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usul, 20 days ago to random French

Want to opt out of the new Google AI powered interface and get web results by default? Add udm=14 to the URL.

Mastodon, 1 month ago to mastodon

#Mastodon forms new 501(c)(3) non-profit entity with new board of directors in the United States to facilitate tax-deductible donations and in-kind support:

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/04/mastodon-forms-new-u.s.-non-profit/

vingtroiseize, 1 month ago to demoscene

Whoever did this, must be immediately hired him into a demomaker group!

#pharmacie 🇫🇷 #drugstore #demoscene #Tube #coding #coder #demo

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jessamyn, 1 month ago to random

My "day job" is working at the Flickr Foundation helping nurture and grow Flickr Commons. We're approaching an important milestone, re-opening the doors to Flickr Commons, a collection of photography collections all of which have no known copyright restrictions.

It's been around since 2008 and is comprised of nearly two million photos. Do you work for a GLAM institution that might want to be part of it? If so, please read our main post and send us your details. 🤩

https://glammr.us/@flickrfdn/112299229081607353

adactio, 1 month ago to random

Connectivity issues, the short version:

https://status.digitalocean.com/incidents/21gg18q1ddmv

Connectivity issues, the long version:

https://www.theverge.com/c/24070570/internet-cables-undersea-deep-repair-ships

🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/21063

Migueldeicaza, 1 month ago to random

Performance improvements in Safari.

1% here, 0.3% there and six months later you have a 30% boost on a mature codebase.

https://webkit.org/blog/15249/optimizing-webkit-safari-for-speedometer-3-0/

w7voa, 1 month ago to random

The Biden administration has reached an agreement to provide up to $6.4 billion in direct funding for Samsung Electronics to develop a computer chip manufacturing and research cluster in Texas. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/04/15/statement-from-president-joe-biden-on-chips-and-science-act-preliminary-agreement-with-samsung/

adapalmer, 2 months ago to random

Germany's emissions fell by a record 10.1% last year. This puts them on course for their 2030 target of a 65% cut compared to 1990 levels! #ShareGoodNewsToo https://fixthenews.com/r/66a10f9a?m=d62c57a4-125a-4b9d-b04d-bdfd23b8627c

9to5Mac, 2 months ago to random

New ‘Presto’ system coming to Apple Stores next month for wireless iPhone software updates https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/24/apple-stores-wireless-software-update-pad-system/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

b0rk, 2 months ago to random

i've been adding a lot of "rules" to my posts on here about what kind of replies I want ("no starting arguments!” "no explaining what a git commit is!”)

Here's a thread about why! Some of my goals are:

1. have nuanced discussions & stay on topic
2. hear from a diverse set of people
3. learn new things about how people use computers

let’s talk about each of them!

(1/11)

mttaggart, 3 months ago to random

Good morning, nerds! The British Library just dropped its after-incident report on the ransomware attack that has disabled the Library for, uh, months?

Let's dig in.

w7voa, 3 months ago to random

Those reporting for hate a blatantly antisemitic account with ~52,000 followers on Twitter/X have been told by the social media platform that posts such as the one pictured here don’t violate its standards.

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pluralistic, 3 months ago to random

It's been 21 years and 29 days since Tor Books published my first novel, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. In the years since, Tor has published every one of my novels, sending me around the USA and Canada to talk about them. Now, they've teamed up with @humblebundles to sell 18 of my ebooks on a name-your-price basis, with part of the proceeds going to benefit @eff:

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/cory-doctorow-novel-collection-tor-books-books

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jwz, 3 months ago to random

Today in computing dystopia: copying the text out of a PDF gave me column-major garbage. Taking a screen shot and coping the OCR text out of a JPEG gave me something usable.

rcpierce, 3 months ago to Law

This trend isn’t going away is it?

“Two More Cases, Just this Week, of Hallucinated Citations in Court Filings Leading to Sanctions”

https://www.lawnext.com/2024/02/not-again-two-more-cases-just-this-week-of-hallucinated-citations-in-court-filings-leading-to-sanctions.html

#law #legal #lawfedi #AI #ChatGPT @law

bkardell, 3 months ago to random

The older I get, the more reminders I get on my devices that are just ghosts of recurring things that no longer exist but I can never somehow seem to entirely remove.

I'm convinced that if I lived long enough, dismissing those notifications would just be my whole life.

willoremus, 4 months ago to random

Bluesky opens to the public today and is taking a step toward federation. I talked with CEO Jay Graber about how it’s taking on the company that spawned it—and how its approach differs from Mastodon’s. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/02/06/bluesky-launch-public-jay-graber/

stroughtonsmith, 4 months ago to random

It is kinda mindblowing how much developer support Apple has for its XR headset on day one. Microsoft could spend ten years bribing developers to make stuff for HoloLens and still have nothing to show for it. This is the 'app gap' in full swing

vvuk, 4 months ago to random

Super happy that we've shipped 1.0 of Unity's visionOS support, including support for building mixed reality content!

I've sent the past few years working on this, and it's really gratifying to see people already creating some amazing content. We've also built some amazing underlying tech in PolySpatial that's going to enable some really cool things for Unity.

More visionOS info in the blog: https://blog.unity.com/engine-platform/spatial-apps-for-apple-vision-pro

gutenberg_org, 4 months ago to physics

Lise Meitner helped discover nuclear fission but never won a Nobel Prize for her brilliance despite 49 nominations

By Adam Barnes via @BusinessInsider

https://www.businessinsider.com/lise-meitner-discovered-nuclear-fission-nominated-nobel-prize-never-won-2024-1

#physics #womeninscience

sophie, 4 months ago to random

I've seen a few folks sharing a post about how Copilot leads to worse quality code. I think it's not that simple: I use it and I've had a lot of success with it, but the important thing is that the code I am writing with it is still my code, as I would write it. I just let it finish my "sentences".

As with any code generation tool - or indeed, with any snippet you find on StackOverflow or other website, or even in a book - it's really important to pay attention to what you're pasting in. (...)

vnglst, 4 months ago to random

I saw this online somewhere and I just had to recreate it. This is my coding happy place.

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Extelec, 4 months ago to random

Ask Microsoft: Are you using our personal data to train AI?

We had four lawyers, three privacy experts, and two campaigners look at Microsoft's new Service Agreement, and none of our experts could tell if Microsoft plans on using your personal data – including audio, video, chat, and attachments from 130 products, including Office, Skype, Teams, and Xbox – to train its AI models.

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/campaigns/microsoft-ai/

glennf, 4 months ago to random

In February 2023, I helped @mwichary run what became the #1 tech book campaign on Kickstarter for his massive tome, Shift Happens. How did we raise over $750,000 in the campaign (and sell more copies later)? How did we deal with the expected—and surprise problems? I've detailed all that in this essay: https://glennf.medium.com/how-we-crowdfunded-750-000-for-a-giant-book-about-keyboard-history-c30e24c4022e Hard-won advice from this weathered campaign veteran.

simevidas, 4 months ago to random

Can the EU Commission force Google to add a “Never ask me to switch to Chrome on Google’s websites” option to Google account settings?