@neil @simonzerafa "applies to all ISP" which means what? I'm not obliged to use my ISPs DNS server. Or any "safe site" filtering they might offer.
@Federation_Bot
Amazon AI Tool Blindsides Merchants by Offering Products Without Their Knowledge
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-06/amazon-ai-tool-blindsides-merchants-by-offering-products-without-their-knowledge?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Tech @tech-bloomberg
[Edit: SOLVED! Thanks to all you fine people on the fediverse for you help. Especially @a who when the extra mile to make in work!]
Anyone out there with a MacBook Pro mid 2015 (macbookpro11,5) who might be willing to extract the Facetime camera firmware with the script linked below and sent it too me?
Boosts appreciated.
I installed Linux over the top of MacOS on my old MacBook Pro before realizing I needed to grab the camera firmware first. I need it to get the built in working in Linux.
https://github.com/patjak/facetimehd-firmware/blob/master/extract-firmware.sh
This insight was brought to you by WBUR's caption, "Flu-related hospitalizations spike in Massachusetts earlier than last winter."
Source: https://www.wbur.org/news/2026/01/06/massachusetts-boston-severe-flu-season-altman
1. Taking Stephen Miller at his word today, US (or any aggressive power) openly takes over any country they can, regardless of treaties
2. Other countries can either submit to will of people like Miller, or resist
3. Aggressors never attack even small countries that have nuclear weapons (such as North Korea)
4. Other countries notice this pattern, and start getting their own nukes
5. Aggressors refrain from attacking countries that now have nukes
6. Posession of nuclear weapons becomes definition of independent country
7. Likelihood of accidental nuclear escalation very greatly increases 😞
'Trump valuta diverse opzioni su Groenlandia, non escluso esercito' - Nord America - Ansa.it
https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/mondo/nordamerica/2026/01/06/trump-valuta-diverse-opzioni-su-groenlandia-non-escluso-esercito_79c0d02f-8857-407d-84c3-f9e0025bd4e3.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Pubblicato su ESTERI @esteri-AgenziaAnsa
Crickey, getting answers to #statistics questions on the internet is getting really, really difficult... This evening I gave up on my web search queries that returned vast quantities of #GenAI slop and not much else... I ended up a) reading from a print textbook that I happen to have to hand and whose author I trust (Natalia Levshina!) and b) reading a long and highly informative blog post by someone whose work I also trust (is Andrew Heiss here?) to find the answer to my question. This experience leaves me wondering: How are my students supposed to find this kind of information nowadays? If I were entirely new to this, I would have no idea who to trust.
@phoenix Really? Sounds more like a (mis?)feature of your NAS.
Just went grocery shopping and looking forward to staying inside the rest of the day #dlws
Firefox uses on-device downloaded-on-demand ML models for privacy-preserving translation.
They're not LLMs. They're trained on open data.
Should translation be disabled if the AI 'kill switch' is active?
@firefoxwebdevs I mean realistically, we have about:config at home, and y'all are already not respecting that
why the future "KILL SWITCH" carrot? it just comes across like a Musk promise
This is the document, Trump does not want you to see.
In 1916, under President Woodrow Wilson, the United States signed the purchase of the Virgin Islands from Denmark, in a convention in which the United States recognised Denmark's right to the whole of Greenland.
Danish MP's of The Defence Committee will convene in the Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility at 18:00 to discuss the defence of Greenland.
Full text: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-39/pdf/STATUTE-39-Pg1706.pdf#page=1
L'an dernier avec 230g de farine je faisais à peu prêt 8/9 crêpes mais cette année j'ai réussi à en faire 12. Ca va me faire faire des économies mais j'ai le bide qui va exploser. Le comble c'est que d'après cette recette c'est pas possible. Un truc m'échappe https://www.recettes-bretonnes.fr/galette-bretonne/recette-galette-sarrasin.html
@RandamuMaki ironically I'm trying to make it better. Reporting bugs is the first stepping stone to getting involved. If people can't even get that far. They aren't going to be feeling inclined to step further into involvement.
Cool, the browser I only ever use to download a different browser is getting even less useful
https://www.xda-developers.com/microsoft-reportedly-turning-edge-browser-copilot-app/
I am thinking of going to #FOSDEM. But the travel time is quite long 14-16h+. So I would like to combine it with some additional trip "nearby". Any recommendations what to do in winterly times?
Curtis Yarvin is beloved of people of mediocre mind and weak character. They want to go Nazi, but they don’t have the cobbles to do it without a gloss of mediocre pseudo-intellectual gibberish supporting it.
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RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:gvda6fem6r7selm4gzjjww4a/post/3mbr4vagqz22l
@vtrlx this is the strongest link between fascism and fanciful thought experiments like pascal's casino. and in particular, it relies upon muddying the historical record: when i invoked NPOV to question who first deployed the loaded adjective "paradox" on the EPR page, it was immediately reverted and quickly itself smeared as "indecipherable" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Einstein%E2%80%93Podolsky%E2%80%93Rosen_paradox#c-Lcdrovers-20251028191200-who_first_described_it_as_a_%22paradox%22_question_mark
...but the smear was eventually attributed to schrödinger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Einstein%E2%80%93Podolsky%E2%80%93Rosen_paradox#c-Johnjbarton-20251028195500-Johnjbarton-20251028193700
@vtrlx i have never cared much about physics precisely because it relies so much on horrible faux mathematics. and it retains this bias against "fine tuning" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine-tuning_(physics)
In theoretical physics, fine-tuning is the process in which parameters of a model must be adjusted very precisely in order to fit with certain observations.
Theories requiring fine-tuning are regarded as problematic in the absence of a known mechanism to explain why the parameters happen to have precisely the observed values that they return. The heuristic rule that parameters in a fundamental physical theory should not be too fine-tuned is called naturalness.[1][2]
naturalness?
Umfrage: 98 Prozent aller Hacker tragen keine Skimaske am Rechner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUkILwG9xso
Kākāpō: The kākāpō is the world's only flightless parrot, the world's heaviest parrot, and also is nocturnal, herbivorous, endemic to New Zealand.
