John - Lawful Good Developer

@jathanasiou
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Software Engineer in Scotland. If it's geeky and needlessly convoluted, chances are I'm already into it.
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Frogs Against Fascism! No Kings protest in Philadelphia yesterday.

Olympus Pen-F #Nokings #Philadelphia #Photography #Streetphotography #Olympus

RE: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116313176350075873

One of the aspects of #ageverification and #OnlineSafetyAct that few talk about:

Imagine your kid turns 18 and on that very same day, on a still rather vulnerable age, they are bombarded with ads about performing sex work, joining the army, buying guns, alcohol, and whatever addictive tobacco alternative is trending this year.

All thanks to pushing for age and digital IDs being such an available piece of information in the digital landscape.

"After months of heated debate and previous attempts to restrict the use of large language models on Wikipedia, on March 20 volunteer editors accepted a new policy that prohibits using them to create articles for the online encyclopedia.

The new policy, which was accepted in an overwhelming 40 to 2 vote among editors, allows editors to use LLMs to suggest basic copyedits to their own writing, which can be incorporated into the article or rewritten after human review if the LLM doesn’t generate entirely new content on its own."

https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-bans-ai-generated-content/

Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content

“In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”

404 Media
😲🙄 @[email protected] scoop: Leaked business lobby plan pushed redefining copyright to let AI companies train without paying - The Business Council of Australia proposed, then ditched, a plan to amend the Copyright Act so AI training on copyrighted work is no longer considered infringement. https://www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/12/ai-artificial-intelligence-copyright-business-council-australia/
Leaked business lobby plan pushed redefining copyright to let AI companies train without paying

The Business Council of Australia proposed, then ditched, a plan to amend the Copyright Act so AI training on copyrighted work is no longer considered infringement.

Crikey

TIL that "carbon footprint" is a campaign started by British Petroleum (BP) in order to distract attention away from coporate responsibility and culpability towards individual responsibility and culpability.

https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781541700116

If you are concerned about your carbon footprint or shame others about their's, it shows how well this campaign has worked and is still working.
But you know what is really on us? To stop this madness right now and demand more corporate regulations!
#climatecrisis

It’s on You: How Corporations and Behavioral Scientists Have Convinced Us That We’re to Blame for Society’s Deepest Problems by Nick Chater, George Loewenstein

In this sharp takedown, psychologist Chater and behavioral economist Loewenstein (Exotic Preferences) argue that “nudge” theory,...

California law to require operating systems to check your age

The time of age assurance is upon us, and not just for social media - for operating systems too and that includes Linux as well of course.

GamingOnLinux

RE: https://mastodon.social/@randahl/116128992576090046

Randahl Fink has, excellently, summorised the speech so you don't havet to.

Another absolutely based take by Louis Rossmann on the #discord topic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtfjIO4FSiE

An unpopular Discord video

YouTube

Helldivers Movie Starring Jason Mamoa Announced For Next Year

The adaptation gravy train rolls ever onwards.

https://www.thegamer.com/helldivers-movie-jason-momoa-minecraft-follow-up/
#helldivers #helldivers2 #videogames #ps5

Helldivers Movie Starring Jason Mamoa Announced For Next Year

The adaptation gravy train rolls ever onwards.

TheGamer