AI Now Has Private Data / Regulation Bans / Online Identification

https://tube.tchncs.de/w/vAG1J7cQDgXSMKkAQ5HUS2

🇪🇺New EU Commission report dismantles voluntary #ChatControl 1.0, which they now want to make permanent:

"Insufficient data", high error rates & no proof of actual convictions. 🤯

Report: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:52025DC0740

My comment: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/chat-control-evaluation-report-eu-commission-again-fails-to-demonstrate-effectiveness-of-mass-surveillance-of-intimate-personal-photos-and-videos/

🇮🇹Il nuovo report della Commissione UE demolisce il #ChatControl volontario, che vogliono rendere permanente:

"Dati insufficienti", alti tassi di errore e nessuna prova che porti a condanne. 🤯

Report: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:52025DC0740

Il mio commento: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/chat-control-evaluation-report-eu-commission-again-fails-to-demonstrate-effectiveness-of-mass-surveillance-of-intimate-personal-photos-and-videos/

The thing to realize about Wayland is that noone is out to get you.



Most of the problems people have a knee jerk reaction about were either fixed in the past few years or are being actively worked on. Sometimes it takes a long time because people want to actually do it properly and not just do a quick hack, and that can involve some experimentation and failures before a good solution is settled on. Also creating standards that all major DEs and UI toolkits will agree on can be a challenge.



X11 was made in a time where you ran your software on a mainframe but ran the GUI on a separate computer, noone thought about security yet and hardware accelerated rendering wasn't a concern.

At this point it's a massive clusterfuck full of hacks that noone wants to maintain.

This is why Wayland exists, because people actually want to work on it, and they want to use the experience from the past to make something that works much better in the modern world, where your GUI apps run directly on your computer, want hardware acceleration, and you may want them to be sandboxed for security reasons.



There is XWayland for compatibility, with implementations ranging from being built into the compositor (KWin) to being a layer on top (xwayland-satellite).

I know at least one maintainer of a Wayland compositor that specifically only supports the latter approach because they don't want to deal with implementing any cursed X11 logic.

The future's so bright, i gotta wear shades 😎

#AI #OpenAI #AIBubble

NixOS 25.11 has been released! 🎉

https://nixos.org/blog/announcements/2025/nixos-2511/

#NixOS #nixpkgs

Zio yapperone, quanto cazzo odio l'IA nei motori di ricerca che racconta vere e proprie stronzate almeno metà delle volte... 🤬



Devo installare una app in Termux, e la fottuta papera mi dice di installare un pacchetto che NON ESISTE, e io lo so già che non esiste, perché ho controllato per sicurezza prima... e perché, se fosse così semplice l'installazione, per quale razza di motivo io avrei dovuto fare la ricerca in primo luogo? Se ho cercato è perché ricordo che serve una procedura di merda mezza intricata (o, al minimo, scaricare degli eseguibili da qualche parte di esterno, che comunque aiutooo, che palle...); quasi più stupido dell'utente Termux medio, sto clanker.

Cioè, va bene pure sprecare risorse del pianeta per generare testo inutile e dannoso... ma almeno non fatemelo uscire sopra ai risultati veri e utili!!! 💣

I understand why some creators, including myself, don't leave #YouTube. However it's *vital* now more than ever to also make yourself a #PeerTube server. You need an accurate archive of your work that YOU control, even if no one watches it there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrwJgDHJJoE

​​ Decembah!

MKBHD is taking down his wallpaper app https://www.theverge.com/news/835090/mkbhd-panels-wallpaper-app-shutdown

My latest blog post: We don't love #PeerTube enough.

RE: https://gabe.rocks/tech/peertube-love/

@mntmn@mastodon.social from the IBM 1970s presentation everyone likes

AI Warning: Google has been caught A/B testing replacing real article headlines with AI-generated substitutes, which are of course sometimes wildly misleading/against journalistic ethics. If you see a blatantly horrible headline in a news aggregator, check whether the site's own page matches before blaming the site! https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/googles-toying-with-nonsense-ai-made-headlines-on-articles-like-ours-in-the-discover-feed-so-please-dont-blame-me-for-clickbait-like-bg3-players-exploit-children/

with or without AI, A/B testing as practiced by Silicon Valley is unethical. It ranges from quiet gaslighting to full-on Stanford prison experiments with no ethics board or informed consent.

The RAM shortage comes for us all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rbz0akyLyQ

Riunione #NaLUG del 29 novembre sull'homelabbing per liberarci dei servizi online proprietari, fra cui @nextcloud@mastodon.xyz, @forgejo@floss.social e @jellyfin@mastodon.online hostati su Proxmox e @nixos_org@chaos.social.

PeerTube: https://videos.gianmarco.gg/w/eMXUqsqRnoDBBpgihuCqLz
Odysee: https://odysee.com/@gianmarcogg03:e/homelabbing:8
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P4nSJS5rEQ

@opensource @linux

#FreeSoftware #LibreSoftware #SoftwareLibero #OpenSource #FOSS #Video #Privacy #Linux #SelfHosting #Homelab #Nextcloud #Forgejo #Jellyfin #Proxmox #NixOS

L’eterno ritorno di Chat Control

Si torna a parlare di lotta agli abusi sui minori, privacy e crittografia end-to-end, dopo che, il 26 novembre, il Consiglio UE ha votato a favore dell’approvazione del nuovo testo del Child Sexual Abuse Regulation (CSAR), più comunemente conosciuto come Chat Control.

@privacypride

https://www.guerredirete.it/leterno-ritorno-di-chat-control/

Avevamo ragione, come sempre, nel comunicare che fino ad Aprile 2026 il chat control sarebbe tornato a massacrarci l'esistenza! A molti di voi potrebbe non interessare ma consegnare i nostri dati a Big Tech, far indebolire la cifratura dei certificati ssl e stravolgere le regole per un controllo di massa anche no!

Agite al link sottostante:

https://fightchatcontrol.eu

#stopchatcontrol #fightchatcontrol #privacy #security #freedom

Here's an in-depth dive into Chat Control!

https://thelibre.news/how-we-lost-the-fight-to-chat-control/