Nicolas Mendoza 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍

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The Fediverse feels more vibrant when conversations are buzzing! Mastodon 4.5 fetches replies from other servers to show you more complete conversation threads - another much-anticipated feature.

“US immigration agents will have access to one of the world’s most sophisticated hacking tools after a decision by the Trump administration to move ahead with a contract with Paragon Solutions, a company founded in Israel which makes spyware that can be used to hack into any mobile phone – […]

På lørdag, etter at ungene er lagt, skal jeg hoppe av Meta-toget.

Sånn, da er det sagt, da må det gjøres.

Holy cow, as an American, I wasn't aware of the Horizon IT scandal. ~1,000 postal workers were wrongfully prosecuted for theft and other crimes, imprisoned, and forced to repay tens of thousands of pounds. 13 of them committed suicide! But it was an IT error! AI will make this worse […]

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Oh no…now Meta is automatically sharing our private messages to its AI. As far as I can tell, you can only turn it off for each message thread, one at a time (and there seems to be no option to turn it off *at all* for group threads!). Yet another privacy […]

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RIP MST Long-time Perl legend and gadfly Matt Trout has passed.

https://curtispoe.org/blog/rip-mst.html

Rest in Peace Matt! :-(
https://www.shadowcat.co.uk/2025/07/09/ripples-they-cause-in-the-world/#comment-1311

“This is not just a legal settlement — it’s a travesty,” says SPJ President Emily Bloch of Paramount Global’s decision to settle with President Trump over his lawsuit against “60 Minutes.” https://bit.ly/44ndJZn

nihilism disrespecter @meaning_enjoyer holy heck i'm training a zoomer kid to use the computer at work and it's exactly like training a boomer Egg Price Sufferer @agraybee There is exactly one generation that can rotate a pdf and there will never be another. The knowledge dies with us.

#ShamelesslyStolenFromTheOtherSite

@tithonium ah thought it was some magic application server software that could run various technologies like Apache+php :-)

@tithonium What is Saron?

Millions protest for pride

Hungary banned pride and anything having to do with homosexuality. In response the country responded with the biggest pride protest in modern history. Orban is cooked. #3E

I was on a new podcast called WTF Now. My episode is called How the internet went wrong. Sad title, but you will understand when you listen.

This is really back to my strong belief that we need regulation when it comes to user profiling. IMHO it should just be banned. Have a listen and let me […]

Is @Vivaldi also vulnerable for this backdopr break in by Metas spyware? https://www.tek.no/nyheter/nyhet/i/0V80QA/meta-stanser-hemmelig-sporing-av-android-brukere

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There are few things more demoralizing than taking the time to write actionable feedback – only to have your input field wiped and a message that your feedback was not submitted. There's no way I'm doing that again.

Aleksander H 🇧🇻 (@alehel@oslo.town) 19 Posts, 16 Following, 2 Followers ·

@alehel this is why we can't have nice things

seboyr (@seboyr@oslo.town) 0 Posts, 0 Following, 1 Follower ·

@seboyr er helt fersk, hva bør man gjøre som norsk allheimsførstegangsvandrer?

Bortsett fra å lete etter innhold med tagger i begynnelsen. Tagge med riktig #SmåOgStoreBokstaver, legge ved beskrivelser på bilder og generelt oppføre seg?

#allheimen #NorskTut

#Microservices. Real-time #asynchronous processing. #PostgreSQL and #Redis integrations. And the best damn collection of well-tested #OpenSource libraries.

Your company is using the #Perl #programming language and ecosystem, even if you don’t know it.

So join Deriv and support @metacpan so […]

What's to stop Musk, who's already tried meddling with German elections, from seizing Zelenskyy's, or any other European leader's X account, and posting something with dire geopolitical consequences? We're way past the point where it's wise for European leaders and institutions to rely on a […]

Branden Spike's profile page on X says « Branden Spikes @ x 336 posts Branden Spikes @ x @BrandenSpikes (Fallowsyou IT and cyber security leader and investor. Early hire at Zip2, @PayPal, @SpaceX, and @Astra through to IPO or orbit. Currently leading IT at @X View more &3 Science & Technology © Silicon Valley, California 2 spikes.com & Joined May 2012 160 Following 593 Followers 2 Subscriptions @DD Followed by Thomas Brewster joe white, and 2 others you follow Posts Replies Highlights Media a Branden Spikes @ x @BrandenSpikes - Feb 27 [oJ Wow, | got my old email address back, which used to get ~1,000 spam emails per day (back in 1999). Now it's getting almost zero. [OF] Qu Q2 thi 97 na 13 Branden Spikes reposted Io) Elon Musk @ %| @elonmusk - Feb 26 [ol z

I've been looking at the background of Branden Spikes, the senior member of DOGE who is director of IT over at X (his OG email is b@x.com).

Prior to joining up with Musk, Spikes ran a company called Spikes Browser, which tried to create a sandboxed browser […]

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💪🏼🩷 #Canada

Via Acyn:

Canadian MP Charlie Angus:

#Zelenskyy has shown the world what democracy means. Donald #Trump is a convicted felon and a sexual pervert. These two men shouldn’t even be mentioned in the same sentence.

People who are not psychopaths—and who genuinely believed costs had to be cut—would handle the layoffs of federal employees respectfully. They would explain the whys and wherefores. They would express regret.

But this is gleeful. They’re yelping ecstatically like coyotes who’ve cornered a cat […]

I was literally joking about the Netherlands offering to make New York into New Amsterdam again last week.

My wish has come true!

#USpol #NLpol #EUpol #funny #YesPlease

Thorn e enma intarnctin diericeinn thic wnnl + tha Drivarc aus Galan in Minmi e e Comnittee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs = European Parliament The Chairman IUST-SEC/LIBE D (2025) 2901 Mr Michael McGrath Commissioner for Democracy, Justice, the Rule of Law and Consumer Protection European Commission Rue de la Loi/Wetstraat 200 D 300788 06.02.2025 1049 Brussels Dear Commissioner McGrath, The Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE Committee) closely follows all matters linked to the European Commission’s adequacy finding for the EU-US Data Privacy Framework mechanism. It was in view of the Commission’s assessment that the European Parliament adopted its resolution of 11 May 2023 on the adequacy of the protection afforded by the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (2023/2501(RSP)). Furthermore, during a LIBE Committee mission to Washington in May 2023, LIBE Members had an opportunity to discuss EU-US data transfers with Members of the US Congress, representatives of the US Departments of Justice and Commerce, as well as the Chair of the Federal Trade Commission. One of the issues considered in the above-mentioned resolution are the competences of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB), an independent body responsible for ensuring that privacy and civil liberties are safeguarded. The EU-US Data Privacy Framework established a new review mechanism, allowing individuals in the EU whose personal da

The legality (not wisdom) of putting European private data on US clouds hinges on the availability of the US Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. Trump neutered this board, and the European parliament has taken notice & asked the European Commission what they think:

This one hits home.

Via Greg Sargent:

#Trump- #Musk cuts just resulted in the firing of numerous top researchers at NIH's center for combating Alzheimer's, sources tell me. They predict big setbacks to fighting dementias.

This cause was once championed by *Republicans.* […]

Saksøker Gyldendal og komiker Zahid Ali: - Moralsk og etisk forkastelig To tekstforfattere mener de har skrevet store deler av krimboken «Svaber» – som komikeren Zahid Ali ga ut under sitt eget navn på Gyldendal forlag i 2023.

Zahid A.I. der altså https://www.vg.no/rampelys/i/wgJnl5/saksoeker-gyldendal-og-komiker-zahid-ali-moralsk-og-etisk-forkastelig #ai #ki #zahidali #gyldendal

BREAKING: A bunch of U.S. Digital Service employees (including me) were fired tonight. It's still unclear exactly how many. There is no visibility whatsoever into what determined who was let go. Legacy USDS (i.e., pre-DOGE) leadership was not involved in the decision about whom to let go and […]

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Don't say Word, say text document
Don't say Photoshop, say image editing
Don't say Excel, say spreadsheet
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Language is important. When corporate companies own the names of the tasks or the digital items you create […]