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  • France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US

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  • France, Germany and The Netherlands are co-developing an open source suite of collaborative components for their government employees. La suite numérique is the French version, Opendesk is the German, and Mijn Bureau is the Dutch. I find that pretty amazing and I wouldn't have hoped for anything better!

  • My self hosted badges of honor

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  • I see Trilium!

  • The Sovereign Tech Fund invests in Scala

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  • I don't think that's a fair representation. Like for any community, you tend to hear the most about a vocal minority, and drama there was, indeed. That's not unique to Scala, that doesn't mean that a majority was engaged in it or was affected by it.

    The point about fragmentation holds, though: Scala is a multi-paradigm language, so you tend to have communities assembling around core set of libraries and abstractions that fit their specific needs. It's not a bad thing from an engineering perspective (you get to pick the most adequate tool for the job), but it will be intimidating at first, and understandably ridiculous when coming from a different ecosystem that you've a choice of a dozen or so JSON deserializing libraries. https://index.scala-lang.org/ Is a great help, though.

  • Programming @programming.dev
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    The Sovereign Tech Fund invests in Scala

    www.scala-lang.org /blog/2026/01/27/sta-invests-in-scala.html

  • A new look for Snikket on Android

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  • XMPP is what Matrix was meant to be, but 15 years too early

  • A new look for Snikket on Android

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  • In part. The whole idea behind snikket is to bundle together a bunch of pre-existing mainstream and well behaved XMPP clients and server under one consistent and polished package, so that it just works out of the box for the less savvy users and admins who then don't have to think too much about configuration and peers onboarding. So, yes, on Android, you will find a rebranded version of the Conversations client, prosody on the server, siskin on iOS, and IIRC they are working on a SDK for the desktop.

  • Is Anyone Printing ICE Whistles?

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  • Sure, did I also make up this whole story about people being brutalised by the ICE from which it all derived?

  • Is Anyone Printing ICE Whistles?

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  • Do I? I'm just giving you textbook facts about authoritarianism and the consequences of living under one.

    Whether you believe that this relates to your situation is something else. I'm not here to play mind games with you, all I can do is encourage you to simply look at the traits and definition of it, and bring your bingo card with you. Here it is, unaltered from Wikipedia:

    Authoritarianism is a political system characterized by the rejection of political plurality, the use of strong central power to preserve the political status quo, and reductions in democracy, separation of powers, civil liberties, and the rule of law.[1][2] Authoritarian regimes may be either autocratic or oligarchic and may be based upon the rule of a party, the military, or the concentration of power in a single person.[3][4]

    Also, I gain nothing from this "fantasy conversation" besides the hope that it might help the reader navigate through what's happening (and that they will avoid the worst of it).

  • Is Anyone Printing ICE Whistles?

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  • And which state apparatus do you expect to come to the rescue when all powers are practically consolidated, and the one supposed to protect your rights is the same that oppresses you? Or the oppressor changes/makes-up the rules on a whim? You just don't seem to understand what authoritarianism is about, and how the deal is changing. Haven't you been taught history? People generally don't bring up words like "fascism" for fun and giggles...

  • 🚀 ejabberd 26.01 released

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  • Amazing, those easy invites are a big deal

  • Is Anyone Printing ICE Whistles?

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  • Precisely, and you giving one or not doesn't change the outcome when they come pick you up and you have no recourse.

  • Is Anyone Printing ICE Whistles?

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  • That's the problem with authoritarianism: it no longer matters what is legal or not (the repressive state does as it pleases), and even if it did matter what's legal, too bad that's not up to you to decide anymore.

  • AI showing signs of self-preservation and humans should be ready to pull plug, says pioneer

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  • We should just stop marketing LLMs as AI.

  • Micron addresses Crucial exit backlash: 'We are trying to help consumers around the world' — company warns that DRAM drought could last until at least 2028

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  • With OpenAI already enshitifying ChatGPT with ads, and the whole datacenter demand being pegged to questionable (economically, socially, environmentally) build up plans, what if the music stops in just a few months from now? Will micron course-correct? There's no point fulfilling OpenAI's orders after the company went belly up, right? And the point of OpenAI orders was first and foremost to buy the competition out of market, so even if LLMs need memory, and LLMs keep being a thing in the years to come, it's unlikely that this overcapacity will serve an economical purpose.

  • PoC - Use Matrix instead of emails for logins

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  • For one thing, I'm glad people finally come to such conclusions. Matrix has been a huge waste, and the tens of millions of investment would have done wonders if poured over better, more mature, healthier and more diverse protocols.

  • PoC - Use Matrix instead of emails for logins

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  • If there's one constant about Matrix, it is to perpetually reinvent the wheel because it wasn't invented there in the first place.

  • How hard is it to pirate Warhammer anyway?

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  • All my new code will be closed-source from now on - Marc J. Schmidt

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  • All my new code will be closed-source from now on - Marc J. Schmidt

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  • Its not lossless.

    Except for when it is, and even when it's not, there is a fine line leading to calling that plagiarism.

  • All my new code will be closed-source from now on - Marc J. Schmidt

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  • Well, once again, that's just my hot/IANAL take, but when those weights serve to store information in a way that can easily be extracted losslessly (check-out "model extraction attacks"), we should stop treating them as "just weights".

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Creating the XMPP Network Graph

    discourse.igniterealtime.org /t/creating-the-xmpp-network-graph/93521
  • World News @lemmy.ml
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    40% of US electricity is now emissions-free

    arstechnica.com /science/2023/12/40-of-us-electricity-is-now-emissions-free/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive

    signal.org /blog/signal-is-expensive/