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The move from US tech is biting - and the current administration is getting antsy:

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/us-orders-diplomats-fight-data-sovereignty-initiatives-2026-02-25/
#DigitalSovereignty

jlines Dec 15

Mx. Eddie R Dec 14

George Clooney is an actor.

Put him in the role of a surgeon in front of a camera, and he will do and say things the average non-surgeon viewer will agree are surgeonish. After an hour of that, we are, as average non-surgeon viewers, satisfied and entertained.

Put him in an operating theatre, and the patient will fucking die because he's not a surgeon and knows nothing about really doing surgery.

This is a post about LLMs.

jlines Dec 14

I sign up to mailing lists and accounts with 'plus' addresses, except when disallowed, when I create aliases with a minus sign. Was interested to see two fail2ban postfix-sasl failures, close in time, but completely different sources for the same 'user', who only exists as a mail address. Suspect the attack sources are part of the same group,. Looking at logs for development of secinfo-xmpp, where if a system is attacked rest of group blocks

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Robin Ince Dec 13

Last night on stage , I announced my resignation from the Infinite Monkey Cage - here is my statement #science #radio #bbc

jlines Dec 9

Andrea Junker

Dec 8

If you love freedom but don’t care if it applies to everyone, what you actually love is privilege.

jlines Nov 10

john Nov 10

Having noticed the same IPs attacking firewalls across 3 countries I have written #secinfo-xmpp - a daemon which receives information from fail2ban locally, sending this to an XMPP group. It receives information about bans on other hosts from the group and bans them locally. Project at https://gitlab.com/JohnLines/secinfo-xmpp, comments and contributions welcome.
#xmpp #firewalls

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john Nov 1

Artificial Intelligence is like Artificial Coffee, useful if the Real version is unobtainable.

@PaulaToThePeople @ElaineActivism @volemaulder @tazgetroete I subscribe to the Guardian because I believe independent journalism (i.e. Newspapers which are not owned by billionaires, but which can afford to pay professional journalits) is important - but I wish they had a Fediverse presence and awareness. https://wordpress.debian.social/jlines/2021/10/17/federated-social-media-and-journalism/