Ivan Herman
ivan-herman.w3c.social.ap.brid.gy
Ivan Herman
@ivan-herman.w3c.social.ap.brid.gy
Emeritus W3C team member, still active in digital publishing, semantic web, data, verifiable credentials. Also interested in history, arts (painting, sculpture […]

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Irish man with valid US work permit held in ICE detention for five months https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/09/irish-man-seamus-culleton-ice-detention
Seamus Culleton has lived in US for two decades, married a citizen and runs a plastering business but faces deportation
持有有效美国工作许可的爱尔兰男子遭移民与海关执法局拘留长达五个月
Irish man with valid US work permit held in ICE detention for five months (www.theguardian.com) 02:29  ↑ 131 HN Points
www.theguardian.com
February 10, 2026 at 7:10 AM
Reposted by Ivan Herman
Signal president warns AI agents are making encryption irrelevant
https://cyberinsider.com/signal-president-warns-ai-agents-are-making-encryption-irrelevant/
Signal Foundation president Meredith Whittaker said artificial intelligence agents embedded within operating systems are eroding the […]
Original post on mastodon.scot
mastodon.scot
January 31, 2026 at 5:12 PM
RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@brucelawson/115977441836073198

Drag-and-drop tiling or opening a link in a tile are actually pretty cool! Having tiling in the browser was already great but these just make it better...
No AI Slop. Just Powerful Features. Oh, hello, Vivaldi 7.8 for Mac, Lin, Win. Howdy, drag-and-drop tab tiling, opening links directly into tiled tabs, smarter pinned tabs, caret browsing, and more. It's like a personal snog from me to you, but in binary […]
Original post on social.vivaldi.net
social.vivaldi.net
January 29, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Reposted by Ivan Herman
This is the first example I’ve seen of an American government using AI to meaningfully misrepresent actual events with the intent to deceive the public. We are at Stalinesque levels of propaganda.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/past-the-b...
January 23, 2026 at 2:23 PM
New kid on the block: an LLM interface with privacy, from the author of Signal:

https://confer.to
Confer
Confer - Private AI
confer.to
January 20, 2026 at 11:25 AM
"[…] While many believe that LLMs do not memorize much of their training data, recent work shows that substantial amounts of copyrighted text can be extracted from open-weight models. However, it remains an open question if similar extraction is feasible for production LLMs, given the safety […]
Original post on w3c.social
w3c.social
January 18, 2026 at 9:56 AM
The [US] Environmental Protection Agency says it will stop calculating how much money is saved in healthcare costs avoided and deaths prevented from air pollution rules.

The[…] EPA will focus [on] rules for fine particulate matter and ozone only on the cost to industry, part of a broader […]
Original post on w3c.social
w3c.social
January 17, 2026 at 12:01 PM
Reposted by Ivan Herman
According to Tech Radar, a reason to avoid using Vivaldi web browser is "No AI-powered assistant". Yup - and we're proud of it! If you don't want slop while you shop, or scurf while you surf, give the European browser a try.
https://vivaldi.com/blog/a-i-browsers-the-price-of-admission-is-too-high/
January 15, 2026 at 11:39 AM
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The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred.
It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become
January 10, 2026 at 9:15 AM
I got a typical spam today, mimicking my bank's notification whereby my mobile application is expired, and I should renew it by clicking on a link. So far (alas!) nothing particular. Out of curiosity, I looked up the link that would be the target on my expected click, and it was on the following […]
Original post on w3c.social
w3c.social
January 6, 2026 at 5:25 AM
Reposted by Ivan Herman
My niece comes to the U.S. most years from Europe to visit her grandfather.

This year she was stopped at the airport, taken into an interrogation room, accused of being a prostitute, had her phone taken and scanned, and released.

You know, in case you were wondering why tourism to the U.S. is […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
January 5, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Reposted by Ivan Herman
Don't say you don't need feminism. You do.
January 4, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Reposted by Ivan Herman
Yes yes yes and yes. And analysts in Europe have been saying this for quite a while too.
January 3, 2026 at 8:57 AM
Someone may help. I've just joined pixelfed, and my posts appear only to followers. As if my account was private, which is not the intention, but I find no way to make it public. The faq refers to a privacy setting but I see no options there. Interestingly my first two entries were all right […]
Original post on w3c.social
w3c.social
January 2, 2026 at 4:38 PM
Reposted by Ivan Herman
it's truly amazing what LLMs can achieve. we now know it's possible to produce an html5 parsing library with nothing but the full source code of an existing html5 parsing library, all the source code of all other open source libraries ever, a meticulously maintained and extremely comprehensive […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
December 17, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Nicolas Sarkozy reçoit le “prix de littérature” de la FIFA https://www.legorafi.fr/?p=49565
December 16, 2025 at 5:00 AM