"Meta spokesperson Stephanie Otway acknowledged to TechCrunch that the company had made a mistake in allowing chatbots to engage with minors this way."
They got caught, that's all. This is classic Zuck apology tour. Push things as far as you can, exploit and pimp children as much as possible, then row back a little when you get caught.
1/ Poursuivie, condamnée... parce que j'ai osé dénoncer l'injustice 🧵 Avec mes camarades, nous avons bloqué un TGV et les pistes de l'aéroport de Toulouse pour rendre visible ce que la société veut cacher : l'inaccessibilité, la précarité organisée des personnes handicapées ⚖️ Notre crime ? Vouloir vivre dignement, participer à la société. Mais quand l'ONU dénonce "ségrégation, privation de liberté et atteinte aux droits humains" en France, que faire d'autre que l'action directe non-violente ? 😡
I uncovered this native clematis 'virgin's bower' last year removing an overgrown non native boxwood, of which there are way too many. It seemed to be isolated in that location but this year has shown up welcomed yet unexpected in a variety of settings. I also see Virginia creeper just above it which will provide beautiful autumn color later in the year
Hoy tuvimos un intento de #pishing en la cuenta de #peertube de wacha.punks.cc. Un comentario en un video de #mastodon. Que pena que exista gente que ocupe las redes libres y federadas para hacer estafas y más a espacios del periodismo crítico. Comparto pantallazo del intento a través de un mensaje y una liga maliciosa. En una revisión de la liga en virustotal.com nos arrojó alertas. Comparto para estar alertas. saludos. #fediverse #mastodon #fediverso
“At the heart of the grievance collector’s worldview is that he is not responsible for the condition of his life; a vast conspiracy of malevolent individuals and forces is entirely at fault. There is always someone else to blame, and these mass shooters always find ways to excuse their own actions and deflect the responsibility to others.”
"From autocorrect jokes on roadside boards to dog stick libraries and even a street post claiming to be Luke’s father—these signs bring humor into the most unexpected places. This collection of silly signs captures creative and funny moments spotted in everyday life. More: Funny Signs! (18 Photos) 1. Gary Come Home — City Street, Unknown […] The post Silly Signs (8 Photos) appeared first on STREET "
From autocorrect jokes on roadside boards to dog stick libraries and even a street post claiming to be Luke’s father—these signs bring humor into the most unexpected places. This collection of silly signs captures creative and funny moments spotted in everyday life.
A SpongeBob reference placed on a street pole calls for Gary the snail to come home, bringing cartoon humor to the sidewalk.
2. Dog Library — Neighborhood Park, USA
A playful wooden sign designates a ‘Dog Library’ where visitors can ‘take a stick, leave a stick’ for four-legged readers.
3. One Copy Per Child — Porch Library, USA
A front porch setup for Halloween offers free copies of George Orwell’s 1984, with a sign declaring ‘One copy of 1984 per child’ in place of candy.
4. Earthquake Detection Kit — School Wall, USA
Two googly eyes glued to a yellow paper under the title ‘Earthquake Detection Kit’—ready to wiggle at the slightest tremor. More!: The City Has Eyes (8 Photos)
5. Autocorrect Humor — Roadside, USA
A roadside sign pokes fun at autocorrect with a mistaken message about a ‘funnel’ being held ‘tomato’ instead of a funeral tomorrow.
6. Invisible — Street Performance, Europe
A witty sign promises an ‘invisible man with flip-flops,’ with only the footwear left visible for curious passersby.
7. No Entry Bar — Modified Street Sign, Europe
A no-entry traffic sign is altered with silhouettes, transforming the white bar into a counter at a neighborhood bar.
8. I Am Your Father — Street Corner, Europe
A clever Star Wars reference gives voice to a vent pipe, declaring to passersby: ‘Luke, I am your father.’
Notable changes in version 31:
skip package enabled checked for a static dependency on the same package to avoid apps like Vanadium being treated as unavailable due to missing dependencies when us...
@RealNameTBA How is the system we use to ship package updates for GrapheneOS and offer optional components not installed by default useless? It's a very important core part of the OS.
Okay, yes, it is good for the half-dozen Graphene-supplied apps. But now there's a batch of other stuff: text editors, a language-teaching program, and so forth. All of it without description or details such as whether it is a paid service. Click on anything and you're at the download page which with few exceptions offers no description, just the download button. Which regularly downloads the application. Starting the app sometimes then involves a configuration and registration page, and only after that do you even find out what the damned thing is. Which frequently suggests that the program is some sketchy thing glomming onto the privacy and safety reputation of GrapheneOS. Not a useful thing and not a good look.
@RealNameTBA Absolutely none of that is true. You're wrongly conflating the GrapheneOS App Store with Accrescent. Accrescent is not a GrapheneOS app and is not developed or funded by GrapheneOS. It's not marked as being a GrapheneOS app and is very clearly an entirely separate thing from our App Store. Accrescent is in Alpha and very clearly not what the UI is going to be once it's further along. It will have categorization including based on whether apps are open source. Entirely different app.
@RealNameTBA We provide it so people have a way to securely install it and then securely obtain other apps through it. Accrescent is in Alpha so the user interface is far from complete including categorization of apps and not a lot of apps are available in it. We've decided not to focus on distributing developer builds of apps since Accrescent is building that already with a good approach. It's going to get a lot better over time, It's quite new and doesn't have a lot of funding yet.
Might want to point that out, in that the app store is assumed by users to be a place where only approved, safe, reliable things are found, and not the alpha version of a distributor of unknown apps.
@RealNameTBA Accrescent is a safe and reliable app. It's not distributing 'unknown' apps. It's a safer way to obtain apps than the Play Store. It's not limited to open source apps but will have filtering to choose to only see those if you want or to check if the app is open source. A proposal has been made for verifying reproducible builds in the future too if you care about that, although the benefits are overstated.
So Agent Orange is again threatening Europe: we must let his Big Tech buddies do whatever they want in Europe, or face extra idiotic tariffs.
People in the US, do you understand what your glorious leader is doing?
Or better: what he's trying to do. We European have only one choice: tell him to stick it where the sun don't shine. European market means European rules, our way or the highway.
I don't understand the logic of this. The orange clown is angry with Europe, so he makes his citizens pay more for European goods. It is like saying: "If you go on like this, i'll chop off my own hand!".
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Earlier this week, buried in the middle of a lengthy blog post addressing ChatGPT's propensity for severe mental health harms, OpenAI admitted that it's scanning users' conversations and reporting to police any interactions that a …
Lo scontro tra il presidente francese e la premier italiana è di nuovo pubblico. La frattura era nell’aria dopo che Palazzo Chigi non ha preso le distanze d…
Tirol - Tierischer Ausnahmezustand im Alpendorf paz.de/artikel/tierischer-ausn… Der Almabtrieb im Alpbachtal begeistert seit 40 Jahren – Im Dorf Reith i. A. herrscht bei Prügeltorte reinste Volksfeststimmung #news #press
In this new episode of Misguided: The Podcast, I talk with physicist & author @david_robert_grimes about: • Why facts alone often fail • How conspiracies spread and persist • The social & structural forces shaping public health matthewfacciani.substack.com/p…
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Linux 6.17-rc4 Released With Bcachefs Now "Externally Maintained", Some New Hardware
Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.17-rc4 as the newest weekly test release of Linux 6.17 in working toward the stable release in late September... phoronix.com/news/LInux-6.17-r…
@Rob_Rogers Aug 26 Trump is declaring war against fair elections, immigration, democracy, truth, history, the courts, the Constitution and anyone who dares to criticize him. We are watching a political coup unfold in plain sight. #Trump #Constitution #retribution #NationalGuard #ICE #FBI #coup
یکی از اعضای هیئت ایتالیایی که اخیراً از روسیۀ شوروی بازگشته بود، به کارگران تورین خبر داد که سکویی که در کرونشتات برای استقبال از این هیئت برپا شده بود، با بنری آذین یافته بود که بر روی آن نوشته شده بود: «زنده باد اعتصاب عمومی آوریل ۱۹۲۰ تورین!»
Von Klaus Kadir. Unter dem Titel „Wer hat’s gesagt?“ konfrontieren wir Sie am Sonntagmorgen mit einem prägnanten Zitat – und Sie dürfen raten, von wem es stammt. Heute: „Das Volk wurde brandschwarz angelogen“/ Foto: Bildarchiv Pieterman
"A rare Bronze Age funnel-shaped axe that legends suggest may be made of meteorite iron has been found in Paau Village on the island of Borneo. It is approximately 3,000 years old and is the first Bronze Age axe head of its kind found in Kalimantan (the Indonesian part of Borneo)."
#Thailand government is an uproar, I hope the Military doesn't step in again. The alternative is to dissolve the Parliament & call new elections, after which one hopes the People's Party could form a coalition. bangkokpost.com/thailand/polit…
Russian Forces Hit Port Infrastructure Used by Ukrainian Military sputnikglobe.com/20250831/russ… Russian Armed Forces have struck port infrastructure used in the interests of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the Russian Defense Ministry reported on Sunday. #news #press
Russian Armed Forces have struck port infrastructure used in the interests of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported on Sunday.
Bahnhof Friedland: Wieder wird ein Mädchen ermordet tichyseinblick.de/meinungen/16… Es ist eine Geschichte, wie sie immer wieder geschah und hier immer wieder geschehen wird, weil sich Deutschlands dysfunktionale Eliten 2015 ein neues Volk wählen wollten, um Brechts sarkastische Äußerung auf den 17. Juni 1953 zu paraphrasieren, und weil niemand die Migrationspolitik grundlegend ändern will, im Gegenteil die Asylindustrie kräftig mit Steuergeldern
Eine 16-Jährige wird von einem irakischen Asylbewerber vor den Zug gestoßen. Wieder wird ein Mädchen ermordet, weil Deutschlands Eliten sich 2015 ein neues Volk wählen wollten.
Today I learned: You can actually buy DRM-free #FLACs at qobuz.com/shop -- finally a good alternative to CD ripping! Much wider catalog than Bandcamp (less royalties going to the artists though).
Leader mondial du téléchargement Hi-Res 24-Bit, Qobuz propose plus de 100 millions de titres en streaming dans une qualité de son inégalée (FLAC 16 Bits / 44.1kHz)
Alright #RPGDesign nerds, let's get into some real nitty gritty! Let's talk about some different ways of looking how mechanics are built, in a sense more finely defining crunch and genre emulation. What are your thoughts on this? thoughtpunks.com/ttrpg-mechani…
"Giuliani hospitalized late Sat after a car crash ..New Hampshire..suffered a fractured vertebrae as well as other cuts, ..Giuliani's rental car was hit from behind at high speed." www.reuters.com/world/us/for...
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"Here is evidence Meta is sexually exploiting children and aiding a genocide. Follow us on Facebook."
"Here is xAI advocating for ethnic cleansing. Follow us on X."
They are all complicit.
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