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Florian 'floe' Echtler
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Control over reCAPTCHA puts Google in a position where they can require having either iOS or a certified Android device to use an enormous amount of the web. Google defines certification requirements for Android which includes forcing bundling Google Chrome, etc. It's enormously anti-competitive.
@Yaku
PS
your english is excellent
you may know this old "joke" about Americans and the British
The American tourist is a person who thinks that if you talk loudly enough, "they" will understand English
:)
@failedLyndonLaRouchite thanks to Deepl 
Yes, I knew that joke – it’s always a good laugh!
why would you ever limit errors by default?
(a) improved the oops! all errors! benchmark by 50% [demonstrating why benchmarks are fascist]
(b) now you have to add a new flag to get the same behavior again, which breaks gcc compat
(c) if you want to restrict access to build error logs to people with access to modify the clang cli [google internal corporate politics]
@hipsterelectron wellll yeah but if you assume that the source input is usually more signal than noise, then as the number of errors goes up so do the odds that the compiler is just fully off in the weeds. At some point you have to assume the compiler is the problem, not the program.
M'acabo d'assabentar de que arriben cartes de l'Ajuntament de Barcelona a persones en situació irregular amb instruccions per la regularització extraordinària + còpia del padró municipal.
@xadamai s'apropen les municipals
Wenn wir uns nicht zuegig Gedanken machen, wie wir Maschinen besteuern und ueber z.B. KI-Dividenden ein Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen finanzieren, dann werden wir ein riesiges Problem bekommen!
Warum #Metropolis von 1927 in Bezug auf den KI-Hype visionaer war, das habe ich hier 👉 https://www.metacheles.de/metropolis-2026-willkommen-im-ki-moloch/ umfassend verbloggt.
Sorry, dass es so duester wurde... aber ich weiss echt nicht, wie ich den Wahnsinn besser in Worte fassen kann.
Gerne boosten/teilen.
Danke fuer euren tollen Support 🙏
@pallenberg interessant, aber du springst leider zu tief und hast ein paar logische Probleme in der Analyse: "KI" kann nicht gleichzeitig ein nutzloses "Schneeballsystem" UND ein allmächtiger Jobkiller sein. Ebenso lässt sich eine "KI-Dividende" nur ausschütten, wenn "KI" eben keine Blase ist, sondern reale Gewinne abwirft.
Die eigentliche Frage ist eine Verteilungsfrage: wirtschaftlich funktioniert das ganze nur, wenn es weiter Konsum geben kann - wo kommt das Geld dafür her? :)
@thomasfuchs part of the pitch originally but they’ve gotten awfully silent about it
@tvdv I’m sure though it would give you a detailed todo list if you ask how to idk enslave a people
@jpjg86
Looked, but didn't come across any recent reports or discussions about it.
How big is your Downloads history? Maybe clearing that up helps.
If not, please start a new discussion about this issue on https://forum.vivaldi.net/category/35/vivaldi-for-linux.
@Vivaldi my apologies, it wasn’t Vivaldi. It was only happening when I was downloading things through Vivaldi initially. But since has started happening with other apps. It’s some sort of issue with my setup. Sorry.
Evan Prodromou
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Most tech conferences generate more news than ever gets covered. Announcements, hallway conversations, signals that never make it into a story.
I'm making myself available to fix that: ConferenceCorrespondent.co
Organizing a tech event or sending a team to one? Check it out!
http://conferencecorrespondent.co/
Most tech conferences generate more news than ever gets covered. Announcements, hallway conversations, signals that never make it into a story.
I'm making myself available to fix that: ConferenceCorrespondent.co
Organizing a tech event or sending a team to one? Check it out!
http://conferencecorrespondent.co/
Anthropic is now saying the reason their AI models in testing turned "evil" is because they were trained on text on the Internet in which rogue AI turns evil.
Also in news at 11: water is wet, grass is green, dogs bark, and cats meow.
@jaredwhite Wasn't there a Twitter chatbot called Tay made by Microsoft that already demonstrated this exact point like ten years ago, or was that just a weird personal fever-dream?
Why Norway is Edging Closer to the EU 🇪🇺
https://nebula.tv/videos/tldrnewseu-why-norway-is-edging-closer-to-the-eu/
Why Norway is Edging Closer to the EU
Nebula
@matt hope not.
Florian 'floe' Echtler
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If you enjoy watching old people fail to read the room, watch somebody try to tell students that Generative AI is the next industrial revolution:
RE: https://spore.social/@foundseed/116545214905646682
just got some reach(engagement) from a picture postcard toot about my utterly ludicrous cabin-fever dream of a solar powered bicycle cargo trailer for my cargo bike
I use:
*For Fucking Mowing Lawns!*
WTF am I doing?
tagged it SolarPunk
which tangentally landed me on @foundseed 's essay
& I'm still chewing on it.
It's a well reasoned work
my excuse:
mow lawns in a Univ Town, because I'm old and irrelevant, lawns are stupid,
'grass cops' exist & hurt students & workers
i try to do it better
@cpm I cannot affirm this. “Solarpunk” is silly, yes, but then tying oneself to *any* kind of “-punk” identity, only to inevitably outgrow and supersede it, feels like an exercise in pointlessness.
Do the work or don’t, find the others or don’t, don’t worry so much about what it’s called, you know? Labelmaking is something you do with a Dymo.
Lisa Melton
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Despite a long-standing court order, the NYPD didn’t audit thousands of stops made by its Community Response Team, which has a history of unconstitutional policing and has drawn hundreds of civilian complaints.
ProPublica previously found the unit often sidestepped oversight.
https://www.propublica.org/article/nypd-community-response-team-stop-frisk-reviews?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Michael Newton
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@susankayequinn @mavnn I do also notice that the chart says "of all men", not of 18-25 men or something. So it's certainly possible that of 18-25 men, their misogyny is comparatively flat or improving, and it's largely that older men are getting just that much worse.
If you don't see this behavior in your Mastodon profile, it's probably because you're running an older version of the Web software.
I'm on mastodon.social and it's currently running version v4.6.0-alpha.7+pr-38939-5f3002f.
Again, because I don't normally look at my own profile, I have no idea when this heinous formatting began in the development process.
Because my version is an alpha, I hope that means there's plenty of time for Mastodon to fix this self-inflicted mistake.
3/3
@lisamelton Looks like this will probably be fixed in the next nightly... See Mastodon PR #3898 at https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/38988 for more details. PR just landed about 4 hours from publication of this message.
Lisa Melton
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#Tennessee removes its #black #US House district in #Memphis
#MAGA goons celebrate
"It's rigged why vote"
On the contrary people not #voting got us here as much as MAGA
Getting out of this means many things. But voting is a small effort compared to the other efforts so voices against voting are inauthentic or #troll #psyop
#Hungary had as bad or worse manipulations against #democracy, and look what Hungarians delivered
Are you angry? Do you want to fix this?
@failedLyndonLaRouchite Let’s start from the premise that launching an in-depth discussion based on a meme risks sparking a pointless row.
But I believe there’s a big difference between hardware, general-purpose software and artificial intelligence, even though they’re undeniably linked.
IMO, AI hasn’t won yet, but they’re trying very hard and with a great deal of billion-dollar funding.
So, we’ll have to wait and see.
I very much agree that what you and I think doesn’t matter much, but nobody’s stopping us from thinking it anyway.
Sorry for my English – I’m using an AI to translate (just kidding)
@Yaku
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your english is excellent
you may know this old "joke" about Americans and the British
The American tourist is a person who thinks that if you talk loudly enough, "they" will understand English
:)
