The case FOR government regulations, beautifully laid out by Cory Doctorow @pluralistic

“While not all regulation is wise or helpful, a world without regulation is a catastrophe. That’s because, in a highly technological world, your ability to do well (or even to live out the day) requires that you correctly navigate innumerable highly technical questions that you can’t possibly answer. You need to know whether you can trust the software in your car’s antilock braking system, whether you should heed your doctor’s advice to get vaccinated, whether the joists over your head at home are sufficient to keep the ceiling from falling in and killing you, and whether your kids’ schooling is adequate or likely to turn them into ignoramuses. It’s not that you lack the intellect and discernment to answer each of these questions. You’re a smart cookie. Given enough time, you could get a PhD’s worth of education in software engineering, cell biology, material science, structural engineering, and pedagogy; investigate each of the offerings before you in each of these categories; and make an intelligent choice that reflects your priorities and the trade-offs you’re willing to make. The problem is that it would take you several lifetimes to acquire all that knowledge, and long before you could do so, you’d be killed by food poisoning because you guessed wrong about whether you could trust the hygiene policies at your local diner.”
#quotes #enshittification #libertarianism

Made a "Forgejo Refined", inspired by its Github counterpart.

Some of these features I don't see being implemented into Forgejo itself any time soon, so for now this will make it a bit nicer to use for me personally 😅

https://codeberg.org/codecat/forgejo-refined

#forgejo #codeberg

#Eurovision matters

Leading figures including Paul Weller, Primal Scream, Paloma Faith, Kneecap and former Eurovision winners Emmelie de Forest and Charlie McGettigan are among more than 1,000 musicians supporting the boycott of Eurovision. In an open letter published today by No Music for Genocide, the signatories say the contest will “whitewash and normalise Israel’s genocide, siege and brutal military occupation against Palestinians.”

#boycottEurovision2026

https://nomusicforgenocide.org/eurovision

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@TheKeystoneCollective/116441437468862726

Let’s put this #Palantir #NHS issue a different way:

the founder sells himself as the #Antichrist who will urge in the #techbros #apocalypse ―for the right price and the betterment of his kind of mankind.

meanwhile, the CEO wrote a book-long #eugenics manifesto and defense of #war and #genocide to cull the unwashed masses.

and they hired a Mosley, the grandson of the leader of the fascist party, to manage said NHS business

WHY ENTRUST #UK HEALTH CARE TO PEOPLE WHO WANT TO KILL YOU?

🎉 Germany goes ODF!

As part of the Deutschland-Stack and a push for digital sovereignty, the country is phasing out Microsoft’s proprietary formats in public administration.

The Open Document Format (ODF) will become the only permitted standard for all government documents, with data stored in national or European structures.

👉 Read the full article by Cybernews: https://cybernews.com/tech/germany-microsoft-word/

What’s your favorite online office tool? 👇️

#DigitalSovereignty #ODF

I announced earlier I will be deleting my LinkedIn profile - and sticking to Mastodon (or other decentralised tech platform).

In case anyone has just signed up / followed me as a result of that decision... thank you! 💚

(I posted about my decision to leave earlier today... because I am a drama queen / to give people a chance to stay in touch) 😎

Can confirm this for Arc, Brave, Edge, Chromium, and Vivaldi on my machine:

#Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop
https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/anthropic-spyware/

How France’s Mistral Built A $14 Billion AI Empire By Not Being American
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2026/04/16/how-frances-mistral-built-a-14-billion-ai-empire-by-not-being-american/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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