Elias @eliasr@librem.one
- My web page
- https://eliasrudberg.se/
Human being. Programmer, sailor, researcher, teacher, student, parent, child, etc. Free/libre and open-source software (FOSS/FLOSS) enthusiast. Likes human rights, including digital rights such as privacy of communication. Casual hacker. On Mastodon since about 2020. Lives in Stockholm. He/him. No DMs.
Joined Jun 2020
@xianc78 aha, seems like it's about this then: https://www.gov.scot/publications/abortion-services-safe-access-zones/
It says "any public areas within 200 metres of the boundary of the grounds (if there are any, or from the premises if not)"
It's entirely possible that those rules are stupid, but anyway they are rules about public areas and not about restricting what anyone does in their own home.
@xianc78 I'm not in Scotland but another part of Europe but I think I can anyway safely confirm that what you heard is bullshit. The place where you found that must have a really twisted view of Europe.
Of course people do what they want in their own home, many are religious and then of course they pray if they feel like it.
Why would anyone want to make that illegal anyway?
(There can maybe be laws around what religious things are allowed in schools, I don't know how that is in Scotland.)
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Stop saying “artificial intelligence”. (And “neural networks” too.)
Be more specific. Say “reinforcement learning”. Say “generative modelling”. Say “Bayesian filtering”. Say “statistical prediction”.
These are incredibly useful tools that have nothing to do with “intelligence”.
And say “model trained on plagiarised data”.
Say “bullshit generator”.
Say “internet regurgitator”.
These are also nothing to do with intelligence, but they have the added bonus of being useless, too.
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I my continued quest to get stickers into loving homes and redistribute my sticker surplus, I'm going to post some individual ones:
Who wants it?
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Revealed: Google facilitated Russia and China’s censorship requests
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/15/google-helped-facilitate-russia-china-censorship-requests?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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phosh 0.45.0 is out 🚀📱:
There's 🐛 fixes and improvements, check out the full release notes at https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.45.0/ for details or see 👇 for a short 🧵
🙏 to everyone who contributed to this release.
#phosh #librem5 #pinephone #gtk #wlroots #gnome #linux #mobile #LinuxMobile
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@potatisapan ingen är mäktigare än riddarna som säger "Ni"!
@potatisapan du har makten över mig nu, jag gör vad som helst bara du inte säger "Ni" en gång till 😄
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Det slog mig precis att Linuxkompis GoToSocial-instans firar 2 år den här månaden. 🎂
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In Swedish, E-identification, FOSS
@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.
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Important research from BBC regarding accuracy of AI assistans when asked about various news stories.
51% of all AI answers to questions about the news were judged to have significant issues of some form
19% of AI answers which cited BBC content introduced factual errors – incorrect factual statements, numbers and dates
13% of the quotes sourced from BBC articles were either altered or didn’t actually exist in that article
@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"? 😄
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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...
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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 🤩
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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!
- My web page
- https://eliasrudberg.se/
Human being. Programmer, sailor, researcher, teacher, student, parent, child, etc. Free/libre and open-source software (FOSS/FLOSS) enthusiast. Likes human rights, including digital rights such as privacy of communication. Casual hacker. On Mastodon since about 2020. Lives in Stockholm. He/him. No DMs.
Joined Jun 2020
