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Google says its new Gemini 3.8 Flash model ‘works harder’ but might cost more
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/988742/google-gemini-3-8-flash?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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@fiore i think stallman was much closer to linus than either of them would like to believe and in fact i would be curious how much linus himself served to buttress the free software movement as a controlled opposition to the capitalism+fascism exercised by US intelligence agencies. particularly after learning from @astraleureka recently about the technological significance of tivo being a linux box that was also an incredibly popular product (and also the thing that directly spawned the GPLv3 after it failed to uphold copyleft provisions, causing stallman to repeat the phrase "tivoization" ad nauseum), i hadn't realized how much that in itself was not just a side note in the history of free software but in fact was also a huge impetus that led to linux becoming massive and overpowering every other unix-alike
@fiore i'm still confused as to why stallman accepted making coreutils, glibc, and gcc as the build and packaging system for linux instead of devoting any time at all on the hurd kernel. if stallman was such an MIT fuckboy he should have been all over making an operating system. instead he argued endlessly with gcc developers not to make a plugin system because uhhhhh his best buddy larry lessig said it would weaken copyleft!!!!
@pink_cyberdragon please don't reply to my posts using your bot
@davidgerard @pink_cyberdragon when slopbots prompt each other, until a nebulous "goal" has been achieved...
Sounds like burning the planet for a shitty excuse to claim having the finest, highest quality slop
@faintingincoils @organicmaps and @CoMaps are also available and work well 😀
@chewie @organicmaps @CoMaps Good to have options!
Två delar:
För den konservativa hjärnan är det inte viktigt att jag får det bättre och ännu mindre viktigt att alla får vi det lite bättre. Det viktigaste är att 'Dom Där' får det sämre eller får lida.
Det andra är att det kommer ju inte att drabba mig eftersom jag är ju normal/svensk/vit/på riktigt/inte som Dom/[valfri motivering] .
Se Leopards Eating People's Faces Party-syndromet
@sintrenton @LeoR1010 Ah ja jag tänkte att en möjlig förklaring är nr2. Nr1 kunde jag inte inte tänka mig för det är ju bara så, tja, så ondskefullt i brist på bättre ord. Så fjärran mitt egna sinne.
📢 NEW SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT for #PfP✨Toronto
Violet Cortes and @makeworld@merveilles.town will survey the state of the art in digital provenance and demo a tool that traces image histories on Bluesky, adding context to the scroller's experience.
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Just stopped by to rage-scream into the void. Thank you for listening.
Sugar is made from vegetables and can be used in a 3D printer. To get it nice and clear like that is tricky. The Doozer structures would need sugar heated to hard crack with no air bubbles and rapidly cooled after extrusion to keep the shape.
Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories made several iterations of a sugar 3D printer which they called "candyfab", using a fused accretion approach that is decidedly not clear
OSINT is a powerful tool that community organizers and liberation movement workers can use to stay safe while being realistic about the risks of visibility. Here's our latest guide: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/08/doxxing-safety-pt-i-prevention-and-footprint-management
📢 NEW SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT for #PfP✨Toronto
Violet Cortes and @makeworld@merveilles.town will survey the state of the art in digital provenance and demo a tool that traces image histories on Bluesky, adding context to the scroller's experience.
Come see their talk at the Showcase on Oct 5th and join their discussion tables on Oct 6th at the Stakeholder Forum. See more of the speakers and register here 👉 https://protocolsforpublishers.com/toronto-2026/
Big thanks to our partners for bringing PfP✨️ to TO:
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Ryan Reynolds’ new Apple TV spy movie is a winner, reviews here https://9to5mac.com/2026/09/02/ryan-reynolds-new-apple-tv-spy-movie-is-a-winner-reviews-here/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
In Using Cloudflare on your website could be blocking RSS users, the Open RSS folks explain how CloudFlare’s bot blockers stop RSS readers from reading feeds.
(This article is a couple years old, but I saw it again on Mastodon today and it’s still relevant.) https://openrss.org/blog/using-cloudflare-on-your-website-could-be-blocking-rss-users
@brentsimmons Ran into this issue recently when trying to follow an RSS feed at my local library. Turned out the inability to complete Cloudflare Human Verification was the bottleneck.
I got 99 problems, and every one of them is a degree Fahrenheit.
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