⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@social.cleverlibre.org

@EU_Commission
Meanwhile in #BrexitBritain the government has announced it's to have its own UK-specific standard for device connectors. Because.... #sovereignty #takingbackcontrol

The wait is finally over. From 2024, USB-C will be the common standard for electronic devices in the EU – and we have already seen the impact!

It means
🔌The same charger for all phones, tablets and cameras
⚡ Harmonised fast-charging technology
🔄Reduced e-waste

One charger to rule them all.

Now, a reality.

Learn more about the #EUCommonCharger here: https://europa.eu/!hwjj3G

#SingleMarket #DigitalEU

@freemo Thank you for the update. I do not know if this is something that you can plan for the future but many of the features on #Tusky are not available through my #QOTO account such as #trending #hashtags.

Good news for #QOTO. We are now being funded by some donated resources, both money and developers. We will essentially have a full-time server administrator and a part-time developer to advance the QOTO software. They will be starting January 1st.

This should allow us to start adopting many of the features we have wanted to bring in that people have been requesting.

modern society is so divorced from our food sources that most people who eat pop tarts have never actually killed one themselves

#theexpance I still don't rlly understand *why* the MCRN was using the Scopuli w/ a distress call as bait. Who were they hoping to catch?

OpenAI have a problem: it's not just training text that ChatGPT can reconstruct when prompted, and DALL-E does the same with images—including movie, TV, and computer game scenes and characters. Reductio ad absurdam: trademark-infringing output from a two word prompt ("animated toys"): https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/things-are-about-to-get-a-lot-worse

Being sued by the NYT is bad enough. Being sued by Disney? That' gonna *hurt* …

Quadra Pounder with Cheese

A common assertion is that conferences shouldn't remove anyone who hasn't been convicted in court. This means that conferences can't remove people who scream over speakers, who drunkenly harass other attendees, who shit in the catering, and so on - this may be disruptive, may even be criminal, but even if you saw it happen they haven't been found guilty and so should be allowed to continue attending.

I don't think people want to attend conferences run by people who sincerely believe this.

@frank_rieger @linuzifer if Jake was declared unwelcome in 2016 where then does the arbitration board enter into this? It is confusing to me that it is being mentioned, either he is welcome to attend CCC events or he is not? Or has the creation of this board provided an amnesty to those previously declared unwelcome until a further board decision?

@andypiper I'm going to have to stop referring to rubbish stuff as "cobblers". It turns out that old cobblers are better than new corporations. Who would have thought it!