dch @dch@bsd.network

@siracusa Wrong. The things the EU is currently asking of Apple were set out as remedies and punishments in the DMA in case of systematic non-compliance.

"Remedies: In case of systematic infringements of the DMA obligations by gatekeepers, additional remedies may be imposed on the gatekeepers after a market investigation. Such remedies will need to be proportionate to the offence committed. If necessary and as a last resort option, non-financial remedies can be imposed. These can include behavioural and structural remedies, e.g. the divestiture of (parts of) a business."

Actions, meet consequences.

@siracusa Hard disagree.

The interoperability requirements set out by the DMA were clear from the start. Despite Apple getting special treatment in the form of constant communication with lawmakers - something us ordinary citizens would never get - Apple has utterly refused to do anything to improve interoperability for e.g. headphones, smartwatches, etc.

If normal people keep breaking the law while refusing to work with the judiciary, they end up in deep shit they can not get out of. Why should Apple be treated differently?

Apple was given more than enough time to e.g. make affordances for third party smartwatches, or even just define a timeline for doing so, which would've shown willingness. Instead, they chose to do less than nothing. They fucked around. Now they're finding out.

Perhaps they can take some of their "AI" people and put them on smartwatch API duty. Not my concern how they do it, how much manpower or money it'll cost, or how much it'll harm their other efforts. I don't give a shit how a career criminal pay their dues to society, and I don't care how Apple does it either.

Photography of a departing train next to the small light in the dark tunnels at Paddington London Underground station.

It took a few attempts, but it rear of the train is nicely illuminated when timed perfectly.

Note: Taken safely behind the yellow line with a zoom lens.

#photography #railway

imagine you're driving to a council oral submission and some cunty redhead on a bike yells at you that you're an asshole who can't drive, then you get to the meeting and she's one of the councillors. vote for me and you can make this dream a reality.

I've been toying a bit with using LLM's for generating solutions for simple spatial analysis tasks (clustering etc.).

Oh boy! 😔 This stuff will *cost lives* as it will inevitably be used in real-world applications in contexts that are not robust to bullshitting.

Not to speak of the countless hours wasted by experienced folks to fix the stuff junior "developers" come up with.

Productivity boost my a**. This will cause maintenance/debugging/cleanup work of unprecedented scale.

#llm #chatgpt

The Science for ME forum has published its first factsheet which gives an introduction to ME/CFS. It was created following extensive discussion among forum members.

https://s4me.info/docs/WhatIsMECFS-S4ME-Factsheet.pdf

Factsheets on other topics related to ME/CFS are in the pipeline.

#MEcfs #PwME @mecfs

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/556295/government-s-primary-healthcare-spend-hasn-t-increased-in-real-terms-since-2009 #nzpol #healthcare

"Gehäufte Masernfälle in Ottakring"
https://wien.orf.at/stories/3299189/

"Besonders schlimm dabei ist, dass einer der jungen Patienten unangekündigt mit Masern gekommen war.
Der 10-Jährige soll sogar einen Absonderungsbescheid gehabt haben [...] In dessen Schulklasse hatte es einen Masernfall gegeben. Damit hätte er seine Wohnung gar nicht verlassen dürfen. Er soll aber mit der Straßenbahn in die Arztpraxis gefahren sein, wo dann die Diagnose Masern erfolgt sei.
Er könnte so drei Babys, die in der Praxis waren, mit der Krankheit infiziert haben. [...] die Babys [...] haben Immunglobuline bekommen"

#wien #masern

Winner of the March Krita Art Challenge: Elixiah with "Black Bear Pass."

https://krita-artists.org/t/black-bear-pass-march-challenge-entry/119739

#krita #ArtChallenge @KritaChallenge #landscape

Firefall

Firefall is a relative newly discovered phenomenon discovered in Yosemite National Park not to be confused with the old firefall that was manmade.
I've been to Yosemite on 8 different occasions trying to capture this and have been skunked 7 times. This year everything finally lined up properly and this was the results I achieved.
https://pixels.com/featured/firefall-bill-gallagher.html
#Firefall #BillGallagherPhotography #HorsetailFalls Yosemite ##YosemiteValley #Nature #NaturalPhenomenon #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt

Let's take a moment to remember the guy who made sure we don't have to change Every Goddamn Clock today, David L. Mills, creator of Network Time Protocol (NTP) who passed last year.

My wristwatch is synced to my phone, which is synced to the internet, which knows that time it is right now thanks to David Mills. Cheers to his memory 🥃

https://cse.engin.umich.edu/stories/remembering-alum-david-mills-who-brought-the-internet-into-perfect-time//

#DST #NTP #FOSS

Frame 89,135 of 207,800

An important thought that seems to elude the AI galaxy brains like billg who want to replace professionals with LLMs is: how are new phenomena identified and dealt with, given that LLMs are trained only on PRE-EXISTING data?

For example: how would a hypothetical LLM physician have identified a case of COVID19 back in February 2020? (Hint: it'd have diagnosed it as something else—wrongly—every time! Because not in the training data.)

Dash to Panel lives on, thanks to Zorin sponsorship

https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/30/zorin_and_dash_to_panel/

There's also a new release of the Zorin OS distro

<- by me on @theregister

I get free tea and toast if this 👆 ⬆️ gets boosted - Howay, help me out!!! 😁

If you've been waiting on joining InternetNZ to keep it from falling into the hands of the right-wing FSU… the time has come. To vote in the important AGM in July you'll need to join before the end of March.

Their membership process has been overwhelmed with numbers they've never had before, and it's not clear yet how many are aligned with FSU and how many are there to defend the new constitution. Best make sure they don't get to co-opt an important institution.

"I encourage my readers to become members before midnight on March 31st in order to be able to vote at the annual general meeting in July, where the FSU is likely to be putting forward amendments." - Byron Clark

Free Speech Union plans hostile takeover of InternetNZ

https://www.feijoadispatch.nz/p/free-speech-union-plans-hostile-takeover