Coworker: ...and the IP address are compared with a string match.
Me: grinning manically
Coworker: Why are you looking at me like that?
Me: Open up a terminal and type ping 4.2.514 and hit enter.
Coworker: ...what's the fourth number?
Me: grin widens Just hit enter.
Coworker: WTF!?
I wrote some weekend words on why you should think twice before allowing AI access to your email, calendar, or any other personal data. This may seem obvious to some, but perhaps not to others: the privacy and security risks just aren't worth it.
Oh hey - Tax the rich, you can sign an initiative for that now which might actually make an impact assuming you’re a German citizen
We’re currently at ~ 50% with three weeks left
DE:
Hey - Reiche Besteuern statt von ihnen gesteuert werden. Da gibts grade ne Bubdestagspetition zu.
Grade bei ca. 50% und noch mit drei Wochen Laufzeit.
https://epetitionen.bundestag.de/petitionen/_2025/_04/_09/Petition_180180.nc.html
Nun sagt ein Microsoft-Manager unter Eid aus: Microsoft kann Kundendaten vor dem Cloud-Act nicht schützen. Also keine seichten Ausreden mehr: Alt-F4, bye bye, Microsoft, Amazon Cloud, Google … (you name it) https://chaos.social/@kenji/114874702711777286
Apple and Google both provide support for offline speech-to-text using local models. Users can configure it to be fully offline.
The Murena Voice to Text service in /e/OS sends the user's audio to OpenAI which is hidden away in their terms of service:
https://community.e.foundation/t/voice-to-text-feature-using-open-ai/70509
One of my favourite things… and places… people and creatures. #bornhack
Eine Sprachnachricht geht nur für den Sender schneller.
Das Abhören einer Sprachnachricht dauert etwa sechsmal länger als das Lesen der gleichen Information.
Wer immer nur Sprachnachrichten schickt, sagt Dir damit also: "Meine Zeit ist wichtiger als Deine!"
Credits: Tino Bomelino
@nova me, a transandrogyne nonbinary transmasc and my nonbinary lesbian girlfriend 🥰
Taking a quick detour from our 1.0rc3 milestone work! 🛤️
This morning we added a small but meaningful feature:
🔗 Link previews now display the author's fediverse account when available.
➡️ Next up: Author attribution controls in Bonfire's verification settings, so writers can decide exactly how they're credited when their articles travel across the fediverse. ✍️
It will be available in next release to test it out!
Ein Polizist, von Palästina-Demonstrant:innen fast totgeprügelt? Bisher unbekannte Videos unterstreichen, dass diese Darstellung nicht stimmen kann.
https://taz.de/!6100599
![Male behavior towards female gamers
See also: Sexism in video gaming
A 2015 study found that lower-skilled male players of Halo 3 were more hostile towards teammates with a female voice, but behaved more submissively to players with a male voice.
Higher-skilled male players, on the other hand, behaved more positively towards female players. The authors argued the male hostility towards female gamers in terms of evolutionary psychology, writing, "female-initiated disruption of a male hierarchy incites hostile behaviour from poor performing males who stand to lose the most status". (100]
Still the best gaming fact.
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Noted: misogyny is a skill issue](https://cdn.masto.host/mastodonart/media_attachments/files/114/839/841/322/005/496/original/005ccb8002c66fa7.jpeg "Male behavior towards female gamers
See also: Sexism in video gaming
A 2015 study found that lower-skilled male players of Halo 3 were more hostile towards teammates with a female voice, but behaved more submissively to players with a male voice.
Higher-skilled male players, on the other hand, behaved more positively towards female players. The authors argued the male hostility towards female gamers in terms of evolutionary psychology, writing, \"female-initiated disruption of a male hierarchy incites hostile behaviour from poor performing males who stand to lose the most status\". (100]
Still the best gaming fact.
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Noted: misogyny is a skill issue")
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Protip from a 32 yo woman who has a STEM degree and almost all male-coded hobbies: If a man starts testing* you about your interests, hobbies, or job, don’t engage him — just walk away. Those men are not worth a single ounce of effort and you aren’t required to justify yourself to anyone.
*Think the type of guy who hears you like Band and immediately goes, “Oh yeah? What were Band’s first three albums???” as some sort of gotcha
Das Desaster um die Wahlen zu den Bundesverfassungsrichter*innen hat es so noch nicht gegeben! @BriHasselmann macht im #Bundestag klar, wer dafür verantwortlich ist: Jens Spahn & Friedrich Merz.
Das Verhalten der Union ist eine Gefahr für unsere #Demokratie & das #Bundesverfassungsgericht 👇
Why don't politicians in general admit that we must #TaxTheRich?
> In some ways its astonishingly simple. We allowed the collective management of the national interest to be corrupted by the idea that naked #individualism would provide more wealth for ‘everyone’, infamously, it would ‘trickle down’. It did no such thing. It never will. It only ever gushed rapidly upwards. We need a reset.
It has officially begun. The CRA info request counter is no longer at zero.
