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Let's Encrypt is 10 years old today!
Let's Encrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority brought to you by the nonprofit Internet Security Research Group (ISRG). Huge thanks to everyone involved in making HTTPS available to everyone for free

https://letsencrypt.org/

#tech #technology #security #privacy #encryption #https #letsencrypt #ISRG

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I Love Free Software Day: Celebrate and Appreciate

Learn about the free software movement and when it all started on this day of celebration and gratitude for I Love Free Software Day!

📣 Lets spread the love by giving a boost!

https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/i-love-free-software-day-celebrate-appreciate/

@kev @mike @joel @carrotcypher @grueproof @lulu_powerful @ru @wholesomedonut @amolith @fsf @fsfe

#blog #Ilovefs #ILoveFreeSoftware
#OpenSource #FOSS #software #tech

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🚀 The Future is Federated - issue no.14 👩‍🚀

“A new way to describe the Fediverse and its opposition to Big Tech”

https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-new-way-to-describe-the-fediverse-and-its-opposition-to-big-tech/

I think I may have finally found a way to explain the Fediverse and make it appealing to people not familiar with it - a very Italian, highly accessible way to frame it, via an analogy that anyone could understand.

#TheFutureIsFederated #tech #Fediverse #activism #BigTech #BigFood #SocialMedia #FOSS #blog #NeilPostman #healthylifestyle

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https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/just-code-just-published

Just Code, just published!!! Open Access of full book is now freely available, see link above. OA made possible with an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant to CBI! Am so honored to partner w Con & work alongside 19 stellar, fellow interdisciplinary authors on this book! Full ToC in replies!

On mastodon @histoftech @scritic @mysdick
@dylanmulvin

@histodon
@commodon
@anthropology
@sociology
@politicalscience
@computerscience

#ai #tech #sociology #history #science

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Updated: Custom Keyboard Company WASD Keyboards Goes Defunct?

Can keyboard enthusiasts find answers to the questions we all have been wondering, has WASD Keyboards company gone out of business or was it acquired?

➡️ See update at the end of the post.

https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/wasd-keyboards-defunct/

#blog #opinion #keyboard #tech #news

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Frankly, it’s depressing how one billionaire can fuck up the night sky for the rest of humanity and our collective ability to try to understand more about the universe.

The new generation of Starlink satellites create even more interference than the old ones.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy4dnr8zemgo

#tech #space #starlink #spacex #elonmusk

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Promo'd my Substack yesterday w #YouTube link. Oops. Now Real One

#DonaldTrump wants a military parade to feel adequate. Sorry, Don, no d*k measuring in democracy. David Shuster's fab video on Trumper Denialism. NYT Pitchbot on Maureen Dowd & Signalgate 2. READ (SUB!) to our NEW Blue Amp Substack!

https://substack.com/home/post/p-161966209 #writing #news #poliltics #us #usa #unitedstates #america #press #ai #trump #musk #tariffs #tech #nato #tv #canada #europe #russia #ukraine #eu #stockmarket #video #media

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TL;DR: Around 300 employees from Google's DeepMind in London are pushing to unionize with the Communication Workers Union, expressing dissatisfaction with the company's reversal on its AI usage pledge regarding weapons and surveillance. https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/26/googles-deepmind-uk-team-reportedly-seeks-to-unionize/ #law #tech #legaltech ⚖️ 🤖 #autosum

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I was using git in the terminal just now and copy-pasted what I thought was a filename. I ended up issuing

git diff Taco Carne Asada

and was told

fatal: ambiguous argument 'Taco'

😢

#tech #dev #software #git #danger

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"On 30 April 1993 CERN issued a public statement stating that the three components of Web software (the basic line-mode client, the basic server and the library of common code) were put in the Public Domain [...]"

https://home.cern/science/computing/birth-web/licensing-web

https://cds.cern.ch/record/1164399/

Full text: https://genius.com/Cern-statement-concerning-cern-w-3-software-release-into-public-domain-annotated

#OTD #history #internet #TheWeb #tech #computers #PublicDomain

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A New Partnership is Formed with Keychron

Adamsdesk expands with a new partnership that provides further options of showing support while curing just about any keyboard enthusiasts desires.

https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/partnership-keychron/

#blog #keyboard #tech

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Adamsdesk Receives Haul of Donated Retro Electronics

Travel along with me exploring the donated retro electronics haul treasures of the past and help to figure out ideas to repurpose all this equipment.

https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/retro-electronics-haul/

#blog #retro #RetroComputing #tech #technology

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https://open.substack.com/pub/blueamp/p/sit-abc-news-sit-good-dog?r=j0lyx&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
NEW SUBSTACK (Check it out/Subscribe!): A moment that defines our time. From Trump’s aggressive lying to the lack of pushback/weakness from Terry Moran & ABC’s corporate entanglements.

Also: David Shuster video (Hilarious!). NYT Pitchbot (Hilarious!). #news #usa #politics #russia #ukraine #press #us #america #unitedstates #tech #china #tariffs #stockmarket #donaldtrump #trump #press #media #podcast #eu #ai #canada #europe #nato

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Judge Mehta's decision in the Google antitrust case is so bad I think he should be prevented from working in the law in any capacity. He just threw off his clear responsibilities and let an illegal monopoly maintain its illegal monopoly and continue harming everyone, based on "reasoning" that a child could debunk. It's embarrassing, it's cowardly, it's self-contradictory, it's lawless, it violates precedent, and it will harm countless people and businesses in the tech sector. A staggering achievement really. It even violates Supreme Court precedent, which dictates that judges must apply remedies that end illegal monopolies (and, I believe, confiscate the illegal gains, though I am less clear on whether that's Supreme Court precedent).

Here's an except from a post on Matt Stoller's BIG newsletter, which is very good on the subject of antitrust:

The last meaningful reference point for an antitrust remedy is the Microsoft case. In that one, the break-up was overturned, and a weak interoperability mandate was imposed. But the real penalty to Microsoft was embarrassment and fear within the executive suite; no longer would the company crush its rivals, from then on, lawyers would cautiously oversee product design. That’s not ideal, Microsoft should have just been broken up and set free to compete. But a chastened leadership did have the effect of not killing the next generation of companies, who ended up creating Web 2.0. That’s deterrence, which is one goal of antitrust remedies.

This remedy, by contrast, is obviously going to fail. And the main reason is that, unlike Microsoft, Google’s leadership is utterly unchastened. Google CEO Sundar Pichai and chief legal officer Kent Walker will get bonuses for what they did. They see this conflict as one in which they fought bitterly, and kept at it, and shredded documents, and the result was… victory. They will have no compunction continuing to engage in unlawful behavior. After all, what’s the worst that could happen? Would a rival or the government really go before a weak judge who doesn’t want conflict, and convince him to act? I don’t think so. In other words, this decision isn’t just bad, it’s virtually a statement that crime pays.

(emphasis mine)

Stoller recently wrote a post titled "Why Is Google Still in One Piece? The Terminating a Monopoly Problem" with the subtitle: "Google has lost three separate antitrust cases, and more are on the way. Why does this company still exist in one piece? It shouldn't, but we're still dealing with the hangover of the 1990s."

The problems with the tech sector go all the way to the tippy top.

#Google #monopoly #IllegalMonopoly #antitrust #dev #tech #Gemini #android #Chrome

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Little Bits: Issue #24 For April 2025

A reminder to believe in your own abilities in order to achieve endless possibilities by taking inspiration from those that achieved the impossible.

https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/little-bits-issue-24/

#blog #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #tech #news #LinkDump

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#MAGA Republicans & Their Billionaires Are WHY #America Isn't The Greatest Nation--Not Even Close

https://open.substack.com/pub/blueamp/p/maga-republicans-and-their-billionaires?r=j0lyx&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true #writing #substack #video #podcast #us #usa #unitedstates #stockmarket #tech #canada #russia #europe #ukraine #eu #china #media #press #politics #news #trump #donaldtrump #musk

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1y

🚀 The Future is Federated - issue no.9 👩‍🚀

The Future of Social is Here: a Show and Tell (part 4: Lemmy, PieFed & Mbin)

https://blog.elenarossini.com/the-future-of-social-is-here-a-show-and-tell-part-4-lemmy-piefed-mbin/

with shout-outs to @informapirata @Bro666 @dansup @phanpy @fedidb @vjprema @neblem @FediTips

#TheFutureIsFederated #tech #Fediverse #activism #bigtech #socialmedia #FOSS #blog #threadiverse #mbin #kbin #piefed #lemmy #reddit #activitypub

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TL;DR: Elton John and Dua Lipa lead a group of 400 artists warning that AI poses a significant threat to creative industries, appealing for protective measures from political leaders. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c071elp1rv1o #law #tech #legaltech ⚖️ 🤖 #autosum

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House Committee Leader to Investigate Agency for Preferential Treatment of Politically Connected Startup
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The probe comes in the wake of a ProPublica investigation that revealed the General Services Administration was eyeing a tech firm with strong ties to the Trump administration to remake a massive, $700 billion federal credit card program.
https://www.propublica.org/article/investigation-ramp-gsa-smartpay-trump-peter-thiel-gerald-connolly?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Trump #Business #Fintech #Tech #Technology #Government

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🚀 The Future is Federated - issue no.11 👩‍🚀

"Beyond technical features: why we need to talk about the values of the Fediverse (part 1)"

https://blog.elenarossini.com/the-values-of-the-fediverse-ethical-social-media/

with shout-outs to: @bengrosser @rysiek @phanpy @pixelfed and all the lovely people I've been interacting with on here ❤️

#TheFutureIsFederated #tech #Fediverse #activism #bigtech #socialmedia #FOSS #blog #privacy #consent #Matrix

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Please excuse the Substack link, but given that "84% of developers now use or plan to use AI tools"*, it is interesting to see measurable proof that this does not translate to increased productivity.

"We should be seeing apps of all shapes and sizes, video games, new websites, mobile apps, software-as-a-service apps — we should be drowning in choice."

https://mikelovesrobots.substack.com/p/wheres-the-shovelware-why-ai-coding

#technology #tech #AI

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"A new paper from researchers at Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University finds that as humans increasingly rely on generative AI in their work, they use less critical thinking, which can “result in the deterioration of cognitive faculties that ought to be preserved.”"

https://www.404media.co/microsoft-study-finds-ai-makes-human-cognition-atrophied-and-unprepared-3/

#study #technology #tech #AI

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Coca-Cola has a new AI-powered ad that proudly features a quote from a J.G. Ballard book — except he didn't write the words, and it's not his book. @404mediaco explains what happened — and the irony of using Ballard's words in a commercial built with technology. "The ultimate role of 'Crash' is cautionary, a warning against that brutal, erotic and overlit realm that beckons more and more persuasively to us from the margins of the technological landscape,” Ballard wrote in his 1995 introduction to his most famous work.

https://flip.it/mp9fCF

#Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon #JGBallard #CocaCola #Lifestyle #Tech #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence #AI