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I just discovered that Freebsd 14.3 won't boot on may newest machine - because Freebsd isn't sufficiently "Secure Boot" signed.
(Fedora Linux 43 booted up just fine.)
I would have thought that the Freebsd folks would have nudged a proper signing key out of Microsoft by now.
So to boot Freebsd (14.3) I had to disable Secure Boot in the Setup.

Fediverse Punk Month — We can grow something better!
We invest too much of our culture in centralized, for-profit, corporate social media platforms. These platforms enrich billionaires, expand surveillance, and fund the cult of capitalist war, all while trapping us with addictive algorithms that feed us mindless content. […]
— by @…<…

It's a youtube short, but pretty good if you're a Siouxsie-and-the-Banshees and Hello Kitty fan (and who isn't?): https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fn9DxKq-MHw

📢 EU-Parlament ruft wegen Mercosur-Abkommen den EuGH an
Das Europäische Parlament hat beschlossen, das EU-Freihandelsabkommen mit Ländern des südamerikanischen Mercosur-Staatenbunds vom Gerichtshof der Europäischen Union (EuGh) überprüfen zu lassen. Eine knappe Mehrheit der Abgeordneten stimmte in Straßburg für einen entsprechenden Antrag.
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EU-Parlament ruft wegen Mercosur-Abkommen EuGH an
Gerade erst wurde das Abkommen zwischen der EU und den Mercosur-Staaten feierlich unterzeichnet - jetzt der Rückschlag: Das Freihandelsabkommen muss vom Europäischen Gerichtshof überprüft werden - und könnte ganz scheitern.

Since the topic came up in the whole "I run models locally so it's all fine" conversation:
"Open Source AI" does not meaningfully exist. It's just openwashing proprietary shit
https://tante.cc/2024/10/16/does-open-source-ai-really-exist/…

Does Open Source AI really exist?
The OSI has presented their definition of Open Source AI and a closer reading only shows that "Open Source AI" probably just isn't a thing that can exist.

This should be the beginning of the end.
That the corporate press is suppressing it & the Democratic Party isn’t trumpeting it from the hills bodes even worse than things already did. But it is a big crack in the dam, and we should all push. #EpsteinFiles

Guardian article today about crappy jobs. I haven't read it and this post isn't commentary on it, but to lighten the atmosphere, which is sombre in our house following another bereavement, it might be fun to share our first jobs - Saturday jobs, holiday jobs etc, not careers.
Mine, dahlings, was in an art gallery in Guildford in the mid 80s when I was 15. £10 a day, thought I was paid handsomely, and netted a boyfriend with a car who was one of the framers 👍🚗🖼️ Got pissed at a …

This week’s #ThursdayFiveList—courtesy of @…—is #ForeignAffairs: songs in a tongue that isn’t my own.
1. Adriano Celentano, “Prisencolinensinainciusol”—

such a fun label & will pretty much check out anything they put out, but as a non-londoner i had no idea about their main activity as promoters. https://social.lol/@thetonearm/116217980473411117