@nopatience yes of course there should be ways to do it properly.
For example an org like BBC in this case could publish pubkeys for all their journalists, then each time a journalist publishes something the journalist signs it and whoever wants to quote that can do so in a way that allows readers (clients) to cryptographically check that the quote is indeed a verbatim quote from the claimed source, checking the signature and verifying the quoted text. That could be mostly automated I guess.
@nopatience I guess that in the "AI-assisted" future there will no longer be any such thing as a quote, nobody will know anything about who said what. Instead everything will just be a blur, more or less random streams of auto-generated text and images floating around. 🤢
@kushal "den vandrande vålnaden"? 😄
Had the second part of basic #electronics with my class today. A few more circuits to practice on and introduced capacitors as well.
Whomever wanted also had the opportunity to try their hand at #soldering. Several kids had never tried before and gave it a go with some simple circuits.
One kid really took to it and tried their hand at some relatively complicated circuits, like an LED flip-flop.
Sometimes it's fun to be a #teacher...
Biting off the next mouthful of Robben Ford's brilliant "White Rock Beer" 🎸 solo to the best of my feeble abilities 😁 this piece is SO MUCH FUN to play 🤩
And here's the fourth and final FOSDEM 2025 talk of mine, the keynote:
https://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/FOSDEM/video/2025/janson/fosdem-2025-6648-14-years-of-systemd.av1.webm
The slides are here:
In this one I am ramble over the past 14 years of systemd, and the next.
Enjoy!
"Every week brings a new chorus of voices demanding that [insert tech giant] must “do better” [...] We’ve become digital peasants, petitioning various lords and kings to please, please fix the internet for us."
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/01/27/empowering-users-not-overlords-overcoming-digital-helplessness/
Yes, maybe you don't like life outside of #youtube . But if you only publish there, you've become a digital peasant subject to the whims of your lord.
Youtube is not my friend, so if you stay confined there, I won't watch you.
@neil I want to do it, from what I understand it can be a good way of avoiding censorship. But I will need to learn more about how to do it.
Naturligtvis är det dags för en lärarstrejk!
Om podden, finns den nånstans som faktiskt är öppet?
Det så kallade "open" spotify är inte alls öppet, det är tvärtom precis som "Open"AI, det heter "open" men är i verkligheten stängt. 🙂
Är det Spotify som äger podden?
@kushal thanks!
Almost all of the talks in the FOSS on Mobile Devices devroom from this years #FOSDEM have become available to watch!
@kushal when was this taken?
@RickiTarr looks like this cover https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stars_%26_Stripes_%26_Hitler_Dead2.jpg
@gita hej hej, det verkar fungera 🙂
I'm inspired by other players too but my Gawd, Robben Ford is just such a goddamn treasure 🎸🤩 it's one thing to pick up the notes, another entirely to try to emulate his phrasing & timing... 🤯
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