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@danielkennedy74 “doesn’t work” is such negative thinking.

We prefer to say that it works in a way that is not aligned with our requirements.

@GossiTheDog love to see an option of lost time.

I have seen people use AI and then another person has to redo the work because the AI was wrong.

Total time save was negative 30 minutes.

@GossiTheDog why are you making me feel old?

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The authoritarian government of Belarus is purging the country’s ham operators, charging them with treason and seizing their radio equipment. https://steanlab.medium.com/mayday-389f5713fee4

I have started writing a full walk through of the Kawaiicon badge challenge.

For those who could not attend or did not have time to play with the puzzle, this will give you the whole experience.

#Kawaiicon #kiwicon

https://www.asinine.nz/2026-01-20/Kawaiicon-part1/

@GossiTheDog they give you the foot gun for free, the they sell you bulletproof shoes.

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RE: https://social.vmbrasseur.com/@vmbrasseur/115922995190919975

Mozilla wants your input. Here's mine:

Mozilla should be doing two things and two things only:

1: Building THE reference implementation web browser, and
2: Being a jugular-snapping attack dog on standards committees.
3: There is no 3.

Mozilla should have NOTHING to do with AI. Nobody wants it. Stop forcing AI into every corner of every project because your VC-brained management have completely lost the plot.

https://mozillafoundation.tfaforms.net/201

@PaulaMaddox looks amazing.

What screen is that?

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Age verification is spreading like cancer.

First they came for adults site and social media; now they are already discussing about putting VPNs and app stores behind #AgeVerfication 🇬🇧🇦🇺

What’s sold as “online safety” means #surveillance via IDs checks or face scans.

Privacy & anonymity protect journalists, whistleblowers & activists.

We must fight against age verification - or the free web dies!

👉 More: https://tuta.com/blog/age-verification-kills-anonymity

First they came for Adult sites
And I did not speak out
Because I was not interested in Adult sites
Then they came for Social Media
And I did not speak out
Because I was not interested in Social Media
Then they came for the VPNs
And I did not speak out
Because I was not interested in VPNs
Then they came for chat apps
And I did not speak out
Because I was not interested in chat apps
Then they locked the whole web behind ID verification
And there was no one left
To speak up against this

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Surprise! maybe those scary findings of microplastics in your testes are based on misunderstanding the limits of analytical tools used.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/13/microplastics-human-body-doubt

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All your data is belong to the USA. This isn't the Five Eyes data sharing agreement, this is just blunt "here's our citizen's data, have fun" to US corporations most of whom have reputations for ignoring NZ law.

https://thespinoff.co.nz/atea/13-01-2026/your-digital-identity-is-not-under-new-zealand-jurisdiction

#NzPol

So I now have a payphone (don’t ask)

Anyone in NZ got documentation or maintenance information?

#payphone #nerd #restoration

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The UK government is to enforce a law this week which will make it a criminal offence to create non-consensual intimate images and make a new law to make tools to create non-consensual intimate images illegal https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq845glnvl1o

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NEWS! Taliban praises Trump regime for finally just getting police to kill the people they disagree with https://newsthump.com/2026/01/08/taliban-praises-trump-regime-for-finally-just-getting-police-to-kill-the-people-they-disagree-with/

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Anyway so.

A quote from Orwell's 1984. "The speech had been proceeding for perhaps twenty minutes when a messenger hurried on to the platform and a scrap of paper was slipped into the speaker's hand. He unrolled and read it without pausing in his speech. Nothing altered in his voice or manner, or in the content of what he was saying, but suddenly the names were different. Without words said, a wave of understanding rippled through the crowd. Oceania was at war with Eastasia! The next moment there was a tremendous commotion. The banners and posters with which the square was decorated were all wrong! Quite half of them had the wrong faces on them. It was sabotage! The agents of Goldstein had been at work! There was a riotous interlude while posters were ripped from the walls, banners torn to shreds and trampled underfoot. The Spies performed prodigies of activity in clambering over the rooftops and cutting the streamers that fluttered from the chimneys. But within two or three minutes it was all over. The orator, still gripping the neck of the microphone, his shoulders hunched forward, his free hand clawing at the air, had gone straight on with his speech. One minute more, and the feral roars of rage were again bursting from the crowd. The Hate continued exactly as before, except that the target had been changed."

Will Chamberlain on Twitter doing a 180 policy turn.

Laura Loomer on Twitter doing a 180 policy turn.

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New year, new password reset at work...

My new password is "NCSC advises against regular password expiry"

Actually TBF that was my old one, my new one is "NCSC advises against regular password expiry2"

#NCSC #passwords #InfoSec

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Age verification mandates are spreading rapidly, despite clear evidence that they do not work and actively harm the people they claim to protect. 2026 will be the year we push back harder. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/year-states-chose-surveillance-over-safety-2025-review

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