ben, "While young Taiwanese users discuss everything from relationships to celebrity gossip on Threads, the app has gradually become a gathering space for progressives." #Technology https://werd.io/view/665611b88daf0a60c802e4f2
bsletten, Dear self/autonomous-driving developers, if you think you’ve planned for everything, you haven’t:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7Z83oeSSQE/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
JeremyMallin, I think I charge my phone more often than I used to. I used to let it get all the way to single digits before recharging. Lately, I've been recharging when it's still over 75%.
#RandomThoughts #Technology
Cassandra, @JeremyMallin My headphones drive me nuts. No warning at all and then suddenly the alarms are so annoyingly repetitive that I have to stop listening immediately.
ashleyspencer, @JeremyMallin my mouse doesn’t warn me, it just dies lol
alexanderhay, [SLOWCLAP]
"'I was misidentified as shoplifter by #FacialRecognition tech...'
"...[Sara] says after her bag was searched she was... banned from all stores using the #Technology.
"I was just crying and crying the entire journey home… 'Oh, will my life be the same? I'm going to be looked at as a shoplifter when I've never stolen'.
"#Facewatch later wrote to Sara and acknowledged it had made an error..."
Lazarou, @alexanderhay oh look, it's exactly what everyone said would happen.
GhostOnTheHalfShell, No due process and full fascism.
MsHearthWitch, I loathe current-AI in basically all its forms. It's unethical, absolutely divorced from anything that resembles consent.
But you know what I would want AI for?
Smarter driving instructions. A GPS in my car that learns how I like to drive - no lefts on busy streets for example. That when I ask about things like a coffee shop or takeout food en route gives me the option to specify if it has a drive thru and is it on the right side of the road?
AI that serves me, not replaces me.
Jorah, @MsHearthWitch For me, the starting point for an improved driving app would be one that recognizes that my stopping for fuel isn't a crisis.
Sklent, @MsHearthWitch Tech companies definitely need more rules and more naps.
inkican, 'Flying car' makes Tokyo debut at international tech event
https://japantoday.com/category/tech/flying-car-makes-tokyo-debut-at-international-tech-event #technology #tech #innovation #engineering #business #technews #gadgets
msquebanh, #ChineseScientists successfully #transplanted the liver of #GeneEdited #pig into a 71 yr old male patient with giant right lobe #LiverCancer. The patient is moving freely without acute or hyperacute rejection reactions 7 days post surgery.
#WorldsFirst #liver #xenotransplantation #surgery of a living human. China's xenotransplantation #technology has reached a significant #breakthrough in the #medical field - #FirstAffiliatedHospital of #AnhuiMedicalUniversity.
rlstone4dems, @msquebanh These scientists are truly gifted. May the male patient live long!
msquebanh, @rlstone4dems This medical surgery breakthrough could potentially save many lives of people suffering from liver cancer.
kubuntufocus, 🎉 Exciting News! The new Ir GEN 2 Series is here! 🎉
Enjoy quality without sacrificing performance or value. The Ir series marries the enterprise-class hardware from Carbon Systems® with the meticulous OS integration and Linux-first support from Kubuntu Focus®.
• KFS 24.04 LTS Noble Numbat
• Intel® i5-13500H, 12C/16T
• 100% sRGB display IPS
• Dual channel RAM, dual NVMeCheck them out here: kfocus.org/spec
#Technology #Linux #KDE #Tools #Features #Notebook #Laptop #Engineers
hal_canary, when I was a child, you could watch TV and never be interrupted by your TV crashing.
outofcontrol, @hal_canary You clearly never owned a Zenith that had bad connection in it. A good slap on the side every 20 minutes usually solved that issue.
shansterable, Following a bunch of techies on Mastodon be like:
I am a run-of-the-mill Android-phone-Windows-desktop-Gmail-user but now I'm in the process of transitioning from Gmail and using Duck Duck Go to research how to set up a Linux desktop.
Oh, and also now Signal-curious.
What is this place? Some kind of privacy cult LOL?
alexanderhay, @shansterable That had better be a Thinkpad you're typing on!
madargon, @shansterable Or other way - privacy cult chose this place because there is no surveillance here. As a paranoid I use it as only social media service :blobfoxmlem:
bsletten, In case the connection between advanced chips and geopolitics wasn’t painfully clear:
digs, Exciting times in the #kakapo world as we roll out our new transmitter design, with much longer battery life and smarter #technology, thanks to the brilliant DOC Electronics Team. Here’s site lead Petrus with 5 year old Ako. #conservation #parrots 📸 Dani Whitaker
digs, It’s incredible that #kakapo Ako is still alive. She hatched with an open fontanelle (the skull didn’t completely fuse) which required world-first surgery by the vets at Wildbase in NZ. Read more here: https://www.massey.ac.nz/about/news/k%C4%81k%C4%81p%C5%8D-brain-surgery-a-world-first/
paninid, The #technology miracle of “#AI” is that the words generated actually form sequences which humans process as plausible formulations of sentences in language we know.
trochee, @paninid less-figurative "miracles" also exploit pareidolia in the same way, viz finding Jesus in your toast
eoinoneill, How has no one ever told me about this brilliant website?
yora, @eoinoneill I think there should be a website that is nothing but launcher icons from windows games.
eoinoneill, @yora what really blew me away was the intractability of the skins, down to the EQ filters.
Makes me wish someone would make a jellyfin interface that behaves roughly like this lol
ben, "A quarter-century into its existence, a company that once proudly served as an entry point to a web that it nourished with traffic and advertising revenue has begun to abstract that all away into an input for its large language models." #Technology https://werd.io/view/66460b700123961ccd0a5482
JeremyMallin, Now that Internet search has been ruined, I'm going to start calling them quests instead of searches.
#Technology
adriano, @JeremyMallin It's not that you're bad at googling, it's just that you're underleveled.
Cassandra, @adriano @JeremyMallin I had an extremely satisfying experience this evening when I typed in a guess at a URL and got exactly what I wanted.
yogthos, Chinese scientists achieve mass production of optical chips. Such chips are particularly useful for supercomputers and data centers.
Researchers found a way to produce the chips using lithium tantalate, a cheaper material than what was previously used.
This method is expected to help China avoid limitations on advanced chip production from the U.S. 🎉
Theeo123, https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/05/victory-fcc-closes-loopholes-and-restores-net-neutrality
The FCC has now closed the last remaining loopholes and restored Net Neutrality.
This is a HUGE win!!
#FCC #netneutrality #technology #privacy #security #internet
ben, "There were times when Sinclair ZX Spectrum games were copied over the radio waves across Slovenia. Radio Študent broadcast screeching, beeping and whining, which we recorded on tape and played a game a few hours later." I love this! #Technology https://www.racunalniski-muzej.si/en/40-years-later-a-game-for-the-zx-spectrum-will-be-once-again-broadcast-over-fm-radio/?utm_source=werd.io&utm_campaign=mastodon&utm_channel=mastodon
mwichary, @ben We did this in Poland, too. What a wild thing. The original “wifi.”
ben, @mwichary It's so cool - feels really old-school hackery in a way. Just lovely.
BBCRD, "... the BBC has been involved in the development of NMOS since the project’s early days... "
https://www.tvtechnology.com/opinion/brainstorming-nmos-collaborating-for-the-common-good
ben, "Researchers have devised an attack against nearly all virtual private network applications that forces them to send and receive some or all traffic outside of the encrypted tunnel designed to protect it from snooping or tampering." #Technology https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/05/novel-attack-against-virtually-all-vpn-apps-neuters-their-entire-purpose/?utm_source=werd.io&utm_campaign=mastodon&utm_channel=mastodon
ben, "A local authority has announced it will ban apostrophes on street signs to avoid problems with computer systems." It's rare to see bad database security design advertised so openly! #Technology https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-68942321?utm_source=werd.io&utm_campaign=mastodon&utm_channel=mastodon
billseitz, @ben I hope there's no Drop Tables Rd.
https://xkcd.com/327/
ben, @billseitz I suspect someone is going to draw exactly that ...
byteseu, A humble Bluetooth device has successfully connected to a satellite in orbit | The signal spanned an astonishing 600 km https://www.byteseu.com/82704/ #Technology
byteseu, Warren Buffett says AI scamming will be the next big ‘growth industry’ https://www.byteseu.com/80816/ #Technology
xs4me2, Like with all new tech allowing abuse…
Rules and regulation needed. The EU is quite active, e.g. with the digital services act…
preslavrachev, (edited ) The year is 2050. One of the tech companies below has just reach its latest all-time-high. Which one?
matrakuku, @preslavrachev
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