Sythelux

beandev, 11 days ago to Leipzig German

Wirre #Wahlwerbung in #Leipzig.

#schwurbel #esoterik

stefan, 15 days ago to FF

For this week's #FollowFriday #ff I'd like to highlight the various organizations and institutions that moved over here from corporate social media.

Let's show them some support and reward their efforts!

https://data.stefanbohacek.dev/projects/fediverse-accounts

kaffeeringe, 1 month ago to TikTok German

"Solange die Plattform #TikTok und andere Plattformen sich nicht an die Regeln halten und junge Menschen vor Diskriminierung, Hassrede schützen und Desinformation nicht zurücknehmen oder bekämpfen, ist das keine Plattform für den Staat."

So nämlich!

https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/innenpolitik/ataman-tiktok-scholz-100.html

ZekuZelalem, 1 month ago to random

Viral out of Ethiopia!
Ethiopian Foreign Ministry official, Ambassador Suleiman Dedefo has secured a deal to import electric vehicles into the country.

But it's not the news that is going viral, it's the announcement of it.

9 hours after he broke the news, he is yet to delete his tweet which includes poorly cropped screenshots from his computer's browser and a tab that reveals His Excellency's adult content preferences.

They are hooting and hollering all over Ethiopian social media.

"Naughty Black Housewife" encircled by Ethiopian Twitter users who were quick to pounce on the tweet of Ethiopian government official Suleiman Dedefo Abba Tateq @Abbatateq · 1h 😂😂😂😂😂😂 ሚኪያስ @mike18784760 · 37m Caught in 4K 😂😂😂 Andu @Shifta251 · 2h lmfaoooooooo!!!!!!

milan, 1 month ago to random German

ah, es ist ja fast schon wieder zeit sich traditionell über zeitumstellung zu beschweren

Sythelux, 1 month ago to random German

@mullana war cool heute mit dir auf der LBM über den penplotter und 3D Drucker zu reden. Hätte ich gewusst, dass du auch solarpunk fan bist und auf Mastodon bist hätte ich darüber auch geredet, hihi.

ajsadauskas, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to tech

In an age of LLMs, is it time to reconsider human-edited web directories?

Back in the early-to-mid '90s, one of the main ways of finding anything on the web was to browse through a web directory.

These directories generally had a list of categories on their front page. News/Sport/Entertainment/Arts/Technology/Fashion/etc.

Each of those categories had subcategories, and sub-subcategories that you clicked through until you got to a list of websites. These lists were maintained by actual humans.

Typically, these directories also had a limited web search that would crawl through the pages of websites listed in the directory.

Lycos, Excite, and of course Yahoo all offered web directories of this sort.

(EDIT: I initially also mentioned AltaVista. It did offer a web directory by the late '90s, but this was something it tacked on much later.)

By the late '90s, the standard narrative goes, the web got too big to index websites manually.

Google promised the world its algorithms would weed out the spam automatically.

And for a time, it worked.

But then SEO and SEM became a multi-billion-dollar industry. The spambots proliferated. Google itself began promoting its own content and advertisers above search results.

And now with LLMs, the industrial-scale spamming of the web is likely to grow exponentially.

My question is, if a lot of the web is turning to crap, do we even want to search the entire web anymore?

Do we really want to search every single website on the web?

Or just those that aren't filled with LLM-generated SEO spam?

Or just those that don't feature 200 tracking scripts, and passive-aggressive privacy warnings, and paywalls, and popovers, and newsletters, and increasingly obnoxious banner ads, and dark patterns to prevent you cancelling your "free trial" subscription?

At some point, does it become more desirable to go back to search engines that only crawl pages on human-curated lists of trustworthy, quality websites?

And is it time to begin considering what a modern version of those early web directories might look like?

@degoogle #tech #google #web #internet #LLM #LLMs #enshittification #technology #search #SearchEngines #SEO #SEM

xahteiwi, 2 months ago to random

At the end of February, we were covering our daily energy needs (including heating and domestic hot water via our heat pump) from solar power.

Our battery charge doesn't yet last through the night at this time of year, so we draw from the grid in the early morning. But we export the same amount right back in the afternoon.

milan, 2 months ago to random

tuned pixel.tchncs.de a bit, felt kinda slow as of recently :)

aras, 3 months ago to random

3D object representation landscape 1/2: meshes, voxels, signed distance fields

voxel
signed distance field

godotengine, 3 months ago to random

How many of you are using C# to program in Godot 4? ❓

This blogpost delves into the history of .NET and delivers the happy news that mobile support for C# is finally back 📱

🔗https://godotengine.org/article/platform-state-in-csharp-for-godot-4-2/

Sythelux, 3 months ago to random German

@GameFromScratch heya,

Imma tickle your investigative journalism nerves a bit. I found this project https://github.com/Samsung/mixed-reality-extension-godot

Apparently samsung was working on integrating windows mixed reality to godot 2 years ago.

I wasn't sure what to do with this info other than sharing 😋

Sythelux, 4 months ago to random

@aras hey aras. I found your unity 3D gaussian splatting for unity repo and am currently trying to get it to work with the magic leap 2 and I actually got so far as that it is loading at least the debug points in space as you can see in the video attached, but they don't have any color well and the splats aren't working either of course.

Thank you for the whole repo btw this helped me a lot with what I want to achieve.

Do you have an idea how I could troubleshoot it or possible solutions?

Magiv leap 2 screencap you can see the laser pointer going through space and revealing negative space points in the world.

kaffeeringe, 4 months ago to random German

#37c3: Wusstet ihr, dass ihr #NewPipe von YouTube auf media.ccc.de umstellen könnt? Da könnt ihr nicht nur die Aufzeichnunge alle sehen, sondern auch die Livestreams. Zumindest theoretisch. Denn leider stellt NewPipe die Videos im Hintergrund-Modus immer auf den übersetzten Stream um und dir Livestreams laufen bei mir generell nicht. Aber vong Idee her schön.

Migueldeicaza, 6 months ago to random

My talk on “Swift Godot: Fixing the Multi-million dollar mistake” has been posted: https://streaming.media.ccc.de/godotcon2023/relive/57866

mattferrell, 6 months ago to random

I’ve been experimenting with Shelly smart home products for the first time and am kind of blown away with the versatility. I wired up one of their relays to my ERV and now I can automate ramping up my system if humidity or CO2 levels are too high. It’s a bit on the geeky/DIY side of smart home tech setup, but damn … it’s pretty fun making a dumb ERV smart.