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I did a test in Romania, #meshtastic vs #meshcore and here is the quick summary:
Over 250 Meshtastic nodes found, compared to 70 Meshcore nodes.
BUT
Meshtastic was basically dead, no one talked, or answered anything. I only got one message with the following - "test&…

Sources: the EU Parliament plans to launch EPGenAI Hub as early as September, giving MEPs and staff access to Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Mistral models (Max Griera/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/the-european-parliaments-answer-to-its-ai…

The European Parliament’s answer to its AI worries: More AI
The institution is opening its doors to models from OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic and Mistral as it tries to bring lawmakers’ growing use of the technology under control.

Warning: Beer
On a blackboard for a restaurant is written: BEER is the answer but I can't remember the question.
#photography #beer

O&C – ownership and control – *that’s* the lens by which we should be evaluating data and technology.
Who owns and controls data and technology?
If we want a fair, just world with human rights, freedom, and democracy, the answer to that question must be twofold:
1. Data about and technology for the commons must be owned and controlled by the commons.
2. Data about and technology for people must be owned and controlled by individuals.
That’s it.
Notice …

https://thenextweb.com/news/ai-advice-suppresses-critical-thinking-wrong-answers-study

Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Viel Geduld: Chinesische IT-Spione lauerten lange in Forschungseinrichtungen

Viel Geduld: Chinesische IT-Spione lauerten lange in Forschungseinrichtungen
Viel Geduld haben chinesische Angreifer bewiesen: Sie nisteten sich in Redcap-Servern ein, nutzten das aber erst mehr als ein Jahr später voll aus.

On an island in the Bering Sea 1,200 miles from Anchorage, Alaska, sits an abandoned house on an abandoned Navy base.
There is no furniture, and the wind blows through broken windows.
The last people to live here moved away long ago.
Yet a bright orange pipe with a black fiber-optic cable inside runs from the outer wall down into the surrounding soil.  
The cable was installed to connect the home to the internet after the base closed.
It costs more than $340…

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A stupid question that needs no answer:
I wonder what's the oldest kernel I can run on a modern Linux distro, obvious concessions accepted like
1- some device compatibility issues maybe requiring fuckery
2- need to pick an old enough filesystem/not format with modern options (XFS has some changes in 6.x kernels that won't mount on 5.x)
3- etc.

Uber, Verne, and Pony.ai launch autonomous rides in Zagreb, making the Croatian capital the first European city where users can book such rides via Uber's app (Anzar Mehraj/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/uber-launches-aut…

Google says users in the US can now link to and interact with some apps in AI Mode, including Instacart, Canva, and YouTube Music (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/16/googles-ai-mode-now-lets-you-link-and-interact-with-…

Google's AI Mode now lets you link and interact with select apps | TechCrunch
With this new update, Google is expanding AI Mode beyond answering questions and into completing tasks across the apps they use regularly.