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Andrew Gallagher @andrewg.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 1h

Peace in the Middle East? Perhaps. But will there be justice? I won't be holding my breath.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgv0gypy75o

Palestinians celebrate ceasefire deal - but fear confronting grief

People in Gaza celebrate a potential end to the war, but know it will mean facing the grief they have put aside.

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Andrew Gallagher @andrewg.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 1h

"Don’t think about how you would use these powers, Minister. Think of how your enemies would use them against you. Because that’s the boat we will all be in, if Ireland supports this outdated and authoritarian law. Please take this last chance to defend our individual and collective security." […]

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Andrew Gallagher @andrewg.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 17h

Sigh. Wasted an hour trying to debug an Apple Migration Assistant issue, only to find I had the Wrong Kind of usbc cable.

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Scott Francis @darkuncle.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 2d

my wife found this online somewhere recently, and I don't think I've agreed this hard with anything in a long time

Screenshot of a page of a book, first line is highlighted:

The real luxuries in life:

time
health
a quiet mind
slow mornings
ability to travel
rest without guilt
a good night’s sleep
calm and “boring” days
meaningful conversations
home-cooked meals
people you love
people who love you back

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 1d

jetbrains is far from the first company to make this particular pair of claims but it is simply, on the most fundamental level, impossible to mass-collect people’s terminal and editor contents and also not collect sensitive or personal data.

I realize they […]

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screenshot: We’re now adding the option to allow the collection of detailed code‑related data pertaining to IDE activity, such as edit history, terminal usage, and your interactions with AI features. This may include code snippets, prompt text, and AI responses.

That sounds like a lot, and it is, but that’s where the real value for improvements comes from. If you allow us to collect this data, we will make sure that:
No sensitive or personal information is shared.

(Snippets of the text have been highlighted: “edit history, terminal usage, code snippets, prompt text … no sensitive or personal information is shared.”

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Claire McNab @2legged.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Scott Brown's defence of the European Convention on Human Rights (#echr) is good but unexceptional. Yet it is a #bbcnews story, because it is this #northnorthamptonshire councillor's reason for leaving the #uk's #conservativeparty […]

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Image of black text ona white background:

The ECHR is not merely an international agreement; it is a cornerstone of civil liberties, enshrining rights that protect individuals from arbitrary state power and ensure justice, fairness, and dignity for all. Its origins trace back to the aftermath of World War II, but its spirit echoes the foundational tenets of British liberty as embodied in the Magna Carta of 1215.

The Magna Carta, often hailed as the bedrock of constitutional governance, established that no one—not even the sovereign—is above the law, limiting executive overreach and guaranteeing due process.

The ECHR builds upon this legacy, adapting these ancient protections to modern challenges and safeguarding the very freedoms that make Britain a beacon of democracy.

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Glyph @glyph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

the biggest problem we *already have* in open source right now, which we have oversimplified into the term "supply chain security", is the lack of understanding that putting a dependency in your project's dependency set (package.json, pyproject.toml, requirements.txt, cargo.toml, etc) is not […]

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Andrew Gallagher @andrewg.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 1d

“Until recently, using AI to fake someone’s likeness was called a deepfake and considered taboo. Now OpenAI has rebranded it as a cameo and made it the social activity of the week. Lost in the wave of LOLs is what it actually feels like to lose control of your own face.” […]

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Andrew Gallagher @andrewg.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 1d

“By 2038 we will face a challenge that completely eclipses everything that was done in Y2K, with likely 1000 times more connected systems than we had back then. We don’t have either 1000 times more time nor 1000 times more money. We don’t even know where are all these systems that will break.” […]

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Andrew Gallagher @andrewg.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 1d

“What’s driving this instability — and increasingly threatening the viability of advanced democratic states — is a structural demographic shift. The ageing of populations across the developed world is no longer a distant challenge. It is now a live crisis, and its financial, political, and […]

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Jordan Maris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 #NAFO @jmaris.me · 2d

Side point on #chatcontrol: When I worked on the law in the European Parliament, in the face of questionably legal, and highly problematic behavior by DG HOME, I prepared a whitepaper on why it was such a terrible Idea.

As it is in the public interest, I have decided to make that white paper […]

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Amber :neodog_box: @puppygirlhornypost2.transfem.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Does anyone else cope by just overloading their brain til thoughts hurt?

anie girl working on computers captioned "I'm fine as long as I'm constantly distracted"

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 2d

The FT has described the AI bubble in objective terms. 40% of growth in the US this year has been AI. I find it notable this observation is in a “mainstream” financial paper rather than a blog.

If all of the AI vanished what would be lost? Would your job be harder? would you ba unable to do […]

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Andrew Gallagher @andrewg.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 2d

@donncha I knew one person in Portadown with a betamax player in the 80s.

Andrew Gallagher @andrewg.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 3d

@ianRobinson "Republic of Ireland" is the sweet spot of correctness and clarity. 👍

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Andrew Gallagher @andrewg.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 3d

“Democracy isn’t a given. Whether it can be fortified against authoritarian takeovers in robust and enduring ways is an open and now desperately urgent question. We can’t wait for ‘sheer reason’ to either preserve or restore democratic normality.

Trump’s rapid dismantling of US democracy […]

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Aliide @aliide.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

What Merkel blames for Russian aggression vs. actions that actually encouraged Russian aggression. Maybe some humility is due.

(NB: *Russia* is responsible for Russian aggression)

#Ukraine #RussiaUkraineWar #baltics #poland #estonia #Latvia #Lithuania #Germany […]

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Andrew Gallagher @andrewg.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 3d

#iepol #aras25 #ferengi

Jim Gavin meme with text:

#1: ONCE YOU HAVE THEIR MONEY
YOU NEVER GIVE IT BACK

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`Da Elf @elfin.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

Something isn't right, can't put my finger on it.

A float plane, upside down, but it's floating...ish.

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Andrew Gallagher @andrewg.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 3d

This BTW, is what makes The Traitors a genius TV show, because the audience can see all these collective-action failure modes playing out in near real time.

Andrew Gallagher @andrewg.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 3d

Reasonable people can disagree on politics, so long as they disagree in good faith. But what if some of them are acting in bad faith? What if some of them believe others are acting in bad faith? What if none of them are acting in bad faith but everyone believes everyone else is? What if neither […]

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Andrew Gallagher @andrewg.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 3d

I just saw a post (from mastodon.social) on my timeline with “RE: ” as the first line in the @ivory interface, but in the web app it had a novel content warning that I had to click through to see the linked post. It was something lile “your site administrators have limited […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 3d

Sometimes when you find someone is unwilling to learn or change their mind about an issue it's because someone they care about, someone they respect has a certain view. And they think changing their mind would be put distance between themselves and that person.

No mountain of facts or […]

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Andrew Gallagher @andrewg.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 3d

“What scares Klein (per his Shapiro into) are the stakes of American politics, which have gotten far too high for his liking. But it is a historical fact (as Coates continually reminded Klein, to Klein's consternation) that for many people, who do not get to be we in the formulations of people […]

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Andrew Gallagher @andrewg.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 3d

@ivory I had two filtered notifications and was confused why I didn’t see them (or any notification) in Ivory. I see the warning now in the mastodon web app which allows me to release them. Is there no support for this in Ivory?