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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

RE: https://toot.wales/@ndw/117031470602952104

truly maddening to deal with this over the years… All Hail Norm!

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:") wrote:

Fastmail’s EU data storage option is now available! They’ve published a blog post with all of the info on how it works: https://www.fastmail.com/blog/fastmail-offers-eu-data-region/

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andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt") wrote:

Paraphrasing an email from a security company : We copied one of your blog posts and turned into an advert for one of our products. Please add a link to our blog post to the end of yours. 🥉

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mikarv@someone.elses.computer ("Michael Veale") wrote:

RE: https://someone.elses.computer/@mikarv/117009744087358555

You can now access many more digital laws, not just the GDPR, at the UCL Massively Crossreferenced Digital Laws page:

EU: GDPR, DSA, DMA, AI Act, UCPD, NIS2
UK: OSA, DPA18, ...+

Each article/para/recital, links to what-cites-it in int'l cases/statutes/guidance

https://homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucqnmve/laws/index.html

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
taedryn@anarres.family wrote:

Any time you see "New package, same great product!" marketing on something in a store, I guarantee they just shrinkflationed you hard.

This package used to hold 56 pads for the same price as what now gets you 40. The individual pads are not materially different.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Kjaerulv ("kjaerulv") wrote:

'It's imploding. The take is that he's a decent stock picker but didn't hedge properly and was way over-leveraged. So $45 billion turns into $10 billion. These are the kinds of things you see as a bubble starts to burst.
I've seen a lot of memes on the AI forums I follow, many in the AI community say "AGI is already here, we just don't realize it yet." I would counter that "the AI bubble pop is already here, we just don't realize it yet."
https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/03/the-ai-bubble-is-already-popping-we-just-dont-know-it-yet/5282004

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
orrickle@sfba.social ("Orrock LXXXVI XLVII") wrote:

@mashagessen so glad you’re boosting Bryan Stephenson

A couple of months ago, I visited Montgomery, Ala., where an organization called the Equal Justice Initiative is undertaking a very different project. It is telling the story of Black Americans. The E.J.I. has so far built a lynching memorial, a Legacy Museum, a vast sculpture garden and a public square with a permanent exhibit on the civil rights movement. Each element of the complex, which is still growing, is as powerful as any museum or memorial I have visited.

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paninid@mastodon.world ("Coach Sankhavaram ®") wrote:

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fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Jokes aside: this is a case where regulation needs to catch up with technology.

The web shouldn't need a million tiny consent state machines because lawmakers tried to patch over architectural flaws from the IE6-era.

Put privacy controls where they belong: in browsers and operating systems.

Make companies accountable for abuse. Stop making users the f'ing middleware.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
cbctop_mirror@mastodon.hongkongers.net ("CBC Top Stories") wrote:

After 8 years and 15,000 kilometres, B.C. couple nears end of Trans Canada Trail trek
A Vancouver Island couple is just a few steps away from completing a journey of over 15,000 kilometres on foot.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-couple-trans-canada-trail-9.7290223?cmp=rss

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Being a movie critic and getting married

RE: https://www.threads.com/@ejblackerby/post/DbhzzAjjhAL

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

reviewing my Social Security earnings history,.as an Army Spec/4 & then Sgt in 1969, I earned a grand total of $2,507.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

The cookie banner is what happens when lawyers, advertisers, browser vendors, and regulators all solve the same problem independently.

And somehow I'm the one doing all the work now, clicking ❌ for the 47th time today.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

hmm, what have i forgotten from my expr type? oh right, yeah, 'if'. that one is sorta important.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
plausible@fosstodon.org ("Plausible Analytics") wrote:

While indie hacker Twitter debated whether SaaS is dying, our July:

• $22.2k in new MRR, our best month ever
• MRR up 28.5% year over year
• 20,183 paying subscribers

The argument is that AI has made every product easy to clone.

Our code has been open source and free to clone since 2019.

Turns out the code was never the moat.

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@emilyskidsister/116994552007367487

While I don't use these tools myself, I think @emilyskidsister is right that if you are using them, it's important to try to make them as non-"personable" as possible.

The hyper-empathy, hyper-personableness is something that's in the market interests of the bigger corporations. But it's like adding sugar to food everywhere: it sells more, and people will consume more, but it isn't good for people.

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emilyskidsister@hachyderm.io wrote:

ELIZA is a chatbot written in the 1960s. It’s very relevant in 2026.

https://nettek.ca/blog/the-llm-is-not-your-friend/

#ai #eliza #codingagents #claude #glm #chatgpt

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
emilyskidsister@hachyderm.io wrote:

There are literally 5 speakers labelled as transgender in the validated English Common Voice dataset. If you would describe your voice as trans, and you record a few sentences with a desktop mic, this might actually make speech recognition, transcription, and text-to-speech suck less for us.

https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/en/speak

#trans #transvoice #commonvoice #mozilla

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

breakfast time.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/08/03/damsel-in-distress-2/

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Happy Birthday, Jerry!

https://www.gdao.org/

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crane@squawk.social wrote:

Crane wishes you a wonderful monday
(probably the most cursed gif ive done so far)

Attachments:

• gifv: 3b3897be4bd36f43.mp4

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link@js.meowingwo.men ("link memeink :spinny_cat_pan: :spinny_cat_nb:") wrote:

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Aug 3rd 2026 (Easy), in less than 8 minutes
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https://cluesbysam.com

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

i was thinking about making a smaller subset of littlegem designed for implementing littlegem.

then i realised i'd have to go the other way - the little one would be littlegem and the bigger one would be lottlegem

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alex@godforsaken.website ("alex :disabled_knife:") wrote:

cool how you can search for like a random piece of trivia information online, and there's now multiples of similar websites clearly generated entirely from a single prompt (i.e. "make a website about [topic]") with completely fabricated information and images complete with a logo etc. there's like a standard format to them now. they're all like "[topic] is a fascinating and engrossing subject that has stood the test of time and contains many curious facts..."

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JaxVent@lgbtqia.space ("Jax UK") wrote:

This is a UK company who's career page I keep an eye on under my bookmark heading 'anti-AI Companies' (i've got a grand total of this 1 i've been able to find lol, if anyone would like to share lists?)

Couple of jobs have popped up i'm not qualified for but someone else here might be interested in!

"We stand up to tech giants and governments and for a future where technology is used to benefit everyone, not just the rich and powerful."

https://www.foxglove.org.uk/news/jobs/

#TechJobs #GetFediHired #NoAI

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

murder most foul

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/02/ice-death-pittsburgh-daphy-michel-haiti?CMP=Share%5FiOSApp%5FOther

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

The new ScotRail app rollout is going just great*, it seems

*In the Molly White sense

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invadersil ("Keith") wrote:

I need to tape this up somewhere so I can reference it when I get stuck in my writing.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
fastmail ("Fastmail") wrote:

Our new Amsterdam servers are live. The EU can now be the primary home for Fastmail data, and like our US locations, it's our own hardware, racked and run by our own people. Nothing rented from a big cloud provider.

Already a customer? Switch regions in your settings. Thinking about it? You choose your region at signup.

Our CEO Bron's post walks through exactly what lives where, because we figure you'd read the fine print anyway.

https://www.fastmail.com/blog/fastmail-offers-eu-data-region

#Fastmail #Email