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@osma@mas.to · Feb 25, 2026

I'm old enough to remember how Google first was "don't be evil" and then dropped that.

In other news:
https://time.com/7380854/exclusive-anthropic-drops-flagship-safety-pledge/

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@osma@mas.to · Feb 20, 2026

"suomalainen viranomaisportaali suomi.fi sijaitsee yhdysvaltalaisen Amazon Web Servicesin (AWS) pilvipalvelussa. Pilvipalvelu on hienompi nimi jonkun muun tietokoneelle."
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@osma@mas.to · Feb 18, 2026

RE: @SteveThompson@mastodon.social

Trust Microsoft with data security, they say. The biggest corporate email service provider, they say. Use it to exchange contract drafts, they say.

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@osma@mas.to · Feb 14, 2026

This is a fantastic piece of writing every purported tech or biz "journalist" should read five times and think very hard about.
https://karlbode.com/the-press-is-still-propping-up-elon-musks-supergenius-engineer-mythology/

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@osma@mas.to · Feb 14, 2026

Mikä on kohtuullinen hinta 1Gbps yritys-kuituliittymästä pk-seudulla, kun kuitu on jo olemassa ja puhutaan vain reitityksestä ja kaistasta?

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@osma@mas.to · Feb 13, 2026

"Kyseessä on kiinteistökehittämiseksi naamioitu ryöstöhanke"
https://yle.fi/a/74-20207841

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If I worked for Mastodon, I would create a turn key solution for parties that want to set up a Mastodon server for all their party candidates. Ilhan Omar is still on X. Bernie Sanders is still on X. A

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@osma@mas.to · Feb 02, 2026

As in https://joinmastodon.org/hosting @randahl@mastodon.social

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@osma@mas.to · Jan 19, 2026

The land used to grow biofuels is enough provide 4% of fuel use. If the same amount of land was covered in solar panels, it would produce 23 times more energy and could power all the world's vehicles - if they were EVs. https://ourworldindata.org/biofuel-land-solar-electric-vehicles

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World's smallest violin needed, again: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/openai-loses-key-discovery-battle-why-deleted-library-of-pirated-books-1236436363/ "OpenAI Loses Key Dis

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@osma@mas.to · Nov 28, 2025

If the information regarding the source is destroyed, perhaps the responsible action is to destroy the product, too. That's what food and drug safety would dictate. @cstross@wandering.shop

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One of the reasons I'm skeptical of the practicality of e2e verifiable voting schemes is that every system proposed so far is fragile. A single mishap can result in an unverifiable election (and, in w

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Fortunately, voting in scholarly societies (like IACR) is relatively low stakes, as elections go.

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The other big practical problem with e2e verifiable voting schemes is that their mathematical complexity, coupled with the existence of a voting receipt, can make it very hard to assure nonspecialists

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@osma@mas.to · Nov 23, 2025

This. The more high stakes a vote is, the more important that it is transparently valid even to a casual observer. Where valid often is, at once, confidential, observable, accessible and free from coercion. Those are hard requirements to meet. @mattblaze@federate.social

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