https://raru.re/@ocean/116214437024389203

I use arch btw

It is worth noting that both the hardware and software of Fairphone is heavily dependent on a Chinese company T2Mobile.

The Foundation sees this as a contradiction to the EU’s own interoperability goals. Although XLSX is standardized as OOXML according to ISO/IEC 29500, Microsoft’s implementations often deviate from the specifications. Furthermore, features often change undocumented, which complicates compatibility with open-source software such as LibreOffice.

Safely Endangered: https://www.webtoons.com/en/comedy/safely-endangered/list?title_no=352

Over the past few weeks, several US banks have pulled off from lending to Oracle for expanding its AI data centres, as per a report.

Analyses and video evidence emerged over the weekend showing that the air strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh Girls’ Primary School on February 28—that killed over 160 girls aged 7 to 12—was carried out by the US military.

Please support the original artists, he deserves it! There is also a secret panel here: https://tapas.io/episode/220482 Source: https://mastodon.social/@MrLovenstein/116182896349866356

“It is not a mild infection, it is not a mild virus; it is a severe illness. And they kept on telling me they wish they’d known beforehand how bad measles was, so that they could have protected their family,” she said.

I hope everyone who wants to be on permanent DST experiences an eternity of the first day of spring forward, never rested again

In a sensational turn of events in the fight against Chat Control, a majority in the European Parliament voted today to end the untargeted mass scanning of private communications. In doing so, the Parliament firmly rejected the error-prone and unconstitutional surveillance practices of recent years. Pressure is now mounting on EU governments to respect the MEPs’ vote and bury untargeted mass surveillance in Europe once and for all.

Amazon’s ecommerce business has summoned a large group of engineers to a meeting on Tuesday for a “deep dive” into a spate of outages, including incidents tied to the use of AI coding tools.

The Performing Right Society (PRS) has “commenced legal proceedings” against Steam owner Valve over the use of its members’ works on Steam “without permission.”

Lindsey Graham, the veteran Republican senator who has been pushing for war against Iran for decades, has issued a dire warning to the Iranian government, saying it was worth spending money to “take this regime down”.

YouTube viewers will soon have to sit through even longer ads, with Google rolling out new 30-second unskippable spots on a popular app.

In order to help train its AI models, Meta (and others) have been using pirated versions of copyrighted books, without the consent of authors or publishers. The company behind Facebook and Instagram faces an ongoing class-action lawsuit brought by authors including Richard Kadrey, Sarah Silverman, and Christopher Golden, and one in which it has already scored a major (and surprising) victory: The Californian court concluded last year that using pirated books to train its Llama LLM did qualify as fair use.

Dubai has only ten days of fresh food left after the closure of the Straits of Hormuz has cut the United Arab Emirates (UAE) off from all its imports, including food. In Abu Dhabi, with the prospect of the region becoming unliveable, real estate prices are also collapsing.

War & Peas

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16562509

If you can't safely take the Cybertruck to a car wash, I wonder how it will fare as a boat?

https://www.oglaf.com/tax-deductions/

Not mine but here you go.

Always fun to develop a record-selling game. You lose your job as a thanks! 🤮

https://www.instagram.com/chyliktol

Tiny kitten on a shelf with a lot number sticker looking at the camera Text reads: HE’S BACK IN STOCK!!

Research.

mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@mshelton/116214301513839946

The Road to El Dorado, my beloved

Continued discussion: https://github.com/lutris/lutris/discussions/6530

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Arizona’s Democratic Governor has turned down proposals for a new state license plate featuring Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk, saying it would not “bring people together.”