Jesus fucking christ.

https://hey.paris/posts/appleid/

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GNOME bans AI-generated extensions https://www.theverge.com/news/844655/gnome-linux-ai-shell-extensions-ban

Microsoft Copilot AI arriva sui televisori LG e non può essere eliminato

Secondo l'utente Reddit u/defjam16, il suo LG TV webOS ha ricevuto un aggiornamento che installava l'app #Copilot AI di Microsoft, senza possibilità di rimuoverla. Sebbene gli utenti possano scegliere di ignorarlo, la spinta verso una maggiore integrazione dell'intelligenza artificiale nei prodotti di uso quotidiano sta diventando inevitabile, anche sui televisori.

https://www.techpowerup.com/344075/microsoft-copilot-ai-comes-to-lg-tvs-and-cant-be-deleted

@informatica

My Ubuntu Summit talk is up! Where I talk about:

1. How Desktop UX is effectively dead

2. Why I hate the term UX/UI with the heat of 1000 suns

3. How OSS can actually innovate in #ux

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fZTOjd_bOQ

:uwasa_sana: Rumor has it Senator Sheldon Whitehouse plans to file a bipartisan bill to repeal Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, arguing it shields platforms from liability for harmful content. Critics warn that repealing Section 230 could stifle free speech and innovation online, while Whitehouse believes it allows platforms to evade long-standing legal responsibilities.

Merriam-Webster choose "slop" as the word of the year. Very good choice, accurately describes what the tech industry is doing now.

Meanwhile Van Dale choose "hallucineren (hallucinate)" as the Dutch word of the year. This is a bad choice. This word enables a common misconception that a lot of normies think that an LLM is actually thinking.

An LLM does not hallucinate, it is literally text prediction aka "bullshit generator". It does not know anything at all.

Let's have a serious discussion. Yesterday I mentioned Framework, and somebody claimed that they have financially supported neo-nazi DHH.

To the best of my knowledge, this is misinformation. They *never* did that. And I think that falsely accusing a company of financially supporting neo-nazis is bad.

When I asked for a source, many chimed in, providing information about Framework's financial support to other projects or other kinds of support to DHH, thus missing the point entirely. [1/2]

When I pushed back, I think many felt attacked and felt the need to state their disgust and unwillingness to buy from Frameworks. None of which was the topic of the discussion.

The point is, again: falsely claiming that a company financially supports a neo-nazi is, IMO, really bad behavior, regardless of what other bad things the company is doing.

Since we're not on Twitter, can we please have an adult conversation that's able to discuss things in their merit without feeling attacked? [2/2]

>Be a sucker.
>Make my entire infrastructure dependent on a proprietary SaaSS implementation of Git.
>The proprietary SaaSS suddenly wants money from me? How could this happen?

The only thing that surprised me is that Microsoft didn't start doing this sooner.

Mozilla has a new CEO who:

- Has been at Mozilla for less than a year

- Has no prior open source experience (but well in "fintech" and "real estate")

- Has a MBA (aka "brainworm diploma")

- Is all-in on AI

That’s exactly the kind of bingo profile the whole community has been waiting for.

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Something that hasn't been made clear: Firefox will have an option to completely disable all AI features.

We've been calling it the AI kill switch internally. I'm sure it'll ship with a less murderous name, but that's how seriously and absolutely we're taking this.

Full thread

The fact that the 'AI industry' went from "It's not a bubble, AGI any moment now!" to "Yeah this sector is too big to fail, so we're going to need bailouts" without revolt is part of the reason things suck so much.

LG forced a Copilot web app onto its TVs but will let you delete it https://www.theverge.com/news/847685/lg-copilot-web-app-delete

The European Commission lost the Chat Control 2.0 battle over access to end-to-end encrypted data. By the summer 2026, they will be back with their next attempt: Going Dark. This time some EU member states want to include VPN services.

The Going Dark initiative, or ProtectEU as the Commission now calls it, wants to “enable law enforcement authorities to access encrypted data in a lawful manner”. This is a Chat Control 3.0 attempt.

The EU Commission and several member states are also looking for new rules on data retention. In a new ”Presidency outcome paper”, the member states discuss metadata retention: which websites you visit, and who is communicating with whom, when and how often. The ambition is “to have the broadest possible scope of application” and this time some member states also want the proposal to include VPN services.