Seven of the mods on the Eurovision subreddit have stepped down - it's a bigger deal than it sounds, apparently.
"Take care, fuck the EBU, and most importantly, Free Palestine"
#BoycottEurovision #GlobaliseTheIntifada #FreePalestine #SolidarityIsBeautiful
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A Developer Accidentally Found #CSAM in #AI Data. #Google #Banned Him For It
Google suspended a mobile app developer’s accts after he uploaded AI #training data to his #GoogleDrive. Unbeknownst to him, the widely used dataset, which is cited in a number of academic papers & distributed via an #academic file sharing site, contained child #sexualAbuse material. The developer reported the dataset to a child safety org, which eventually resulted in the dataset’s removal
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A Developer Accidentally Found CSAM in AI Data. Google Banned Him For It
Mark Russo reported the dataset to all the right organizations, but still couldn't get into his accounts for months.Emanuel Maiberg (404 Media)
DOJ seeks to join lawsuit against Loudoun County over trans student in locker room
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#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
DOJ seeks to join lawsuit against Loudoun County over trans student in locker room
The Justice Department has asked to join a lawsuit against Loudoun County Public Schools over the handling of complaints about a transgender student in a boys' locker room.Staff reports (Washington Blade)
Conill: Rethinking sudo with object capabilities
Ariadne Conill is exploring a capability-based approach to privilege escalation on Linux system [...]LWN.net
RE: mastodon.social/@randahl/11571…
YouTube (Google/Alphabet) could stop this stuff, so why don't they?
Silicon Valley is morally bankrupt. Gangsters have a more developed sense of right and wrong.
It's utterly criminal that "account suspension" is even a thing supported in the data model for this kind of all encompassing account tied to continued use of physical devices you purchased and access to your own data and to basically everything in your life.
If fraud/abuse are a threat in the account provider's threat model, they need to implement fine grained suspension of the individual capabilities that may be fraud vectors (e.g. gift card redemption, new purchases, unsolicited new outgoing contacts, etc.), not the entire account.
20 Years of Digital Life, Gone in an Instant, thanks to Apple
Summary: A major brick-and-mortar store sold an Apple Gift Card that Apple seemingly took offence to, and locked out my entire Apple ID, effectively bricking my devices and my iCloud Account, Apple Developer ID, and everything associated with it, and…Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison (hey.paris)
This is part of why I left the DC journalism scene. The feigned jadedness is fucking obnoxious.
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I did something…
About 9 months ago I made two "little things"so a couple of months ago I decided to make one for each of them "from scratch".BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Watch out for rumor Helen Mirren announced $107M Netflix investment
A similar false story about actor Bette Midler investing millions into Netflix also circulated on social media around the same time.
This Photographer Built an Awesome Medium-Format Rangefinder, and So Can You
This Photographer Built an Awesome Medium-Format Rangefinder, and So Can You
Photographer Albert Cornelissen wanted an affordable, versatile medium-format rangefinder. So he built it himself.Jeremy Gray (PetaPixel)
Wild construction in Bar.
I believe that this one was built first, and the street came later because it is new, but it is not clear to me why they did not demolish this when they wereBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Daniel Reeders
in reply to MiniMia 🏴 🇵🇸 🏴 • • •MiniMia 🏴 🇵🇸 🏴
in reply to Daniel Reeders • • •@onekind I do regular protest round ups that cover climate, Palestine, workers rights, ICE and a bunch of other stuff. Keep your eye out 😊
Here's the most recent one:
syzito.xyz/@fkamiah17/11571833…
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2025-12-14 14:13:11
MissConstrue
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/r subreddit drama has some more background and some curated comments with links:
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in reply to MiniMia 🏴 🇵🇸 🏴 • • •@onekind
Yeah, I assumed since that was the curated bit, it probably gave a fairly good precis of the vibe, which might go some way towards explaining the mod's decisions.