Bug turns one of the biggest fears about #RayBan #Meta #SmartGlasses into reality
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/1…
The bug is fixed, but privacy concerns remain.Scharon Harding (Ars Technica)
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Now that we are raising money to pay for a year for all of our servers, our TROM.tf server decided that its main drive is failing....
We have backups to external locations but please be aware if the entire TROM.tf fails may be the drive and we will have to replace it. In the next days we cannot do that (me, Tio, very busy) but as soon as possible we will try to replace the drive. Let's hope it will not fail in the meantime.....
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Thank you amazing people for helping with the donation campaign!! We are so close to the finishing line :)
Life feels like shit recently, but man it also feels amazing to see that there are people who appreciate TROM and its baby projects. Thank you. It gives me a lot of fuel to continue!
#fundraiser #fedi #fediverse #trom #tromsite
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CERN, what a wonderful collaborative project. No "for profit" BS company could do this.
#cern #hadroncollider #research #science #documentary #videoneat
A film that blends remarkable access to the Large Hadron Collider with poetry, music and rare archival footage to explore a place where science, politics and culture collide.
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We raised 223€ out of 1.100€:
Campaign here - donorbox.org/pay-for-our-trom-…
Out of 900 Newsletter subscribers and a few hundreds of followers on the fediverse, only 6 people have donated. We will try to reach those who use our TROM.tf services. If only a handful, literally, of people support us financially then perhaps is not sustainable to run services such as Friendica, Nextcloud, Peertube and more for everyone. We can't pay for them ourselves. Myself...Tio.
Even small donations, a cup of coffee, could make an impact a little bit. We will see by the end of this month how things go. If we really cannot get enough support to pay 1.000€ for our servers for a year, then we need to make our instances only for us at TROM and move to a cheaper server solution.
It is sad. But is no option on the table. Without financial support I cannot pay some 100€ a month for the servers.
Massive thank you to the 6 people who donated! It helps a lot.
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Please help us Pay for our TROM servers for a year donorbox.org/pay-for-our-trom-…
Here is the newsletter we sent: newsletter.tromsite.com/archiv…
It is very difficult recently to manage it all inside this Trade Society. Every little financial help, helps!
Mind you there are thousands of people who use our TROM.tf services, and also take value from our many projects and TROM content. So if possible to help us a bit financially.
Thanks a lot!
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⚠️ We recently released #PeerTube v8.3.1, which fixed several security issues.
The full changelog is now available.
If you haven't done so already, please upgrade your platform as soon as possible!
github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube…
SECURITY critical Fix potential XSS with remote storyboard in SVG format GHSA-jwcf-xj6w-xqm5 high Do not allow moderators to act on 2FA/token sessions of other moderators/admins GHSA-xpw4-mxj2-rj8...GitHub
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We're at the final talk of the Decentralized and Federated track at @oscl
Our amazing @_elena talks about the state of social media, her Fediverse experience, and the importance of moving EU public institutions towards ethical, decentralized platforms. 🔥🔥
#OSCL26 #Oscl #digitalsovereignty #opensource #mastodon #pixelfed #fediverse #eupolicy
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following overtly long article talks about mobile linux history. where mobile linux failed and where it had some success.
but it also says that mobile linux has some future.
article is written by Amos Batto.
amosbbatto.wordpress.com/2026/…
amosbbatto.wordpress.com/wp-co…
#mobilelinux #mobile #linux #privacy
Linux phones now have the hardware and software to succeed, but it is an open question whether they will become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly.amosbatto (Random thoughts, conocimiento no conocido, yachay mana yachasqachu)
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Google demands every developer's identity in the name of security. Yet more than 50 Play Store apps hiding malware were installed 2.3 million times¹. Meanwhile, #FDroid, which builds every app from source and rejects black boxes, is under threat. This is not about security, it is about control. That is why I don't want to support this joke.
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Identity is also irrelevant for really bad actors. They have been using strawmen for decades. The russians are famous for their throw-away agents recruited through Telegram. Scammers have used those "money mules" for decades.
So your investigation into this "developer identity" will give you some random drunkard who gave his ID for a few Euros.
To be clearer, #Fedilab has been unpublished and is waiting for full removal.
You can't search for it anymore, but if you already installed it, you can still find it at play.google.com/store/apps/det…
Google's last reply, a few weeks ago, was that they need time. I want to delete my account, but first I need to remove my apps, and they refuse. That's why, as a European, I asked them to respect my rights under the GDPR.
To those wondering about the future of #Fedilab: although I did everything I could to leave the Play Store, I still haven't received a reply to my GDPR request, sent weeks ago. The app has not been removed, so it still appears as an app that accepts Google's rules. That's not my goal. If the freedom to get apps is over, I want Fedilab to go with it. But Google keeps the app. Developers are being held hostage, be aware.
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This, from Emily Bender, is the lesson we REALLY have to learn. This is part of a larger thread, which you should read.
Thus, any evaluation of LLMs that involves looking at either language produced by some software, or language input into the system for that matter, needs to be done with extreme care to avoid projecting our interpretation of the language onto the system.>>
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If you use Arch, by the way, and you're going to install a few packages at once, you'll likely run into the usual "package X is already installed" message. If you want to skip that and install only the packages that are missing from your system, add “--needed” to the `pacman -S` command.
For example, `sudo pacman -S packageX packageY --needed`
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ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton.
she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back.
Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Yeah but in my case it's understandable, at least I wasn't using my PayPal account for a long time so they removed my bank account which had been linked. I don't know what they mean by having to "verify my identity" but they mentioned it's due to some new guidelines by the government they did all this.....
Either way, in my case they at least communicated and gave me time. What GoFundMe did to you is even more infuriating, deleting your account on a whim with no explanation WTF!?
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Hearing lots of discourse about "stochastic parrots" recently? Here's a discussion of the backstory, both of the phrase itself and what's going on now.
bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-tw…
I talk with computational linguist Emily M. Bender, co-author of the influential 2021 “stochastic parrots” paper, about why AI industry leaders can’t stop seething over the term.Brian Merchant (Blood in the Machine)
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I want to thank you and the other authors for that paper. I had a suspicion that LLMs were not what they were cracked up to be and that paper helped me understand why.
Also, good interview.
Oh no!
"Margaret Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT during NASA’s Apollo program, died on Sep. 30. She was 90.
A computing pioneer who authored over 130 publications, Hamilton helped to establish software engineering as a dedicated discipline."
We all remember her from these iconic pictures.
news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-ham…
news.mit.edu/2016/scene-at-mit…
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Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Pol Dellaiera
in reply to Gina • • •Gina
in reply to Pol Dellaiera • • •and/or like this: @EUCommission 👏
윤채경 (Yoon Chae-kyung)
in reply to Gina • • •🫧 Social coding commons
in reply to 윤채경 (Yoon Chae-kyung) • • •@chaekyung
Yes! The #EU has their own #Mastodon server on the #fediverse 😃
ec.social-network.europa.eu/di…
European Commission on Mastodon
Mastodon hosted on ec.social-network.europa.euMastodon Migration
in reply to Gina • • •tweak
in reply to Gina • • •Gina
in reply to tweak • • •It got filmed so it should be posted on the website at some point.
Edit: oh sorry I understand that Elena's talk wasn't filmed.