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Congratulations to @…! 🎉 Robert, who became the 2025 Wikimedian of the Year earlier this year, is now a finalist for the Singaporean of the Year 2025! 🇸🇬

Singaporean of the Year finalist: Meet the internet’s janitor whose fingerprints are all over Wikipedia
Volunteers like Mr Robert Sim keep the online encyclopedia Wikipedia alive and accurate. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

"Block VPN users from Wisconsin" means blocking all VPNs, becuase … VPN.
"Websites subject to this proposed law are left with this choice: either cease operation in Wisconsin, or block all #VPN users, everywhere, just to avoid legal liability in the state. One state's terrible law is attempting to break VPN access for the entire internet, and the unintended consequences of …

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The worst of the internet is continuously attacking the best of the internet. This is a distributed denial of service attack on the good parts of the World Wide Web.
If you’re using the products powered by these attacks, you’re part of the problem. Don’t pretend it’s cute to ask ChatGPT for something. Don’t pretend it’s somehow being technologically open-minded to continuously search for nails to hit with the latest “AI” hammers.
If you’re going to use generative tools powered by large language models, don’t pretend you don’t know how your sausage is made.
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https://adactio.com/journal/21831
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[Driving down the street in the IoT-detector van]
Tech Trainee: [Viewing a screen showing dozens of blue triangles] Wow, look at all the Bluetooth stubs.
Service Tech: Yep, all those appliances that no one has hooked into the internet yet.
Trainee: So we're going to use the factory presets to hook them up for their owners?
Service: God, no. We check to see if they're out of warranty and brick 'em.
Trainee: That's awful.
Service: Yeah, it is. If they had hooked them into the WiFi like we told them, we wouldn't have to drive around to do this.
Trainee: We're punishing them for not connecting their appliances?
Service: No, I mean we could brick them remotely.
#ShortFiction #IoT #Brick

#Sky's scaremongering is not going to work.
They simply need to drop the pricing (€52 a month on their 'Sky Signature' aka. Entertainment package €40 a month on Sky Sports)
And abolish the Saturday 3PM bollocks (in Ireland anyway) for Premier League games, and maybe people will pay for it then.
The wording on this is just laughable.
'Dodgy boxes' are not i…

from my link log —
Internet world despairs as non-profit .org sold for $$$$ to private equity firm.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/11/20/org_registry_sale_shambles/
saved 2019-11-23

The internet is currently awash in right-wing propaganda about alleged fraud in Minnesota’s social services programs.
Unsurprisingly, you can thank a mendacious right-wing influencer for kicking off this hysteria.
Also unsurprisingly, the Trump administration is making the most of this opportunity to kick a blue state in the teeth.
#Nick

The blame for alleged fraud in Minnesota belongs to conservatives
Privatization and a lack of oversight creates a vicious cycle.

People who say the current generation of generative AI is nothing / pure snake oil and hypegrift are wrong. True, ChatGPT is pretty much slop, but instances like Grok Expert and Perplexity Pro consistently produce meaningful, correct results in less time than it would take to manually comb the Internet for the information. Claude Code and Cursor can radically accelerate certain software development, especially in the hands of someone who can already write code and redirect the model when it&…

"A very-well known Internet meme, inspired by a scene from the 2004 movie “Finding Neverland”, features a sequence of images in which a very young Freddie Highmore tearfully admits that “it works in my machine”, to which Johnny Depp replies “then we’ll ship your machine”, with the last caption stating “and that is how Docker was born”."

Shipping Your Computer
The analogy between intermodal containers and software containers sounds cliché, but it works pretty well, which is the reason why we will keep using it in this article. Let us recap: before the standardization around intermodal containers after the Second World War, freight had to be manually loaded and unloaded from boats to trains to trucks, over and over again. Before the rise of software containers of the 2010s, software had to be manually loaded and unloaded from developer laptops to tes…

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