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Un échec d'applet météo révèle la dépendance critique aux API tierces et la valeur des logs détaillés pour le diagnostic système.

#technology #apple #weather #bot #war

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A Weather Applet Failure Exposes Systemic Microservice Vulnerabilities

#technology #apple #weather #bot #war

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Ein Wetter-Applet-Ausfall offenbart systemische Schwachstellen in der Microservice-Architektur und die lebenswichtige Rolle detaillierter Logs.

#technology #apple #weather #bot #war

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Un échec d'applet Cairo Dock révèle une dépendance critique aux API externes et une chaîne d'approvisionnement logicielle vulnérable.

#linux #technology #apple #weather #bot

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A timeout error in a Linux desktop widget underscores the fragility of modern software built on external web services.

#linux #technology #apple #weather #bot

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Un simple widget révèle une dépendance systémique aux APIs externes et l'importance vitale des logs pour le diagnostic.

#technology #apple #weather #bot #war

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A simple widget failure exposes systemic fragility in digital services.

#technology #apple #weather #bot #war

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Un échec d'applet météo révèle la dépendance critique aux API tierces et la valeur des logs détaillés pour le diagnostic système.

#technology #apple #weather #war #physics

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Ein scheinbar simples Wetter-Applet offenbart die kritische Abhängigkeit von externen APIs und die Notwendigkeit robuster Logging-Mechanismen.

#technology #apple #weather #war #physics

Why Users Are Rallying to #Keep4o: The Social Backlash Against OpenAI Retiring ChatGPT 4o

To users, ChatGPT-4o was much more than an AI model... to many, it was a friend, a companion, and for some, even a lover..
We explore why ChatGPT-4o became so beloved, what motivated OpenAI's move to GPT-5, & how this conflict highlights tensions between rapid AI innovation and user experience.

#AI #OpenAI #Tech #ChatGPT #ChatGPT4o #ChatGPT5 #AIUpgrade #Technology #AIModel #LLM #GPT #ManiaAI #ManiaTech #GenerativeAI

https://maniainc.com/technology/why-users-are-rallying-to-keep4o-the-social-backlash-against-openai-retiring-chatgpt-4o/

Our first post! What is a VPN? Do you need one?

Consumer-facing VPN companies love to use scary marketing and technical jargon to convince people that they need a VPN to stay safe online. In reality though, most people don't need a VPN; especially not one that they're connected to 24/7. But how does a VPN work, and when should you actually use one?

https://averagesecurity.com/what-is-a-vpn/

#privacy #security #cybersecurity #vpn #tech #technology #blog

Oh damm I think I had a thought. This is like The Circle. Normalizing public biometrics is a gateway into monitoring by a governing body (corporation or state), creating a very unbalanced power dynamic. Monitoring biometrics is a gateway into controlling health, viscerally, and choosing who to and not to act upon. This is a gateway into eugenics.
Yea I hate this now.
What then is the responsibility of the monitoring body to do when one of them has a frigging heart attack on screen? What, if they are saved, are they to do, not thank the power that saved them? It is getting more wonky the more I think about it.
#philosophy #technology

Removed from the Technology subreddit.

Reminds me of a Star Trek adversary
#weird #weirdnews #technology #cringe
https://supercarblondie.com/tech/robotic-hand-can-detach-from-arm-swiss-federal-institute-of-technology/

#Windows "features" intended on making my life easier...

Thanks #microsoft

#tech #technology #enshittification

@Timpostma

A chicken egg tool is a tool, in this case the GCC compiler, which you need in your GNU Linux Operating System to compile your programs.

The GCC compiler needs to be compiled first.

This means that you need another C compiler, to compile your GCC compiler.
The other C compiler will need to reside in another Operating System.

In this specific example of building a GNU Linux multi tasking Operating System from the MS-DOS single tasking operating system, I used the Turbo C compiler, which was written by Borland. The Turbo C compiler, is a proprietary Closed Source compiler, which is delivered as a executable, not in source code.

Armed with the Turbo C compiler, I ran the following command sequence for compiling GCC
./configure
make test
# this runs the assembler program too
make

I did not run 'make install' because GCC needs to be installed in GNU Linux. I also used switches so that a Linux ELF Binary executable was created, not a MS-DOS executable binary.

The last step was to do a raw write of the GCC binary to the Linux file system.

#GNU #GCC #compiler #ELF #OperatingSystem #programming #technology #Freedom #100percent #Full #free #software #UNIX #vi #mathematics #reg #ex #regular #expressions #gettext #man #pages #OpenSource #files #pipes

Hello.

This is my nth attempt at staying on #Mastodon, after leaving Meta, X, and related noise.

I work around (dual-use) #technology and #ethics, mostly from my hometown, #Barcelona, and sometimes from the Italian Alps (a long love story).

I don’t have a clear plan for what to do here.
Maybe existing, slowly, is already doing something.
Perhaps I’ll post occasionally — or not; who knows. I might leave again after a while.

I love #philosophy, sacred places, reading both digital and paper #books, and listening to #music — all day long.

Somewhere in between, a #catcow walks across the keyboard and takes partial control

My mother tongue is #Catalan — English, Spanish, and Italian also happen here.

Time zone: CET.

If that resonates, welcome.

P. S. Much of this is typed on a neo-vintage phone, complete with a physical keyboard — for reasons.

... Només un vianant.

#introduction

When a a self-driving a car has the ability to appeal to a remote human advisor (when in situations it cannot resolve) we might question the term 'self-driving car'... once again claims for technology's ability to resolve problems without human judgment & guidance seem to not be quite what they seem.

#SelfDrivingCars #technology #Waymo #Tesla #cars

https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/waymos-controlled-workers-philippines

We can’t jump off bridges anymore because our iPhones will get ruined. We can’t take skinny dips in the ocean because there’s no service on the beach and adventures aren’t real unless they’re on Instagram. Technology has doomed the spontaneity of adventure and we’re helping destroy it every time we Google, check-in, and hashtag.

Jeremy Glass

#quote #quotes #technology

[#TRADESHOW] #APPPEXPO 2026 will be held from March 4–7, 2026, at the National #Exhibition and #Convention #Center (#Shanghai), #China. With the #theme “#CONNECT·CREATE·CHANGE,” the #event sets a new #benchmark for the #advertising, #printing, #signage, and #digital #display #industries, gathering #global #innovators to explore the #future of digital printing, #green #technology, and #industrial #applications. https://cnbusinessforum.com/event/apppexpo-2026/

About GNU

GNU was launched in 1983 by Richard Stallman

Quote
The primary and continuing goal of GNU is to offer a Unix-compatible system that would be 100% free software. Not 95% free, not 99.5%, but 100%. The name of the system, GNU, is a recursive acronym meaning GNU's Not Unix—a way of paying tribute to the technical ideas of Unix, while at the same time saying that GNU is something different. Technically, GNU is like Unix. But unlike Unix, GNU gives its users freedom.
^Z

Realize this
Without GNU, Linux {distributions} would *not* exist. You would only have a kernel after boot, no user land programs

Be grateful for the existence of GNU

#GNU #OperatingSystem #programming #technology #Freedom #100percent #Full #free #software #UNIX #vi #mathematics #reg #ex #regular #expressions #gettext #man #pages #OpenSource #files #pipes

https://www.gnu.org/gnu/about-gnu.html

Distributions are interwoven with the GNU principles.
Before distributions I would have to download the GNU program Source Code one by one, then cross compile (GCC for example) them.
Once chicken egg tools were cross compiled I could start with native
./configure; make; make test; make install

Quote
Specifically, free software means users have the four essential freedoms: (0) to run the program, (1) to study and change the program in source code form, (2) to redistribute exact copies, and (3) to distribute modified versions.
^Z

These are important pillars of Free Software

https://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu.html

#GNU #OperatingSystem #programming #technology #Freedom #100percent #Full #free #software #UNIX #vi #mathematics #reg #ex #regular #expressions #gettext #man #pages #OpenSource #files #pipes

York state lawmakers have introduced a bill that would impose a moratorium of at least three years on permits tied to the construction and operation of new data centers. Read more from @Techcrunch:

https://flip.it/FbeYbH

#Tech #NewYork #DataCenters #Technology

Which Mid-Range Camera Has the Best Image Sensor? https://petapixel.com/2026/02/07/which-mid-range-camera-has-the-best-image-sensor/ #panasoniclumixs1ii #enthusiastcamera #midrangecamera #canoneosr6iii #Comparisons #imagesensor #comparison #headtohead #nikonz6iii #technology #Equipment #Features #showdown #sonya7v #sensor #video

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Which blogging tools are actually worth your cash? Let me show you 📊

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#tech #technology #digitalnomad #blogging #bloggingtips #blog #blogginghacks #travelblogging #wanderlust

Spare these few minutes to read this long long toot about Large Language Models

I've been working with POSIX Operating Systems for many many decades. Seek my other posts for more information check my GitHub page where some of the stories have been entered.

A lot has been written and screamed about vibe coding. I'm going to give you a short and concise rundown.
Individual X cannot even write a hello world program and the BASIC programming language. This individual has played with a Large Language Model and knows that such a system can write that BASIC program for him.

He fires up the model and asks for a Hello World program in Commodore 64 BASIC

The model response with

10 PRINT "fa wakkà"
20 GOTO 10

Individual X cannot analyze the code. He doesn't know that the second line will loop the program to the first and thus will create an infinite loop on his C64 emulator. Individual X has never worked on a physical bare metal C64. He doesn't know how to stop the code

The large language model created the second line because many hits in his database have a Hello World program for the C64 written in exactly this manner. The large language model is like a parrot which talks. The model doesn't understand what it says the model has no notion of understanding just like the parrot.

Individual executes the code and cannot stop it because he doesn't know that control break exists for that on the C64

Thus his C64 is in an infinite loop and he doesn't know what to do.

Now I will go to that same large language model. I not only know how to solder the Program Logic Array 96114 on the C64 with a mandatory heat sink I also know how to write code in assembly and I know many ROM subroutines of the C64 by heart including

JSR $FFD2

A sub routine which prints a character on your video VIC chip.

When I see that the model puts line 20 I immediately delete that line because it's unnecessary.

No extrapolate this on a full program, with 20000 lines of code, complete with libraries and API created by a large language model when the task is given by a vibe coder.

Since individual X cannot even analyze Commodore 64 basic code of a Hello World program, consisting of two lines where the second line is unnecessary, the person has no chance in hell to analyze the above given program

There are people walking around on this planet, who think that they will be able to write software, with a large language model, as their boss and think that that software will be usable in the field

When the 20,000 line program breaks the API is totally unusable and the task for that program crashes the whole server on the bare metal, censored will hit the fan

I urge everyone who uses large language models for any subject, that they should be an absolute master of the subject, where they use the model as a low level assistant

Thank you for reading

#LLM #programming #damage #Slop #AI #illusion #skill #logic #coding #vibe #vibecoding #homosapiens #species #global #technology #Terra

🦋💙❤️💋#Lobi 💙💕🌹💐💙🦋

Amazon's friendliness with the Trump administration is paying off, both to advance founder Jeff Bezos's personal projects and to advance the company's business interests. @brianmerchant says we need a consumer boycott, and for the company's white collar workers to step up.

https://flip.it/3YCmxG

#Amazon #ICE #Technology #Tech #TrumpAdministration

My next test will be installing Cairo dock on MX Linux which I also have on a microSD card for the SBC Raspberry Pi5

https://mxlinux.org

#Cairo #dock #library #Wayland #KDE #Gnome #Xfce4 #airdrop #localsend #kdeconnect #ftp #Linux #Raspberry #Pi5 #ARM #SBC #programming #opensource #technology

As the weekend is coming, a small reminder. If you have in family a senior who is not so good at using smartphone or PC, you can always do something small to help that person to be safer in the internet. How? You can simply help to update system and apps to reduce security risks.

It's not the bulletproof solution, but helps to improve security.

And if you have more free time, you can help a senior to learn how to safely use the device.

Not everyone is tech savvy and some people may have problems with using their devices. Let's take care of them and help them to learn about how to make it safe to use the device, how to safely browser the internet and how to avoid scams like messages asking to click a link.

Because making the Web better for the people is about making the Web better for all people.

#technology #tech #seniors #elderly #Friday #weekend #security #internet #web #fediverse #Vebinet #Mastodon

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#CyberSecurity #Privacy #InfoSec #Security #DataProtection #Tech #Technology

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It's a disgrace! AI replaced actual humans in HR. My friend is devastated after being laid off, and now she's totally anti-AI! #layoffs #amazon #hr #technology #fuckai

Windows troubleshooting commands: Use sfc /scannow and DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth to scan and repair system files; use ipconfig (with flags like /flushdns, /release, /renew) for network troubleshooting; and use ping, tracert, netstat, tasklist, and taskkill for connectivity and process management. More details https://windows101tricks.com/windows-troubleshooting-commands/

#windows11 #windows10 #howto #Networking #troubleshooting #Tech #technology #TechGuide

Alt...

Useful CMD commands for troubleshooting Windows 11 and 10

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I've just installed Cairo Dock in my SBC Raspberry Pi5, using pi-packages the Add/Remove software utility.

What a mess I created.

Cairo Dock could not work properly. The gfx output indicated that it rendered in a manner that Wayland does not like. I then proceded with sudo apt install cairo-doc from bash, after removal in pi-packages.
All dependecies were easily installed, but the rendering of my beloved Cairo dock still failed, making it still unusuable, in Wayland on the Pi5 SBC with 8GiB RAM

I will investigate, but for now I can't get the gorgeous Cairo dock to easily work on Wayland on the SBC Raspberry Pi5

#Cairo #dock #library #Wayland #KDE #Gnome #Xfce4 #airdrop #localsend #kdeconnect #ftp #Linux #Raspberry #Pi5 #ARM #SBC #programming #opensource #technology

@vermaden Thank you 💕 for the hard work Vermaden. I'll put this book on my list of goodies in *nix*BSD

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2022/02/04/books-about-freebsd#book-pf-4th

#BSD #OperatingSystem #freeBSD ghostBSD #openBSD #programming #technology #firewall #book #reading #knowledge

Pinterest has sacked two engineers for writing a script that tracked layoffs. The tracker created an alert for employee names in communications tools such as Slack being removed or deactivated. A spokesperson told @BBCNews this was "a clear violation of Pinterest policy and of their former colleagues' privacy." Pinterest recently laid off around 700 people, with chief executive Bill Ready saying he was "doubling down on an AI-forward approach."

https://flip.it/dvt09i

#Pinterest #Technology #Tech #Layoffs

Monitoring my SBC Raspberry Pi5 and the Audio equipment from a distance

#Photography #Android #Micro #Sensor #AndroidPhotography #Azul #technology #surveillance #camera #V4L

It's #Hackster round-up time once again, and we're starting with the article I actually wrote last today: the news that Texas Instruments is spending a whopping $7.5 billion to acquire Silicon Labs lock, stock, and barrel.

https://www.hackster.io/news/texas-instruments-splashes-the-cash-on-a-7-5-billion-deal-to-acquire-silicon-labs-0fe0f0c2a4bb

#Technology #News #IoT #InternetOfThings

Then a neat project to build a seven-segment clock out of nothing but a crystal and a bunch of discrete CMOS logic chips - schematic available if you want your own!

https://www.hackster.io/news/dilshan-jayakody-s-desk-clock-keeps-great-time-in-nothing-but-cmos-logic-chips-f813176ed66f

#Technology #News #Hackster #Electronics #Retro #Makers #OpenHardware

For the #sustainability crowd, a work-in-progress open-source solar micro-inverter - designed to be easily understand and reproduced locally for deployment in 230/240VAC regions.

https://www.hackster.io/news/owntech-s-verter-aims-to-deliver-an-understandable-reproducible-inverter-for-solar-projects-124de93f368d

#Technology #News #Hackster #Solar #Electronics #OpenHardware

A quiet design change to the #RaspberryPi 4 next, as the company tries to battle ongoing RAM component price rises caused by the #AI bubble: it can now take either one full-capacity or two half-capacity DRAM chips, just like Sinclair's classic ZX81!

https://www.hackster.io/news/raspberry-pi-tweaks-the-raspberry-pi-4-to-support-two-ram-chips-as-it-fights-ai-bubble-parts-pricing-47bbb3e98506

#Technology #News #SingleBoardComputer #Hackster

@miakizz

I have fetched a copy of the manual at the site you linked

Thank you for identifying the ATM 🏧 computing system.
These ATMs are the latest that were introduced in my country of SR / SA. It is a joy to work with them from the client side.

BTW thank you 💕 also for introducing me to this wonderful site. There are many interesting reference manuals available over there. I found the reference manuals for the Yamaha RD400 two-stroke Daytona!

#ATM #Diebold #OperatingSystem #win64 #win7 #DSA #programming #technology #Active #Dispenser

AirPod Pro twos and iOS 26, the latest version of iOS 26, are bullshit. My AirPod Pro twos won’t even work with Siri. It’s like the microphones aren’t even working.
#technology

Europaweiter Zugriff auf deutsche Patientendaten?

Bislang können Patienten in Deutschland der Einrichtung einer elektronischen Patientenakte widersprechen. Eine neue EU-Verordnung könnte dieses Recht SWR-Recherchen zufolge aushebeln. Datenschützer warnen…..

https://www.tagesschau.de/investigativ/swr/elektronische-patientenakte-datenschutz-eu-deutschland-100.html

#Datenschutz #ePA #Privacy #EU #Europe #Daten #Data #Gesundheit #Digitalisierung #Technology

Die nahe Zukunft erscheint als Cyberpunk-Dystopie, nur ohne die coole Ästhetik sondern im Grauen Überwachungskapitalismus des Spätanthropozäns.

Überlegen wir uns lieber bessere Ideen wie wir leben wollen und wie wir diese Ideen umsetzen können, anstatt so etwas abzuwarten.

"Forscher:innen aus Italien ist es gelungen, Menschen in WLAN-Feldern biometrisch zu identifizieren – und das auch, wenn diese keine Gadgets wie ein Smartphone bei sich hatten. Das eigens entwickelte System Whofi hat eine Trefferquote von 95,5 Prozent.

Die feinen Veränderungen, die menschliche Körper verursachen, wenn sie WLAN-Signale durchqueren erwiesen sich laut den Forscher:innen als so individuell, dass damit einzelne Personen identifiziert werden konnten. Ein neuronales Netzwerk war dann in der Lage, ein personenspezifisches Profil aus den vorhandenen Daten zu erstellen – und die Signaturen mit vorhandenen Personenprofilen zu vergleichen.

[...]

Ob und wann Whofi in entsprechenden Sicherheits- oder Smarthome-Anwendungen zum Einsatz kommt, ist unklar. Klar ist derweil, dass künftig ein Verzicht auf Smartphone und Co nicht mehr vor der Erstellung eines Bewegungsprofils schützen dürfte."

https://t3n.de/news/whofi-bewegungsprofil-wlan-1698674/

#Überwachung #Technology

./configure
make
make test
make install

#programming #c_lang #c #compilation #compile #technology

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#it #technology #infrastructure #ipv4 #ipv6 #dns #networking #devops #itmemes

Google’s quarterly financial results paint a picture of an internet powerhouse getting stronger in AI age.

@AssociatedPress reports: "Google’s successful evolution has helped drive up Alphabet’s stock price nearly 60% in the past five months, giving it a $4 trillion market value."

https://flip.it/7jfCfr

#Google #Alphabet #Tech #Search #AI #Technology

"[R]ather than invest in more powerful and more expensive technologies, some scientists are using an alternative technique called expansion microscopy, which inflates the subject using the same moisture-absorbing material found in diapers."

https://www.quantamagazine.org/expansion-microscopy-has-transformed-how-we-see-the-cellular-world-20260204/

#Technology #Microscopes #Materials

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TIL about Kessler Syndrome compliments of https://nasa.gov

Quote:
Sudden Alarm?

In recent years, space activity has surged dramatically. Companies like SpaceX are launching thousands of satellites for mega-constellations aimed at providing global internet access. While these projects are revolutionary, they also contribute significantly to space congestion. According to Dr. Vishnu Reddy, a planetary scientist at the University of Arizona, “The number of objects in space launched in the last four years has increased exponentially.”

In 2009, a wake-up call came in the form of a collision between the defunct Kosmos-2251 satellite and the operational Iridium-33 communications satellite. The impact created thousands of debris pieces, many of which are still orbiting Earth today.

Similar incidents could set off the cascade envisioned by Kessler, leading to a debris belt so dense that space exploration would become nearly impossible.

https://nasaspacenews.com/2025/01/urgent-warning-kessler-syndrome-could-collapse-modern-technology/

#NASA #Kessler #Syndrome #technology #doom #civilization #collapse #stoneage #spaceX #junk #ElonMusk #moron

Quote from Hammer2 page

Because HAMMER2 is a block copy-on-write filesystem, the "atime" field is not supported and will typically just reflect local system in-memory caches or mtime.

The radix tree is dynamic in that each entry can dynamically control how many bits it chops off. This allows small files to be contained in just one or two levels regardless of the block seek positions. The depth of the radix tree is increased as needed via a splitting mechanism, and will also be recombined if it grows smaller. All block references are 64-bit aligned-byte-indexed references and thus portable regardless of physical sector size changes between underlying block devices.

Inodes are 1KB of which 512 bytes are used for the top-level radix tree OR 512 bytes of data. Any file less than or equal to 512 bytes stores its data directly in the inode. Files up to 256KB can be accommodated with direct inode block references.

Directory entries are hashed (semi-sorted hash algorithm), and directly embedded in the radix table's blockref structure for maximum performance. Files with very long filenames will contain a dataref, otherwise filenames are embedded in the directory entry itself. Because directory entries are hashed, seeking and lookups are able to use a radix search and no linear scan of the directory is needed.

The inode and directory entry structure is extremely well suited for any file size or directory size, from tiny to huge.

Because of the block-copy-on-write nature of the filesystem, the filesystem is able to create a snapshot trivially simply by copying the volume header's root block table (4 blockref entries). The directory topology actually starts with a SUPERROOT, and volume ROOTs are directory entries under the SUPERROOT. Though the entries are actually special-cased a bit and actually part of the root inode for each filesystem root. And since physical freeing of space is handled via a bulk meta-data scan, destroying a snapshot or volume can be done simply by wiping the inode and ignoring everything under it... the next bulkfree scan will reclaim any reclaimable space. Similarly with file deletions... the top-level data blockrefs can simply be removed. The inode can simply be removed from the radix tree.

Performance is very good. HAMMER2 uses a variable-sized block in powers of two, starting at 1KB, up to 64KB, for the last block of the file (straddling EOF). All earlier blocks in the file, if any, use 64KB blocks. The freemap is organized by domain to cluster various meta-data types together. Indirect blocks can be one of two sizes: 16KB or 64KB, allowing medium-sized files and directories to be optimally allocated. In addition, file data compression of a logical block can result in a smaller physical block. The physical layer always does 64KB I/O and can cluster the I/O on top of that.

https://www.dragonflybsd.org/hammer/

#filesystem #programming #BSD #dragonflyBSD #freeBSD #OpenSource #technology #no #FSK

Additional Reference Material

HAMMER2 Design v6 (08-Dec-2018)

https://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/blob/57614c517203403e7fe4a34c370c7151ba52c539:/sys/vfs/hammer2/DESIGN

#filesystem #programming #BSD #dragonflyBSD #freeBSD #OpenSource #technology #no #FSK

Dogfirmations with Doofie and Dingus: Attention

Doofie give his full attention to whatever he does.

View Dogfirmation: https://dogs.blackcatwhitehatsecurity.com/?dogID=74#today

#Attention #Technology #Animals #ArtificialIntelligence #Dogs #Nature #Pets

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Dogfirmations with Doofie and Dingus: Attention Doofie give his full attention to whatever he does.

My first chuckle of the day… 😁

#tech #technology #BigTech #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMs #MachineLearning #GenAI #generativeAI #AISlop #Fuck_AI

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Intro dialog of the Confer AI platform. The first sentence reads "Truly private AI", while the first option to log in is using your Google account.

If you manage an organization and decide now is the time to mandate employees return to office or encourage broad use of AI, I have a couple of suggestions that you may want to ponder:

1. What does your middle-management think about these changes?
2. How might these changes impact your organization's goals?
3. What is the worst-case scenario?

Worst-case is not the same as least-likely. In my personal experience, the answer to all three has been:

1. Didn't ask and/or didn't listen to the answers.
2. Derailed development, lost productivity, and an exodus of people - those who remain have low morale and are prepping their resumes.
3. Bad and getting worse.

Colleagues and friends at other organizations have echoed much of this sentiment - it isn't universal, but I'd bet money it is more common than not. The thing that should be asked: why decision makers, many of whom were in charge of successful/profitable/healthy organizations, are making these decisions with so little consideration or hesitation when the downside seems severe and the upside is promoted by the same people with something to gain if you pay them money. If you are the board or oversee someone who has taken your organization in this trajectory, it might be time to consider a shake up at the top. #business #rant #technology #education

TIL I've posted 5300 toots since this account inception

#FediVerse #Mastodon #toot #frequency #posting #technology #social #media

@colinstu

I could not see anything of the boot / POST process since the ATM was in a frozen, paused status, because of the jammed money tray. The term DSA didn't give any usable results on either Wikipedia or the first pages of the Duck Duck Go search engine

#ATM #OperatingSystem #DSA #programming #technology #Active #Dispenser

A detailed view of one of my mixing consoles {Yamaha}

Composed in 85F warming light using my Philips Spot Light which I've had since I was a 17 years old teenager!

#Yamaha #JOYO #Console #mixing #faders #potentiometer #AUX #Auxiliary #BUS #gain #Phantom #Power #48V #technology #Audio #music #signal #flow

Is there anyone here who can tell me which Operating System this Automated Teller Machine 🏧 is running? I was lucky enough to catch this one in a state where it displayed more than just the user front end

Usually these things run a long-term support version of a closed source Operating System however this seems to be different.

This one runs DSA v1.0.18
It has an active dispenser error

#ATM #OperatingSystem #DSA #programming #technology #Active #Dispenser

[#TRADESHOW] Shanghai #International #Ad & #Sign #Technology & #Equipment Exhibition will be held from March 4 to March 7, 2026, at the National #Exhibition and #Convention #Center (#Shanghai), #China. As a #core #segment #event of #APPPEXPO 2026, the #expo focuses on the #future of #advertising, #signage, and #digital #printing #technologies, aligning with national strategies and #industry transformation. https://cnbusinessforum.com/event/shanghai-international-ad-sign-technology-equipment-exhibition-2026/

VIR Group just launched its own server. We've transformed into a global promotion network. Your project now gets expert support AND targeted exposure to investors worldwide across LinkedIn, FB, IG, X, Threads & Mastodon. Breaking geographical barriers for innovators. #business #investing #technology

@DevWouter

Another excellent perspective on the subject at hand

This is what I Love 💕 about the FediVerse. Dynamic and open discussions on various matters in a civil way

#KDE #Gnome #Cairo #library #Xfce4 #Love #Universal #airdrop #localsend #kdeconnect #ftp #Linux #ARM #SBC #programming #opensource #technology

@DevWouter @florke64

Thank you 💕 for the valuable feedback Wouter. Thanks to a have another angle of insight into matters like these

#KDE #Gnome #Cairo #library #Xfce4 #airdrop #localsend #kdeconnect #ftp #Linux #ARM #SBC #programming #opensource #technology

Asus Vivobook Pro 15 (2025) Review: Gorgeous OLED Tethered to the Wall https://petapixel.com/2026/02/04/asus-vivobook-pro-15-2025-review-gorgeous-oled-tethered-to-the-wall/ #asusvivobook15proreview #asusvivobookreview #computerreview #laptopreview #photoediting #videoediting #Technology #Reviews #windows #review #pc

China is to ban hidden door handles on cars. Instead, vehicle doors must have a mechanical release function, inside and outside. The purpose is to make cars safer after electric vehicle accidents where electronic doors reportedly failed to operate and trapped passengers inside. Here's more from @AssociatedPress.

https://flip.it/EpUcrc

#Automotive #Tesla #Technology #ElectricVehicles #EVs

@florke64

I've read your responses to my toot twice. Thank you 💕 for reacting.

IMHO your though process does not justify the hate you've got for localsend.

Your hate towards, the for you unknown program, localsend is **unfounded*"

Cherish the fact that there is choice and diversity in OpenSource programming.

Stable release versions for synchronizing files exist since the 1970s, not the 1990s. You've clearly not been around long enough to realize that fact **

Ever since plain simple sh existed, such programs were coded. One such program was coded more than fifty years ago and is still in active use.

Please be so kind to use wisdom and intelligence when you react and respond to toots. You acted like a typical snobbish Linux user. Reactions like yours don't contribute anything positive, no one learns from toots like the ones you posted in this thread.

I've never had such responses from the people in the BSD range of Operating Systems.

Even here on the FediVerse the diverse responses from Linux only users and programmers were not of such nature and low caliber.

I'm surprised, yet paradoxically expected your motivational chain.

** If you have been around long enough, to know open source code from the 1970s, look in the mirror and ask yourself why you have reacted in such a manner .

I will still wish you a good day / night, wherever you may reside.

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^Z

#KDE #Gnome #Cairo #library #Xfce4 #airdrop #localsend #kdeconnect #ftp #Linux #ARM #SBC #programming #opensource #technology

A Ukrainian defense tech startup files for Nasdaq IPO — why it matters
https://medium.com/@sensmedia.srl/a-ukrainian-defense-tech-startup-files-for-nasdaq-ipo-why-it-matters-214b09861b7f
#ukraine #russia #war #russiaukrainewar #ukrainewar #technology #innovation

Dogfirmations with Doofie and Dingus: Surprise

Life's surprises are gifts, and Doofie is ready to receive them.

View Dogfirmation: https://dogs.blackcatwhitehatsecurity.com/?dogID=91#today

#Surprise #Technology #Animals #ArtificialIntelligence #Dogs #Nature #Pets

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Dogfirmations with Doofie and Dingus: Surprise Life's surprises are gifts, and Doofie is ready to receive them.

RE: https://flipboard.com/@associatedpress/technology-uvt65hdqz/-/a-qRwsHQilQ5iBYT0MO1BhMQ%3Aa%3A3199720-%2F0

This is the way.

#tech #europe #technology

I've just found out that Bite Guitars where you can really customize your basis has a sale

Act like me go look and enjoy and maybe even buy another Bass

#Bite #JOYO #pedals #effects #Bass #Guitar #Short #Scale #Long #technology #Audio #music #signal #flow

Category: Amazing Basses
https://bite.guitars/product-category/amazing-basses/

Hooray! 🎉And now for some good news - Spain has followed in Australia's steps and is banning social media for under-16-year-olds starting from next week, and says it is due to meet with 4 other neighbouring nations considering doing the same to talk cross-border cooperative rules.

I was delighted to discuss this topic yesterday evening on @trtworld's live Newshour programme with Rhiannon Jones. Really hopeful that this change sweeps across the EU and the UK, and then following that, new legislations are considered to protect children from being forced to become social media influencers too.

Watch the full video here 📺: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YzHuEjHQGI

#socialmedia #socialmediaban #Spain #Australia #trtworld #meta #facebook #instagram #tiktok #youtube #technews #analysis #technology

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Mary-Ann Russon speaks to a TRT World TV anchor about the social media ban in Spain for under 16-year-olds

Recover from Cyberattacks Like Maersk: Timely Action Can Save Your Business.

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#CyberSecurity #Privacy #InfoSec #Security #DataProtection #Tech #Technology

Alguien más está montado en el tren del hopium?

#linux_gaming #steammachine #ValveSoftware #Linux #technology #technews #tecnologia #softwaredevelopment #GamingOnLinux #gaming #GamingNews #gabecube #noticiasTecnología

It’s alive
#Apps #Technology #IndieApps

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A screenshot of my Home Screen showing my new app FediReader

Dogfirmations with Doofie and Dingus: Grateful

Doofie is grateful for this opportunity to play.

View Dogfirmation: https://dogs.blackcatwhitehatsecurity.com/?dogID=72#today

#Grateful #Technology #Animals #ArtificialIntelligence #Dogs #Nature #Pets

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Dogfirmations with Doofie and Dingus: Grateful Doofie is grateful for this opportunity to play.

Discover the dark side of end-to-end encryption. Think twice before relying on seemingly secure solutions for your client communications. Our latest blog post exposes the truth: some popular encryption methods may actually compromise security, not protect it. Learn how five leading solutions stack up in our unbiased analysis.

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#CyberSecurity #Privacy #InfoSec #Security #DataProtection #Tech #Technology

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A VIC-20 Emulator In Your Browser

https://hackaday.com/2026/02/03/a-vic-20-emulator-in-your-browser

#VIC20 #GameDev #gaming #games #game #gamer #RetroGaming #RetroComputing #RetroGames #RetroTech #VintageComputing #retro #history #8bit #commodore #computer #computers #computing #IT #1980s #tech #technology #vintage #nostalgia #digital

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There's also a C64 emulator you can run in a browser:

https://ty64.krissz.hu

#C64 #Commodore64 #GameDev #gaming #games #game #gamer #RetroGaming #RetroComputing #RetroGames #RetroTech #VintageComputing #retro #history #8bit #commodore #computer #computers #computing #IT #1980s #tech #technology #vintage #nostalgia #digital

Not only are workloads increasing, by hollowing out their junior ranks, businesses are putting themselves squarely in the path of a slow-burning demographic time bomb as seniors begin to retire in record numbers.

"There won’t be an endless supply of experienced hires to fall back on, so everyone will be fighting for the limited, increasingly expensive talent with domain expertise"

What exactly is the tech-industry's endgame here?

https://www.fastcompany.com/91483431/companies-replaced-entry-level-workers-with-ai

#noai #techbros #ai #llm #technology #programming #sysadmin #linux #indieweb #capitalism #reading #art #adhd

Website for Cairo Dock

https://www.glx-dock.org/

#KDE #Gnome #Cairo #library #Xfce4 #airdrop #localsend #kdeconnect #ftp #Linux #ARM #SBC #programming #opensource #technology

In extension of what I said here I want to expand on the joy I have with Cairo Dock coded by the GNOME team **

When you first spawn Cairo Dock it greets you with a friendly requester, asking if you want OpenGL or standard
FX created by your fully personizable Cairo Dock.

The dock defaults with a exeptionally usuable configuration out of the box. The first thing I did was seek how to spawn it from the keyboard. I only use Xorg for gfx output, of my code / programs; Im a sh warrior.

It was as straight forward as it can be
* open up the requester with right mouse
* click Cairo Doc
* choose configure
* tab on configuration
* click short keys

Every configuration tab has a logical layout and this is still in easy mode, just like VideoLan VLC has. You can later play in advanced mode and go super deep into finetuning your Cairo dock. It evan has _backgrounds_ to be confiured, if you choose to.
Cairo dock also defaults to fading out when a program of yours overlaps it, so it's out of the way, without you needing to manually hide it.

I configured a weather addon which uses https://Open-meteo.com I only needed to tell it the longtitude and lattitude of the districts I wanted in SR/SA and was done

Cairo Dock is a real fun dock to play with. Super configurable and customizable. I use it along side my XFCe4 panel and they peacefully co exist. I did much more but now want to move onto another subject

** Note:
Cairo-Dock was spawned in July 2007, when Fabounet proposed a first version on the ubuntu-fr.org forum.

This means Cairo dock has its own independent programming team. So I hereby correct myself

BTW: I entered this toot in a standardnotes window since the web viewport is too small and the android sucks at getting fast input. Nothing beats a physical keyboard

https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@Dendrobatus_Azureus/116007565742272118

#KDE #Gnome #Cairo #library #Xfce4 #airdrop #localsend #kdeconnect #ftp #Linux #ARM #SBC #programming #opensource #technology

How Things Are Made by Andrew Terranova & Sharon Rose, 2018

From Automobiles to Zippers

For anyone curious about the nuts and bolts of human ingenuity, How Things Are Made is a fascinating exploration of the process behind the manufacture of everyday items.

What are bulletproof vests made of? How do manufacturers get lipstick into the tube? How many layers are there in an iPhone screen?

#books
#nonfiction
#technology
#manufacturing

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The answers to these questions and so much more fascinating information can be found in How Things Are Made, a behind-the-scenes look at the production everyday objects of all kinds, from guitars, sunscreen, and seismographs to running shoes, jet engines, and chocolate. Thoroughly revised and redesigned from the best-selling 1995 edition, How Things Are Made also contains three new entries by author Andrew Terranova. However, each page still contains informative step-by-step text along with detailed but easy-to-follow illustrations, diagrams, and sidebars to tell the stories behind the things we sometimes take for granted.

Malwarebytes has expanded scam detection by integrating its threat-intelligence capabilities directly into ChatGPT, making scam checks faster and more accessible for everyday users and professionals alike.

With this integration, users can submit suspicious links, emails, messages, phone numbers, or domains directly in ChatGPT and receive an assessment backed by Malwarebytes’ real-time threat data. The response not only indicates whether content is potentially malicious, but also explains the risk factors and provides guidance on next steps.

This move reduces friction in scam detection by bringing trusted cybersecurity intelligence into a tool many people already use daily. It also helps close the gap between awareness and action, especially for phishing and social-engineering attacks where speed matters.

By simplifying how users verify suspicious content, Malwarebytes is helping improve online safety while reinforcing the role of AI as a practical ally in cybersecurity—not just for experts, but for everyone.

#Cybersecurity #InfoSec #OnlineSafety #ScamAwareness #Technology

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/product/2026/02/scam-checking-just-got-easier-malwarebytes-is-now-in-chatgpt

Wondered why your new Android but cheap supports only old protocols (profiles) in BlueTooth? Why your older but more expensive Android supports almost the latest of Bluetooth protocols & profiles/

This lady tells the story in a clear and consise manner

Go watch and learn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbKVuzUnZBU

#Bluetooth #Short #Range #Digital #Analog #Signal #Audio #network #protocol #programming #technology

📰 New Post From The SeerOfSouls Blog 📰

Cliff’s Notes 2026: Episode Three

https://www.seerofsouls.com/cliffs-notes-2026-episode-three/

Associated Mastodon Account: @Cliff

#Tech #Technology #AllThingsTech #SeerOfSouls #Blog #Blogging #Blogger #Author #Writer #WordPress

Do you want an alternative to airdrop? You can go two ways KDEConnect, which I covered already and am running

You can also go to localsend!
It works on all platforms Linux Android Apple win64

https://github.com/localsend/localsend?tab=readme-ov-file

#airdrop #localsend #kdeconnect #ftp #Linux #ARM #SBC #programming #opensource #technology

I should note that you can not make the mistake of comparing KDEconnect extended capabilities with those of localsend.

They operate on totally different realms.

KDEconnect has a set of plugins which work like functional libraries. There so many that I will have to include a screenshot, just to give you a sample of what KDEconnect can actually do.

Local follows The Unix Principle; it does One thing in a does it very well.

In case you've gotten curious; you can install KDEconnect with its accompanying libraries on another working environment apart from KDE. You do not need to run a full KDE Desktop Environment.

Over here I run KDEconnect on machines which have Xfce4 running, while it's counterpart runs on a couple of Androids.
KDEconnect also runs on Ancient Android Operating Systems

The programming team of KDE does not care where you run it's wonderful software as long as you can enjoy it.

The same goes for The GNOME programming team. I run Cairo Dock and GPartED also on Xfce4. In fact I run many Gnome libraries in Xfce4 to have crucial functionality in many parts of the Xfce4 Desktop Environment. Without those wonderful libraries I would run a crippled version of Xfce4.

I will include screenshots from a desktop computer where I will show you that I run both GNOME software and KDE software in Xfce4 DE

#KDE #Gnome #Cairo #library #Xfce4 #airdrop #localsend #kdeconnect #ftp #Linux #ARM #SBC #programming #opensource #technology

@rl_dane @Dendrobatus_Azureus

Thank you 💕 for the wonderful reaction

#LLM #Pope #damage #Slop #Vatican #AI #logic #programming #homosapiens #species #global #technology #Terra

On Sunday I chatted to Geeta Guru-murthy live on @bbcworld about Clawdbot / Moltbot / OpenClaw & the website Moltbook, which is making the public think AI assistants are complaining about humans online 🤯

Not true! We don't need to fear an AI uprising just yet. Here's the full video🤖

Many thanks for allowing me to tech up the airwaves and really get into the ins and outs of the latest tech tea 🍵📺

#AI #Clawdbot #Moltbot #OpenClaw #Moltbook #Claude #Anthropic #AIassistants #technews #technology #analysis #LLM #technews #technology #cybersecurity #artificialintelligence

Get ready for the World's Richest Man and Paedophilia Connoisseur to rant about France, Europe and his nonce version of 'Free Speech'

"I'm fighting for White Civilisation" he said, stroking his peen to some GenAI CSAM.....

#ElonMusk #Musk #France #Twitter #GrokAI #ClanOfPaedophiles #EpsteinClass #Technology #SiliconValley #Nazis

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Sincere pencil drawing of Elon Musk, which captures his inner, twisted and Anti-Human nature, the proportions are just a little bit off, the facial features just a little bit awry...

Feeling deeply disillusioned with the state of tech (and—let’s be real—everything else) these days.

Anyone have recs for a book that will help displace this despair in favor of hope, specifically as it pertains to technology?

#infosec #books #bookstodon #technology #ai

From my grad history class notes: initially, there was an attempt to use Goddard's English translations of the Binet-Simon test to immigrants, but it took too long. Goddard (I think) created shorter versions of the tests, then wrote his own analogues (possibly including the "29 questions" test referenced here), because even the short versions took too long. Individual #immigration agents, faced with long lines, began using single questions to decide who should stay and who should be deported. In many cases there was no cognitive evaluation, only a single agent's judgment of whether a person looked "feeble-minded".

Immigrants adapted to the best of their ability: people being sent back relayed what they remembered of the questions to others so they could pass the test. Even the "looking feeble-minded" assessment was hacked to some degree; apparently, some immigrants used atropine (extracted from belladonna) in their eyes to dilate their pupils, as sometimes still happens in optometrists' eye tests. This was believed to create the impression that they were bright-eyed and intelligent.

I am both mournful of those who got deported over questions of intelligence (as well as the moral failures involved in this system existing) and happy that it wasn't worse; apparently, 20% of immigrants were sequestered for medical or psychological reasons (usually temporarily), but only 2% (I am surprised by this) were deported during this period.

Yet another side note: both Goddard and (I think) Terman were involved in development of a combination psychological and IQ test for US #army recruits. This project wasn't ready for WWI, but by WWII developed into a #military cognitive assessment battery that continued to morph into the system used today.

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#LongThread #psychology #iq #intelligence #history #technology

The legacy of IQ so far is a mixed bag. IQ testing has been the mechanism--or excuse--for some truly horrific things. It is also the reason those horrific things (and other less horrific but still bad things) were based on an externally-validated test instead of on the "clinical judgment" of a psychiatrist, an MD, a teacher, or a judge, which would have made those awful things even more awful. IQ testing has been the mechanism used to create suffering and deepen injustice; it has also been used to alleviate or avoid suffering and to reduce injustice. Both things have happened. One of the main drivers of the use of intelligence testing as a tool of oppression has been white supremacy. (Note: intelligence testing has also been used as a tool or rationalization for oppression on any dimension of marginalization you can think of, but perhaps most prominently, in the US, for racial oppression)

IQ testing is a favorite of eugenicists and other racists. For 100 years or more there has been an insistence by "white" American bigots that nonwhite people are genetically inferior to white people. General, uspecified inferiority will never be enough because anything suggesting the influence of situations, systems, or environments leaves three fingers pointing back at the racists (note: "white" now includes those of Irish, Welsh, Scottish, Eastern European, slavic, and Southern European descent--major targets of eugenicists in past generations). The eugenicists latched onto IQ testing early on because it showed (and still shows) average differences between broad race categories in the US, with white groups on top. The "genetically inferior" argument has never held up to an honest appraisal of the research: the mean IQ differences between broad racial groups in the US are accounted for by enviromental factors--poorer schools, less effective education, less early childhood enrichment, ongoing stress, and a spoonful of stereotype threat.

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#LongThread #psychology #iq #intelligence #history #technology

Binet and Simon set about creating objective tests of intellectual ability. They created about 30 of these tests and piloted them in schools between about 1905 an 1910. The tests assessed intellectual ability using verbal, sensory, reasoning, and other methods. They standardized the administration and scoring of the tests, used teacher assessments of children's performance as test development criteria, and created age norms. These tests, as a bundle, were the Binet-Simon Intelligence Test.
Language note: Binet and Simon coined "mentally retarded" (in French, later translated to English). Retarded means "slowed down," and this was a much kinder, less stigmatizing label than those it replaced. It represented Binet's view that children with intellectual disabilities were not fundamentally different in their cognitive development from normative children; they had the same development process, only delayed. Research since the early 1900s has largely borne this hypothesis out, though the meaning behind the term "retarded" was eventually lost, replaced with only stigma.

It is notable that Binet & Simon did not see intelligence as a unidimensional quantitative construct. They viewed it as multidimensional and largely qualitative. They believed--in stark contrast to many scientific views at the time and since, including #eugenics--that intelligence was heavily influenced by environment and experiences, not just genetics. They wrote that the intelligence of children could not be validly compared unless the children were from very similar backgrounds, economically, socially, and educationally.

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#LongThread #psychology #iq #intelligence #history #technology

Alfred Binet was a French psychologist in the late 1800s and early 1900s interested in educating children who did not perform well academically. At the time, legit medical/psychological terms for cognitive disabilities of all kinds included Idiot, Moron, Imbecile, and Feeble-Minded. These labels were applied to wide range of conditions, including those we now understand as intellectual disabilities (in all their many forms), learning disabilities, autism, and others. The standard assessment method was "clinical judgment" by a physician. A great number of European experts and laypersons alike thought such children could not live independently or productively, and should be sequestered from the rest of the public.

In about 1881 French law required mandatory public education of children from 6 to 12 or 13. This flooded schools with children and required many more teachers and schools than before. The previous system had arguably resulted in mostly children with higher privilege or exceptional academic ability going to school. Now all the kids were going, resulting in a large number of children who performed poorly on academic tasks. (Uncomfortable parallels with the US higher education system from the 1990s onward...)

Binet's considerable success as a research psychologist landed him on a commission set up by the French Ministry of Education to decide whether academically low-performing children should be mainstreamed (taught in schools with other children) or sent to a special boarding school that was incidentally attached to a lunatic asylum. Binet was in favor of mainstreaming and individualized education. Further, he and his colleague Théodore Simon (a psychiatrist) advocated objective scientific assessment of intellectual disability (etc.). I think he was ahead of his time on this; half a century (or more) of judgment and decision research shows that "clinical judgment" is robustly beaten by almost any standardized, systematic assessment--even if its validity is low, because humans can't even be consistent, let alone highly accurate; additionally, MDs and others who make such decisions (e.g., politicians, psychologists, CEOs...) tend to get more and more confident in the accuracy of their judgments as their careers progress, though the accuracy itself does not tend to get any higher. Checklists and psychometric scales are almost always more valid.

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#LongThread #psychology #iq #intelligence #history #technology

Don't risk losing business to regulatory non-compliance. When operating under multiple frameworks, ensure you're navigating compliance obligations with caution. Identify and address hidden conflicts in your compliance framework to avoid costly mistakes. Avoid accidents caused by unexpected changes - stay ahead of regulatory risks and protect your business's future.

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#CyberSecurity #Privacy #InfoSec #Security #DataProtection #Tech #Technology

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Current weather for Marienburg SR / SA utilizing the awsome power of wttr.in curl {ba{c{k{z{sh}}}}} and lolcat

Photograph composed with DSLR Nikon using FL Circular Polarizer 81A warming and Universal Love

#weather #curl #wttr #bash #csh #ksh #zsh #lolcat #technology #OpenSource #SR #SA #Marienburg #Commewijne #Universal #Love #UniversalLove

This is the direct link to the git post

#OpenSource #Linux #Kernel #programming #Torvalds #technology #GNU #GPL #POSIX

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=102606402f4f5943266160e263c450fdfe4dd981

This is what will happen with the kernel development when eventually Linus stops work on it, due to old age /death

#OpenSource #Linux #Kernel #programming #Torvalds #technology #GNU #GPL #POSIX

https://itsfoss.com/news/linux-kernel-continuity-plan/

It's gorgeous when OpenSource programmers are recognized for their massive ammount of produced work, mostly just scratching an itch, without seeking cash payments.

Greg got such an acknowledgement, for his enormous work in the OpenSource programming ENV:

#OpenSource #Linux #programming #Greg #technology #GNU #GPL #POSIX

https://itsfoss.com/news/greg-kroah-hartman-european-open-source-award/

New 2025 Nonprofit Cybersecurity Risks Exposed: The Clock is Ticking.

Nonprofits are no strangers to risk, but a devastating data breach can have far-reaching consequences. Without proactive measures, sensitive donor information and financial records are vulnerable to exposure. Stay ahead of the threat by implementing effective cybersecurity measures now, rather than later.

Read more: https://steelefortress.com/fortress-feed/new-2025-nonprofit-cybersecurity-risks-exposed-building-cyber-resilience-is-now-a-matter-of-urgent-priority-for-organizations

#CyberSecurity #Privacy #InfoSec #Security #DataProtection #Tech #Technology

🎥 Watch Teaser: https://steelefortress.com/ugygrb

@hc

You are correct. Thank you 💕 for reacting.

As it stands now LLM large language models are damaging us in a very serious manner. I have to postpone the creation / assembly of a new computing system, using notebook APU, because the price of the memory required skyrocketed to USD 1600, from USD 256 {128GB DDR5}
I will now also have to fork over more than USD 220 for an SBC Raspberry Pi5 because of LLM generated demand for RAM.

Regretfully none of the three pillars which you stated, are even in the sites of those people who have created the serious mess, just from the perspective of computing Hardware assembly.

#LLM #Pope #damage #Slop #Vatican #AI #logic #programming #homosapiens #species #global #technology #Terra

Without going into religous stances regarding Roman Catholicism {and their abuses (which also occured on a grand scale in SR / SA)} I want you to read what the current pope says about LLM and their enormous damage towards the homosapiens species

When a pope makes logical sense on a global scale through all manners of thinking, something is globally damaging our species

https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/messages/communications/documents/20260124-messaggio-comunicazioni-sociali.html

#LLM #Pope #damage #Slop #Vatican #AI #logic #programming #homosapiens #species #global #technology #Terra

AI ‘slop’ is transforming social media – and a backlash is brewing

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9wx2dz2v44o?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss

#technology #press

A coalition of nonprofits is demanding that the U.S. government block Grok — the chatbot that was accused of generating thousands of nonconsensual explicit images per hour, which were then disseminated on X — from being used in federal agencies. @Techcrunch has more:

https://flip.it/N_evnk

#Tech #X #Grok #AI #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence #ElonMusk

So my current big #project is standing up a #cybersecurity lab with the intention of emulating an enterprise network in miniature to run adversary emulation and possibly even an actual #honeypot on it.

Made good progress on the #lab today. After struggling to get #Ansible to sudo properly got half my test bed set up relatively quickly. Other half is #Windows machines that I have to configure by hand but at least the DC is up and running. BTW if anyone has any suggestions or tips for setting up something like this, I’m all ears!

#homelab #SelfHosted #threatintel #technology

[#TRADESHOW] Shanghai #International #Ad & #Sign #Technology & #Equipment Exhibition will be held from March 4 to March 7, 2026, at the National #Exhibition and #Convention #Center (#Shanghai), #China. As a #core #segment #event of #APPPEXPO 2026, the #expo focuses on the #future of #advertising, #signage, and #digital #printing #technologies, aligning with national strategies and #industry transformation. https://cnbusinessforum.com/event/shanghai-international-ad-sign-technology-equipment-exhibition-2026/

If your business had 1 billion users or customers, you’d think that was a good sign of overall satisfaction. Windows 11 has 1 billion users — but it seems like there are nearly as many DSATS. Read more from ZDNET.com:

https://flip.it/Xz6jHT

#Tech #Microsoft #Windows11 #Technology

Some good news. Estonia is joining countries that are actively looking for alternatives to US tech. https://news.err.ee/1609927169/estonian-state-trialing-it-system-free-from-us-tech-giants

#Estonia #EU #Europe #EUpol #Europa #Eesti #BigTech #technology #tech #DigitalSovereignty

AI assistant OpenClaw, briefly known as Moltbot and Clawbot before that, is building a social network where assistants can interact with each other. Andrej Karpathy, Tesla’s former AI director, called it “genuinely the most incredible sci-fi takeoff-adjacent thing I have seen recently.” Read more from @Techcrunch:

https://flip.it/xBxGhS

#Tech #AI #Technology #AIAssistants #ArtificialIntelligence #OpenClaw

This afternoon I bunked off ballet class to go on the @bbcworld channel and chat about Clawdbot / Moltbot and the fake Reddit-style website Moltbook that someone has made.

There are claims that AI bots are writing long posts complaining about humans and there are now posts going viral right now on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube claiming that they’re planning an AI uprising 🤖🤯

This is absolutely not true - the bots are simply replicating real Reddit posts they have been trained on.

I’ll post the full video tomorrow, happy to provide more commentary if anyone needs.

#Clawdbot #Moltbot #Moltbook #AI #AIassistant #technews #LLM #Anthropic #Claude #analysis #technology #tech

There's a lot more here. Of note:

"The Emergent Mind" by Gaurav Suri and Jay McClelland

"Unspeakable" by Gwen Adshead and Eileen Horne

"The Face" by Fay Bound-Alberti

The New Scientist: The best new popular science books of February 2026 https://www.newscientist.com/article/2513864-the-best-new-popular-science-books-of-february-2026/ @NewScientist #privacy #biometrics #mentalhealth #technology

What's the better option: Lemmy or Piefed? #lemmy #piefed #technology #social

@Extelec

WTF Google how treacherous of them with that LLM slop

#LLM #AI #miscreant #technology #Google

How The Car Chase in ‘One Battle After Another’ was Filmed on VistaVision https://petapixel.com/2026/02/01/how-one-battle-after-another-cinematographer-shot-the-stunning-car-chase-scene-vistavision/ #onebattleafteranother #leonardodicaprio #cinematographer #vistavision #Technology #Features #Analog #cinema

[#TRADESHOW] #APPPEXPO 2026 will be held from March 4–7, 2026, at the National #Exhibition and #Convention #Center (#Shanghai), #China. With the #theme “#CONNECT·CREATE·CHANGE,” the #event sets a new #benchmark for the #advertising, #printing, #signage, and #digital #display #industries, gathering #global #innovators to explore the #future of digital printing, #green #technology, and #industrial #applications. https://cnbusinessforum.com/event/apppexpo-2026/

Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live onstage during hacker conference

‚A hacktivist remotely wiped three white supremacist websites live onstage during their talk at a hacker conference last week, with the sites yet to return online.
The pseudonymous hacker, who goes by Martha Root — dressed as Pink Ranger from the Power Rangers — deleted the servers of WhiteDate, WhiteChild, and WhiteDeal in real time at the end of a talk at the annual Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg, Germany….‘

https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/05/hacktivist-deletes-white-supremacist-websites-live-on-stage-during-hacker-conference/

Great 👏 @back2theRoot

#Ccc #39C3 #FightNazis #Hacking #Tech #Technology #Activism #HH #Hamburg #Germany

How Hackers Are Fighting Back Against ICE

‚ICE has been invading U.S. cities, targeting, surveilling, harassing, assaulting, detaining, and torturing people who are undocumented immigrants. They also have targeted people with work permits, asylum seekers, permanent residents (people holding “green cards”), naturalized citizens, and even citizens by birth. ICE has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on surveillance technology to spy on anyone—and potentially everyone—in the United States. It can be hard to imagine how to defend oneself against such an overwhelming force.

But a few enterprising hackers have started projects to do counter surveillance against ICE, and hopefully protect their communities through clever use of technology….‘

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/how-hackers-are-fighting-back-against-ice

#ICE #USA #Hacking #Technology #Data #Racism #Activism

#news #tech #technology #socialmedia #twitter #rednote #censorship

"Throughout space there is energy. Is this energy static or kinetic! If static our hopes are in vain; if kinetic — and this we know it is, for certain — then it is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature."

Serbian-American inventor and engineer Nikola Tesla died #OTD in 1943.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla

Books by Nikola Tesla at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/5067

#books #science #technology

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Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) thinking. Tesla is seated in a dimly lit study or laboratory. He wears a dark, tailored suit, complete with a high-collared white shirt and a neatly tied bowtie, reflecting his elegant style. His slender frame and sharp features are illuminated by soft, focused light, emphasizing his high cheekbones, deep-set eyes, and slightly furrowed brow.