Dave Thornley

27 Followers
239 Following
169 Posts
Continually busy UK HE IT leader, parent, insomniac, armchair worrier

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Green_Footballs/115998586927326681

You know, if you're a white supremacist and your goal is to deniably exterminate the untermenschen in camps by negligently letting plagues rip through them instead of gassing them, it shows a REMARKABLE lack of foresight to put an anti-vaxx nutcase in charge of your master race's public health policy, doesn't it?

These guys are evil but they're not terribly smart.

@Green_Footballs

Oh wow. Notepad++ was hijacked by state sponsored actors. Bonkers. #infosec
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/hijacked-incident-info-update/
Notepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers | Notepad++

It is 1985, I’m folding comics by hand.

It is 2005, I’m folding comics by hand.

It is 2025, I’m folding comics by hand.

UPDATE: A massive thanks to everyone who helped out with this ☺️

As a result, my little single-user instance has made contact with 11,274 other instances across the Fedi 😲

So no further boosts needed, really appreciate everyone who helped out 😁

ORIGINAL POST: I've got a quick favour to ask. If you're reading this post on Mastodon (or the Fediverse), please click boost.

How come?

I recently moved across to my own self-hosted single-user server (using GoToSocial.org). For a bunch of reasons, including visibility across the Fedi, it would really help out.

#Fediverse #FediHelp #gotosocial #mastohelp

UK petition: Allow transgender people to self-identify their legal gender

It's currently getting a new signature every 4 seconds.

Sign here: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/701159

Signatures: 52,447 of 100,000

Deadline: 12 June 2025

Who can sign?
- UK residents (regardless of citizenship)
- UK citizens (regardless of international location)
- Please don't sign a fake signature if you don't meet the criteria, it is not helpful

See a graph of signatures here: https://petition-track.uk/check-petition/701159

#trans #transgender #TransRights #LGBT #LGBTQ #UK #UKPol #UKPolitics #petition

Petition: Allow transgender people to self-identify their legal gender.

We believe the government should change legislation to make it easier for trans people of all ages to change their legal gender without an official diagnosis of gender dysphoria.

Petitions - UK Government and Parliament

Having a good start to the day already :)
# squareword.org 1153: 7 guesses

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#squareword #squareword1153

The real threat of AI models training on open-access material is that they may bleed free repositories dry by draining resources and not providing attribution (Molly White/Citation Needed)

https://www.citationneeded.news/free-and-open-access-in-the-age-of-generative-ai/
http://www.techmeme.com/250315/p15#a250315p15

“Wait, not like that”: Free and open access in the age of generative AI

The real threat isn’t AI using open knowledge — it’s AI companies killing the projects that make knowledge free

Citation Needed

@marcusjenkins @randahl
No, not like that.

Well, okay, exactly like that, but no.

And here you are :) was in town for something else and all the dancers were a complete but welcome surprise

London bus stop ad by the PeopleVsElon.

Great work.

#BoycottTesla