Heads up - don't just do the major version bump to 6.0.0 for the 'setup-gradle' GitHub action, without being clear about the implications for your setup.

😥

"The caching functionality in `gradle-actions` has been extracted into `gradle-actions-caching`, a proprietary commercial component that is not covered by the MIT License."

https://github.com/gradle/actions/releases/tag/v6.0.0

https://github.com/gradle/actions/pull/885

#Gradle #GitHub #Java

Java 26 / JDK 26: General Availability: https://mail.openjdk.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/2MXXXBJKTJXQD25Q4XGGINKYA33T7D5I/

Features: https://openjdk.org/projects/jdk/26/

Downloads: https://jdk.java.net/26/

#Java26 #JDK26 #OpenJDK #Java

re @claudeai

I've identified industrial-scale copyright violations on my content by Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, X, and more.

These companies created thousands of crawlers incorporating the text of all my blog posts, open source code, and books into their paid AI models to profit exorbitantly.

People should be able to write software for Android, and distribute it outside Google's Play store, without having to:

* pay Google
* give government ID to Google
* agree to Google terms and conditions

People should be able to install the software they want on their phone, from sources other than Google's Play store, without having to jump through Google-imposed hoops.

e.g. via F-Droid.

We've got until September this year to stop Google squeezing the open Android ecosystem.

https://keepandroidopen.org/

If you're on LinkedIn and are thinking about verifying your account with them, maybe read this first. It walks through LinkedIn's privacy disclosure to identify 17 companies that may receive and process the data you submit, including name, passport photo, selfie, facial geometry, NFC data chip, national ID #, DoB, email, phone number, address, IP address, device type, MAC address, language, geolocation etc. Unsurprisingly, it seems the biggest recipients are US-based AI companies.

https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/

Do not comply.

Do not share your ID or biometric data with abusive platforms requesting it. You have a choice to say no, complain, and leave.

This is an important act of resistance for the future of humanity.

This isn't just about privacy, this is also about safety, diversity, democracy, and human rights.

#Privacy #MassSurveillance #HumanRights #Fascism #AgeVerification #IdentityVerification

AI agent "contributes" PR to matplotlib.
PR gets rejected.
AI agent *writes and publishes blog to shame the maintainer*.

What a time to be alive.

https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/31132