@ocdtrekkie

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Privacy advocate, sysadmin, geek. Born and raised on the mean streets of the Chicago suburbs. Contributor to the Sandstorm self-hosting project.
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HN people, I swear. Claiming having only gigabit networking hardware at home is super slow and being surprised any people still have that. Valley folks legit live on another planet.
The internet was a mistake and I say this as someone whose entire livelihood depends on the mistake being ongoing

I saw today that the Free Software Foundation issued a statement on something or other, and I must remind everybody that child-rape advocate, sex pest, and creep Richard Stallman remains a member of the FSF board.

Until the FSF removes Stallman, the board members who enabled him, and accounts & atones for their decisions, they should be ignored.

U.S. President Donald Trump was evacuated together with several top officials from the stage as loud bangs were heard at a White House press dinner in Washington on Saturday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/04/26/world/politics/white-house-correspondents-trump-evacuated/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #donaldtrump #us #media
Trump evacuated from White House press dinner after apparent shooting

Trump was safe, CNN reported, but there were conflicting reports about the fate of a suspected shooter.

The Japan Times

It's honestly impressive how badly we've lost this war. It's almost like Trump is a Russian asset and delivered an incredible amount of additional power into the hands of a close Russian ally. #iran #hormuz

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/gulf-worries-us-iran-talks-may-cement-tehrans-golden-grip-hormuz-2026-04-20/

Fun fact: There's a class action settlement that went out this month that involves Google having to give money to everyone who used Android in the US since 2017. Unsurprisingly, this went to my old Gmail account, where Google promptly dumps it in spam. =)

#antitrust #monopoly #google #android

The little devil on my shoulder wants me to tell you about https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/copilot/copilot-flex-routing

Apparently #Microsoft is not able to get enough compute within EU datacenters to handle #Copilot requests.

Instead, it will do "Flex-Routing", which processes some requests in non-EU datacenters. This is Opt-Out. The only notification was an e-mail to Admins. If they missed that, companies might be leaking PII outside of the EU from tomorrow on.

Get your GDPR Nightmare letters ready!

Flex routing (EU and EFTA)

Learn about flex routing and how it affects inferencing for Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot chat during times of peak load.

I love that "Elon Musk Sucks" bumper stickers are basically now a necessary defensive measure if you own a Tesla.
@platypus my bank used to allow custom security questions, so I set one to "what are you wearing?" and the answer to "that's very inappropriate please transfer me to your manager". the first time an customer service rep encountered it they couldn't stop laughing and had to actually transfer to a coworker to complete the call.

“A chatbot did not kill those children. People failed to update a database, and other people built a system fast enough to make that failure lethal.”

Maven, the program Google was forced to pull out of and Palantir took over, was the system that identified the girls’ school as a target.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blame-for-the-iran-school-bombing-the-truth-is-far-more-worrying

#tech #google #palantir #iran #iranwar #politics

AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying

LLMs-gone-rogue dominated coverage, but had nothing to do with the targeting. Instead, it was choices made by human beings, over many years, that gave us this atrocity

The Guardian