Yes, and over the course of several novels the golems free each other and become a (very odd) balancing force in the Discworld international system. Optimistic, but there’s not a surplus of that going around.
Can anybody connect https://auroraoss.com ?
Per chi fosse interessato, parleremo di #Palantir e del futuro antidemocratico che sta costruendo: centroriformastato.it/…/nascita-crescita-e-futuro…
Sì, la GPL è un'applicazione rigorosa della lettera della normativa tesa esplicitamente a sovvertire tale normativa. Non a caso, la normativa si chiama #copyright mentre la #GPL è definita #copyleft.
Vedi anche questi vecchi saggi di #Stallman:
- https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/shouldbefree.html
- https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/push-copyright-aside.html
Non potendo sperare di abolire una normativa liberticida e oscurantista, #RMS ha cercato di usarla per sovvertirla, usandola per mantenere liberi e condivisibili determinati software, impedendone l'appropriazione da parte di società che vogliono solo sfruttare gratuitamente il lavoro altamente specializzato degli sviluppatori che li hanno scritti.
In the United States, in the 80's just like today, "evil" is everything that could negatively affect the profits of the riches. They were scared by people who removed copy protection from video games, got free phone calls or cripple the trust of the working class in Capitalism by showing how easy it was to hack the Bank Of America's Home Banking System.
In 1986 the first legislation related to hacking was enacted, the Federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Just like the Hopkins' The Discovery of Witches, such text was wielded thousands of times to convict high-profile hackers and low-level criminals alike, in the most recent witch-hunt of American history.
Meanwhile, the mainstream Americans were building their own prejudice about hackers through their most powerful propaganda-device, with films like War Games.
So while some hackers were arrested all over the States, others tried to distance from them, introducing the term "cracker" to mock "the criminals" in the hope preserve their freedom and appear as the good, well integrated citizens they ough to be.
All of this worked as a sort of evolutive pressure, pruning those who challenged the American life-style and supporting those that were happy to subdue to the cultural hegemony of the times.
Then, when "cracking systems" became a well payed job, a bunch of coloured "hats" were invented, to distinguish crackers "hackers" according to the masters they serve.
Leaked docs indicate the European Commission will publish a plan tomorrow to gut the GDPR and amend the AI Act. This will hurt European competitiveness and further advantage US and Chinese tech firms that dominate Europe’s digital market by breaking our law.
Gutting GDPR would also undermine national security, children’s mental health, and everyone’s privacy.
If users use a browser that does not help them protect their privacy, it's a personal, or market, or regulation failure.
The technical concern is not new to #QUIC: even #TLS 1.2 had resumption options with similar properties...
security.tls.enable_0rtt_data in about:config.Session resumption allows servers to link activity on the original connection with the resumed connection, which might be a privacy issue for clients. Clients can choose not to enable resumption to avoid creating this correlation.
bluntly, POSIWID: "open source" is a social system for corporations to externalize infrastructure costs, and, materially, not much else. there are of course principles involved and possible future benefits, but *today*, that's mostly what is going on in the "community"
OpenAI’s Nvidia, AMD Deals Boost $1 Trillion AI Boom With Circular Deals – Bloomberg https://blog.quintarelli.it/2025/10/openais-nvidia-amd-deals-boost-1-trillion-ai-boom-with-circular-deals-bloomberg/
🔠 In Google’s Alphabet, C stands for control, not compliance.
That’s why with @article19, @fsfe, @HomoDigitalisGR @vrijschrift, we have filed a formal #DMA complaint vs. Alphabet.
Despite clear rules, Android users can’t uninstall pre-installed Google apps, only disable them.
This is deceptive design that limits real choice.
📣 We urge @EU_Commission to act & enforce the #digitalmarketsact.
Read the full complaint ➡️ https://edri.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Joint-DMA-complaint-Alphabet-for-publication.pdf
Dear Fedi friends,
I'm really proud to share with you a video I made: "Introducing the Fediverse: a New Era of Social Media" https://news.elenarossini.com/fediverse-video/
In this 4-minute video I explain what the #fediverse is to people not familiar with it, mentioning some of its great features and benefits (interoperability, no ads, no surveillance...) and I set it in contrast to the world of Big Tech social platforms. I argue that, with the rise of Big Tech oligarchs and the current political climate, there has never been a better time to join the fediverse.
I hope you will enjoy this video and that you will find it useful (maybe as a tool to introduce your friends, family, colleagues, school administrators, local government officials to it).
The fediverse has truly changed my life, making me a better, more empowered digital citizen. I am endlessly grateful for it, so this is my contribution to the cause ❤️
I am also incredibly thankful for the work of @samaaberg and @patel.riyen who helped me bring my vision to life with their amazing cinematography skills and their assistance throughout the process, providing brilliant feedback to the script / edits from the POV of fedi newbies.
And I was also moved by the generous help of people of the Fediverse who volunteered to translate the script into many foreign languages: @jan @fritjof @erikkemp @sknob @severin @clabru @tarcisiosurdi @hongminhee @danielcasanueva @ainali @nacly
Lastly, I'm thankful for the opportunity I had to premiere the video last week at #FediForum - thank you @j12t and @anca
The video is up on my self-hosted PeerTube instance (thank you @yunohost) and for now it is unlisted as I have no idea how my VPS will hold up. I also included an alternate location in the blog post.
I hope you'll enjoy it! It's been a real labor of love (a month of full time work on it)... I see it as my love letter to the fediverse 💌
Edit/update: THANK YOU for all the people who volunteered to have their avatar show up in the last shot. There were 750+ submissions and only 135 spots - sorry I couldn't include everyone 🥲
#TheFutureIsFederated
🎉 The Swedish Administrative Court of Appeals has upheld a €5 million fine against Spotify.
🕰️ The decision is the result of a noyb complaint from 2019.
👉 IMY's update here: https://www.imy.se/tillsyner/spotify-ratten-till-tillgang/
👉 noyb press release for the original decision: https://noyb.eu/en/spotify-fined-eu-5-million-gdpr-violation