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GitHub says it has begun collecting pseudonymous client-side telemetry from command-line interface (CLI) users and enabled it by default (Brandon Vigliarolo/The Register)
https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/22/github_opts_all_cli_users/

GitHub opts all CLI users into telemetry collection whether they want it or not
: Opt-out instructions included if you're not keen on GitHub watching you in the name of product improvement

Im IT-Bereich gibt es eine besondere Form des ‚Whitewashings‘, nämlich das ‚Openwashing‘. Der Begriff beschreibt Software, die sich als Open-Source-Produkt ausgibt, es aber nicht ist. Um festzustellen, ob Software, die man einsetzen möchte, frei ist oder nur so tut, hilft: https://isitreallyfoss.com/

> The quirkiness is calming. In the Ukrainian wartime setting, I associate traditional production values with the propaganda of criminal invasions, with the Russian television I have to watch. The Russians distinguish themselves on their state-controlled channels with sparkling backdrops and horrifying lies, whereas the Ukrainians sometimes scramble on the set but provide actual reporting.
> When we forget others, our oblivion invites indifferent kings to rule us, to envelop us i…

Amazon produced a movie called "Mercy", showing on Prime, set in a world where everyone has a legal obligation to continually upload all their data to a government cloud storage system.
Halfway through watching it, on Prime, there's an advert for AWS.

I am guessing no one here can confirm or deny this #java #JVM crash-on-keystore-decrypt which, if true, is a VERY SERIOUS BUG that could not be trusted in a production environment, and then has gone unfixed for decades? That does not seem very likely, does it?
As it is, keytool says there is nothing wrong with my keystore or its password, and watching the process launch I see after the init, it sits, idle, a few seconds later its Time value in top only increments the millisecs, and within a minute, it is gone, voom, not a trace in any logs as to why.
I do, truly, LOATH this technology. It is so fucking fragile; a life-sentence for the sr developers and sysadmins in production systems (that's why they often don't get holidays)

Reparaturen für die Paralympics: Technikservice im Athletendorf
Bei den Paralympics repariert ein internationales Team Prothesen, Rollstühle und Sportgeräte – kostenlos für alle Nationen, oft kurz vor dem Wettkampf.

Nach dem skandalösen Ausschluss des ukrainischen Skeleton-Fahrers Wladislaw Heraskewytsch bleibt das IOC seiner Linie "unpolitischer", spricht politisch parteiischer, Spiele treu.
https://www.watson.ch/sport/olympia-2026/2

Olympia 2026: Fans mussten Grönland-Flagge bei Spiel der USA einpacken
Beim Eishockey-Spiel der USA gegen Dänemark an den Olympischen Spielen 2026 in Mailand und Cortina mussten zwei Fans die Grönland-Flagge einpacken.

The AI writing witchhunt is pointless. https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-ai-writing-witchhunt-is-pointless/
Good piece by @…

The AI writing witchhunt is pointless.
Alexandre Dumas ran what was essentially a content production house in 19th century Paris. His most famous collaborator was Auguste Maquet, who wrote substantial portions of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo. Maquet would produce drafts and outlines, and Dumas would rewrite and polish them, but the

Media, Press Freedom, and Cultural Production in an Authoritarian Age
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