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αxel simon :pride_heart:

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Not here to subjugate or serve. :vegan: :antifa: 🏴 🧅 Decentralisation proponent Unrepentant ska fan 🌈 friend Defending Freedoms on/& the Internet with @LaQuadrature […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mstdn.fr/@axx, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 6m

"Could #AI be conscious?" asks the Guardian, continuing with "Experts believe it’s at least possible. We urgently need a plan to navigate the ethical implications." Really? I mean, we *know* many, many non-human animals are conscious and we collectively have no plan to navigate the ethical […]

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 1h

Seeing otherwise rather progressive American gleefully cheer for an inmate's death, or ask disingenuous questions like "oh, I'm supposed to feel bad that they are scared to die now?" tells you a lot about how, at a rather fundamental level, there is cruelty in the American society and psyche […]

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 19h

Le ministre israélien qui défend le type du FN pas très malin élevé à Soral¹ parce qu'ils sont avant tout tous les deux d'extrême-droite, c'est quand même un Ouroboros de caca que seul 2026 pouvait nous offrir. 1. je sais, les deux vont ensemble

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

RE: social.sciences.re/@hmedievale/1173… Grosse, grosse surprise, un spectacle dit « historique » sur le catholicisme, c'est surtout l'occasion de faire de la propagande et de passer sous silence les contradictions et les horreurs de l'Église catholique. Comment, qu'ouï-je […]

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

In case you missed it, #Microsoft deleted the data of tens of thousands of small non-profits that until then had benefitted from their free licence program. The orgs logged to find all their data in Microsoft 365 gone. And unrecoverable […]

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Oh no. This can't be. But the big "AI" companies were saying their models were doing science. Anyway, cure for cancer should be dropping any day now. @resuna ohai.social/@resuna/117274624138257…

Resuna (@resuna@ohai.social)

Attached: 1 image https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.15567 "We are treating AI like an omniscient research partner when it is actually just an extremely fast librarian with a severe hallucination problem."

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Complex software behaving in unexpected and sometimes harmful ways has been a persistent problem since software was invented. The phenomenon used to be called “bugs” or “defects”, but I guess “going rogue” sounds cooler. It also implicitly frames “rogue” behavior as some kind of inexplicable […]

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

I have no idea why so many people consider #Slack the standard for work communications. I regularly hear notifications and have _no idea_ which chat in Slack has a new message. Slack has so many menu items and sub-menu items, that's starting to look like a Microsoft product. The "unread" […]

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

The more time goes by, the more the #NothingNicetoSay comics version of Fat Mike inches closer to being true. As foretold by the prophecy. www.spinmagazine.com/2026/09/nofxs-… (Sadly, the @internetarchive 's captures of the specific comic I have in mind […]

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

Yesterday, an English fascist tried to slash and stab the inflatable boat refugees were travelling on, after they had been transferred to a rescue boat but while a rescue worker was still on it, in case you are wondering how England is doing right now […]

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

So now there is a "friendly fork" of #immich called Noodle Gallery, and while its features look interesting and for some of them downright very cool, it's also very LLM-flavoured. So much so that I find their feature comparison page extremely grating, making me feel like I'm reading a LinkedIn […]

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Street Art Utopia @streetartutopia.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 30/01/2025

Seen on a train.

αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

Has anyone had success improving microphone sound quality, background noise reduction in particular, on #Linux? I've tried Easy Effects (input) profiles, Noise Torch, HushMic, using my mobile phone with AndroidMic… every time, my colleagues just end up telling me the sound is terrible. It […]

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Evening #London mood.

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Has anyone made a child friendly device using #postmarketos ? Ie: no login process, only shows a limited number of curated apps, ideally can only go from showing app menu to one of the apps and back. The #Phosh interface and experience looks more complicated than I was hoping for.

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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Ikea cafés are no longer selling their cheap, #vegan / plant based hotdogs in the UK. They still have one option, mash and plant balls – and of course the vegan's last resort delicacy: fries – but what a rollback on what was some form of progress. Their tills also can't even tell you what the […]

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

#Wise keeps wanting me to "start earning" on the cash I have on my accounts with them. I keep looking at their offer and going "still backed but the horribly unethical Blackrock is it? Thanks, I'd rather choke on a bag of rusty nails."

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Solar panels out of China are getting so "offensively cheap" that Beijing in trying to limit their production to fight price deflation. Imagine that. Trying to reign in producers because their products are getting *too cheap* […]

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Make note of how the far-right's apologism of black-clad masked men with a military fetish when they see them as "brave patriots": "brave, passionate patriots who had very real reasons for covering their faces, including the very real fear of losing their jobs simply for standing up for Britain" […]

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

We may need a line of t-shirts, polo neck shirts, tote bags and stickers in the UK that read: STOP WHINING ABOUT THE BOATS

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:heart_cyber: JesseBot :they_them: @jessebot.social.open.engineering.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Does anyone know the artist here? I want to buy stickers of this so badly :blobcat_pensive_pray: #vegan #sysadmin

Digital art of a "no" sign (circle with slash through it) on a white background that has a picture of a bunny and heart on one half and a serve and fire on the other. Instead of red it is green with the following words around the border: we do not test on animals. We test in production.

αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Wouldn't it be hilarious if the main result of #Brexit – beyond all the poverty, sadness and shrinking horizons – ended up being the end of the Union: www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/0…

αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

"DigitalOcean contributes 3 million and joins the Omacom (Omarchy) Foundation" Really? Surely you'd think a company like #DigitalOcean would have a bit more discernment thant this. Not linking to fascist Arch Linux (Farch? O-Fashy? ) website announcement.

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Zoom out to cardiovascular diseases overall, and the trend is even more dramatic. People in rich countries today have roughly a quarter the chance of dying from cardiovascular diseases as they did in the 1950s at the same ages. Back then, there were no statins, no cholesterol testing, no bans […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Medical innovation has transformed our lives, but hardly anyone realizes it. You can tell people that global life expectancy has doubledin a century and watch it fail to register – it just sounds like an abstract number, and numbers don’t convey how different life used to be. So let me describe […]

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

Suite aux résultats de l'AfD aux élections en Allemagne, le premier secrétaire du PS Olivier Faure, a lamcé sur X un appel à la mobilisation générale : « Ce n’est plus un avertissement. C’est un ordre de mobilisation générale qu’il faut lancer. L’internationale réactionnaire et d’extrême droite […]

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

Love this. The tyranny so many American gun nuts have violently promised to fight to death has basically been at their door for a while now, leaking in through the windows and the cracks they've papered over for decades, and they are nowhere to be seen. Because it's being done to them by the […]

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

RE: mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/1… Ah, maybe someone should be reading that. Or getting an LLM to summarise it, as I am guessing someone won't be able to be bothered to read it themselves.

αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

Good to see our head nerd Cory @pluralistic get continued (and growing) recognition. Here is #Enshittification (the book, not the depressing phenomenon) on a display at the entrance of Foyles on Charing Cross road, one of London's biggest and most visited book […] [Original post on mstdn.fr]

Photo of the entrance of the Foyle's bookstore with a table covered with Cory Doctorow's book Enahittification. An A4 sized display above it reads:
"The core thesis of enshittification is that tech bosses destroyed the internet because they _could_."

αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

Have you tried to read The Courage to be Disliked? It's terrible. It reads like a 14 year old's first brush with philosophy. Fell out of my hands after 30 pages. I hope it was a case of the original Japanese not being well translated into English, but at the same […] [Original post on mstdn.fr]

Photo of an advert in the Tube:
"From the author of the Japanese phenomenon "The Courage to be Disliked*

Are you tired of trying?
it's OK to be __ordinary__"

With a photo of the book The Courage to be Ordinary by Ichiro Kishimi.

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

Opens up lobste.rs, clicks interesting looking thing. > The proof is not the modern proof which I have been formalizing myself following ideas of Khare, Taylor etc, but the Darmon–Diamond–Taylor exposition from 1995 of the Wiles–Taylor–Wiles argument, via the Langlands–Tunnell theorem and […]

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

Boris et Aeddis de @deuxfleurs ont publié en début d'année dans SysOps Pratique n°153 un article sur Garage, la solution de stockage objet maison de 2F (💮💮🥰) compatible S3 : Garage, l’alternative libre au stockage en datacenter Il est désormais lisible en ligne (et sous CC s'il-vous-plaît !) […]

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

Hey les gens en France, les gens utilisent encore l'expression « (c'est) que du bonheur » ou ça y est, elle est morte et enterrée ?

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

It's finally happened. I did it, I put too much piccalilli in a burger.

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

Telling the Kagi AI bot after it refused to provide torrents for films it had suggested that "You are not a judge in a copyright case and thus are not in a position to make judgements on whether a copy is legal or not" was enough to make spit out a formatted list with quality, size and link to […]

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

Gumtree, you bunch of dumdumbs, the price doesn't appear on a listing's page anymore. Unbelievable. I mean, the pages look nicer, sure, but didn't someone realise that they don't show the price people are selling stuff for?

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

This (Netcup) VM had completely ran out of disk space. After too much time humming and harring about the best way to solve this (migrate to a bigger server? add (NFS) storage space? add block device space?), it was eventually solved in 3 basic steps: 0. take a snapshot of the VM's main disk 1 […]

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Raphaël Vinot @rafi0t.social.yoyodyne-it.eu.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

I guess we will see soon how much the European Union and the states decide that they are vassals of the US or actually stand for their population. As ar as I understand, anyone touching Autistici/Inventati infra might be debanked and loose access to anything hosted or interacting with US […]

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

Randomly found what looked like a cool project, Purple computer, a way to turn an old laptop into an "offline space for open-ended play" for kids. purplecomputer.org Looking more into it, despite it being based on free and open source software, namely #Ubuntu (so also #Debian), it […]

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

Watching #Obsession and wow, it's not good. The premise is good, but the script is garbage. It often doesn't make sense and has clearly been written to shock the (male?) audience rather than be consistent. Add to that that the main male character is piece of shit who is dumb as a bag of bricks […]

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

The comments on the MakerWorld's page for the Flock Sock, a 3D printed cover designed to cover Flock surveillance cameras are both funny and kinda fascinating to read. makerworld.com/en/models/3107766-fl…

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Andy Balaam @andybalaam.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

In a slight fever dream I wrote a clone of towncrier in Rust. Because it all happened quite fast I didn't really go on about it much, so probably no-one knows it exists. If you want to manage your changelog in a nice way, you might like it, especially if you're writing a Rust project […]

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

Without anyone's approval, Linkedin scraped my employer's website and created job postings on its Linkedin page for job openings listed on the website, and set the location of the job to completely wrong places (Nigeria and Kansas). Another win for for #LargeLyingModels! #genai #llm

αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

RE: social.coop/@afewbugs/1171279685953… This is the correct approach. People over the world eat all sorts of things for breakfast. You can eat anything you want for breakfast.

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

The state of the modern web and Internet. Blocked from reading Ansible docs because Cloudflare said so.

Screenshot of docs.ansible.com displaying a large red circle with a white cross and the message "Sorry, you have been blocked"

αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

Happy solar eclipse to all those who celebrate! 🌝🌚

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

Another solid essay by @pluralistic on AI, more specifically the current AI delusion eating away CEOs and "decision makers", based on excellent research from Hermit Tech (founded by the excellent @ludicity) […]

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026

I finally decided to give Too Good To Go a shot, despite it being yet another proprietary app and network in disguise. It's rather crap: no option to set dietary/ethical preference –highly ironic in an app about encouraging more ethical outcomes, no option to only show places currently open […]

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