A thread of the posts by @cait.bsky.social. They read as follows:
I had my first talk therapy session with my new therapist and she hit me with the “you’re very self-aware” ☹️
not the “pleasure to have in class” of therapy
that’s right, I know all the tools and have developed countertools so they no longer work. welcome to thunderdome
Spotify Technology SA co-founder Martin Lorentzon said he would leave Sweden immediately if the country introduces new wealth taxes.
Lorentzon urged politicians to consider higher taxes on capital or dividends instead of a wealth tax, saying it would be “directly counterproductive”.
Lorentzon said the discussions about new taxes have already created uncertainty, with entrepreneurs asking if it is still OK to start a company in Sweden.
Hundreds of social media posts by Prime Minister Rob Jetten and his party D66 were written by artificial intelligence, the Volkskrant discovered. Jetten’s AI-generated posts cover sensitive topics, including the war in Ukraine, the commemoration of the MH17 plane crash, and the government’s apology to the Mollucan people. Experts worry about the effect this will have on the Prime Minister’s credibility.
So, I’ve got a homelab thing going, with NextCloud and Immich and other things… using Docker. But the one thing I can’t seem to wrap my head around is how to get my calendar needs met behind the scenes. I’m hoping there’s some sort of calendar syncing server I can use.
The problem: I use NextCloud and another android app to use my calendar. Easy. Historically, my household has used a single Google Calendar shared amongst members.
The real problem: They won’t ditch Google. But I need a solution so that I can:
I’m hoping that there’s maybe a syncing solution out there that can play middle man and sync the two calendars directly, rather than having separate calendars for the two environments?
Hello folks!
I would like to share an update about BentoPDF. It’s an open source privacy first PDF toolkit that runs in your browser.
1. You can now actually edit text inside PDFs
BentoPDF now allows you to click existing text, edit it, and have the text reflow while preserving the original fonts and styling.
It also includes:
Please note this is a work in progress. You may encounter bugs, which you can report and I will look into.
2. Hyper Compress
Hyper is an open source PDF compression engine built to solve specific problems.
Repository and benchmarks: github.com/alam00000/bentopdf-hyper-compress
I also compared it to Adobe’s compression API, but only managed around 100 PDFs where results were within 5%. Testing on a bigger corpus got expensive.
3. Kura
Kura is a PDF standards, conversion and preflight engine.
It supports:
It has been tested against several standards suites, including the veraPDF corpus, Isartor, BFO, Ghent Output Suite 5.0, the PDF/UA Reference Suite and Cal Poly’s PDF/VT suite.
Across 30,677 PDF conversions it had zero crashes and zero timeouts, with a 0.05 second median conversion time.
Like Hyper, it ships as a CLI, C library, npm package, Docker image and WebAssembly build.
Repository and benchmarks: github.com/alam00000/bentopdf-kura
The release also contains other improvements and bug fixes: github.com/alam00000/bentopdf/releases/…/v2.8.8
Thank you and have a great weekend!
Romance of the Stars
In commemoration of the release of “Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie -Walpurgisnacht: Rising-” in Japan today (28th Augest, 2026).
Edit: Mine’s a combination of Your Lie in April and Liz and the Blue Bird
Full title: The Dutch Data Protection Authority has decided to fine Uber €825 million ($966 million) under European data protection rules for deactivating driver accounts through automated systems without adequately informing them
Full title: ICE Wants the Country’s Voter Data | Voting data is public by design, but ICE is looking for a federal contractor to help it handle voter registration and history files to find what it describes as fraud.
Hi! So I’m considering…maybe having an NPU or something similar to be hooked to my proxmox server, which runs in a mini PC. It’s a EliteDesk 800 micro form factor. It has a Core i5 8500 CPU, which at the moment of purchase was good enough for live encoding HEVC video on Jellyfin…that was my main concern back then. But I’d like to consider the possibility of hooking maybe some docker instances or other containers to some local-only AI acceleration. Is there any NPU or cheap GPU I could hook on USB to this proxmox server to run? Has it been done before?
Thanks!
Diskutera gärna om initiativet och skriv under om ni känner för det. Det är långt kvar men öppnade för bara två dagar sedan.
Going from being almost cancelled, to having a live action movie to promote the release of your next game. Makes you wonder.
Key excerpt:
Flock Safety became the protested brand. Axon Enterprise now sells Outpost and Lightpost readers that livestream and feed Axon Fusus; Fleet cameras scan plates from patrol cars. Motorola Solutions bought VaaS for $445 million in 2019 and kept Vigilant Solutions and Digital Recognition Network. The vendor changes, the mass surveillance network remains.
Cameras are not the only issue with surveillance systems like these. These devices can also log Audio, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and RFID and other signals your devices broadcast. Then they fuse data collected without warrants with commercial data-broker records and “AI”, to create a comprehensive database of everyone surveiled, who everyone is, what that are doing, and what they “will do”.
These are not just cameras or license plate readers, this is a surveillance network. It’s a violation of privacy and the 4th amendment, and we should not let this happen.
Hey everyone! I’m the developer of Kingdom Rising It’s a simple and fun strategy game where you build your base, upgrade your kingdom, train troops, and raid other players. Compete with friends and climb the leaderboard!
Would love for you to try it and tell me what you think
Job postings and interviews with senior security officials at Anthropic show that the frontier AI lab is building out an extensive monitoring system to keep tabs on activists who oppose the rapid development of artificial intelligence.
In addition to monitoring activists in the vicinity of Anthropic executives and keeping tabs on protests near physical Anthropic assets, the firm is also implementing a “pre-crime” approach, attempting to predict incidents before they happen. In some cases, that also means reporting suspects to police before a crime occurs. Anthropic did not respond to the Prospect’s request for comment.
Anthropic’s plans to surveil dissent are at odds with the firm’s efforts to cast itself as the responsible alternative to OpenAI. At the beginning of the year, the Department of Defense and Anthropic engaged in a high-profile dustup over Anthropic’s refusal to allow the military to use its tools for mass domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons. That tension seems to have eased as Anthropic hires for “national security sales” positions, seeking to restart military contracts. The increase in threat monitoring of domestic opponents fits with a renewed focus on national security.
cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/28408084
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