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One who spudges.
Linux • KDE • Mozilla • Matrix • Proton • Music • Star Labs • Veg
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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.
New Zealand bans thin plastic fruit and vegetable bags in world first (www.standard.co.uk)
I'm feeling overwhelmed by my To Do list. How do you cope?
As the title says, I'm getting pretty overwhelmed by a growing list of tasks I have to do. Laundry is piling up, I still need to unpack my car from a roadtrip last weekend, and an issue I've been working at work has been dragging on for too long....
“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)....
It's Adele (b3ta.com)
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.
The German Digital Healthcare Agency joins the Matrix.org Foundation (matrix.org)
We were already proud to announce that the national agency for the digitalisation of the healthcare system in Germany (gematik) had selected Matrix as the open standard on which to base all its interoperable instant messaging standard, back in 2021....
First misinformation susceptibility test finds 'very online' Gen Z and millennials are most vulnerable to fake news (phys.org)
Researchers want the public to test themselves: https://yourmist.streamlit.app/. Selecting true or false against 20 headlines gives the user a set of scores and a "resilience" ranking that compares them to the wider U.S. population. It takes less than two minutes to complete.
It’s bots all the way down at kindle unlimited (www.vice.com)
My title might be a bit hyperbolic, but stuff like this worries me. I love to read and I love reading on a kindle. This has been going on for a while, but it has now reached absurd levels.
What are your favorite bean recipes?
In search of bean-based recipes that don’t require a lot of steps or ingredients or equipment. I’m looking for more comfy staples that I can make while I’m not feeling well. Any ideas?
[SDF] Welcome to SDF Chatter (lemmy.sdf.org)
[SDF] Welcome to SDF Chatter...
'It's so disheartening' - Dolly Parton tribute act stages protest over Meta 'ban' (www.bbc.com)
Dolly Parton, Britney Spears and Taylor Swift tribute acts were among protesters outside Meta’s London HQ after having Facebook and Instagram profiles deleted because of rules banning people from impersonating others.
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....
what is something that immediately makes you think someone is a decent human being?
I think people who are patient and interact with children with respect and empathy is a giveaway.
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....
Chat GPT and the keynote address (www.abarristersblog.com.au)
The literal judgement is in on using AI to write speeches