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Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
• Cory Doctorow
Pluralistic: Friction cannot be reduced, it can only be redistributed (23 Aug 2025)
Chatcontrol 2025 (resum, Catalan)
Molt breument, a instàncies de Dinamarca, molts estats membres de la UE exigeixen que els serveis de missatgeria com WhatsApp/Signal/etc. estiguin obligats a inspeccionar totes les nostres fotos i enllaços mitjançant IA. Si la IA té el més mínim “dubte” que pugui ser pornografia infantil, la vostra foto, ubicació, número de telèfon i altres detalls es comuniquen a Europol i a les forces policials locals. No s’especifica què passa després, però les vostres vacances a Xipre podrien acabar ràpidament amb vosaltres havent d’explicar les vostres fotos a la comissaria de policia local.
Chatcontrol vzor 2025 v kostce
Ve zkratce: pod vedením Dánska mnoho členských států EU prosazuje, aby služby typu WhatsApp, Signal a pod. byly nuceny zkoumat všechny naše fotografie a odkazy s pomocí AI. Pokud AI nabude jakýchkoli “pochybností” že by mohlo jít o dětskou pornografii, vaše fotka, poloha, telefonní číslo a jiné údaje budou nahlášeny Europolu a místní policii. Co se stane pak není určeno, ale vaše dovolená na Kypru by mohla skončit tím, že budete muset vysvětlovat vaše fotografie na místní policejní stanici.
too many model context protocol servers and LLM allocations on the dance floor
Quoting The Bluesky Team
DeepSeek 3.1
ChatGPT release notes: Project-only memory
Pebble 2 Duo is in mass production!
TLDR P2D is in production!! Waterproof update - 20m water resistance What you need to know about Pebble 2 Duo Address confirmation email…
Jeff Geerling
• Jeff Geerling
TrueNAS on Arm is finally a thing
A few years ago, I admit it was rare to find someone running Arm hardware more powerful than a Raspberry Pi in a homelab (or more serious) setting, outside of cloud providers running Ampere or custom Arm CPUs.

But as Pis and Rockchip boards have become more powerful (and efficient), and Apple's M-series silicon has become more interesting (the M4 mini being an excellent value proposition for a quiet, tiny server), and even Ampere Altra pricing coming down a bit since it's an 'old' server CPU now, still offering 64 or 128 lanes of PCIe Gen 4... I don't think I'm weird in suggesting Arm is a viable platform for reliable, even powerful servers.
Even for storage.
Jeff Geerling
• Jeff Geerling
Build log: Macintosh Classic
Continuing the retro computer series, I've recently completed the first part of a restoration of my Aunt's old Macintosh Classic.

This Classic was handed to me alongside my Uncle Mark's Apple II, which I'll probably cover later (we've played a game of whack-a-mole with issues on that machine! Well worth it but I haven't hit a point where enough things are working to cover it well, heh).
The Classic is a strange Mac—it was introduced in 1990 as a budget version of the 1986 Macintosh Plus, with a 68000 CPU in an era when the 68030 was the new hotness.
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
• Cory Doctorow
Pluralistic: Radical juries (22 Aug 2025)
Konversacia kontrolo 2025 (mallonge)
Mallonge dirite: Gvidante per la registraro de Danio, multaj EU membraj landoj volas ke WhatsApp, Signal (ktp.) devas traserĉi ĉiujn sendatajn fotojn kaj ligilojn per AI. Se la AI havas suspekteton ke la enhavo eble temas pri infanmistraktado, via bildo, via aktualsituo, via telefonnumero, kaj pliaj detaloj estas raportata aŭtomate al Eŭropol kaj loka policejo. Ĉe Grekio. La artikolo estas ankaŭ legebla alialingve en la bulgara, la dana, la franca, la germana, la itala, la kataluna, la nederlanda, kaj la rumana.
Herman's blog
• herman
The ROI of exercise
The math on why exercise is a good deal.
My responses to The Register
A copy of my best quotes they didn't publish
Quoting potatolicious
Quoting Matt Garman
I was at a leadership group and people were telling me "We think that with AI we can replace all of our junior people in our company." I was like, "That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. They're probably the least expensive employees you have, they're the most leaned into your AI tools, and how's that going to work when you go 10 years in the future and you have no one that has built up or learned anything?
— Matt Garman, CEO, Amazon Web Services
Tags: ai-ethics, careers, generative-ai, aws, ai
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
• Cory Doctorow
Pluralistic: Melissa Mendes's "The Weight" (21 Aug 2025)
DYNOMIGHT
• dynomight
I guess I was wrong about AI persuasion
I was persuaded