Notices by Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: (jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net)

„This project maps the "Authoritarian Stack"—a network of firms, funds, and political actors turning core state functions into private platforms. Based on an open-source dataset of over 250 actors, thousands of verified connections, and $45 billion in documented financial flows.“ By Francesca Bria et al, funded by the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung.

https://www.authoritarian-stack.info

It's an educated guess that call centres are or soon will be using "AI" to control err "do quality control" on recorded calls with customers that will lead to reprimands against the already hard pressed call center agents working there. This is why I always select to NOT have calls recorded when asked by these systems.

@till Yep, that looks perfectly good. Decent settings on tension and the "patch" is the fleece that is needed for stitching and also looks good. You can peel it off if you find it irritating. As that is a lot of manual work, it is typically not included. @killyourfm

I used em-dashes long before "AI" even existed. And I won't stop using good typography and typesetting just because some people think that caring about that is kinda sorta suspicious of using "AI".

#Oops: The seminal paper that has been used for 25 years to justify that the use of #Glyphosate is safe has been retracted.

"Concerns were raised regarding the authorship of this paper, validity of the research findings in the context of misrepresentation of the contributions by the authors and the study sponsor and potential conflicts of interest of the authors. "

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0273230099913715

Achtung, Diabetiker! Rückruf und Austauschaktion von FreeStyle Libre 3 und FreeStyle Libre 3 Plus Sensoren. Die fehlerhaften Sensoren können zu niedrige Glukose Werte liefern. Schwerwiegende Komplikationen möglich. Bitte Seriennummern der Sensoren prüfen!

https://www.freestylecheck.com/de-de/home.html

Still my favourite screenshot from Foundation, season one :)

While Trump and Hegseth are sinking ships and discussing an invasion of Venezuela because of supposed drug smuggling, Trump pardons a convicted former president who actually *was* involved in drug smuggling. There is no plan, no logic, no strategy in US politics under Trump. It’s all just impulsive actionism, in my opinion.

How? You don't have to hunt for good news. When you see someone posting something positive, you can boost. Or add a reply a la "I like!", "Good!", "Thank you for that!". Really. Just that short comment shows appreciation and encouragement. And costs you next to nothing. Just do it ;)

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Anti-patterns: Trying to slide in their DMs. Replying with unrelated questions trying to move the topic to your personal preferences. Quote posting with some snarky comment that mainly serves to make YOU feel superior or more knowledgeable. You will find out that such behaviour isn't appreciated here as much as it was on Twitter or Facebook. Because — algorithms.

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The Fediverse can focus on praising what is good while also criticising what is bad. That's what makes us special. Other "social" networks use algorithms to hide the praise because only negativity brings traffic and ad click money. We are different. We can promote the good without risking being shadow-banned. Use that power. At least once a day. Deal? It takes some time to leave that pavlovian reflex of negativity behind. But at least try and you will enjoy the results :)

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Again, note2self. Coffee first, Jan. Coffee first :)

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I hope that there are some discussions on either moving one of the Ceremony Rooms (AKA Key Management Facilities) to another region/country or maybe add one more outside of the US. Having the responsibility for the DNSSEC root key material in one single country under more and more untrustworthy leadership looks like a risk to me that should be addressed. My personal preference would be a Ceremony Room on UN properties in Geneva.

https://technotes.seastrom.com/2025/11/23/passing-the-torch.html

#DNSSEC #ItsAlwaysDNS

So Bolsonaro tried to pull an Assange (by staying for two nights in the Hungarian embassy, hoping Orban would grant him political asylum), planned to ask the same from Argentina, took a soldering iron to his ankle monitor but denies he did that to disable it. And is now arrested and will soon start his 27 year prison sentence. How he has fallen. Good. (gift link) https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/world/americas/jair-bolsonaro-brazil-arrest.html?unlocked_article_code=1.3U8.mztq.kMwCjtrta18K&smid=url-share

I really shouldn't play before my first coffee :)

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I find it extremely hard, well, impossible, to find a good translation for the German proverb „Undank ist der Welten Lohn“. But it really captures that feeling of knowing you did the right thing, seeing it all work out in good ways, but still being belittled, even attacked by others.

I am still coping with the genius of Rosalía and her LUX album. It was worth buying the vinyl version and repeatedly listening to it through all 4 sides. Every time listening gives me more to think about. Thank you, Rosalía. Your voice. The arrangements. Bravo.

It also teached me a valuable lesson about the music market. I am old enough to still have the „I buy the album“ reflex. While so many people around me (even my age) just shrug it off by saying „yeah, it’s on Spotify/Apple Music, so I can listen to it any time.“ This feels weird. Music is more than easy access. My vinyl collection means more to me than just being able to listen on demand. Man. I sound like an angry old man :)

No, there was no leaked database of 3.5B #WhatsApp users. Researchers from Vienna simply used the contact discovery method with all possible phone numbers to get contact data of 3.5B users. They informed WhatsApp who kinda fixed it by setting rate limits for contact discovery and the researchers deleted their collected data. Read the paper instead of clickbait :)

https://github.com/sbaresearch/whatsapp-census/blob/main/Hey_there_You_are_using_WhatsApp.pdf

The fact that my timeline is full of posts on Cloudflare issues shows how resilient the fediverse is. I know that a lot of instances use Cloudflare so they might not be able to participate at this moment, but more than enough instances continue to federate posts, so I don't really notice. Decentralisation FTW (For The Win).