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I was a keen-bean 15-year-old when I got my first job in a commercial kitchen in Canberra, raised on a diet of Jamie and Nigella and bursting with a passion for food. I dived headfirst into an apprenticeship and eagerly put my training into practice on my days off, cooking elaborate meals for friends and creating plenty of dirty dishes.

But as the years went on, my love for the kitchen was dulled by a series of toxic workplaces, bullying bosses and long hours. Eventually cooking for myself became a chore. I was more likely to eat cereal on my kitchen floor than do anything creative that would result in dirty dishes.

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• Kerr wins final in a time of 7min 35.56sec

• Scot holds off Hocker and Schrub to regain title

After the injuries and the trash talk, Britain’s Josh Kerr delivered where it mattered most on Saturday night by winning a thrilling 3,000m world indoor title with a last-lap surge.

It had been billed as the race of the championships, with all three 1500m medallists from the Paris 2024 Olympics going mano a mano once more. On that occasion Kerr had been pipped to the line by the American Cole Hocker, who took a shock gold medal, with Yared Nuguse taking bronze. This time, though, Kerr was not to be denied.

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“Nog een liedje, nog een liedje!”. Na het overweldigende succes van The Browning van gisteren, doen we er gewoon nog een. Nou ja, ik vul ‘em gewoon voor u in, want als ik dit nummer klaarzet is die van gisteren nog helemaal niet gepubliceerd. Maar toch. Wegens de overweldigende bijval die er zou moeten zijn en wellicht inmiddels geweest is, doen we een toegift: Blue.

Ja, daar hadden we eerder een cover van gedaan, maar dat was death metal gemixt met klassiek, en dat is natuurlijk héél wat anders dan deze electronicore versie. Toch?

 

Slashdot reader BrianFagioli writes: According to the research firm Gartner, 50% of U.S. consumers say they would prefer to do business with brands that avoid using GenAI in consumer facing content such as advertising and promotional messaging.

The survey of 1,539 Americans, conducted in October 2025, also found growing skepticism about the reliability of online information, with 61% saying they frequently question whether information they use for everyday decisions is trustworthy... Gartner found that 68% of consumers often wonder whether the content they see online is real, while fewer people now rely on intuition alone to judge credibility [only 27%]. Instead, more consumers are actively verifying information and checking sources.

Gartner's senior principal analyst offered suggests discretion for brands trying to use AI. "The brands that win will be the ones that use AI in ways customers can immediately recognize as helpful, while being transparent about when AI is used, what it's doing, and giving customers a clear choice to opt out."

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So those increases in life expectancy? Yeah looks like America is loosing them already.

Now undoubtedly this is a bit of a shock(really, truly, cross my heart) to you. So let's find some some better? Health news. Male birth control has now past the first human safety trials. Maybe soon they can also be told "have you tried birth control" to solve any and all issues

Na een val vlak voor de Cipressa leek Tadej Pogacar kansloos voor de winst in Milaan-Sanremo. Maar op spectaculaire wijze won hij de Italiaanse voorjaarsklassieker alsnog, voor het eerst in zijn carrière.

Bodow has added a photo to the pool:

*Slow clap*

On the need for a censorship API for legal compliance reasons in some countries and U.S. states

From: FloofyWolf <debian-devel-list@floofywolf.net>
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2026 20:38:08 -0800
To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Cc: xdg@lists.freedesktop.org, ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com, debian-legal@lists.debian.org, legal@lists.fedoraproject.org, devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject: On the need for a censorship API for legal compliance reasons in some countries and U.S. states

Recently, a proposal has been made to implement an API for a new California censorship regulation, "On the unfortunate need for an "age verification" API for legal compliance reasons in some U.S. states" by Aaron Rainbolt. I believe the approach outlined to be very short-sighted, in that creating a bespoke API for each of the hundreds of government censorship requirements that debian will presumably now be following will result in much duplication of effort and an unreliable user experience in which important censorship restrictions may be missed and not implemented. As such, with people now supporting the idea that debian should implement government censorship requests, even creating new standards if needed, I propose the creation of a censorship framework to speed implementation of current and future censorship regulations. [...]

Systemd units will be created for every desired censorship function, and will be started based on the user's location. For example, a unit for Kazakhstan will implement the government-required backdoor, a unit for China will implement keyword scans and web access blocks (more on this later), a unit for Florida will ban all packages with "trans" in the name (201 packages in current stable distribution), a unit for Oklahoma will ensure all educational software is compliant with the Christian Holy Bible, a unit for the entire United States will prevent installation of any program capable of decoding DVD or BluRay media, and a unit for California will provide the user's age to all applications and all web sites from which applications may be downloaded. As can be seen, multiple units may be started for a given location. [...]

To prevent users from bypassing censorship requirements, debian will need to switch to being a binary-only distribution with signed binaries, signed kernel, and signed kernel modules, with mandatory secureboot, and controls to prevent any non-signed software from being installed, written, or compiled, as any foreign sources of software may fail to query systemd-censord or may fail to respect the permissions it returns.

Previously, previously, previously, previously, previously.

This suit started in 2022 but seems to still be slogging along:

By training their AI systems on public GitHub repositories (though based on their public statements, possibly much more) we contend that the defendants have violated the legal rights of a vast number of creators who posted code or other work under certain open-source licenses on GitHub. Which licenses? A set of 11 popular open-source licenses that all require attribution of the author's name and copyright, including the MIT license, the GPL, and the Apache license. (These are enumerated in the appendix to the complaint.)

In addition to violating the attribution requirements of these licenses, we contend that the defendants have violated:

• GitHub's own terms of service and privacy policies;
• DMCA § 1202, which forbids the removal of copyright-management information;
• the California Consumer Privacy Act;
• and other laws giving rise to related legal claims.

Previously, previously.

conspectus_bs posted a photo:

Fomapan 100 with Mamiya RB67 and Sekor 65 mm