Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

@frank_w @bullivant well, English isn't my first, not my second language, yet I understood the original text.
I'm all for making literature accessible for everyone but dumbing down things isn't the way to go about it. There's progression in reading capabilities, if you never push yourself beyond the basic vocabulary you'll never improve your language skills.

Best not go to penalties now #Kane and #Bellingham are off

#ENGSVK #Euro2024 #MastodonFC

If age verification requirements become law, you’ll have to be lucky every time you are forced to share your private information. Hackers will just have to be lucky once.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/hack-age-verification-company-shows-privacy-danger-social-media-laws

In America, aging is seen as a disqualifying crime. However being a rapist, traitor, fraud who kept stolen nuclear secrets in a house he charged anonymous interlopers $200,000 to hang out at isn’t. Got it.

OMGOMGOMGOMG

#Euro2024 #MastodonFC

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To make such AI propaganda chat bots is super easy — here's a TikTok tutorial on how to do it with just £50:

✨ https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGepoe79T/ ✨

The tutorial explains how to run such a disinformation bot locally and with no running cost.

Now imagine that you could easily host this on a cloud server with a thousand times the computing power, even with better AI models if you have the money of troll farms and governments for ChatGPT credits!

The fact you as an individual can easily create such a bot with horrific consequences paints a bleak picture for what is done by bigger actors.

I don't care what you think, the previous Pixelfed app was garbage and if I did ship that to the app stores, what do you think would happen?

Nothing.

The open source rewrite I started just a few months ago is nearly ready for release, and I'm finally proud of the state of the app.

First impressions are everything, and we will get it right 🚀

One major surprise from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission:

Bennu contain minerals similar to those found at the mid-Atlantic ridge on Earth, indicating that this little asteroid was once part of a bigger, water-rich world.

https://news.arizona.edu/news/bennu-holds-solar-systems-original-ingredients-might-have-been-part-wet-world #science #space #life

If you are on mobian bookworm and you have not undated for quite some time, you might get some 'sigkey expired' message when apt upgrading.

Our mobian signature key expired indeed, but an updated version will be pulled in through debian's repository (mobian-archive-keyring).

So just apt upgrade away and the next apt update should be fine.

BBC World Service news: "The Sunday Times, one of Britain's right-wing papers, has endorsed the Labour Party four days before the election"

The world’s fourth mass coral bleaching is underway, but well-connected reefs may have a better chance to recover:
https://theconversation.com/the-worlds-fourth-mass-coral-bleaching-is-underway-but-well-connected-reefs-may-have-a-better-chance-to-recover-230755

Using a Firefox-based browser on desktop GNU/Linux in 2024 makes me a second-class citizen of the web. Where most websites are optimised for Chrome on Android/Linux and Windows, rather than adhering to neutral web standards so browser vendors have to do the same to keep people using their browser.

It reminds me very much of using a Mozilla browser in 2003, when Internet Exploiter was dominant, and most websites were optimised for that.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.