My avatar comes from a really old comic book. Chuckle #1 [1945] https://box01.comicbookplus.com/viewer/72/721d0ac14c7e64fc5b9c5096258556a9/6.jpg
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862·15 days agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuru_(disease)
Kuru is a rare, incurable, and fatal neurodegenerative disorder that was formerly common among the Fore people of Papua New Guinea. It is a prion disease which leads to tremors and loss of coordination from neurodegeneration. The term kúru means “trembling” and comes from the Fore word kuria or guria (“to shake”).[3][4] It is also known as “laughing sickness” due to abnormal bursts of laughter from the patients.
It was spread among the Fore people via funerary cannibalism.
Mad cow for people.
25·1 month agoFor clarity the platform is called Snowflake.
While numerous cloud storage and SaaS vendors were targeted using the stolen tokens, BleepingComputer has learned that the majority of the data theft attacks targeted the cloud data platform Snowflake.
The headline is not calling the customers snowflakes.
The Document Foundation’s official reply came from Italo Vignoli, a founder Collabora lists as having already exited TDF membership.
He has kept it short, confirming that the removals happened, pointing to TDF’s recently adopted Community Bylaws as the basis. Those bylaws include a clause requiring anyone affiliated with a company in an active legal dispute with TDF to step down from membership.
Link to those bylaws from Jan 15
https://community.documentfoundation.org/t/vote-adopt-version-1-of-community-bylaws/13472
Quote from that link [bylaws] above
Members involved in legal claims for endangering the Foundation, eg. by means of putting the charitable status at risk, or misusing TDF’s funds, or by damaging any of TDF’s assets, or by attempting to do any of these must relinquish their membership by means of notification to the MC. If the legal claim, in relation to the mentioned matters, involves a company/organisation then also their affiliated members must relinquish their membership.
Back to the original linked article:
The stated rationale is that past situations saw people put their employer’s interests ahead of the foundation’s, and the clause exists to stop that happening again. The specifics of the legal dispute between TDF and Collabora are not mentioned by either party.
TDF also makes clear that a membership revocation is not a ban from contributing, with the project remaining open to anyone, and expects Collabora to keep contributing “when the time comes.”
So without details, all the article really details is that this happened. The why is murky. It seems the TDF is trying to protect itself, but there’s no description of Collabra or TDFs legal dispute.
8·1 month agoA pineapple? It’s close to blooming?
https://www.houzz.com/discussions/3787152/pineapple-blooming
ChatGPT isn’t on the team.
Except that when someone pastes “ChatGPT thinks that {wall of AI-generated text}”
That person put ChatGPT on the team. And if there was no human input, the competition is free to use that and mock it word for word. Use fear, uncertainty, and doubt to convince your team that anyone can use that, including your competition, if it is published.
The U.S. Copyright Office’s January 2025 report on AI and copyrightability reaffirms the longstanding principle that copyright protection is reserved for works of human authorship. Outputs created entirely by generative artificial intelligence (AI), with no human creative input, are not eligible for copyright protection.
https://natlawreview.com/article/copyright-offices-latest-guidance-ai-and-copyrightability
EFF has an article on this, too. They have links on how to limit ad tracking on iphone and android.
And here’s the original article at Politico
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/26/ice-immigration-churches-lawsuits-00802076
52·2 months agoPer the article,
“Elon Musk is an aggressive and irresponsible salesman,” the plaintiff said. “Who has a long history of making dangerous design choices, and overpromising features of his products.”
The plaintiff now expects the American car brand “to properly design, test, market, inspect, repair, and recall the subject Cybertruck.”
As of February 2026, Elon Musk’s net worth is estimated to be around $852 billion according to Forbes.
Nvidia’s Vera Rubin platform is the company’s next-generation architecture for AI data centers that includes an 88-core Vera CPU, Rubin GPU with 288 GB HBM4 memory, Rubin CPX GPU with 128 GB of GDDR7, NVLink 6.0 switch ASIC for scale-up rack-scale connectivity, BlueField-4 DPU with integrated SSD to store key-value cache, Spectrum-6 Photonics Ethernet, and Quantum-CX9 1.6 Tb/s Photonics InfiniBand NICs, as well as Spectrum-X Photonics Ethernet and Quantum-CX9 Photonics InfiniBand switching silicon for scale-out connectivity.
I hadn’t heard of her. So I looked for her performing. I found this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzisVAB0k40
Wow, good performance. 7 albums in two years? Wow.
… Ah, here we go
Shake it, shake, shake it (uh, oh), shake it, shake, shake it
Shake it, shake, shake it, shake it, shake it (uh, oh)
Shake it like a Polaroid picture, (hey ya)…
Since you’re in the EU, I am unsure which are accessible to you. But I’ll start with the BBC and give you some options.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz7ypw4rjrzo
https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/fires-erupt-in-south-central-chile/
Reuters reported that the e-commerce giant linked the October cuts to the rise of artificial intelligence software, saying in an internal letter to staff that “this generation of AI is the most transformative technology we’ve seen since the internet, and it’s enabling companies to innovate much faster than ever before.”
The original article from deadline:
https://deadline.com/2026/01/microsoft-outlook-outage-email-1236694027/
To defeat the resolution Thursday, Republican leaders had to hold the vote open for more than 20 minutes while Republican Rep. Wesley Hunt, who had been out of Washington all week campaigning for a Senate seat in Texas, rushed back to Capitol Hill to cast the decisive vote.
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get content creators.
hide their feeds so they don’t make money. Use the algorithm to feed up creators the viewer didn’t subscribe to, so that they watch randos.
…
Profit.