One who spudges.
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One who spudges.
Linux • KDE • Mozilla • Matrix • Proton • Music • Star Labs • Veg
This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.
Where To Find Actually Good Search Engines?
I’m kind of tired of Google sending me to the same 3 sites whenever I search for something. If not the same 3 sites it’s 7 others that are so generic and boring I just feel they’re useless. It’s always makeuseof, androidauthority, or whatever other sites that have useful information but I rarely feel like they are saying...
This used to be a witty title but some pro-censorship arse complained so here we are (www.theguardian.com)
No more cordon blur: France prepares to ban vegetarian products from using meaty language
Following the Money: A Beginner’s Guide to Using the OpenCorporates API - bellingcat (www.bellingcat.com)
What was your gateway product to open source? (www.cnet.com)
I want to talk about our gateway products to open source. You know, that one product or software that made us go, “Whoa, this is amazing!” and got us hooked on the world of open source....
A response to the Sarah Silverman suing OpenAI post from yesterday: [AI doesn't read or write like humans, and we shouldn't act like it does.] (agrobertson.substack.com)
A long form response to the concerns and comments and general principles many people had in the post about authors suing companies creating LLMs.
What are your must-have packages?
I’ll start:...
Nitter, alternative frontend for twitter, is back online! (github.com)
I use nitter to get rss feeds of twitter lists so glad to see them back up
My Distro ranking (feddit.de)
So, that’s my reply to Chris Titus Tech’s listing. I mostly agreed but still, made my own....
Message; system of messages (www.jwz.org)
Solar panels could be about to get much better at capturing sunlight (www.newscientist.com)
Could*
Did the Average American Gain 29 Pounds During Pandemic Lockdowns? (www.snopes.com)
Guess what?
AI image, real person or Thunderbird puppet? (lemmy.sdf.org)
You can't post ass, Threads is doomed (techcrunch.com)
Schneier: Self-Driving Cars Are Surveillance Cameras on Wheels (www.schneier.com)
Police are already using self-driving car footage as video evidence:...
End-to-end encryption; the will of the British people (element.io)
Today marks the first day of the Report Stage of the Online Safety Bill. As this Bill progresses through the Houses of Parliament, we hope to (once again) raise the alarm around the risks to encryption posed by this Bill.
How to read a weather map: Do you know your isobars from your weather fronts? (www.sciencefocus.com)
Most of us have seen weather maps at some point in our lives – in geography lessons at school, or in weather forecasts. But what do all the lines, labels and shapes actually mean?
Has Twitter killed Nitter? (github.com)
pour one out....
Saturn’s rings steal the show in new image from Webb telescope
The James Webb Space Telescope has observed Saturn for the first time, completing a family portrait of the Solar System’s ringed planets nearly a year after the mission’s first jaw-dropping image release.
I don't think we should strive to have as big a userbase as reddit.
Many of us have seen it happening in the last 4-5 years. reddit subs, and reddit in general has become a bit s***. Of course there are still good subs, especially the truly niche ones can often have a small helpful crowd. But with 100s of thousands of users, some sub drown in hate and negativity....
Megathread for Reddit News & App Shutdowns
if you want to post links or discuss Reddit over the next while, please localize it to this thread in order to keep things tidy, thanks! (a more formal body may be forthcoming, but that'll come in the morning if so)
Nigel Farage is now considering whether “life was worth living” in the UK. (inews.co.uk)
That moment when you are walking down the street and you accidentally tread in a steaming pile of irony.
Firefox on Reddit: 📣 Announcement: We have reopened. (teddit.net)
The protest has never ended. We have been trying to communicate with Reddit admins, who seemed at first to be willing to talk to us, but we are only getting the silent treatment and threats to reopen the subreddit.
I'm feeling overwhelmed by my To Do list. How do you cope?
As the title says, I'm getting pretty overwhelmed by a growing list of tasks I have to do. Laundry is piling up, I still need to unpack my car from a roadtrip last weekend, and an issue I've been working at work has been dragging on for too long....
“Lying” in computer-generated texts: hallucinations and omissions (blog.oup.com)
There is huge excitement about ChatGPT and other large generative language models that produce fluent and human-like texts in English and other human languages. But these models have one big drawback, which is that their texts can be factually incorrect (hallucination) and also leave out key information (omission)....
Apple joins the opposition to encryption-bypassing 'spy clause' in UK internet law (www.theregister.com)
Apple has joined the rapidly growing chorus of tech organizations calling on British lawmakers to revise the nation’s Online Safety Bill – which for now is in the hands of the House of Lords – so that it safeguards strong end-to-end encryption.
The German Digital Healthcare Agency joins the Matrix.org Foundation (matrix.org)
We were already proud to announce that the national agency for the digitalisation of the healthcare system in Germany (gematik) had selected Matrix as the open standard on which to base all its interoperable instant messaging standard, back in 2021....
First misinformation susceptibility test finds 'very online' Gen Z and millennials are most vulnerable to fake news (phys.org)
Researchers want the public to test themselves: https://yourmist.streamlit.app/. Selecting true or false against 20 headlines gives the user a set of scores and a "resilience" ranking that compares them to the wider U.S. population. It takes less than two minutes to complete.
It’s bots all the way down at kindle unlimited (www.vice.com)
My title might be a bit hyperbolic, but stuff like this worries me. I love to read and I love reading on a kindle. This has been going on for a while, but it has now reached absurd levels.
50,000 tonnes of copper, 500 tonnes of silver and 100 tonnes of gold. (www.theregister.com)
The GSM Association (GSMA) and a dozen carriers have announced a plan to make a modest dent in the number of mobile phones that languish, unused, unloved, and unrecycled....
Touching moment chimp sees outdoors for the first time (www.bbc.com)
Vanilla, a 28-year-old chimpanzee, had never been outside of a cage or enclosure. She is one of the surviving chimps from the New York-based Laboratory for Experimental Medicine & Surgery in Primates (LEMSIP). Vanilla and her sister, Shake, have a new island home at Save the Chimps in Fort Pierce, Florida....