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Microsoft Recall Is A Disaster #Linux #YouTube youtu.be/ctudlkw_oQ4


This YouTube Change Broke 3rd Party Clients #YouTUbe youtu.be/n_hSdCMRE10


A few weeks ago this girl complained at length about the lack of tasty food in her life. In an act of desperation I poured a tablespoon of water over her wet food and told her it was gravy. It's now her favorite meal. If she finishes her gravy before the food is gone she waits for more to be added before finishing her meal. #Caturday #OldCatsNewTricks


in reply to Jen Sorensen

A good portion of their AI funding has been going to HI.

... to gig workers in foreign countries earning starvation wages.

... just another kind of theft, exploitation, and externalizing of costs and responsibilities.



I was grossed out when Apple got to image generation in their WWDC keynote, and I was grossed out when I read that Applebot scraped "the open web" to train their AI model, with publishers only being able to opt out after the fact. Disappointing to say the least.

macstories.net/linked/apple-deโ€ฆ

in reply to Federico Viticci

Wanna know the best part?

According to our web developer's findings, the folks at Perplexity AI seem to be lying about the user-agent they're sending when scraping webpages.

They claim it should appear as 'PerplexityBot', but in reality, they mask it as Google Chrome running on a headless Windows 10 instance.

Details: rknight.me/blog/perplexity-ai-โ€ฆ

in reply to Federico Viticci

It's possible that there's different user agents based on if it's a request for training or a request for a user's query. To my knowledge of the topic, these models don't train live; it will not remember the page you asked to summarize, so likely these companies identify the requests differently.
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in reply to Eugen Rochko

Thatโ€™s how Google works. You can block bard bot from LLM training, but you have block googlebot to be excluded from generative search results โ€” effectively deleting you from search entirely. This is extremely problematic for a company that owns 85% or search. Give us your content, or donโ€™t exist.
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in reply to Eugen Rochko

@Gargron That seems plausible but it's not documented at all and, worryingly, also not clear if user requests are then used to further train the model after use.


Been after a petrol strimmer for a while, but didnโ€™t want to pay a stupid amount for one.

Found a non-running one for free locally. Wasnโ€™t running because of perished fuel lines. ยฃ6 in parts and the thing is now running great. ๐Ÿ˜‚

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Kev Quirk

ok, I'll say it again in simplified English (should I drop all the U's from words and replace S with Z too? ๐Ÿ˜‚)

I wanted a petrol strimmer (image below as you Americans probably call it something different, like a "spinny freedom grass chopper" or something). I got one for free as the previous owner thought the engine was fucked, but it wasn't. It just needed a service and some new fuel lines, which cost me around $8 for the parts.

That help? ๐Ÿ˜‚

in reply to Kev Quirk

It always makes me giggle to say, but in the American South we call that a weed whacker.


Happy #Caturday from this jerk who screamed at the bedroom door to be let in, was let in, sat by the bed and screamed some more until I opened the curtains, then sat here, not even looking outside.

#cats #CatsOfMastodon #catstodon #cat #funnyanimals



The VR gaming experience of the future, at Dave & Busters


LIVE SOON: Yo yo, we're going live on the main channel, I planned to do this a few weeks back at 75k but better late than never #Linux youtube.com/watch?v=mDw9JRLAQZโ€ฆ


Today we have @acidiclight back on the show, this time to talk about his game Socially Distant, his experience moving back to Linux and issues he's faced along the way #Linux #OpenSource

Video: youtube.com/watch?v=nAoHSpw3hhโ€ฆ

Audio: podcasters.spotify.com/pod/shoโ€ฆ



I'm putting this here to watch when I come back from my belated birthday party. All my US taxes went in on time yesterday, so now it's time to celebrate!

youtu.be/L0_Of_DMaDc?si=MyeVY_โ€ฆ



i can't even say this is a bad idea because all the other ways of doing this would be worse



First impressions of the new yahoo news app? Feels a lot like artifact to me... cc @pxl @caseynewton


Boat. San Francisco.

๐Ÿ“ท Canon AE-1 Program
๐ŸŽž๏ธ Kodak Vision3 250D
๐Ÿ”ญ Canon FD 50mm/1.4. S.S.C.

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #SFBA

in reply to Eugen Rochko

In nautical terms, this is known as the "Sith Wayfinder", and it works like a map or a compass or a homing beacon or something, I dunno, whatever the plot needs it to do, we literally never see it again, oh, and you plug in some 1/4" patch cables into it for some reason, what IS this franchise anymore anyway?

Amazing light work though! Hard to believe that's film and not some ultra-dslr. Where do you even get film negatives developed around here?

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Is Microsoft 365 tracking European schoolchildren against the #GDPR? ๐Ÿ•ต๐Ÿพ

Our friends at @noybeu are concerned: "Hundreds of thousands of European schoolchildren are likely being tracked by Microsoft education software widely deployed in schools"

#dataprivacy

euronews.com/next/2024/06/04/mโ€ฆ

in reply to Nextcloud ๐Ÿ“ฑโ˜๏ธ๐Ÿ’ป

one of many reasons for supporting this #FSFE campaign:

"Public Money? Public Code!"
publiccode.eu/en/

#FreeSoftware #FLOSS #FOSS #privacy

in reply to Nextcloud ๐Ÿ“ฑโ˜๏ธ๐Ÿ’ป

Das betrifft die Hochschulen genauso. Wieso wird illegale Software nicht verboten?
Bzw: ist das nicht implizit? ๐Ÿค”
@noybeu


Tecnoafecciones. Acciones para (re)conectar y transformar las tecnologรญas

campaรฑa #tecnoafecciones

es un proyecto que implica repensar la tecnologรญa en clave feminista, descolonial, situada;
Revincularnos con las tecnologรญas desde los afectos, los cuidados y los valores.

sursiendo.org/2023/07/campana-โ€ฆ




Killer Bean looks absolutely nuts in the latest trailer gamingonlinux.com/2024/06/killโ€ฆ

#Linux #SteamDeck #KillerBean

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

Thereโ€™s been a Max Payne void for the past 15-ish years and Iโ€™m hopeful this bean will fill it


Ancient Forge are giving away a custom-skin Steam Deck for Hotel Galactic gamingonlinux.com/2024/06/anciโ€ฆ

#SteamDeck



Lion-tailed #macaques are a small macaque species and sport a majestic lion-like mane. Their home in the Western Ghats, #India is threatened by #palmoil #ecocide. They are now #endangered! Help them and #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife via @palmoildetectives wp.me/pcFhgU-72o


#Gold #mining kills #indigenous peoples ๐Ÿฉธ forcing women and children into sex #slavery! Help #Yanomami people forced violently from their #rainforest homes for the #greed of gold! ๐Ÿช™โ›”๏ธ #BoycottGold #BoycottGold4Yanomami ๐Ÿซถ๐ŸŒณ @palmoildetectives wp.me/pcFhgU-8uY


The article I am proudest of was on the then-secret ministry of a Catholic nun with trans folks. Now she is out in the open. David Van Biema has a deeper, fuller new profile of her extraordinary life: outreach.faith/2024/06/no-bodyโ€ฆ


Prince of Persia The Lost Crown gets a Steam release in August gamingonlinux.com/2024/06/prinโ€ฆ

#SteamDeck #PCGaming



The Tricky Trials update is live now for Minecraft gamingonlinux.com/2024/06/the-โ€ฆ

#Minecraft #PCGaming



Steam Client updated with improvements for Steam Deck, Linux, VR and Steam Input gamingonlinux.com/2024/06/steaโ€ฆ


Is there something I don't know about in Rust yet that explains why generics list out traits with a + instead of a , or is this just weird syntax for the sake of it
in reply to Brodie Robertson

because the "," would mean the start of a new generic:

fn function<T: TraitA + TraitB, U: TraitC>

in reply to Brodie Robertson

I'm a rust novice but it makes intuitive sense to me. To me, '+' is synonymous to 'and' so it's like it's saying T is an IsEven and a Debug.


The Dependency Hell Of Distro Development #Linux #YouTube youtu.be/AXcgTcfYJ34


@Girl Of The Sea
Speaking of talking with rocks!

youtu.be/xCudHQegtLE?si=dmRn1Yโ€ฆ


in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum

Probably skewed by my wife's mp3s.
DOB is way (waaaay) on the left.
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum

Opposite for me. Cringing more with โ€˜classic rockโ€™. In my 70โ€™s and find new music as good as anything. Many โ€˜playโ€™ with sounds. You know you are in a different domain when you attend a gig and people ask if you are the grandparent of one of the performers.


LIVE SOON: Today we take out Headless and move on from this point #Sekiro youtube.com/watch?v=GRHVz9gVfmโ€ฆ


KDE Plasma 6.1 Will Change My Life #Linux #YouTube youtu.be/fpf_psv42aY


I was discussing average #wages in the US and our declining living standards yesterday with my mother and just saw this cute meme that makes the point well. Take these figures, then look at livingwage.mit.edu/


Pablo Mancini: โ€œLa inteligencia artificial puede producir contenido, lo que no puede producir es periodismoโ€

eldiarioar.com/sociedad/pablo-โ€ฆ



Build the greatest car parks ever in the retro-tycoon styled Car Park Capital gamingonlinux.com/2024/06/builโ€ฆ

#IndieGame #Linux #PCGaming



Get ready: in just about 2 hours, itโ€™s Fastly โ€˜s first *ever* special event for developers. Weโ€™ll be talking about the exciting future of @glitchdotcom, the most-requested features youโ€™ve wanted from @devs, and even some big surprises. Watch here: youtube.com/watch?v=pgNjS1_kOWโ€ฆ


human beats ai to win ai contest petapixel.com/2024/06/12/photoโ€ฆ


ChatGPT's privacy compliance? Not easy to detangle.. ๐Ÿ‘€

The EUโ€™s ChatGPT taskforce offers a first look at OpenAI's ubiquitous chatbotโ€™s privacy compliance, and the preliminary conclusions are... complex.

Where do LLMs fit into the GDPR? ๐Ÿ•ต๐Ÿฟโ€โ™‚๏ธ

#AIprivacy

techcrunch.com/2024/05/27/eus-โ€ฆ



Sun Haven is for Stardew Valley fans that want more and it now has controller support gamingonlinux.com/2024/06/sun-โ€ฆ

#SteamDeck #PCGaming

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