As of 0740 UTC, Ubuntu's security and archive sites are finally behind Cloudflare's CDN...sorta. So while it's still ridiculous that Cloudflare is serving both sides, at least Ubuntu's repos should be more stable.
@catsalad When you need to shout from the rooftop, but the best you can do is atop the wall...
Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/
> No consent dialog. No opt-out UI. Re-installs itself if the user removes it manually.
That is the true definition of malware.
As of 0740 UTC, Ubuntu's security and archive sites are finally behind Cloudflare's CDN...sorta. So while it's still ridiculous that Cloudflare is serving both sides, at least Ubuntu's repos should be more stable.
The land footprint of food
Source: https://ourworldindata.org/environmental-impacts-of-food
by @EurCorrespond
The U.S. is weaponizing immigration laws to silence the press. Again.
The Trump administration is targeting noncitizens journalists first, but it won’t stop there.
If it could, it would exile any American reporter who dares to investigate Trump and his allies.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/world/americas/costa-rica-newspaper-us-visas.html
Let's do another round of European alternatives to Big Tech, because we care and we don't gatekeep 🙂 :
- Chrome, Edge, Safari --> @Vivaldi
- iCloud, Google Drive --> @protonprivacy @infomaniak_network, @Mastodon, Cryptee
- Google Search --> @StartpageSearch @Qwant , @ecosia, @Mojeek, Tiger.ch
- MS Office --> @libreoffice
- Gmail --> @Tutanota , @protonprivacy Mail
- iPhone --> @jolla @volla
- iOS, Android --> @murena e/OS
…& much more: https://europeantechmap.eu
@evan
None of the above to include professional sports side.
I have never understood such loyalties, as they reek of mindless chauvinism.
@trentskunk it already exists! https://www.to-rss.xyz/wikipedia
@jalefkowit In some ways, this is a good thing, but they should ask for consent, like other products do for this sort of thing (i.e., JetBrains IDEs install a local model but they ask first), and they really should work on shrinking it down. Surely they can do much better than 4GB?
Some background:
In Verona, we have a generalisation of the actor model, which makes things like two-phase commit easy but makes this problem worse: the equivalent of a message is 'sent' to multiple concurrent owners (generalised actors), so working out who to wake to reduce the total number of messages in the system is hard.
We looked at what a version for embedded devices would look like, but even the actor-model subset is basically impossible. Even simple actor model has things with fan-out, so waking up an actor because its queue is full may cause two more messages to be sent. And these may be in cycles.
And actor model (and BoC) don't provide good tools for reasoning about the worst-case numbers.
@david_chisnall @whitequark reminds me of molecular computing and the join calculus
Agents for Financial Services and Insurance
https://www.anthropic.com/news/finance-agents
#HackerNews #FinancialServices #InsuranceTech #AI #Agents #Innovation
Happy International Day of the Midwife! The word "midwife" is gender neutral. It says nothing about the gender of the midwife. It comes from the Middle English "mid", meaning "with" and "wif" meaning woman - so the word "midwife" describes the person being *with* the "wife".
India's of bringing a locally designed fast-breeder nuclear reactor to criticality underscores a crucial step in its decades-long quest for energy independence, despite challenges in maintaining such complex technology. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/05/05/world/indian-nuclear-reactor-milestone/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #kalpakkam #india #nuclearpower #energy #fastbreederreactor
really happy to have discovered something hiding in plain sight for several years: robyn & rand miller's original Myst pitch document from 1991.
it's a succinct work of art in itself. i'm surprised at how much of the world design was already on paper.
as all of the copies found elsewhere online are heavily compressed webp/jpeg, i've uploaded the robyn's original PNGs to IA here:
https://archive.org/details/myst_proposal
originally from robyn's site:
http://www.robynmiller.net/video-games-films
#digiPres #softwarePreservation #archival #gamedev #myst #cyan
Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB Gemini Nano AI model on your device
❌ No consent
❌ No opt-in
❌ No real opt-out for regular users
This isn’t a small experiment & it’s on billions of devices.
➡️ Read more: https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/
😠 A tactic we've already seen with Gemini on Android. But at least you can disable it here, learn how: https://tuta.com/blog/how-to-disable-gemini-on-android
Canadian Fiddler Ashley MacIsaac Sues Google Over Allegedly Being Falsely Identified as a Sex Offender in AI-Generated Overview
Go download our beautiful album “Polish Demoscene as a Community. Informal Practices of Polish Demoscene"
About the project: https://kskpd.pl/en/projects/demoscene-as-a-community-album/
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