RE: https://ohai.social/@dcoderlt/117420992135195411
Good morning to everyone except #WSocial people who are forcing me to work on a Sunday.
New article about their latest scandal coming soon (tomorrow or Tue morning at the latest). There is SO MUCH more to unpack that hasn't been revealed yet - and I've got plenty of evidence to share.
The W Social people had a meltdown about this yesterday on the Atmosphere, asking critics "who is funding you?"
This reporting is entirely self-funded, with childcare help from my in-laws and my husband 💁♀️
Looking at routing in #BengalOS I stumbled over an issue at #NetworkManager that explains why Linux clients started having problems on my home wifi: via #DHCP I sent a router (option 3) and a static route (option 121).
Background: at the time of configuration I used a VPN connection while connected to my wifi that routed 192.168.0.0/16. I needed one /24 subnet to be routed over my default gateway. The static route for the class-c net had the smaller netmask and overruled the class-b route for the VPN-connection.
After the change I was missing a default route, added it to NetworkManager as a local entry and had been done until stumbling over it again with a new installation.
Now I know … 😉
Coming up this Thursday: An Introduction to Public-Interest Infrastructure with #CoopCloud, this Thursday 15th October @ 19 UTC
Call link: https://jitsi.sutty.nl/CoopCloudKiteFlying
Calendar event: https://coopcloud.tech/ics/public-interest-infrastructure-2026-10-15.ics
Dramatic countdown: https://time.is/countdown/19:00_15_Oct_2026_in_UTC?Intro_to_Public_Interest_Infrastructure
https://time.is/19_15_Oct_2026_in_UTC?Intro_to_Public-Interest_Infrastructure
HUGE thanks to @la_rosa for the awesome flyer!
– 3wordchant
Nicolas Cage Says He’s ‘Probably Not’ Working With Amazon Again After Refusing to Sign AI Waiver for ‘Spider-Noir’: ‘I’m Not an AI-Friendly Actor’
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/nicolas-cage-ai-waiver-amazon-spider-noir-1236907564/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into VARIETY @variety-Variety
#Georgia’s Communications Commission bans two TV channels from using 93 words and phrases - https://jam-news.net/georgias-communications-commission-bans-two-tv-channels-from-using-93-words-and-phrases/ blatant censorship
Outrage grows as CDC reportedly poised to fund “unethical” vaccine trial - https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/10/rfk-jr-still-eager-to-fund-vaccine-trial-that-would-expose-babies-to-deadly-virus/ "would expose newborns in Guinea-Bissau to hepatitis B, putting them at high risk of a lifelong infection, which can lead to liver cirrhosis, liver cancer, and premature death." #murica
Feminist orgs claim #Meta censoring posts about #Cornell 7 case - https://mashable.com/tech/meta-censoring-posts-about-cornell-7-orgs-claim "Florence Pugh received a "sensitive-content" warning on her Cornell post; she doesn't appear to be the only one."
#Batteries are now cheaper than #naturalgas turbines used at many data centers - https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/09/batteries-are-now-cheaper-than-natural-gas-turbines-used-at-many-data-centers/ and amazingly, they will soon be even cheaper; you are a mug if you don't use them
EU calls US sanctions on International Criminal Court 'regrettable' - https://www.euronews.com/2026/10/09/eu-calls-us-sanctions-on-international-criminal-court-regrettable has to be a wake-up call to the civilised world: #trump the mad dictator can do this to anyone. get off US tech and systems #icc
"A senior colleague of mine found one of his favourite problems among those solved and attempted to read the accompanying paper. He told me it was so unintelligible that, had he received it as an editor at a mathematics journal, “it would have gone straight into the bin”.
—Melissa Lee, Monash University
EU drops sponsorship of disinformation conference at Trump officials’ request - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/07/trump-eu-disinformation-conference staggering cowardice by #eu at a time when it must stand up to #trump the bully
RE: https://mstdn.social/@rysiek/117415566348765527
“When the copy failed to load or the model closed it by mistake, the model instead navigated to the website where the real form is normally hosted and submitted the form there.”
US Gov’t Interferes To Get Foreign Sponsors To Drop Conference Because A Panel Asks If The US Engages In Foreign Information Interference - https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/08/us-govt-interferes-to-get-foreign-sponsors-to-drop-conference-because-a-panel-asks-if-the-us-engages-in-foreign-information-interference/ great dissection of this sorry saga by @mmasnick
Judge Blocks Utah’s Demand That Websites See Through #VPNs - https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/07/judge-blocks-utahs-demand-that-websites-see-through-vpns/
Hot off the press! We have some new benefit merch! Proceeds from this new tee and tote go to legal defense for the Prairieland Defendants. Shop all benefit merch here: https://www.pmpress.org/category/solidarity-merch-benefit-bandanas-shirts-and-more
noted: my thoughts on Cloudflare assimilating Deno
Shokunin Studio: Attack of the Vibe Coded Clones - on all the hugely publicised bad and broken vibe-clones of Photoshop
https://www.shokunin.studio/blog/2026/10/9/attack-of-the-vibe-coded-photoshop-clones
I've warned before that any FOSS project incorporating AI output is doing so at their peril.
Previously people leaned on a federal circuit ruling that was *declined to be taken up by the supreme court* interpreting it as a free-for-all to LLM license-wash any project in translation, or really to incorporate any such materials and they would be public domain.
But that doesn't mean we have an answer! We've yet to see!
Annnnnnnnnd: I think we're likely to have that perspective upended soon.
The third circuit issued a recent ruling in the *opposite direction* of the previously well cited federal ruling, that AI training on copyrighted material is NOT fair use: https://www.courthousenews.com/ai-training-of-copyrighted-material-not-fair-use-third-circuit/
Annnnndddddd.... with a bunch of people trying to make LLM-generated decompilation replacements for Adobe's entire suite, we're likely to suddenly see corporations rear up angrily.
Just wait till someone tries to vibewash a Nintendo game decompilation. Hey, what do you think is gonna happen?
#ShlaerMellor, #FunctionPointAnalysis, #punk, #environmentalist, #unionAdvocate, #anarchosocialist #freeSoftwareAdvocate #cooperativeLife #noLLMs
"with a big old lie and a flag and a pie and a mom and a bible most folks are just liable to buy any line, any place, any time" - Frank Zappa