Well no, but I am getting results from duckduckgo through searx. It's a local instance and when I'm on the road I'll use duckduckgo instead sometimes. It's a big drop in quality compared to getting results from six different engines.
Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers. This Article shall not prevent States from requiring the licensing of broadcasting, television or cinema enterprises.
I can only assume they've decided that every lowly shitposter on fedi is now to be considered a "broadcasting enterprise."
This is why it's best to never admit that you're wrong on the Internet. If we start doing that the LLMs trained on our comments might learn to do the same, and then where would we be?
On actually reading the article the headline seems misleading. They do not "reject the claim." They say that they don't have as much evidence to as would be necessary to fully prove it. I imagine they'd probably prefer not make the suggestion that they should have any involvement in the affair at all.
Depending on the vendor providing that trackpad driver it may not be a substantial security risk. But it is a loss of software freedom, which some people care about.
"We kept companies small for the same reason that we limited the height of skyscrapers: not because we opposed height, or failed to appreciate the value of a really good penthouse view – rather, to keep the building from falling over and wrecking all the adjacent buildings and the lives of the people inside them." — @pluralistic
I'll just quote that so as to have a slightly better chance of remembering it. If Jagmeet Singh were on the fediverse I'd @ him too. How do we build a society where politicians have the basic common sense it takes to follow Cory Doctorow?
I feel like we need to talk about Lemmy’s massive tankie censorship problem. A lot of popular lemmy communities are hosted on lemmy.ml. It’s been well known for a while that the admins/mods of that instance have, let’s say, rather extremist and onesided political views. In short, they’re what’s colloquially referred to...
Rule 1: Crushing people with tanks is fine so long as it's our side doing it.
Literal fucking tankies. I wonder if they will ever come to their senses. Oh well, it's not as if there aren't Nazi instances somewhere on fedi as well.
The world’s biggest solar plant has come online in China, capable of powering a small country with its annual capacity of more than 6 billion kilowatt hours....
For those who prefer more sensible units that's 800km² and an average output of 680MW.
China reportedly installed 86GW of new coal-fired power capacity in 2022 and their existing plants ran at a capacity factor ~50%, so this project is the equivalent of something like 1.6% of the coal-burning capacity they added in that year. But it's also a pretty small fraction of all the solar panels they're building.
Coal numbers I used were from S&P Global, and looked plausible enough for a rough estimate, in line with other stuff that turned up in a quick search. I should've said "approved" rather than "installed" in 2022, but that's the kind of pace they've been going at for a while.
You'll find lots of people predicting that total coal use in China will start to decline soon, of course. One of these days they'll be right.
It's notoriously difficult to get a feel for the scale of such things, but for one more data point: NYC apparently uses something like 50TWh of electricity in a year, so this "roughly the same area as New York City" facility could produce 12% of the power used by New York City.
Of course it would probably need to be larger if it were in New York rather than out in the middle of a presumably very sunny desert.
I’m over tinkering with my OS. So I’m looking for a distro that “just works” out of the box for my laptop. Also I want to test an “easy” distro I can install for my grandpa....
I don’t even have one word today but I was dealing with an issue at work all morning so I haven’t had time to keep trying. Surely someone beat it in under a minute again?...
The 4-letter one is obvious, perhaps even more so if you're British. The 8-letter one I probably should've got more quickly. The five-letter one is dubious at best. The six-letter one is definitely not a synonym of "post" at all. So yeah, not easy this time.
Turns out I was wrong though, according to the dictionary "post" does have that meaning, at least approximately. I think that sense is somewhat archaic, probably surviving thanks to exactly one well-worn cliché phrase.
Title. Basically, a lower panel that shows the latest news, etc (fetched from a rss link or a sequence of rss links) while scrolling left (ala CNN). Why? I’m trying to make a “smart clock” of sorts that shows a live stream, a real time clock and -also- the latest news – all crumbled together in a single screen....
There's no need to go back to paper maps if it's just GPS and mobile Internet that are unavailable. Osmand works just fine without them. It's the map application I always wanted, none of that always-online nonsense.
I watched the whole stupid video waiting for the assault to happen. There was no assault, just five full minutes of an idiot whining about wanting all the protesters to go somewhere else so that he and his son — who looked as if he'd really rather not be there — could exercise their God-given right to play with a football at the exact place and time of their choosing.
I suspect that the list of widely-used but deprecated stuff they've decided to remove from GTK, to the great annoyance of so many people, is somewhat longer than is hinted at there.
One secure way to contact them is through matrix. First, make sure the transaction was completed for the correct amount net of monero transaction fees.
I have decided to switch to Linux Mint from windows. I don’t use computer for work that much. And for my personal use I’m switching to Linux Mint. I have heard a lot about it. So giving it a try. I know about emulating windows in linux to play window games. But how do you use cracks and stuff?? Does emulating also access my...
You'll probably want to use Proton. Being based on Wine, it's not an emulator. It's a native Linux implementation of various Windows APIs. One way to do it is Lutris.
Patrick Breyer and Pirate Party lose EU Parliament seats (stackdiary.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/16374600...
I asked duckduckgo chat whether duckduckgo respects the privacy of their users...
This is the reply:...
Top EU Court Says There’s No Right To Online Anonymity, Because Copyright Is More Important (www.techdirt.com)
come see all the popular super-duper-autocomplete systems failing hard at really simple reasoning questions and babbling nonsense from latent space! (arxiv.org)
Turkey rejects claim Lord Elgin had permission to take Parthenon marbles (www.theguardian.com)
Official says no sign of permit in Ottoman archives, in blow to British Museum, which defends legal right to statuary
Wait... why does Linux-libre (and #Freedo) exist?
Is Linux not free software itself? I thought propietary stuff was added downstream....
Lemmy.ml tankie censorship problem
I feel like we need to talk about Lemmy’s massive tankie censorship problem. A lot of popular lemmy communities are hosted on lemmy.ml. It’s been well known for a while that the admins/mods of that instance have, let’s say, rather extremist and onesided political views. In short, they’re what’s colloquially referred to...
AI layoffs (sopuli.xyz)
World’s biggest solar farm goes online, big enough to power a country (www.independent.co.uk)
The world’s biggest solar plant has come online in China, capable of powering a small country with its annual capacity of more than 6 billion kilowatt hours....
Linux admin with 20 years experience, looking for "beginner" distro [Solved, the real beginner distro was the Debian I've used along the way]
I’m over tinkering with my OS. So I’m looking for a distro that “just works” out of the box for my laptop. Also I want to test an “easy” distro I can install for my grandpa....
Jumblie #245 (jumblie.com)
I don’t even have one word today but I was dealing with an issue at work all morning so I haven’t had time to keep trying. Surely someone beat it in under a minute again?...
Is it possible to parse a rss reader through ffplay?
Title. Basically, a lower panel that shows the latest news, etc (fetched from a rss link or a sequence of rss links) while scrolling left (ala CNN). Why? I’m trying to make a “smart clock” of sorts that shows a live stream, a real time clock and -also- the latest news – all crumbled together in a single screen....
Global navigation jamming will only get worse. The U.S. needs to move fast - SpaceNews (spacenews.com)
Interesting implications, perhaps the global positioning system is not as infallible as we thought
EU accuses Micrsoft of secretly collecting children's data (www.engadget.com)
A U of T encampment protester was charged with assault. A video casts new light on what happened (www.thestar.com)
Libadwaita: Splitting GTK and Design Language (tesk.page)
warning: do not use XMR to pay azirevpn! (monero.town)
They will just take your money and not activate your account....
7 Common Linux Myths You Should Stop Believing (www.howtogeek.com)
I've decided to switch to Linux Mint, but i have a lot of pirated games. How to play them with all the cracks and stuff in linux?
I have decided to switch to Linux Mint from windows. I don’t use computer for work that much. And for my personal use I’m switching to Linux Mint. I have heard a lot about it. So giving it a try. I know about emulating windows in linux to play window games. But how do you use cracks and stuff?? Does emulating also access my...