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If you write about the messy reality behind "free" internet services: we're seeing #OpenStreetMap hammered by scrapers hiding behind residential proxy/embedded-SDK networks. We're a volunteer-run service and the costs are real. We'd love to talk to a journalist about what we're seeing + how we're responding. #AI #Bots #Abuse
La CNIL a sanctionné Free (cf sur Mastodon: La CNIL sanctionne la société FREE MOBILE). Plusieurs autres entités ont fait fuité des données, mais la CNIL ne semble pas réagir.
Move slow and fix things
Bonjour, votre vie privée et votre sécurité sont d'une importance capitale pour QAPA. C'est pourquoi nous vous informons que notre plateforme été victime d'une cyberattaque, affectant la confidentialité de certaines de vos données personnelles.
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Votre sécurité est d’une importance capitale pour nous, c’est ainsi que nous avons sous-financé nos équipes IT de 80% et que vos données sont donc dans la nature.
Black and white cartoon-style illustration divided into four horizontal strips.
In the first strip, with the text “BOSS,” a person sitting in a cart is pulled by four people in front.
In the second strip, with the text “LEADER,” the cart is pulled by four people together, including one in front leading the movement.
In the third, with the text “INTROVERT,” only one person pulls the cart alone.
In the last, with the text “AUTISTIC,” the person does not pull the cart, but drives a steam locomotive, representing a completely different solution.
Rust devs who want async.
Rust devs who understand Rust's type system.
People who like BSDM.
For a software release, it is relevant to include what the software is doing.
I just have no idea what three quarters of these projects actually do. When you announce a new release, please give us (your adoring but slightly confused audience) just a tiny bit of context. What the software does, why the release is cool and what it requires to work.
Based on this photo, how many of our ES servers do you think fit on top of each other in one of our self-designed racks?
Website idea: enter the year you left school and the website will generate a list of outdated facts and concepts that you were taught at school and which have since been disproven.
Sometime around the 2020 era, we lost the right to be mediocre at things we love.
No longer can you just bake bread...you must start a sourdough side hustle lol. Wanna stay fit and go jogging or running? Nah, you gotta optimize your biometrics for a marathon. What my point is that every hobby has been enshittified and gentrified into a brand opportunity.
This strange infatuation with optimization culture is killing the human spirit.
So this new year, starting tomorrow, one of my resolutions is to do something bad but fun. Maybe I write a terrible poem. I like to draw and paint, so perhaps I will draw a horse that looks like a table or sing off-key in the showers or in front of my loved ones. The algorithm driving the mainstream social media wants me to be a polished product, but my humanity lives in these messy, unoptimized, cringe-inducing joyful failures.
I will try to reclaim the right to be an amateur. Will you join me?
The Firefox fox cutting its branch thanks to Mozilla and with the help of a chainsaw brought by the AI bird.
Ratatui running on the R36S console (gameboy advanced).
An extension of the original XKCD about some random guy maintaining a cornerstone of the Internet
« Le design, c'est faire des produits utilisables, limiter frictions, risques et déceptions »
« Idées reçues : pas la peine de demander aux utilisateurs, les designeurs ne savent faire que du cliquodrome, pas besoin d'UX pour le backoffice »
Intéressant, les orateurs disent bien qu'ils ne travaillent qu'avec des gens convaincus des beautés du libre. Sinon, la migration ne se passera pas bien. Il y a assez de travail avec les gens qui sont volontaires, il ne faut pas perdre de temps avec les autres. (C'était dit moins brutalement.)
Alternative text: four values Trust Partnership Innovation Performance are in a bubble. There is a tiny small overlap with a bubble containing "OUR VALUES". A logo and inscription at the bottom right Thomson Reuters.
The original goal was to share the four values, but the appearance split both these values and Thomson Reuters value. A fail.
I totally agree.
If you complain that you have a problem with #Windows
and are unhappy that people on Fediverse always bring up #Linux
when you come here to post your complaint, I have a question: instead of here, have you tried the #Microsoft
support or forums?I mean at some point the "I just want Windows to work" is a fair and understandable point, but it will just be shouting in the wind if you don't bring your complaints to the people and company making it.
And I say that as an IT tech, I know how it works: if there's no support ticket about a problem, there's no feedback proof, and therefore the problem officially doesn't exist.
EDIT: to be very clear, I'm not writing all this with the intent of presenting MS forums and support as the best way to solve your problems with their products.
It's more that, as someone who deals with how tech support is handled on a daily basis, as I mentioned above, companies have processes for all that, and I can guarantee you that when it comes to handling feedback, they follow them strictly, especially when it comes to being held accountable for unwanted features or overall problems.
Users are being unhappy with ads or AI features and complain they can't deactivate them all? "Where are the tickets at our support to back that up?" is gonna be their answer. And we all know most of us, most of the overall user base never bother with that, leaving the gates full open for Microsoft to be like those aren't issues for the majority of users.
If windows is so problematic, then GNU/Linux can be the solution
Qu'est-ce qui est le plus embêtant en arrivant sous linux?
A) 4% Le changement d'interface
B) 59.4% Le manque de support pour Photoshop ou autre application spécifique
C) 11.6% Le rapatriement des données (contacts, favoris, etc...)
D) 25% autres
En autres, on retrouve:
- le passage à la ligne de commande
- pression sociale: Télématin n'en parle pas, le vendeur expert de chez Darty y connaît rien, le tuto ne marche pas sur Linux. La personne se retrouve illégitime et en insécurité par pas compétente.
The return value is unclear:
- The old API treats zero as false (parameter not handled)
- The new API expects an error code (zero is success).
- To add some fun, any non-zero result is passed to ERR_PTR() and used as a pointer for further parsing. Well, (char*)1 is neither IS_ERR_OR_NULL() nor a valid pointer…
Un pastiche sur l'argumentaire en faveur de l'IA.
Un autre commentaire similaire à propos du fast-food: https://mamot.fr/@krazykitty/115428219040400965