Has anyone successfully opted out of https://www.apollo.io/ ?

The spamming bastards have got hold of an email address and I'd like to know who sold it to them.

Their current "Privacy Center" form doesn't seem to submit anything.

🆕 blog! “Reputation Scores for GitHub Accounts”

The folks at GitHub know that Open Source maintainers are drowning in a sea of low-effort contributions. Even before Microsoft forced the unwanted Copilot assistant on millions of repos, it was always a gamble whether a new contributor would be helpful or just some witless jerk. Now it feels a million times worse.

There are some…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/02/reputation-scores-for-github-accounts/
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#AI #github #slop

We've preliminary found that TikTok is in breach of the DSA for its addictive design.

There are important indicators of compulsive use of the app that TikTok has disregarded in its risk assessment.

Key features of the addictive design:
🔹Infinite scroll
🔹Autoplay
🔹Push notifications
🔹Highly personalised recommender system

We consider that TikTok needs to change the basic design of its service.

TikTok can now exercise its right to examine and reply to the finding.

https://link.europa.eu/9fTwmJ

Haha. We checked in to a hotel in Prague and when we did, one of our party had a US passport (the rest of us had EU). At 830 this morning two armed immigration police in body armor / load bearing vests knocked in a coply manner on the door of the room where our friend with the US passport was staying. The Popo spoke no English but demanded visa information, saying (understandably but incorrectly) that the person needed a visa to be in Czechia.

The difference in how they were treated here versus how people are treated in America was that here, the immigration police listened and used Google translate to sort things out and ultimately left, satisfies tha no laws had been broken. Also, the immigration police did not hide their faces or their ID cards.

When the US is beastly to all foreign visitors, this is the new normal.

🆕 blog! “You did no fact checking, and I must scream”

I'm neither a journalist nor a professional fact checker but, the thing is, it's has never been easier to check basic facts. Yeah, sure, there's a world of misinformation out there, but it doesn't take much effort to determine if something is likely to be true.

There are brilliant tools like…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/10/i-have-no-facts-and-i-must-scream/
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#factcheck #fakenews #newspapers #quote #SocialMedia