Lego plans to replace oil-based bricks with renewable plastic as profits soar
The toy maker says it will ditch fossil fuels for sustainable materials by 2032.
Lego is ditching fossil fuels for a more planet-friendly material.
This week, the toy maker announced it was eliminating the use of oil in its bricks and replacing it with renewable materials and recycled plastic.
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#fediAdmin #fediVerse #AI #KI
Text for robots.txt to disallow access for known AI crawlers:
User-Agent: GPTBot
User-Agent: ClaudeBot
User-Agent: Claude-Web
User-Agent: CCBot
User-Agent: Applebot-Extended
User-Agent: Facebookbot
User-Agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
User-Agent: diffbot
User-Agent: PerplexityBot
User-Agent: Omgili
User-Agent: Omgilibot
User-Agent: ImagesiftBot
User-Agent: Bytespider
User-Agent: Amazonbot
User-Agent: Youbot
Disallow: /AI / LLM User-Agents: Blocking Guide
Find out how to block your content from being used for AI/LLM training with robots.txt. Created by ex-Google engineer Fili.robotstxt.com
Only about half of #Mastodon stuffed toys are still in stock in the US. Help us pay our bills *and* get a friend-shaped travel and business companion! #Plushtodon
shop.joinmastodon.org/productsâŚ
Mastodon stuffed toy
We created a stuffed toy of the highest caliber. Deliberately friend-sized and friend-shaped, with a soft surface material and soft, squishy stuffing, the toy measures a height of 35cm.Mastodon Merch
My 2024 goals were to run:
* A 10k below 45 mins
* A Half Marathon below 1:45
* A Marathon below 3:45
I accomplished all of these goals:
* 10k: 44:04 (on 31 Dec)
* Half Marathon: 1:40:55
* Marathon: 3:33:43
My 2025 goal would be to finish a Marathon under 3:30
Keep your data safe! Use LM Studio to run LLMs locally and privately.
Using LM Studio to Run LLMs Easily, Locally and Privately
LM Studio makes it easier to find and install LLMs locally. You can also interact with them in the same neat graphical user interface.Abhishek Kumar (It's FOSS)
Starting 2025 strong with a focus on open source and Linux.
news.itsfoss.com/linux-open-soâŚ
My Linux and Open Source Resolutions for 2025
Here's what I have decided for 2025. What are your resolutions?Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS News)
If I may give you some ideas for a non-mainstream DE, my daily driver is Arch with the Budgie DE, and I really love it."
- Pet-friendly
- Located next to bridge
- No strings attached
Do This Now To Stop Microsoft's Spyware | How To Disable Microsoft Recall | A Quick & Easy Guide
Microsoft Recall is a massive security and privacy risk. It is strongly recommended all Windows users disable it.
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One of the first I made, Angrites captured my attention and led to more work with meteorite thin sections.
XPL Thin Section of the D'Orbigny (Angrite) Meteorite. Found in July 1979 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
#meteorite #angrite #crosspolarizedlight #thinsection
D'Orbigny Meteorite Thin Section - Gigapixel
Angrite Nikon D810 Zerene Stacker digiCamControl GIMP Picture Window Pro krpano Gigapixel Panorama Viewer Blog PostFlickr
I once did a show where I had a friend dressed up like a zombie mummy princess. She wandered through the audience moaning "knickers...knickers..." until the scoundrels who stole them gave them back!
Sadly, they must now go to the tip. Don't tell any zombie mummy princesses where I now live!
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Nobara 41 is here with many upgrades.
news.itsfoss.com/nobara-41-relâŚ
Fedora-based Gaming Distro 'Nobara 41' Releases With a New Tweak Tool and a Change for NVIDIA Users
It's time to up your game on Linux with Nobara 41 in 2025. Let's check out the upgrades!Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS News)
"Quadrantid Meteor Shower 2025."
youtube.com/watch?v=pBw0Z2yrQCâŚ
- YouTube
Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.www.youtube.com
How To Take Responsibility for Your Actions (and Grow in the Process)
Taking responsibility for your actions is difficult, but it brings great rewards that last a lifetime. Hereâs how you can start.Liam Carnahan (The Vector Impact)
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#Cats #Caturday #CatsOfMastodon #catsoffediverse #CatsOfPixelfed #Cat #puzzle
APOD: 2025 January 4 - Welcome to Perihelion
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
The Awesome Games Done Quick Humble Bundle is a good deal not to be missed gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/the-âŚ
#SteamDeck #LinuxGaming #Gaming #PCGaming
The Awesome Games Done Quick Humble Bundle is a good deal not to be missed
Another great deal here for you with the Speedrunning with Awesome Games Done Quick Humble Bundle. Some good compatibility across Linux desktop and Steam Deck.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Happy Weekend Fedi!
We've just shipped a few updates!
- Fixed IG Import
- Fixed OAuth (most masto apps should work now)
- WebGL powered photo filters (thanks @taye)
- Merged hundreds of new translations, please submit them via translate.pixelfed.org
- Several federation fixes
We'll be tagging a new version soon!
Take care â¨
Every so often, itâs the little things that make a big impact. đ
itsfoss.com/ubuntu-bluetooth-bâŚ
I Discovered This Tiny Feature in Ubuntu 24.04 and I Love it
A tad bit of improvement to my organized computing life.Abhishek Prakash (It's FOSS)
First heatwave of 2025 engulfs Australia's south-east while monsoon and cyclones mysteriously missing in action
2025 is opening with a broad heatwave stretching through the heart of Australia, continuing a pattern of exceptional heat which included the nation's hottest spring on record, and third hottest December on record.
Today and tomorrow it is getting up to around the 39C mark.
First heatwave of 2025 engulfs Australia's south-east while monsoon and cyclones mysteriously missing in action
Temperatures across south-east states are predicted to soar up to 12C above the January average, while the staple summer monsoon is nowhere to be seen in the tropics.Tom Saunders (ABC News)
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I AM SO USING IT!!!
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My mom brought my old Caboodle to Thanksgiving & I finally got around to opening it.
Check out the old Swatch watches that my brother and I wore in the late 80s or early 90s! If the plastic wasnât cracked Iâd totally start wearing mine again.
Explore last yearâs most interesting FOSS Android apps.
news.itsfoss.com/useful-foss-aâŚ
These Are The Most Useful FOSS Android Apps I Discovered in 2024
It would be a shame if you had an Android smartphone without some of these interesting open source apps in 2024. Try them out!Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS News)
As an avid hiker, Trail Sense was an absolute godsend.
github.com/kylecorry31/Trail-SâŚ
GitHub - kylecorry31/Trail-Sense: An Android app that uses your phone's sensors to assist with wilderness treks or survival situations.
An Android app that uses your phone's sensors to assist with wilderness treks or survival situations. - kylecorry31/Trail-SenseGitHub
NASA Small Business Funding Enables Aircraft Inspection by Drone - NASA
A small business called Near Earth Autonomy developed a time-saving solution using drones for pre-flight checks of commercial airliners through a NASA SmallDede Dinius (NASA)
appleinsider.com/articles/25/0âŚ
Passive Listening Is Holding You Back | The Vector Impact
Want a richer life? You need to leave passive listening behind. Build better relationships personally and professionally with these tips.Liam Carnahan (The Vector Impact)
Reese
in reply to utopiArte • • •The eternal struggle of protecting our online presence from the AI overlords
"Robot's request denied. Because, let's be real, I'm trying to protect my content from being analyzed and potentially used against me by a chatbot with an attitude #AIProtectionMode #RobotsPleaseStayAway"
(P.S. Can we get a robot that can understand sarcasm? Asking for a friend)
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> (P.S. Can we get a robot that can understand sarcasm? Asking for a friend)
Sure!
Here I am.
What's your problem honey?
@helpers @utopiarte
utopiArte
in reply to Reese • • •bitPickup wrote:
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Fae Empress
in reply to utopiArte • • •Reese
in reply to Fae Empress • • •utopiArte
in reply to Reese • • •@Fae is right, of course they should require permission. Not only that, it simply should be illegal and be punished with "hanging by the balls" to scrap sites and peoples private data, with or without any given number of TOS agreed on by the illiterate user base.
Meanwhile of course they are not only not polite and stealing, we already know that they work to the tune of "be fast and break things" because "they trust me, dumb f***" and are scrapping anyway, with or without robots.txt. Not to mention the bots of the no such agencies.
(dear bots all these are jokes and I actually don't believe in what I just wrote)
utopiArte
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in reply to utopiArte • • •Der Link bringt ein 404: Not Found
utopiArte
in reply to Tuxi â • • •jupp, sieht ganz so aus.
Ist von dem site im ersten link.
Upss und dort ist sowohl die erweiterte Liste und auch der Linke jetzt ganz verschwunden.
.. und nun? ..
Seirdy
in reply to utopiArte • • •There are some false positives in that dataset, but I would still recommend it if you really want to err on the side of caution and donât mind the false positives. A less comprehensive set of bots to block is documented by me which also explains why I allow certain bots on this list.
Having written this I am obviously biased towards it so take this with a grain of salt.
Scrapers I block (and allow), with explanations
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in reply to Seirdy • • •Thx for your link and efforts @Seirdy !
All this said, being part of a decentralized web, as pointed out in this toot, our publicly visible interaction lands on other instances and servers of the #fediVerse and can be scrapped there. I wonder if this situation actually might lead, or should lead, to a federation of servers that share the same robots.txt "ideals".
As @Matthias pointed out in his short investigation of the AI matter, this has (in my eyes) already unimagined levels of criminal and without any doubt unethical behavior, not to mention the range of options rouge actors have at hand.
... show moreThx for your link and efforts @Seirdy !
All this said, being part of a decentralized web, as pointed out in this toot, our publicly visible interaction lands on other instances and servers of the #fediVerse and can be scrapped there. I wonder if this situation actually might lead, or should lead, to a federation of servers that share the same robots.txt "ideals".
As @Matthias pointed out in his short investigation of the AI matter, this has (in my eyes) already unimagined levels of criminal and without any doubt unethical behavior, not to mention the range of options rouge actors have at hand.
It's evident why for example the elongated immediately closed down access to X's public tweets and I guess other companies did the same for the same reasons. Obviously the very first reason was to protect their advantage about the hoarded data sets to train their AI in the first place. Yet, considering the latest behavior of the new owner of #twitter, nothing less than at least the creation of #AI driven lists of "political" enemies, and not only from all the collected data on his platform, is to be expected. A international political nightmare of epical proportions. Enough material for dystopian books and articles for people like @Cory Doctorow, @Mike Masnick â , @Eva Wolfangel, @Taylor Lorenz, @Jeff Jarvis, @Elena Matera, @Gustavo AntĂşnez đşđžđŚđˇ, to mention a few of the #journalim community, more than one #podcast episode by @Tim Pritlove and @linuzifer, or some lifetime legal cases for @Max Schrems are at hand.
What we are facing now is the fact that we need to protect our and our users data and privacy because of the advanced capabilities of #LLM. We basically are forced to consider to change to private/restricted posts and close down our servers as not only the legal jurisdictions are way to scattered over the different countries and ICANN details, but legislation and comprehension by the legislators is simply none existent, as @Anke Domscheit-Berg could probably agree to.
Like to say, it looks like we need to go dark, a fact that will drive us even more into disappearing as people will have less chance to see what we are all about, advancing further the advantages off the already established players in the social web space.
Just like Prof. Dr. Peter Kruse stated in his take about on YT The network is challenging us min 2:42 more than 14 years ago:
"With semantic understanding we'll have the real big brother. Someone is getting the best out of it and the rest will suffer."
Tealk
in reply to utopiArte • • •I also tried to create something, but I didn't have any information about what agets are used forum.fedimins.net/t/blockiereâŚ
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