with the woman who came to the police station.
#NewHope #minnesota #minneapolis #ICE #CBP #HSI #CourtWatch
Was this an advertising ploy in the "don't ever come to the USA" tourist board?
My extended family decided not to ever return to spend £s or euros on holidays heree, Disney will be quiet?
No hasta la vista?
If you live n Denmark you will already know that after the new year the national postal service will stop delivering letters at all and become a service only delivering packages/parcels...
Here in the UK as the postal service worsens day by day (with the number of missing, or just late items steadily increasing), how long will it before the UK Post Office's (new) owners make the same calculation of profitability & costs of delivery?
#PostOffice #Denmark #UK
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If you guys are doing that already, we’re definitely screwed here in the US. They want to privatize the whole thing, and make it a profit center, rather than a feature and benefit of society.
Will this documentary put #KeirStarmer behind bars?
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#DeclassifiedUK presents the first documentary about Britain's complicity in the #Gaza #genocide, exposing Keir Starmer's shady spy flight missions for #Israel.
What does a British base in #Cyprus have to do with Israel's genocide in #Palestine?
Declassified travelled to this Mediterranean island to investigate the hundreds of spy flights Keir Starmer has sent over Gaza, that coincided with Israeli airstrikes and the killing of British aid workers
We go where the British media and military experts have refused to look and ask whether this scandal could put Keir Starmer in The Hague.
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Openpolis Report on Young People – NEET data by metropolitan city (young people aged 15-29 who neither study nor work)
Very interesting report just released here: https://www.openpolis.it/esercizi/uno-sguardo-dinsieme-alla-condizione-dei-giovani-nelle-periferie-italiane/ .BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
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