One who spudges.
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One who spudges.
Linux • KDE • Mozilla • Matrix • Proton • Music • Star Labs • Veg
This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.
AI image, real person or Thunderbird puppet? (lemmy.sdf.org)
What was your gateway product to open source? (www.cnet.com)
I want to talk about our gateway products to open source. You know, that one product or software that made us go, “Whoa, this is amazing!” and got us hooked on the world of open source....
This used to be a witty title but some pro-censorship arse complained so here we are (www.theguardian.com)
No more cordon blur: France prepares to ban vegetarian products from using meaty language
Where To Find Actually Good Search Engines?
I’m kind of tired of Google sending me to the same 3 sites whenever I search for something. If not the same 3 sites it’s 7 others that are so generic and boring I just feel they’re useless. It’s always makeuseof, androidauthority, or whatever other sites that have useful information but I rarely feel like they are saying...
Following the Money: A Beginner’s Guide to Using the OpenCorporates API - bellingcat (www.bellingcat.com)
No 10’s Ulez stance reverses ‘decades of clean air progress’, says Sadiq Khan (www.theguardian.com)
“The government has given financial assistance to Birmingham, Bristol and Portsmouth to help fund their clean air zones but has refused to support London’s scheme, arguing that powers over transport and air quality are devolved to the capital.”
TIL: F3 and F4 keys in Dolphin
F3 split screen on/off...
“Lying” in computer-generated texts: hallucinations and omissions (blog.oup.com)
There is huge excitement about ChatGPT and other large generative language models that produce fluent and human-like texts in English and other human languages. But these models have one big drawback, which is that their texts can be factually incorrect (hallucination) and also leave out key information (omission)....
'Version of PIN' for Boris Johnson's old phone may have been found by govt (news.sky.com)
What were your first cars/jazz mags? (lemmy.sdf.org)
Triumph Herald/Amateur Photographer.
A response to the Sarah Silverman suing OpenAI post from yesterday: [AI doesn't read or write like humans, and we shouldn't act like it does.] (agrobertson.substack.com)
A long form response to the concerns and comments and general principles many people had in the post about authors suing companies creating LLMs.
Boris Johnson fails to hand over mobile with Covid WhatsApps before inquiry deadline (www.independent.co.uk)
Nitter, alternative frontend for twitter, is back online! (github.com)
I use nitter to get rss feeds of twitter lists so glad to see them back up
What happens to campaign Web sites after an election?
I was watching an old episode of Have I Got News For You and a David Cameron promotional site was mentioned so I checked it out. His people must have let the domain name expire as it’s now a spam blog called David Cameron Journalism....
Firefox plugin to click through cookie popups.
Can someone recommend a plugin to click through all those annoying GDPR cookie popups. In a perfecrt world, I woudl like it to automagically™ pick necessary only, but I’m sure that’s asking for too much.