Lemmy 0.19 stable released, we're not on beta version anymore! ( join-lemmy.org )
I apologise for being in beta for the last few weeks. I didn’t think it would be such a painful process. I will remain stable from now on unless something extreme happens.
Vulnerable Republicans nervous as 'tone deaf' Supreme Court takes up new abortion case ( www.rawstory.com )
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to take up a case on the abortion pill mifepristone has unnerved Republicans from swing districts.The court's decision last year to overturn Roe v. Wade limited GOP gains in last year's midterm elections and is expected to again play a major role in next year's elec...
Safe Network Update 14 December, 2023 ( safenetforum.org )
Welcome to the last update of the year. We’re happy to be finishing on a high, with the CloserNet testnet and the community helping us check our fix for what we hope will prove to be the last major bug in basic data handling. We were making an assumption that nodes were being ordered by closeness to our node, whereas this was...
Safe Network Update 03 August, 2023 ( safenetforum.org )
With the current testnet flying high, MaidSafe finish 2023 on a high and 2024 is something to look forward to if you value security and privacy for your data....
In post-Roe America, women detail agony of being forced to carry nonviable pregnancies to term ( abcnews.go.com )
Polish Hackers Repaired Trains the Manufacturer Artificially Bricked. Now The Train Company Is Threatening Them ( www.404media.co )
In one of the coolest and more outrageous repair stories in quite some time, three white-hat hackers helped a regional rail company in southwest Poland unbrick a train that had been artificially rendered inoperable by the train’s manufacturer after an independent maintenance company worked on it. The train’s manufacturer is...
It wouldn’t have passed the censors. So Malaysian film released on YouTube ( www.scmp.com )
Google’s Android app store monopoly violates antitrust law, jury finds ( arstechnica.com )
You can now access Apple’s official diagnostics tool online for DIY repairs ( arstechnica.com )
The People and Domains pages (in Explore) are now implemented ( kbin.social )
Both the "People" and the "Domains" tabs in Explore now have content. You can also click on individual people or domains to bring up a feed by that group. Threads now have a globe button that opens the corresponding domain page. Unfortenelly, the API does not yet support collections (correct me if I'm wrong), so I can't work on...
Supreme Court rules for 83-year-old woman forced to kneel at gunpoint by police ( boingboing.net )
Google Promises Unlimited Cloud Storage; Then Cancels Plan; Then Tells Journalist His Life’s Work Will Be Deleted Without Enough Time To Transfer The Data ( www.techdirt.com )
New Argentinian President Says Adios to Argentina’s Ministry of Culture ( www.artnews.com )
Satanists expose the GOP doublespeak on "free speech" and bigoted rhetoric ( www.salon.com )
A few magazine and QoL related changes ( kbin.social )
Changes:...
Encounter with humpback whales reveals potential for nonhuman intelligence communication ( phys.org )
In response to a recorded humpback “contact” call played into the sea via an underwater speaker, a humpback whale named Twain approached and circled the team’s boat while responding in a conversational style to the whale’s “greeting signal.” During the 20-minute exchange, Twain responded to each playback call and...
still worthy ( discuss.tchncs.de )
Freeing Ourselves From The Clutches Of Big Tech ( www.noemamag.com )
Peers call for urgent overhaul of secondary education in England ( www.theguardian.com )
Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app store fight ( www.theverge.com )
Victory Royale.
Introducing LLM360: Fully Transparent Open-Source LLMs ( www.llm360.ai )
Mistral shocks AI community as latest open source model eclipses GPT-3.5 performance ( venturebeat.com )
Original Mistral AI blog: mistral.ai/news/mixtral-of-experts/
Jean Jullien Designs a Cheery Whale Sculpture with a Functional Blowhole ( www.thisiscolossal.com )
Nouveau logo pour Mammoth (app pour Mastodon) ( getmammoth.wordpress.com ) French
Un article de Matthew Skiles qui détaille leur procédé pour concevoir le nouvel icône pour l’application Mammoth :...