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Written by Steven Vaughan-Nichols June 11, 2025 at 11:31 a.m. PT

"Why? Because they're concerned about who controls European data, who sets the rules, and who can potentially cut off access to essential services in times of geopolitical tension.

For example, after the EU-based International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister, Yoav Gallan, for war crimes, President Donald Trump issued ICC sanctions. This order allegedly prompted Microsoft to lock the ICC's Chief Prosecutor, Karim Khan, out of his email accounts, according to reports. "

Original text by @bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works

After using VLC for over 15 years, I decided to explore a little more. I had no clue that it comes with thousands of internet radio stations on Icecast, as well as the ability to add all your podcasts into it (just need to find the link to your podcasts hosting service). I no longer use any streaming services (to me, they are criminal, plus they're full of ads and generally getting worse and more expensive every day)

Just wanted to let anyone know who may not know how much VLC can do!

scrcpy is an open-source application that allows you to display and control Android devices connected via USB or TCP/IP, offering high performance and low latency mirroring and input control from your computer.

Key changes in v3.3:

• Associate UHID devices to virtual displays
• Fix audio capture on Android 16
• Fix segfault with --no-window without --no-control
• Fix default locked capture orientation
• Add app name SDL hint
• Report specific error for INJECT_EVENT permission
• Upgrade platform-tools (adb) to 36.0.0
• Upgrade SDL to 2.32.8
• Upgrade libusb to 1.0.29
• Various technical fixes

Wordpress-activitypub is a WordPress plugin that enables ActivityPub protocol support, allowing WordPress sites to interact with decentralized social networks. This release updates compatibility and improves interactivity features.

Key changes in version 6.0.0:

• Add in_reply_to Actor to Activity audience
• Validate $type integrity for published posts
• Add fallback-avatar to reaction dropdown list
• Update WordPress requirement to 6.5
• Remove deprecated functions, filters, and actions
• Make "Follow Me" interactive
• Improve wp-config handling for Surge
• Remove JavaScript wave effect
• Use Interactivity API for Reactions and Remote Reply
• Re-add HTML handling for summaries/excerpts
• Fix Site-Health WebFinger check
• Strip shortcodes from excerpts
• Fix editor console warnings and add back compatibility with WP 6.5
• Improve plugin's Followers storage and use Interactivity API for Followers
• Limit user options to users with ActivityPub capability
• Change to use post_content to store Actor-JSON
• Avoid showing likes and reposts for comments
• Add h-card support for IndieWeb movement

OC below by @HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org

What called my attention is that assessments of AI are becoming polarized and somewhat a matter of belief.

Some people firmly believe LLMs are helpful. But programming is a logical task and LLMs can't think - only generate statistically plausible patterns.

The author of the article explains that this creates the same psychological hazards like astrology or tarot cards, psychological traps that have been exploited by psychics for centuries - and even very intelligent people can fall prey to these.

Finally what should cause alarm is that on top that LLMs can't think, but people behave as if they do, there is no objective scientifically sound examination whether AI models can create any working software faster. Given that there are multi-billion dollar investments, and there was more than enough time to carry through controlled experiments, this should raise loud alarm bells.

It is a "snippet manager" although I mainly use it to note down useful pieces of code in case I need some of it for later. Or as a scratchpad.

https://curi.ooo/