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Some speculative fiction about AI that’s worth sharing it here as well

twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/st

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@aral @bjoern @bob

I think you'll find this free software app, RSS Box, useful: rssbox.herokuapp.com/

Having had the possibility to experience Beethoven’s Ninth performed by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and the Prague Philharmonic Choir a few years ago is still something I’m incredibly grateful for

List of defending World Cup Champions that were knocked-out at the first stage of the subsequent World Cup

1950: 🇮🇹
1966: 🇧🇷
2002: 🇫🇷
2010: 🇮🇹
2014: 🇪🇸
2018: 🇩🇪

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The Register definitely deserves a price for creative headlines

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"Oh, this is a wonderfully balanced sword!"
"Mm-hm. It is evil, that sword."
"Evil? No, it can't be, it is such a joy to use!"
"Exactly."

The state of Mastodon apps for iOS gets worse and worse. Most apps have seen their last major update 6–12 months ago.

The basic things still work but almost all new features introduced with Mastodon 2.0 or later are missing (e.g. custom emojis, ...).

Given my inability to code, the totally understandable time constraints of all the lovely FOSS developers and the lack of something like Twitterrific (for Twitter) which I could support by buying the app I don’t know how to solve this ...

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Let me give you some advice: don't try and cook spaghetti while installing Linux (or any OS) at the same time. It's too much multitasking...

From a German point of view the so far is really nerve-wracking

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We need more data vis stuff like this.

A voronoi may of almost all commercial airports in the world projected onto a globe.

jasondavies.com/maps/voronoi/a

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Another day, another data security incident

This time the database of a hotel operator (Eventhotels) has been breached and contact data of hotel guests might have been compromised

Those German hotels are affected:

eventhotels.com/wp-content/upl

Here’s the notification from the operator of these hotels (Eventhotels):

t360f9c07.emailsys1a.net/maili

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If you use encrypted volumes in macOS delete QuickLook's cache with:

$ qlmanage -r cache

because that cache leaks even encrypted data.

Btw, I’ve opened an issue on GitHub about the Pixelfed / Apple photos logo issue mentioned in my

github.com/dansup/pixelfed/iss

Just noticed that the multi-colour version of the new Pixelfed logo is very similar to the logo of Apple's Photos app