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In case you were unaware that GenAI software developers are also exploiting and abusing workers in the global South to support their plausible word-mulch vending machines.

There is no explicit detail in this article, but you may find the implications of the experiences described distressing. If in doubt, no need to read.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/feb/05/in-the-end-you-feel-blank-indias-female-workers-watching-hours-of-abusive-content-to-train-ai

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"Woher stammen die Menschenknochen?"

Viele #Schulen besitzen #Skelette und andere Organ-Präparate. - Aber, wo kommen die eigentlich her? Jeder dieser #HumanRemains gehörte einmal zu einem Menschen ... deren Geschichte meist nicht mehr zu rekonstruieren ist.

Wie soll, wie kann man damit umgehen? Eine Schulklasse begibt sich auf die Suche nach Antworten:

https://www.spiegel.de/deinspiegel/skelette-an-schulen-woher-stammen-die-menschenknochen-a-b2991b62-40be-4a58-a2ee-509f3cab3e49

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Zahlen der BVG zeigen: Keine Buslinie ist voller als der M41. Fahrgästen graut vor dieser Linie. Mit ihr sind mehr Menschen unterwegs als in der Hälfte der Metrotramlinien. Und trotzdem geht der Senat die dringende Umstellung auf die Straßenbahn sehr ruhig an. https://www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1197379.bvg-horror-linie-m-in-neukoelln-zahlen-zeigen-tram-bedarf.html

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429) Printerbot. A master wrangler of printers, able to coax a document from them almost every time, and can even sometimes successfully cancel a queued print job! #SmallRobotsRemastered

A spherical robot with jointed arms and legs re-enacting the scene from Jurassic World in which Chris Pratt's character calms down three velociraptors with outstretched palms, except instead of dinosaurs, they're different printer models. Each of the printers is surrounded by motion lines, indicating they are vibrating - presumably with barely-repressed fury, because they are cursed machines sent by a malign god to plague humankind.

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@munin @davidgerard remarkable sequence here

Screenshot of a Mastodon “Home” feed in dark mode, showing a rant about a software trend and a half‑million‑line codebase being unauditable, with an embedded post from “Fi @munin@infosec.exchange” that reads, “vibe coding is a gish gallop for infosec.” Below it is a Techmeme post about Tencent Cloud, DigitalOcean, and Alibaba Cloud adding OpenClaw support, with the bottom navigation bar and a purple compose button visible.

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RE: https://infosec.exchange/@munin/116010818027590029

seriously this "tie an llm to a public interface and let it do things for you on your computer with your credentials" trend has me literally, in real life, with my actual-ass voice, screaming.

especially since the dipshit who perpetrated this fucking mess says he never bothered reading the code itself

and the fucking thing's over half a million lines

just

completely unauditable and completely a fucking ddos against any ability to comprehend the workflow whatsoever.

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Vivaldi datenschutzfreundlich? Nein.

Immer wieder liest man, Vivaldi ist ein europäischer Browser, datenschutzfreundlich und ohne Tracking. Leider sehe ich aber ein massives Problem, gerade, was das potentielle Tracking betrifft.

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https://c0d1.eu/vivaldi-datenschutzfreundlich-nein/?mtm_campaign=mastodonblog #Browser #Datenschutz #Vivaldi

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They're about to build a system with React front, with Shoelace; package to app-like with Tauri; Kotlin backend.

And yet they let the tester alone decide that the language of automation is Robot Framework. Familiar to one over value to team. This pains me.

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This should be the mainstream #marketing position.

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Businesses keep massively screwing up the Al writing thing, so let me put it in a CEO's language.

Let's say overnight 10,000 cafes popped up in your town. Just wall-to-wall cafe. Your VIP comes to you and says: "I got it.

We will open a cafe here."
Your cafe might be decent, it might offer some different stuff, but there's no escaping the fact that it's another cafe that no one asked for.

For some reason we all understand basic supply-and-demand with stuff like the housing market, gas prices, shoe sales, etc.

But when it comes to "content," the entire bed-rock philosophy of supply-and-demand goes out the window. Al content is now unlimited. As such, it has no value.

It doesn't matter if you "do good prompts" or whatever.

There's no escaping the fact that it's a cafe on a street with 10,000 other cafes - and that every person on Earth can now build their own cafe in an instant.

In short, there's no value there.

Human writing is like putting a pizzeria or Thai restaurant or sushi place on that block, where everyone is sick and tired of the same lukewarm burnt coffee and stale bran muffins. You might still fail. But you now stand out and give yourself a chance where the supply of your services is low and the demand is high.
In short, you are offering real value.

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The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions!

This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/the-world-factbook/

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@UlrikeHeiss

Mein Lieblingsspruch zu KI-Ergebnissen:

"It looks good from far but far from good."

Oft sieht es auf den ersten Blick beeindruckend aus, aber je mehr man in die Details...ogottogott

Deshalb halte ich mich auch von KI fern, soweit ich es beeinflussen kann.

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@gregorgrau @UlrikeHeiss

„Wenn das die Lösung ist, hätte ich gerne mein Problem zurück.“

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Kollege hat mal den "Copilot" gefragt zu einem Problem, das wir gemeinsam lösen wollen, in meinem Fachgebiet. Das hat ihn wahrscheinlich maximal zwei Minuten gekostet.
Jetzt muss ich den Roman, den Copilot ausgespuckt hat, erstens lesen und zweitens länglich erklären, wieso die vorgeschlagenen Lösungen Quatsch sind. Das sehe ich zwar auf den ersten Blick, aber ich muss das jetzt einer fachfremden Person erklären. So steigert die KI nämlich unsere Produktivität. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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PeerTube statt YouTube: Wie wir über 1.000 Videos umgezogen haben

Videos lädt man bei YouTube hoch. Das ist bequem, kostet scheinbar nichts und funktioniert. Aber gerade wer eine Community aufbaut, Inhalte monetarisiert oder Videos auf der eigenen Website einbettet, zahlt dafür einen Preis: Abhängigkeit von Plattformregeln, Tracking, Fremdwerbung und im Zweifel der komplette Verlust des Kanals. In einem aktuellen Projekt haben wir gezeigt, wie es anders geht: Tech-Blogger Sascha Pallenberg hat seinen YouTube-Account mit rund 1.000 Videos auf eine eigene […]

https://bonn.digital/peertube-statt-youtube/

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What if you could save data to your earrings?
I've been working on this #Charmware MicroSD jewelry concept for a year+, and (as with the recent LED one), am SO EXCITED to finally pull together some semi-polished prototypes!!

This year, I intend to finally start selling my functional circuit board jewelry – including custom/branded options for these.

Site coming soon at https://charmware.tech 👀

Current info: https://www.notion.so/alexglow/dataCharm-2ae5bc4fe79880368b71f871e3fb6ef4

// #jewelry #FashionTech #WearableTech #chainmail #privacy

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Norwegians love Winter Olympics so much we had to develop a feature to watch it all at the same time. 🇳🇴🥇

#Winter #WinterOlympics #Browser

Screenshot of Vivaldi for Desktop where we see five tabs tiled, the one on the left shows the schedule for the Winter Olympics on a given day, the other four on a grid show different sports, ice skating, curling and snowboarding.

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@GreenSkyOverMe ein sehr guter Start ins Programmiererinnen-Leben :)

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Meine kleine Tochter hat einen #TuesdayTiger mit Scratch gemacht: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1275205786

Am Handy kann man nur die Hauptanimation sehen, die man durch Klick auf die Flagge starten.

Auf dem PC/Laptop kann man durch Drücken der Leertaste zusätzlich den Tiger streicheln.

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Just so we are clear, the investigation in France against Musk's X is not some haggling over a paragraph of some obscure regulation or the phrasing in the cookie banner.

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