https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/415646/artificial-intelligencer-chatgpt-c

There are AI systems that can determine, from almost any photo, what place it was taken in. This leads to even more danger of tracking people.

I absolutely have not spent the past few months researching, trying & moving my & my clients' data & services to #Canadian providers, only to have my own government hide provisions in a "border" bill that strips privacy rights, gives law enforcement access to our online data without a warrant, and lets them give our data to the USA & other countries. 🤬

Bill C-2 is bullshit.

https://action.openmedia.org/page/173242/action/1

#CdnPoli #privacy #BillC2 #Technology #cloud #WebDev

Making a Multiplatform #Emacs Configuration

https://olddeuteronomy.github.io/post/multiplatform-emacs-config/

To be clear, in the case of remote parties mastodon instances sometimes act like email servers (distributing private content to defined parties) and sometime act like public noticeboards/social media sites (when remote public posts get boosted / end up in "trending" etc.)

These two cases are distinct enough that they both technically and legally have different considerations when it comes to how content is treated and the expectations users have.

I have a new article out https://frontendmasters.com/blog/grainy-gradients/

It's about a better technique to create grainy gradients, without the big problem that layering a noise layer brings: altering the original gradient palette (to a greater or lesser extent, depending on the approach used).

#CSS #SVG #filter #svgFilter #grainy #code #coding #web #dev #webdev #webDevelopment

Spectacular timelapse of an aurora and Moon-rise over Earth from the International Space Station.

#space #nasa #alt4me

This might be a very long shot, but I'm attempting to track down a song/mix the only thing I definitively remember about it is that it contains lyric or maybe quoted audio that approximates:

"as soon as you start making art for someone else, you're fucked"

I cannot remember if it's a good song, it might not even be a song - if it is a song it's possible it's adjacent to synthwave in genre. It might also be a break in a larger mix.

Anyone have any idea where this might have come from?

Current status on my tiny activity pub implementation, I can now:

- create new posts, send them to followers
- receive replies/mentions
- view all of them on the web interface (dev profile: https://tap.resistant.tech/sarah)
- favourite posts
- send replies

This weekend I'm hoping to add the finishing touches to the mvp; to include: boosting, a threaded replies view, managing multiple profiles, and rss/json views for pages.

Current line count (1338 lines of go, 1 dep for html sanitization)

One uncommon usage of Tree-sitter is using it for code completion. Here’s how you can do this in #Emacs https://emacsredux.com/blog/2025/06/03/tree-sitter-powered-code-completion/

You know the terms of service you don't read but accept? Here's a great website that summarises what you've agreed to.

It includes platforms and services like LinkedIn, Facebook, Amazon, Reddit, Wikipedia, and many, many more.

Read it and weep.

Or just switch platforms to more ethical providers, if you can.

https://tosdr.org/en

Edit: And here's their profile on Mastodon! @ToSDR

#TermsOfService #SocialMedia #Platforms #DataPrivacy #DataSecurity

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/u-s-inks-bill-to-force-geo-tracking-tech-for-gpus-and-servers-high-end-gaming-gpus-also-subject-to-tracking

A US bill would require a back door within high performance processors such as GPUs made by US companies. The back door would report the processor's geographical location to the manufacturer.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/05/signal-resorts-to-weird-trick-to-block-windows-recall-in-desktop-app/

All those years of forcing unwanted Pocket integration into Firefox end with an unceremonious shut down.

Pocket didn't even get to star in its own obituary, as Mozilla unwinds itself from anything that isn't its ai/advertisement business - meaning that Fakespot (which Mozilla bought just over 2 years ago) is also on the chopping block.

"This shift allows us to shape the next era of the internet...vertical tabs, smart search and more AI-powered features on the way"

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/building-whats-next/

I wrote something about #AI... something with a long title!

ChatGPT and the proliferation of obsolete and broken solutions to problems we hadn’t had for over half a decade before its launch https://frontendmasters.com/blog/chatgpt-and-old-and-broken-code/

It takes the #ChatGPT answer to a particular question, dissects it and goes through a bit of web history to explain what ChatGPT gets wrong and why.

#CSS #cssGradient #gradientText #code #web #dev #webDev #webDevelopment #coding #frontend

For those who like science fiction stories and AI... this one is a awesome! Spoiler: Unexpected ending.

https://quarter--mile.com/Human

The number of abandonware #vim plugins in truly astonishing (even fairly popular ones like vim-polyglot, markdown.vim, etc) And I thought things were bad in #Emacs-land!

I'm guessing the rise of #NeoVim has something to do with that, though. The most popular NeoVim plugins seem healthier.

Absolute Denial: https://watch.plex.tv/es/movie/absolute-denial

#IndieFilm #AI

Publico nuevo artículo: «Primeros pasos con RabbitMQ usando Python».
https://programadorwebvalencia.com/primeros-pasos-usando-rabbitmq-con-python/
RabbitMQ es un broker de mensajería de código abierto que implementa el protocolo AMQP (Advanced Message Queuing Protocol). Permite la comunicación entre aplicaciones y servicios mediante el intercambio de mensajes. Si usas una arquitectura de microservicios, de eventos, sistemas distribuidos (o buscas repartir la carga entre varios servicios o servidores), o crear un videojuego multijugador; este artículo es para ti. Voy a enseñarte a iniciarte mediante unos pasos mínimos para que puedas enviar y recibir mensajes entre aplicaciones usando RabbitMQ y Python.
¿Me acompañas?
#rabbitmq #python #docker #messagingbroker #anuncio

Haven't been posting much coding stuff this past week as I've found it difficult to focus on it given the state of things in my country 😞

But... I have a new article out!

Using Container Query Units Relative to an Outer Container https://frontendmasters.com/blog/using-container-query-units-relative-to-an-outer-container/

Sparked by a question @mattwilcox asked here.

#CSS #containerQuery #frontend #coding #web #dev #webDev #webDevelopment #code #containerQueryUnits

I'm learning to use systemd-timers in order to replace some cronjobs.

Yeah, it uses a different calendar format, but "systemd-analyze calendar --iterations=10" makes them easy to validate.

Yeah, you have to define sidecar oneshot services, but now you can `systemctl start` them if you want to test them.

Plus, logging stdout/stderr with no effort. And "systemctl list-timers" shows a very informative table.

I don't know, I think it's worth the effort. This is much more nicer.

#linux #systemd