One who spudges.
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One who spudges.
Linux • KDE • Mozilla • Matrix • Proton • Music • Star Labs • Veg
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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...
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
Firefox on Reddit: 📣 Announcement: We have reopened. (teddit.net)
The protest has never ended. We have been trying to communicate with Reddit admins, who seemed at first to be willing to talk to us, but we are only getting the silent treatment and threats to reopen the subreddit.
Nigel Farage is now considering whether “life was worth living” in the UK. (inews.co.uk)
That moment when you are walking down the street and you accidentally tread in a steaming pile of irony.
Touching moment chimp sees outdoors for the first time (www.bbc.com)
Vanilla, a 28-year-old chimpanzee, had never been outside of a cage or enclosure. She is one of the surviving chimps from the New York-based Laboratory for Experimental Medicine & Surgery in Primates (LEMSIP). Vanilla and her sister, Shake, have a new island home at Save the Chimps in Fort Pierce, Florida....
What were your first cars/jazz mags? (lemmy.sdf.org)
Triumph Herald/Amateur Photographer.
This WWII battle wasn't against Nazis. It was between Black and white GIs in England (www.npr.org)
This story is well known in the UK. Apparently less so in the US.
George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four returned to Portland library after 65 years (www.bbc.com)
This book and also Brave New World should be on every school curriculum.
“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)....
The Ashes 2023
Today marks the start of the latest episode in the biggest international sporting rivalry in the world: The Ashes....
Chat GPT and the keynote address (www.abarristersblog.com.au)
The literal judgement is in on using AI to write speeches
Saturn’s rings steal the show in new image from Webb telescope
The James Webb Space Telescope has observed Saturn for the first time, completing a family portrait of the Solar System’s ringed planets nearly a year after the mission’s first jaw-dropping image release.
Solar panels could be about to get much better at capturing sunlight (www.newscientist.com)
Could*
50,000 tonnes of copper, 500 tonnes of silver and 100 tonnes of gold. (www.theregister.com)
The GSM Association (GSMA) and a dozen carriers have announced a plan to make a modest dent in the number of mobile phones that languish, unused, unloved, and unrecycled....
The charging cable that came with my StarLite is the best I have ever owned
But it died :(
Volkswagen admits it got it wrong with fiddly touchscreens, apologises to customers (www.drive.com.au)
I think I just reconnected with VW. Touch screens in cars are probably the worst automotive innovation....
AI image, real person or Thunderbird puppet? (lemmy.sdf.org)
Apple joins the opposition to encryption-bypassing 'spy clause' in UK internet law (www.theregister.com)
Apple has joined the rapidly growing chorus of tech organizations calling on British lawmakers to revise the nation’s Online Safety Bill – which for now is in the hands of the House of Lords – so that it safeguards strong end-to-end encryption.
It's Adele (b3ta.com)
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....
Linear and Star Dunes (www.earthobservatory.nasa.gov)
A complex system of dunes displays an array of patterns in the Rub’ al Khali sand sea in southeast Saudi Arabia.
Headdesk (www.oed.com)
OED: intransitive. To strike one's head against (or as if against) a desk or table at which one is sitting, often repeatedly, typically as an ostentatious or dramatic gesture of frustration, exasperation, dismay, etc. Cf. earlier headdesk n., headdesk int.