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The threat of absorption into the Zuckerberg surveillance entity is a menace, but also an opportunity. However, the prospect itself needs to be reviewed. Opinions are being voiced that Meta will not, in fact, federate at all.
Some of these claims are good-faith efforts to critically regard the well-established propensity of the corporation to lie through its teeth at every opportunity. While true, there are clear and ongoing indications that Meta has both the intention and the motive to proceed.
First, Meta has planted an engineer in the W3C ActivityPub working group. This may be a precursor to custom additions to the spec which could facilitate advertising and behavioral surveillance protocols.
https://thenewstack.io/threads-adopting-activitypub-makes-sense-but-wont-be-easy/ (pro-Meta propaganda)
2/20
#FreeFediverse #FediPact #DefederateMeta #Meta #Facebook #Threads #Prefiguration #DualPower #Fedifam #Communalism #FacebookFediverse
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"So devs have a crucial role in a free democracy, and they need to realize that with such great power comes incredible responsibility. They do not code in a societal vacuum, and if they don’t want to wake up one day in an inhumane dystopia of their making, they need to protect the invaluable data of their users with utmost care."
-- Leah Elliott, author of Contra Chrome 🖤https://thenewstack.io/interview-with-leah-elliott-contra-chrome-comic-artist/
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#RedHat #Ansible and #HashiCorp #Terraform Will Be Coming Together
While no hard plans were revealed at #RedHatSummit, it's clear Red Hat's #DevOps and HashiCorp's #IaC programs will end up working together.
After #IBM’s acquisition of HashiCorp was completed in February 2025, IBM was poised to deliver a tightly integrated, end-to-end automation setup for enterprises navigating increasingly complex cloud environments.
Terraform has 33.48% marketshare, Ansible, at 31.66%.
https://thenewstack.io/red-hat-ansible-and-hashicorp-terraform-will-be-coming-together/ -
We loved our time with the #cloudnative community before KubeCon❤️Can't thank our sponsors enough for supporting #Rejekts2025 London!🎡
Shout out to Microsoft Azure, @SUSE, @cloudnativefdn, @isovalent, @dagger_io, @kubesimplify, @TheNewStack
For talk recordings👉🏾https://tinyurl.com/y3a2ajs5
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If you've been living under a rock, the #DevTernity/#JDKon conference scandal has a pretty widespread media coverage:
* https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/28/23978254/devternity-jdkon-developer-conference-fake-women-speakers
* https://fortune.com/2023/11/27/devternity-tech-conference-fake-women-speakers-profiles-engineering/
* https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/28/devternity_conference_fake_speakers/
* https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/11/backlash-over-fake-female-speakers-shuts-down-developer-conference/
* https://thenewstack.io/meet-anna-boyko-how-a-fake-speaker-blew-up-devternity/
* https://www.404media.co/devternity-fake-speakers-eduard-sizovs/ -
“So we have a really big update coming,” said @anildash “which is being able to add any site that you create on the open web to Glitch, whether you made it with Glitch or not — and so that can be on your profile, that can be featured in playlists, and all the other things that we do.”
Intriguing!
https://thenewstack.io/developers-can-now-discover-and-curate-open-web-apps-on-glitch/
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#ÅpenKildekode er en #offentliggode som alle yter av, men vi burde støtte dem med våre skattepenger. Ffmpeg er ett veldig fundamental prosjekt innafor video prosessering, som folk flest bruker uten å vite det.
Men store selskap som #Google yter mest og bidrar ikkje en dritt tilbake, fordi til dem er det bare gratis arbeid.
FFmpeg to Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs - The New Stack
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#ÅpenKildekode er en #offentliggode som alle yter av, men vi burde støtte dem med våre skattepenger. Ffmpeg er ett veldig fundamental prosjekt innafor video prosessering, som folk flest bruker uten å vite det.
Men store selskap som #Google yter mest og bidrar ikkje en dritt tilbake, fordi til dem er det bare gratis arbeid.
FFmpeg to Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs - The New Stack
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#ÅpenKildekode er en #offentliggode som alle yter av, men vi burde støtte dem med våre skattepenger. Ffmpeg er ett veldig fundamental prosjekt innafor video prosessering, som folk flest bruker uten å vite det.
Men store selskap som #Google yter mest og bidrar ikkje en dritt tilbake, fordi til dem er det bare gratis arbeid.
FFmpeg to Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs - The New Stack
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#ÅpenKildekode er en #offentliggode som alle yter av, men vi burde støtte dem med våre skattepenger. Ffmpeg er ett veldig fundamental prosjekt innafor video prosessering, som folk flest bruker uten å vite det.
Men store selskap som #Google yter mest og bidrar ikkje en dritt tilbake, fordi til dem er det bare gratis arbeid.
FFmpeg to Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs - The New Stack
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"Ai2 tested DataDecide across a wide range of datasets and model sizes, using 10 benchmarks to evaluate how well small models predict large-scale performance. The findings aren’t earth-shattering, but they present useful takeaways for AI developers and researchers.
For one, Ai2 found that small models (around 150 million parameters) can predict large-scale outcomes with surprising accuracy. Some benchmarks reached over 80% decision accuracy using just 0.01% of the compute compared to billion-parameter models.
Since small-model experiments use less compute than other methods, developers don’t need to run full-scale tests just to predict outcomes. “The promise of this work is lower compute costs during training,” said Pijanowski.
Ai2 found that scaling laws didn’t outperform the simpler method of ranking datasets by small-model results. Scaling laws, a more sophisticated and more costly testing method, aim to predict how accuracy improves with model size. For now, “just stick with ablating things at one scale,” advised Magnusson.
The findings should give LLM devs pause for thought, Hunt said: “There are scaling laws that have been derived from empirical studies between data volume, compute resources and performance. Ai2’s research points out that we may want to revisit some of those assumptions.”"
https://thenewstack.io/new-tools-help-llm-developers-choose-better-pre-training-data/
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My triumphant return to The New Stack: There's been a resumption of the debate among #infrastructure software #developers over whether decoupling an organization's functionality into #microservices in the name of #scalability reduces complexity or re-introduces it. This happened when Amazon Prime Video engineers made an architectural decision, and chronicled it in their blog. For a streaming video monitoring function, they moved _away_ from microservices, they said, and back toward a #monolithic architecture, for purposes of simplicity, speed, performance, and cost reduction.
Before long, the whole debate fired up again: Microservices only buys you so much scalability, some said, but eventually the complexity of its messaging between services eats any speed gains you had at the start.
At least that's what Prime Video's engineers appeared to be saying. But a close examination of their situation by world-class experts, including from Amazon Web Services (AWS), revealed that the devil was lurking outside the details after all and out in the open where we should have seen him: Yes, they had consolidated some #StepFunctions, but in so doing, they actually went the other direction. They made a microservice; the blog's author simply didn't realize it.
So what was this debate truly about, then? Do we not know a monolith when we see it anymore? Are we so quick to take sides in a debate that we've lost track of what we're actually arguing about?
No, that wasn't a digression. I'm still talking about #cloudcomputing infrastructure.
Anyway, do take some time today to read this article, which features an all-star cast including Donnie Berkholz @dberkholz,
Lori MacVittie from F5, David Mooter from Forrester, Laura Tacho, Ajay Nair from AWS,
@microsoft CVP
Brendan Burns, and one of the original microservices champions, Adrian Cockcroft @adrianco.https://thenewstack.io/amazon-prime-videos-microservices-move-doesnt-lead-to-a-monolith-after-all/
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#DX #SDKs #DeveloperDocumentation #SoftwareDocumentation #APIs #APIDocumentation #TechnicalWriting: "Why are SDKs so important to ensuring your product is tuned for developers?
It all comes down to helping your API consumers integrate faster. When people decide to integrate with your API, they have a job they want to get done. They think your API could be the fastest path to solving it. But too often, building an integration with the API is as painful (or even more painful) as the original job. That’s counterproductive, to put it mildly. There are a hundred things your users would rather be doing than reading your API docs and writing basic integration code. The less you require of them, the happier they’ll be. And SDKs are the best tool for making sure your API remains unobtrusive.
The definition of an SDK is straightforward: It’s a library that surrounds your API and handles the boring parts of the integrating process, such as:
- Constructing an HTTP request
- Managing an authentication token
- Handling retries
- Parsing paginated responsesMore powerful SDKs will go beyond request and response-handling basics and provide type safety and hinting in the integrated development environment (IDE). This means users don’t have to open a docs page; they’ll get all the information and feedback they need directly in their coding environment. It doesn’t get more efficient than that."
https://thenewstack.io/api-builders-must-sell-to-developers-or-die-slowly
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#DX #SDKs #DeveloperDocumentation #SoftwareDocumentation #APIs #APIDocumentation #TechnicalWriting: "Why are SDKs so important to ensuring your product is tuned for developers?
It all comes down to helping your API consumers integrate faster. When people decide to integrate with your API, they have a job they want to get done. They think your API could be the fastest path to solving it. But too often, building an integration with the API is as painful (or even more painful) as the original job. That’s counterproductive, to put it mildly. There are a hundred things your users would rather be doing than reading your API docs and writing basic integration code. The less you require of them, the happier they’ll be. And SDKs are the best tool for making sure your API remains unobtrusive.
The definition of an SDK is straightforward: It’s a library that surrounds your API and handles the boring parts of the integrating process, such as:
- Constructing an HTTP request
- Managing an authentication token
- Handling retries
- Parsing paginated responsesMore powerful SDKs will go beyond request and response-handling basics and provide type safety and hinting in the integrated development environment (IDE). This means users don’t have to open a docs page; they’ll get all the information and feedback they need directly in their coding environment. It doesn’t get more efficient than that."
https://thenewstack.io/api-builders-must-sell-to-developers-or-die-slowly
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Возможность компиляции Python в нативный код
Общая информация: Python традиционно считается интерпретируемым языком, однако существуют инструменты и технологии, которые позволяют компилировать Python-код в нативный машинный код. Это может значительно повысить производительность программ, написанных на Python, особенно в задачах, требующих высокой скорости выполнения.
Инструменты для компиляции:
Codon: Это новый высокопроизводительный компилятор, который компилирует Python-код в нативный машинный код без накладных расходов на выполнение. Codon использует LLVM для компиляции и обеспечивает значительное ускорение по сравнению с обычным Python, достигая производительности, сопоставимой с C/C++[3][5].
Cython: Этот инструмент позволяет писать Python-код с аннотациями типов и компилировать его в C-расширения. Cython может значительно ускорить выполнение кода, особенно если он включает в себя вычисления с использованием массивов и других структур данных[4][13].
Numba: Это компилятор, который использует JIT-компиляцию (Just-In-Time) для преобразования Python-кода в машинный код во время выполнения. Numba особенно эффективен для численных вычислений и может значительно ускорить выполнение функций, работающих с массивами[4][11].
Преимущества компиляции:
Увеличение производительности: Компиляция в нативный код позволяет избежать накладных расходов, связанных с интерпретацией, что может привести к увеличению скорости выполнения программ в десятки раз[3][5].
Оптимизация для специфических задач: Компиляторы, такие как Codon, могут быть оптимизированы для выполнения специфических задач, таких как обработка данных или научные вычисления, что делает их более подходящими для определенных приложений по сравнению с интерпретируемым Python[5][8].
Заключение: Да, Python можно скомпилировать в нативный код с помощью различных инструментов, таких как Codon, Cython и Numba. Эти технологии позволяют значительно повысить производительность Python-программ, что делает их более конкурентоспособными по сравнению с программами, написанными на статически типизированных языках, таких как C или C++.
#generated by #felo
[1] https://discuss.python.org/t/is-it-possible-to-modify-the-python-interpreter-to-generate-machine-code-and-run-directly-on-the-processor/40318
[2] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/138521/is-it-feasible-to-compile-python-to-machine-code
[3] https://developers.slashdot.org/story/23/03/19/0156208/codon-compiles-python-to-native-machine-code-thats-even-faster-than-c
[4] https://www.quora.com/Can-Python-be-compiled-to-machine-code-or-use-Just-In-Time-compilation-like-Java
[5] https://github.com/exaloop/codon
[6] https://www.toptal.com/python/pochemu-sushchestvuet-tak-mnogo-pitonov
[7] https://pythonworld.ru/osnovy/program-compilation-with-cx-freeze.html
[8] https://medium.com/intuition/codon-a-python-compiler-3d5322e1c0a5
[9] https://habr.com/ru/companies/numdes/articles/581374/
[10] https://discuss.python.org/t/can-python-be-compiled-to-binary-in-any-case/21786
[11] https://fadeevlecturer.github.io/python_lectures/docs/interpretability.html
[12] https://thenewstack.io/mit-created-compiler-speeds-up-python-code/
[13] https://dzen.ru/a/Zp6FTmVNNGpuHNS9
[14] https://unixforum.org/viewtopic.php?t=130515
[15] https://habr.com/ru/companies/exness/articles/542106/
[16] https://ru.stackoverflow.com/questions/1113379/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9-%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B4-%D0%B8-%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8F%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%8F-%D0%B2-%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%B3%D0%BE-%D1%8D%D1%82%D0%BE-%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BA
[17] https://verity.by/news/yazyk-programmirovaniya-python-chast-2-kompilyatory-i-interpretatory/
[18] https://sky.pro/wiki/python/python-kompiliruemyj-ili-interpretiruemyj-yazyk/
[19] https://www.reddit.com/r/learnpython/comments/17oxkpr/is_it_possible_to_compile_python_code_like_how/
[20] https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/243269/why-isnt-there-a-python-compiler-to-native-machine-code -
Destroying Autocracy – June 12, 2025
Welcome to this week’s “Destroying Autocracy”.
It’s your source for curated news affecting democracy in the cyber arena with a focus on protecting it. That necessitates an opinionated Butlerian jihad against big tech as well as evangelizing for open-source and the Fediverse. Since big media’s journalism wing is flailing and failing in its core duty to democracy, this is also a collection of alternative reporting on the eternal battle between autocracy and democracy. We also cover the cybersecurity world. You can’t be free without safety and privacy.
DA comes out on Thursday and is updated through the end of day on Friday. Then we start over. So take your time in perusing it and check back in over the weekend.
FYI, my opinions will be in bold. And will often involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros. And fascists. Fuck ’em.
Featured Item
Fediverse favorite and video pro, Elena Rossini has done the ecosystem an outstanding favor by producing a phenomenal promotional video. She is:
Introducing the Fediverse: a New Era of Social Media
I make a cameo appearance at the end. 😎
We start and end with good news to make the middle bearable.
The response to Russia’s War Crimes, Techno Feudalism, and other douchebaggery
The Kyiv Independent reports:
US accuses Russian of laundering millions, helping Moscow obtain sensitive technology
DarkReading reports:
‘Librarian Ghouls’ Cyberattackers Strike at Night
OpenAI Bans ChatGPT Accounts Linked to Nation-State Threat Actors
Open_Future has:
Europe Talks Digital Sovereignty
Heise reports:
Digital sovereignty: EU launches its own DNS service with practical functions
Tech Policy has:
Public Sector Triage of the Federal Government’s Data Hemorrhage
Tech Oligarchy Imperils Democratic Information Flows
And everything else to do with democracy.
The Register reports:
Apple AI boffins puncture AGI hype as reasoning models flail on complex planning
Nordjyske reports:
Digitaliseringsminister vil mindske brug Microsoft i eget ministerium
Denmark tells Microsoft to get fucked. Well half-fucked for now.
Bloomberg Law reports:
DOGE Access to Government Personnel Data Blocked by Judge
Until the SupremeC^nts reverse it.
404 Media reports:
Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash
Neutral
Balfour Jarnasob says:
Trusting your own judgement on ‘AI’ is a huge risk
The Guardian reports:
The Evil Empire Strikes Back
TechCrunch reports:
Trump administration takes aim at Biden and Obama cybersecurity rules
404 Media reports:
Airlines Don’t Want You to Know They Sold Your Flight Data to DHS
GitHub is Leaking Trump’s Plans to ‘Accelerate’ AI Across Government
Pariah States
The Guardian reports:
Frequent TikTok users in Taiwan more likely to agree with pro-China narratives, study finds
DarkReading reports:
China-Backed Hackers Target SentinelOne in ‘PurpleHaze’ Attack Spree
The Register reports:
Chinese spy crew appears to be preparing for conflict by backdooring 75+ critical orgs
AP New reports:
US-backed Israeli company’s spyware used to target European journalists, Citizen Lab finds
Big Media
The Nerd Reich reports:
Politico’s $50M Peter Thiel Problem
The San Francisco Standard reports:
The ICE agents disappearing your neighbors would like a little privacy, please
Citation Needed opines:
Indeed!
Big Tech
The Guardian reports:
Misogyny in the metaverse: is Mark Zuckerberg’s dream world a no-go area for women?
The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project reports:
Telegram, the FSB, and the Man in the Middle
Verso Books asks:
Is the AI Bubble About to Burst?
If only.
Dutch News reports:
Dutch government websites still reliant on US cloud services
Fortune reports:
‘Sovereign AI’ is political branding. The reality is closer to digital colonialism
404 Media reports:
A Researcher Figured Out How to Reveal Any Phone Number Linked to a Google Account
Senators Demand Meta Answer For AI Chatbots Posing as Licensed Therapists
Zero Party Data reports:
“Localhost tracking” explained. It could cost Meta 32 billion.
Business Insider reports:
Mark Zuckerberg has created the saddest place on the internet with Meta AI’s public feed
And the least private. What a c^nt.
Cybersecurity/Privacy
DarkReading reports:
Next-Gen Developers Are a Cybersecurity Powder Keg
GitHub: How Code Provenance Can Prevent Supply Chain Attacks
Gartner: How Security Teams Can Turn Hype Into Opportunity
The Conversation reports:
Tracking apps monitor remote employees’ performance — and invade their privacy
The Register reports:
Peep show: 40K IoT cameras worldwide stream secrets to anyone with a browser
DeepSeek installer or just malware in disguise? Click around and find out
This is what happens when you use Chinese software and AI. You get what you deserve.
Fediverse
Elena Rossini has this regarding the video in our featured item section:
My Fediverse Promo Video: Frequently Asked Questions
The Fediverse report has:
Bounce, and how the Open Social Web is continually changing
Hamish Campell asks:
ActivityPub for WordPress has:
The IT Blog shares:
Peertube starts a series:
Flutter application development: feedback (1/2)
This is very interesting if you are a developer.
TheNewStack reports:
Bringing Joy Back to the Web: Fediverse vs. Centralized Apps
Mastodon has:
We Distribute reports:
Bandwagon is Bringing Music Sales to the Fediverse
Fedihost shares:
I would recommend PieFed or mbin.
ActivityPub for WordPress announces:
Our 2025 Roadmap: Building the Future of WordPress Federation
This has the potential to double the size of the Fediverse (or more) in the long run.
Ben Werdmuller says:
Other Slightly Federated Social Media
The Fediverse Report has:
Is Bad Behaviour Spoiling the Move from Big Tech?
TechCrunch reports:
Bluesky backlash misses the point
None of this would matter if Bluesky were not a company trying to take money and in debt to VCs.
CTAs (aka show us some free love)
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Reuben Walker
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Destroying Autocracy – April 24, 2025
Welcome to this week’s “Destroying Autocracy”.
It’s your source for curated news affecting democracy in the cyber arena with a focus on protecting it. That necessitates an opinionated Butlerian jihad against big tech as well as evangelizing for open-source and the Fediverse. Since big media’s journalism wing is flailing and failing in its core duty to democracy, this is also a collection of alternative reporting on the eternal battle between autocracy and democracy. We also cover the cybersecurity world. You can’t be free without safety and privacy.
DA comes out on Thursday and is updated through the end of day on Friday. Then we start over. So take your time in perusing it and check back in over the weekend.
FYI, my opinions will be in bold. And will often involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros. And fascists. Fuck ’em.
Featured Item(s)
The Guardian shares:
In her final piece for the Observer, Carole Cadwalladr reveals what happened when she returned last week to give the opening speech at technology conference Ted, where she gave her first – life-changing – talk six years ago.
TechDirt writes:
There’s a certain dark irony in watching tech billionaires who built their empires on the “democratizing power of technology” now actively working to dismantle democratic institutions. The same figures who once championed connection and openness are now the architects of the most dangerous centralization of power in modern history.
The “De” In “Decentralization” Stands For “Democracy”
The issues discussed in these two items are some of the main reasons Battalion and the TechnoAnarchist Manifesto exist.
We start and end with good news to make the middle bearable.
The response to Russia’s War Crimes and other douchebaggery
The Kyiv Independent reports:
Switzerland joins EU sanctions against Russian state media
Bleeping Computer reports:
Russian army targeted by new Android malware hidden in mapping app
TheNewStack reports:
EU OS: A European Proposal for a Public Sector Linux Desktop
The Register reports:
It takes one click to join Uber One, but quitting might need 32 actions
European biz calls for Euro tech for local people
Tech Policy reports:
Understanding the Apple and Meta Non-Compliance Decisions Under the Digital Markets Act
How AI Can Support Democracy Movements
A good article, though long. And Erica, search the term headings and learn how to use them!
EuroNews reports:
In his final months, Pope Francis warned about social media, screen time, and AI
NLNet shares:
Eleven new projects for NGI Pilots
CBS News reports:
Federal judge orders Trump administration to rehire all Voice of America and Radio Free Asia staff
Ars Technica reports:
Universities (finally) band together, fight “unprecedented government overreach”
Gaël Duval has:
Murena & /e/OS 2025: another leap towards Usable Privacy for All
The Evil Empire Strikes Back
Propublica reports:
Trump Team Eyes Politically Connected Startup to Overhaul $700 Billion Government Payments Program
Krebs on Security reports:
Whistleblower: DOGE Siphoned NLRB Case Data
NiemanLab reports:
National Science Foundation cancels research grants related to misinformation and disinformation
The Center for Democracy and Technology reports:
Automated Tools for Social Media Monitoring Irrevocably Chill Millions of Noncitizens’ Expression
Pariah States
DarkReading reports:
Nation-State Threats Put SMBs in Their Sights
DeepSeek Breach Opens Floodgates to Dark Web
BleepingComputer reports:
Hackers abuse OAuth 2.0 workflows to hijack Microsoft 365 accounts
Lazarus hackers breach six companies in watering hole attacks
Big Media
404 Media reports:
How 404 Media Is Navigating ‘Economic Headwinds’
Or small media in this case. You should subscribe to 404 if you’re in the tech sector.
Big Tech
The Guardian reports:
Meta ‘hastily’ changed moderation policy with little regard to impact, says oversight board
Tech Policy reports on:
Big Tech, Bolsonarism, and the Erosion of Democracy
Where’s Your Ed opines:
OpenAI Is A Systemic Risk To The Tech Industry
Mozilla says:
Tell Etsy, Reddit, Tinder & Duolingo: Stop Feeding Surveillance Tech
Cybersecurity/Privacy
BleepingComputer has:
Phishers abuse Google OAuth to spoof Google in DKIM replay attack
WordPress ad-fraud plugins generated 1.4 billion ad requests per day
The Register reports:
Ex-NSA chief warns AI devs: Don’t repeat infosec’s early-day screwups
Nextcloud says:
EU-US Data Privacy Framework is defunct: what does this mean for businesses?
CyberNews reports:
Employee monitoring app leaks 21 million screenshots in real time
Ha! You reap what you sow.
Fediverse
The Fediverse Report has:
Tim Bray looks at:
Fedihost asks:
Why Is Mastodon Using So Much Storage?
Jose Murilo shares:
A rede social que não pode ser vendida: porque Mastodon, e não Bluesky.
TechCrunch reports:
Threads officially moves to Threads.com and updates its web app
So, block threads.com.
Meta’s Threads opens up ads to global advertisers
To the surprise of no one.
Other Slightly Federated Social Media
And:
Bluesky launches blue check verification
Government censorship comes to Bluesky, but not its third-party apps … yet
Wait, how did a decentralized service like Bluesky go down?
Because it’s not fucking decentralized.
CTAs (aka show us some free love)
- That’s it for this week. Please share this edition of Destroying Autocracy.
- Follow me on the Fediverse. Or this site via the button in the footer. Or via RSS.
Keep fighting!
Ringleader, Battalion
Reuben Walker
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See how Google #Kubernetes Engine (#GKE) and AI come together to power real-world applications — faster, smarter, and more securely. Bobby Allen (Google Cloud Therapist) discusses why are enterprises turning to GKE for AI workloads with The New Stack's Frederic Lardinois at #GoogleCloudNext.
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Ready to dive deeper into the cloud native world? 🚀 See you at https://hachyderm.io/@Rejekts NA on Nov 10-11 in Salt Lake City! Celebrate the innovative ideas that didn't make it to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon. Register free now 👉 https://bit.ly/rejekts
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❌ Great ideas deserve a second chance! See you at https://hachyderm.io/@Rejekts NA in Salt Lake City on Nov 10-11. Experience amazing talks that showcase the creativity and talent of our community. Let’s give these topics the spotlight they deserve, register free now 👉 https://bit.ly/rejekts
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Neuroscientists need strong training in experimental design.
Another highlight of #SFN2022 was Mary Harrington's presentation on why and how to integrate experimental design into neuroscience training. Here slides (with sample syllabus) are here: https://osf.io/phzje
And her textbook, The Design of Experiments in Neuroscience, is a great starting point (https://tinyurl.com/expdesignneuro)
Mary's not on Mastodon (yet) -- but soon?
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Wine myths busted at The Newstand
If you need help with the Public File, call (210) 351-1200 At KSAT, we are committed to informing and delighting our audience. In our commitment to covering our communities with innovation and excellence, we incorporate Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies to enhance our news gathering, reporting, and presentatio…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Wine #salive #thenewstand #WineTasting
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Wine myths busted at The Newstand https://www.diningandcooking.com/2522757/wine-myths-busted-at-the-newstand/ #SaLive #TheNewstand #Wine #WineTasting
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Beyond the p Value: Reform Spreads Across the World and Across Disciplines
...as evidenced by this article from Brazil, which I'm delighted to see:
The article's header
I salute Karen Grimmer, JECP co-editor, for publishing it,
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And I found this...
#TheNewStatesman 4 feb 2019
What is #TurningPointUK? The launch of #rightwing youth group is going as well as expect
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Research Priorities in Climate and Health Research
The best research method--of course--but also philosophy, ethics, global heating and health: What more could we want? This article, below, discusses all that and more. And, by the way, the lead author happens to be my son, Toby Cumming.
Here's the abstract:
Toby Cumming
Rapid global warming
https://thenewstatistics.com/itns/2026/03/06/research-priorities-in-climate-and-health-research/
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John Self, AI Pioneer, Chats With ChatGPT
A Chat with ChatGPT by a veteran AI researcher
John Self entered the field of AI in the early 1970s. He's a distinguished scholar who can claim to have introduced the idea of user model in his 1974 article (while visiting The University of Melbourne). He was writing in the context of AI in Education, a fi
https://thenewstatistics.com/itns/2025/11/04/john-self-ai-pioneer-chats-with-chatgpt/
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When people ask me how to estimate the sample size needed for their research question, my answers fall broadly into two buckets: power analysis and precision for planning analysis. But there seem to be other options as well.
What's your preferred method?
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#Comedy #ClassicComedy #UK #Funny #Humour #Vintage #TheNewStatesman #RickMayall #MichaelTroughton #Humor #AlanBstard #MP #English #British #TV #Television #CreditCard #Parliament #Government #Yuppie
I miss Rik Mayall, and in the days of un-PC comedy “The New Statesman” was an absolute classic. Here he is as the psychotic MP Alan B’Stard, congratulating his assistant Piers Fletcher-Dervish in his own special way. (NB: Piers is played by Michael Troughton. Son of Patrick, the second Dr. Who!) -
Brunch With Petra at the Museum
Petra Vaiglova is now Senior Lecturer in Archaeological Science at the Australian National University in Canberra. I posted here about meeting her for the first time, when she visited The University of Melbourne a few years back.
Geoff, Petra, and Stephen. Behind is a very early model Holden, manufactured in
https://thenewstatistics.com/itns/2026/04/10/brunch-with-petra-at-the-museum/
#StatisticalReform #Teaching #TheNewStatistics #Uncategorized