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One of our nieces is visiting the Netherlands for a few days. The French family's group chat is blowing up: "bring us Hagelslag!!"

I don't want this important news to go unnoticed: the National Library of Scotland's Access team have given names to collection trolleys including: Trolly Parton, George Orwheel, Wheeliam Shakespeare, Daphne du Trollier, Rene Descart, Cart Cobain, JRR Trollkein, Cart Vader, and Mary Wheelstonecraft.
Via @cawston.bsky.social's

Barack Obama plans to appear May 5 on one of the last episodes of Stephen Colbert's Late Show, for Obama's first interview from the Obama Presidential Center (Dominic Patten/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/04/stephen-colbert-barack-obama-last-…

Stephen Colbert Scores Barack Obama Interview For ‘Late Show’s Final Stretch: “I Have A Quick But Exciting Announcement”
WATCH VIDEO: The 44th POTUS & the Late Show host will be sitting down for a chat next month just before Stephen Colbert heads into the CBS sunset.

I never cease to be mystified by this common work-from-home complaint.
I’ve been 100% wfh aside from a half-dozen short trips to NJ for “all-hands” meetings since 2008. Last one of those was 2016.
I consider solitude when working one of the great positive features of wfh. Having people forcibly interrupt me by their physical presence gained me a ‘prickly’ reputation in my last office.

Good example of how ads promote market ideology and not just specific companies. Don’t bother seeking mutual aid from friends when you need help moving. Buy help on the market.
This ad is considered nonpolitical, but the opposite message would be “political.”

My #silentsunday.. I only had a chat with two guys at the summit and one guy a bit below.
Besides that... 4-5h silence. If we don't count the minutes I was following the activities of a woodpecker a couple of meters away from me 😊
It took me really efforts to get out. But - as usual - it was worth it.

X brings back Voice Notes to X Chat, supporting one-on-one and group conversations via a new voice input icon, as it tests a standalone X Chat spinoff on iOS (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/09/x-brings-back-voice-notes-to-x-chat/

X brings back Voice Notes to X Chat | TechCrunch
X Chat brings back Voice Notes to DMs and group chats after removing the option during the upgrade.

»Matrix messaging gaining ground in government IT:
One-to-one and group messaging, encrypted VoIP calls, video conferencing – the open protocol handles them all«
As I see, @… is used peatically and therefore more popular. When will this become more popular in companies and in general? Any criticism of any state should not prevent this.
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Matrix is quietly becoming the chat layer for governments chasing digital sovereignty
FOSDEM 2026: One-to-one and group messaging, encrypted VoIP calls, video conferencing – the open protocol handles them all

"Developer's don't think Claude will replace them" is not some fact. Just because you think something will not happen doesn't mean it will not happen. People convince themselves bad things will not happen all the time.
My favorite example is when like 2 days before the war started ZeplaHQ was in Kiv telling chat to calm down, no one in Kiv thinks Russia will really invade.
Developers will train claude to replace them and many will not believe it until it sud…

AI might disrupt all those pesky highly-educated female voters who keep casting a ballot for Democrats.
To be clear: that assessment isn’t coming from me
Rather, it’s coming from one of the key architects of our glorious AI-driven economy: Alex Karp, the co-founder and CEO of tech firm Palantir.
On Thursday Karp sat down with CNBC to chat about Palantir’s AI-driven Maven Smart System,
which the US military is using to visualize potential targets and “nominate” them to…

»Zhang was part of this system: He ensured no one went to mosques, he searched phones & compiled files. … Chat groups … documented who was sick & who skipped the mandatory Chinese class. [For arrests] hints on #Uyghur rituals were sufficient: a song, a poem, a prayer. Sometimes, police officers invented things, such as villagers playing basketball. Anyone who does sport and keeps fit is …

Geflohener Polizist: Vor Schloss Neuschwanstein setzte er sich ab, nun enthüllt er Chinas Verbrechen
Er verfolgte Uiguren und brachte sie in Foltergefängnisse. Dann floh der Polizist Zhang Yabo aus der Volksrepublik nach Deutschland – und liefert seltene Einblicke in Chinas Repressionsapparat.

Video: In the Future, We’ll All Speak Seven Languages
For the Muslim Futures anthology, I was interviewed by Ryah Aqel, one of the editors, about my story and what it means to me. In the Future, We'll ALL Speak Seven Languages by Karim Ahmad A chat with Hussein Rashid about his MUSLIM FUTURES story, “HO JAMALO”! Read on Substack You can support the project here.

I met someone from the Fediverse that I have followed for years!! I am a big fan of all their work discussing climate change and energy usage.
It was really nice to talk about their work (and a bit about Vivaldi). Plus we had a nice chat about Bluey, and the advantages of social welfare for raising small kids in Norway. 🧒
Oh and of course I couldn't resist showing off one of my unicycles.
And no, I am not going to tell you who yet. I am curious to see if anyone guesse…

The #Discord alternative no one expected: #steam https://steamcommunity.com/updates/chatupdate

I've been wondering: will future historians have more public records to go through, or less? It's fascinating to read through letters and telegraphs of Albert Einstein, yet I wonder whether our digitized world will leave the same trace. While on the one hand public figures share a lot more personal information on the internet, which will always be preserved through articles, replies, screenshots etc., chat conversations, which somewhat replace letters, are encrypted, often with disappearing …

On the one hand, LLMs are planet-destroying bullshit machines, gaslighting our sense of reality by spewing an endless supply of hallucinations.
On the other hand, they can provide a brief yet overwhelmingly mild sense of satisfaction when you convince them to do something silly.
#LLMs #DonnieTurnip

Detainee at "Camp East Montana" says guards bet on suicide
Like other detainees, Ramsingh said that between cleanings the rooms, restrooms and showers were often filthy and infested with insects.
He said detainees stole others’ food because everyone was hungry due to the small and sometimes inedible meals,
-- which led to fights, and the conditions took a toll on his mental health.
🔥At one point he said he overheard a security guard talking about bets made am…

911 calls reveal pain, despair at ICE'S largest detention camp
The calls to 911 poured in from staff at Camp East Montana, the nation's largest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility, in its first months of operation in El Paso, Texas. The emergencies included repeated suicide attempts by detainees, seizures, injuries from fights and a pregnant woman in pain. Data from more than a hundred 911 calls obtained by The Associated Press, interviews with detainees and court filings offer a portrait of overcrowding, medical neglect, malnutriti…

Video: In the Future, We’ll All Speak Seven Languages
For the Muslim Futures anthology, I was interviewed by Ryah Aqel, one of the editors, about my story and what it means to me.
In the Future, We'll ALL Speak Seven Languages by Karim AhmadA chat with Hussein Rashid about his MUSLIM FUTURES story, “HO JAMALO”! Read

If you're using an LLM to generate passwords, STOP. For one, your chat logs are a matter of record and are open to people within the company! For another, LLMs aren't smart and don't know what they're doing, so that password isn't guaranteed to be any good. Just use apg or something

I thought I was having a perfectly nice, low-key conversation with this guy about the snow on one of the dating apps, he answers my question simply, and LITERALLY the next moment without so much as a ‘by your leave’ he just f*****g deletes the chat and unmatches.

»Massive AI Chat App Leaked Millions of Users Private Conversations:
Chat & Ask AI, which claims 50 million users, exposed private chats about suicide and making meth.«
On the one hand, I don't understand the people who use it, but on the other hand, a company that people don't care about because people are a product.
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Massive AI Chat App Leaked Millions of Users Private Conversations
Chat & Ask AI, which claims 50 million users, exposed private chats about suicide and making meth.

Emm and one of her kids were in Montreal at tonight's chat. It wasn't on YouTube, but I'll bet they played this song that she wrote for Jeremy at the event. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agneZngudpc

A look at WhatsApp's E2E encryption and whether it protects from metadata and chat backup leaks, after a lawsuit alleges Meta can read users' private data (Matthew Green/A Few Thoughts ...)
https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com…

WhatsApp Encryption, a Lawsuit, and a Lot of Noise
It’s not every day that we see mainstream media get excited about encryption apps! For that reason, the past several days have been fascinating, since we’ve been given not one but sever…

So, with the Discord thing rn I guess teh closest we have to an alternative is like Zulip? Except it's more self-hosted focused.
So, is anyone around here hosting a Zulip (or other real, feature-complete, discord alternative that I don't know yet) instance open to (or even better, focused on) small-ish kink communities?
I have some friends on discord that I really wanted to migrate somewhere else.
I thought about hosting one in my NAS, but even if cgnat wasn't a thing actively moderating porn-focused places seems like a nightmare so I'd want something hosted by someone with a bit more experience on that such as moderating fedi servers or something. I guess some people who host fedi instances probably also host chat rooms right?