The appointment of the American economist, who consults for companies such as Microsoft, Apple, Amazon and Pfizer, had been the subject of much criticism.
SUSE is committed to working with the open source community to develop a long-term, enduring compatible alternative for RHEL and CentOS users. SUSE plans to contribute this project to an open source foundation, which will provide ongoing free access to alternative source code.
A video on TikTok - showing a huge crowd of people with the caption, "Nanterre, France - Nahel," and a series of sad emojis - has had more than nine million views....
The upvote system is way too rudimentary to work efficiently. The upvote incite people to post to become more popular, not to post more interesting content....
The Mizan news agency of Iran's judiciary confirmed the executions, describing the two men as having insulted Islam's Prophet Muhammad and promoted atheism....
GMG Union protested G/O Media's decision to test AI-generated content and demanded that the company "invest in real journalism done by real journalists."
At first it was all about presenting data in an original looking way. In the end it was about pushing political ideas in your throat using a plain bar graph. It was not about sharing something interesting you found but about taking advantage of a captive audience.
Our subscriptions mostly pay for the salesmen and the ads. They sell ads first, IT second. So I'm not gonna cry for RedHat. The image of the poor developers working in a cave, struggling to make money is only in our mind. They had a perfectly functional model but decided to sabotage some of it to try to squeeze even more money....
The headquarters of the Paris 2024 Olympics organizing committee and those of its infrastructure partner were searched by police on Tuesday as part of investigations into alleged embezzlement of public funds and favoritism, prosecutors said. The national financial prosecutor's office (PNF) said the Paris 2024 headquarters were...
In 2020, researchers at Cornell University wanted to find out. They sent 32,398 emails, generated by so-called artificial intelligence, to America’s 7,132 state legislators and waited for replies....
Researchers call them the "American blondes" -– bright-eyed environmentalists tweeting passionately in support of the UAE and its handling of the forthcoming COP28 climate summit. The only problem? They are not real.
The content hosted on Youtube cannot be 100% hosted legally. It is impossible to believe that you can find a full album of Pink Floyd hosted on Youtube and that's a legal thing....
I have a loop that will search for my content everywhere, I also have another loop to search a specific sub, but I cannot find a way to do both filters in the same loop....
This article shows that atheists experience hate and intolerance, physical and psychological mistreatments. This piece argues that the apparent invisibility of atheism in Africa is linked to these experiences. In other words atheists are treated in ways that compel them to hide their atheism.
Fiona Scott Morton ends up turning down top EU post (www.lemonde.fr)
The appointment of the American economist, who consults for companies such as Microsoft, Apple, Amazon and Pfizer, had been the subject of much criticism.
CEO Replaces 90% Of Customer Support Staff With AI Chatbot, Internet Angry (www.ndtv.com)
Attributing the decision to prioritising profitability, Dukaan CEO Suumit Shah said customer support costs reduced by 85 per cent.
SUSE Preserves Choice in Enterprise Linux by Forking RHEL with a $10+ Million Investment (www.suse.com)
SUSE is committed to working with the open source community to develop a long-term, enduring compatible alternative for RHEL and CentOS users. SUSE plans to contribute this project to an open source foundation, which will provide ongoing free access to alternative source code.
Do you plan to create your own magazines on kbin or are you already using other Mags on populated instances for this? Like datahoarders and such?
It's tough to restart a community from scratch and I was wondering what was your thought process.
False posts about French riots spread online (www.bbc.com)
A video on TikTok - showing a huge crowd of people with the caption, "Nanterre, France - Nahel," and a series of sad emojis - has had more than nine million views....
How to build a wiki or any kind of database for our subs?
Pinning what is relevant takes too much space. Do we have an alternative?
We need to either rework the the upvote/downvote system or to get rid of it completely. It's not fulfilling its task anymore.
The upvote system is way too rudimentary to work efficiently. The upvote incite people to post to become more popular, not to post more interesting content....
Those of you hosting a peertube instance, how much money does it cost you?
And did you monetize your infrastructure? If so, how?
Iran hangs pair in rare blasphemy case as executions surge (www.9news.com.au)
The Mizan news agency of Iran's judiciary confirmed the executions, describing the two men as having insulted Islam's Prophet Muhammad and promoted atheism....
[news from Reddit]: The staff of r/IAmA will reduce their checks and leave the decision of trusting the process to you. (teddit.adminforge.de)
The staff in charge of IAmA is announcing the discontinuation of a lot of the checks that made the whole process truthful....
‘We Are Appalled’: G/O Media Union Protests Company’s Decision to Test AI Content. [Kotaku, TheOnion, Gizmodo, Deadspin, TheRoot, etc] (www.mediaite.com)
GMG Union protested G/O Media's decision to test AI-generated content and demanded that the company "invest in real journalism done by real journalists."
What was the subreddit that represented to you the best example of downspiral of quality? To me it was /r/dataisbeautiful
At first it was all about presenting data in an original looking way. In the end it was about pushing political ideas in your throat using a plain bar graph. It was not about sharing something interesting you found but about taking advantage of a captive audience.
Jim is invading the "finer things club", aka kbin.social is only our launchpad for the fediverse. We should think about finding another instance soon.
For the last few weeks we enjoyed a much better content on kbin than we had on reddit for a long time....
Reminder that RedHat makes A LOT of money already. The results of the 2019 fiscal year show that RedHat spends twice as much money on ads and sales people than on developers. (www.businesswire.com)
Our subscriptions mostly pay for the salesmen and the ads. They sell ads first, IT second. So I'm not gonna cry for RedHat. The image of the poor developers working in a cave, struggling to make money is only in our mind. They had a perfectly functional model but decided to sabotage some of it to try to squeeze even more money....
Is there a guide that you would recommend to a Fedora refugee?
You may see an influx of invaders caused by the decision from redhat...
Paris 2024 Olympic headquarters searched in corruption investigations (japantoday.com)
The headquarters of the Paris 2024 Olympics organizing committee and those of its infrastructure partner were searched by police on Tuesday as part of investigations into alleged embezzlement of public funds and favoritism, prosecutors said. The national financial prosecutor's office (PNF) said the Paris 2024 headquarters were...
Question Time Brexit Special: "We haven't started Brexit yet, when is it gonna start?" (youtu.be)
Seven years and this man still doesn't comprehend that he has been lied to....
Is America Ready For AI-Powered Politics? (www.huffpost.com)
In 2020, researchers at Cornell University wanted to find out. They sent 32,398 emails, generated by so-called artificial intelligence, to America’s 7,132 state legislators and waited for replies....
Fake Twitter 'blondes' promote UAE climate summit (www.france24.com)
Researchers call them the "American blondes" -– bright-eyed environmentalists tweeting passionately in support of the UAE and its handling of the forthcoming COP28 climate summit. The only problem? They are not real.
About the legality of hosting video/music content on the fediverse and the case of Youtube
The content hosted on Youtube cannot be 100% hosted legally. It is impossible to believe that you can find a full album of Pink Floyd hosted on Youtube and that's a legal thing....
[PRAW] Is there any way to search a specific sub for all your comments?
I have a loop that will search for my content everywhere, I also have another loop to search a specific sub, but I cannot find a way to do both filters in the same loop....
The great thing with the fediverse is that a big company can run its own forum/microblogging instance and therefore communicate with their customers while maintaining full control over their content.
No need for them to chase the next big platform like reddit/facebook/google+, and no need to create "official accounts" on each....
A take on the future of Reddit: A place filled with AIs astroturfing about brands.
This post is about astroturfing, AI and social media....
Atheist experience in Africa | The Guardian Nigeria News (guardian.ng)
This article shows that atheists experience hate and intolerance, physical and psychological mistreatments. This piece argues that the apparent invisibility of atheism in Africa is linked to these experiences. In other words atheists are treated in ways that compel them to hide their atheism.
Is there any notion of unique identification in the fediverse?
I mean between tools, no instances....