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France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/10/france-to-ditch-windows-for-linux-to-reduce-reliance-on-us-tech/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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So you may have wondered what the hell Melania Trump's Epstein statement was all about... well here is @Dag with one likely answer (which puts some formal flesh on the supposition it was some sort of pre-emptive defence for accusations as yet not made).
As always DAG joins the dots in a compelling way.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/116381527689674082
Possibly time for the satellites to be doing some sort of flocking work themselves.
But who would trust other satellites?
#NealStephenson the #SciFi writer introduyced a program. #perambulator for that, in this entertaining novel #SevenEves
RE: https://mastodon.social/@ZachWeinersmith/116375447678097912
This was a fun collaboration! See also the crypto challenge at the end of the final strip in the 5-part series.
#Drax told a story about going to invent and install #capture of the CO2 from their chimneys, which previous governments accepted to allow them to continue burning #woodPellets.
Now they've given up that story - during the crisis of gas and oil fuel, a handy forcing time.
Nevertheless, time to stop them.
And probably time to build a tall dense clump of wind #turbines close to there, feeding #electricity into the #Grid connection, and making a point.
#PennedPossibilities 980 Have you ever had your work plagiarized or stolen?
Yes: I'm a party to the Anthropic AI class action lawsuit. They'd plagiarized 28 out of 33 of my novels for AI training purposes, the fuckers. I'm looking forward to my payout (with the caveat that their out-of-court settlement is much lower than their maximum liability under US copyright law).
currently playing "where the fuck's the beef" with claude mythos amongst all the proclamations of THIS IS IT. the openbsd "zero day" does not AIUI in fact appear to be one, for example - just a non-exploitable bug. what about these much hyped claims checks out?
EDIT: so far finding *none* of this checks out at all. it's the loudest AI hype this week and it seems to be a nothing burger. still open to non-nothings, of course.
using a chatbot as an expensive fuzzer, fine i guess. i would actually like price numbers on what finding each of these bugs would have cost. i saw some uncited cost numbers in chats, but not the sources for those cost numbers.
RE: https://mindly.social/@JohnAutry/116239946858231554
A timely reminder.
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