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jbzfn, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to random

🦁 Do Not Use Brave Browser
➥ Kevin Muldoon

#Brave #Browser #Privacy #Creepto https://www.kevinmuldoon.com/do-not-use-brave-browser/

jbzfn, 5 months ago to random

🎉 Happy George W. Bush shoeing incident to those who celebrate!

jbzfn, 2 months ago to scifi

🪦 Vernor Vinge, author of many influential hard science fiction works, died March 20 at the age of 79.

https://file770.com/vernor-vinge-1944-2024/

#VernorVinge #SciFi #Cyberpunk

jbzfn, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to random

:SMOrc: @eff writes:
"The U.S. Patent Office has proposed new rules about who can challenge wrongly granted patents. If the rules become official, they will offer new protections to patent trolls. Challenging patents will become far more onerous, and impossible for some. The new rules could stop organizations like EFF, which used this process to fight the Personal Audio “podcasting patent,” from filing patent challenges altogether"
#USPTO
#Patents
#PatentTrolls
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/06/our-right-challenge-junk-patents-under-threat

jbzfn, 10 months ago to privacy

Since the fossbros are too busy defending IBM and Meta, I'll do my fair share of being annoying by kindly asking people not to use Google Forms for online surveys.

#Privacy #Opensource

jbzfn, 10 months ago to privacy

🛜 RSS Readers Are Better Than Ever, Thanks to Twitter & Reddit | HowtoGeek.com

"Thankfully, RSS is still in widespread use, and there are still many RSS reader apps and services on every platform. With platforms like Reddit and Twitter locking down access, and algorithmic recommendation engines like Google Discover often filled with junk content, RSS might just be the best way to stay informed about what is important to you."

#RSS #Privacy #NoAlgorithm
https://www.howtogeek.com/897897/rss-readers-are-better-than-ever-thanks-to-twitter-reddit/

jbzfn, 8 months ago to pokemon

「 Pretendo is a free and open source replacement for Nintendo's servers for both the 3DS and Wii U, allowing online connectivity for all, even after the original servers are discontinued 」

https://pretendo.network/

#Pretendo #3DS #WiiU #Retrogaming #Opensource

jbzfn, 11 months ago to internet

"Led by Musk and the cadres of sycophants who were internally referred to as the “transition team,” Twitter’s new leadership deliberately, specifically, and repeatedly announced their intentions to breach contracts, violate laws, and otherwise ignore their legal obligations"
➥ Techdirt

#Musk #Twitter
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/05/22/apparently-elon-doesnt-think-he-needs-to-pay-rent-because-sf-is-a-shithole-so-why-should-we-pay-for-twitter/

jbzfn, 3 months ago to random

The first release of Internet Explorer (1976) is closer in time to the Big Bang than to the year of Linux on the Desktop.

jbzfn, 4 months ago to webdev

📄 arXiv now offers papers in HTML format

「 The request to offer arXiv-hosted papers in HTML format comes directly from scientists with disabilities who face barriers to accessing the research they need. HTML formatted papers are more easily and accurately read by screen readers and other technologies, which can assist researchers with reading disabilities, including blindness, low vision, dyslexia, and more 」

https://blog.arxiv.org/2023/12/21/accessibility-update-arxiv-now-offers-papers-in-html-format/

#arXiv #HTML #Accessibility #Science #Research

jbzfn, 10 months ago to privacy

#Privacy isn't a feature you sell, that's like buying from a cereal brand that asks you to pay $4 more for the nonpoisonous version.

jbzfn, 2 months ago to llm

☠️Hallucination is Inevitable: An Innate Limitation of Large Language Models
— arxiv.org

"By employing results from learning theory, we show that LLMs cannot learn all of the computable functions and will therefore always hallucinate. Since the formal world is a part of the real world which is much more complicated, hallucinations are also inevitable for real world LLMs"

https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.11817

#llm #ai #hallucination

jbzfn, 1 day ago to space

"When you look at the northern sky, you can follow the arm of the Big Dipper as it arcs around toward the bright star called Arcturus. Roughly in the middle of that arc, you'll find the Northern Crown constellation, which looks a bit like a smiley face. Sometime between now and September, if you look to the left-hand side of the Northern Crown, what will look like a new star will shine for five days or so."

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/if-you-can-see-the-big-dipper-youll-get-to-see-a-star-go-nova-soon

#Nova #BlazeStar #Space

jbzfn, 2 months ago to hiring

👻 Job boards are still rife with 'ghost jobs'. What's the point? - BBC

「 More than 40% of hiring managers said they list jobs they aren't actively trying to fill to give the impression that the company is growing. A similar share said the job listings are made to motivate employees, while 34% said the jobs are posted to placate overworked staff who may be hoping for additional help to be brought on 」

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20240315-ghost-jobs-digital-job-boards

#JobSearch #Recruiting #Hiring #HR

jbzfn, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to retrogaming

「 Atari just announced preorders for a physical cartridge for the company’s once-ubiquitous 2600 console. You read that right. A gaming console that counts 1982 as its most successful year is releasing another new cartridge in the year 2023. The game-in-question is called Save Mary and was actually developed during the console’s golden years, before being shelved when the 2600 went the way of the dodo 」

#Atari2600 #Retrogaming #Retrogames

https://www.engadget.com/atari-is-releasing-a-new-cartridge-for-its-46-year-old-2600-console-183922523.html

jbzfn, 5 months ago to usenet

Google Groups ending support for #Usenet
https://support.google.com/groups/answer/11036538?hl=en

jbzfn, 4 months ago to haskell

🧙‍♂️ Haskell in Production: Chordify
ᐅ @serokell

「 Furthermore, the lightweight threading model of Haskell is great for web-server purposes: we handle thousands of requests per second on quite low-end hardware. Interestingly, our CI server that does compilation needs a lot more RAM than our production servers, which is the price you pay for having strong compile-time guarantees, and thereby the efficient runtime 」

https://serokell.io/blog/haskell-in-production-chordify

#Haskell #Backend #FunctionalProgramming

jbzfn, 6 months ago to opensource

🚪 Highly invasive backdoor snuck into open source packages targets developer
➥ Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/11/developers-targeted-with-malware-that-monitors-their-every-move/

#Malware #Opensource #Cybersecurity

jbzfn, 3 months ago to random

🔥 Companies’ hard-line stance on returning to the office is backfiring
— Washington Post

"Thousands of employees at Europe’s largest software company, SAP, have signed a letter saying they feel “betrayed” by the firm’s “radical change in direction” on its back-to-office directive, with many threatening to leave rather than return to offices or work on-site with customers at least three days a week starting in April."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/02/02/return-to-office-punishments-remote-hybrid-work/

#RemoteWork #HybridWork #RTO

jbzfn, 7 months ago to linux

🐧 From ZDNET:

「 The vulnerability was introduced in April 2021 with the release of glibc 2.34. The flaw is a buffer overflow weakness in the glibc's ld.so dynamic loader, a crucial component responsible for preparing and executing programs on Linux systems. The vulnerability is triggered when processing the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable, making it a significant threat to system integrity and security 」

https://www.zdnet.com/article/patch-now-this-serious-linux-vulnerability-affects-nearly-all-distributions/

#Linux #Infosec #Exploits #glibc

jbzfn, 8 months ago to godot

🕹️ From @godotengine:

「 This new platform lets us significantly reduce platform fees, and as a non-profit we do not charge VAT on donations, unlike a platform like Patreon does. So your contributions go directly towards the development and improvement of the Godot Engine itself

If you are currently supporting us through Patreon, we encourage you to switch to the Godot Development Fund to increase the effectiveness of your donations 」

https://godotengine.org/article/godot-developer-fund/

#Godot #Gamedev #Opensource

jbzfn, 3 months ago to space

🧑‍🔬 Frustrated by the constraints of Earth, a team of California scientists took tumor research to space—and may have discovered a ‘kill switch' for cancer
— Fortune

https://fortune.com/well/2024/02/04/axiom3-astronauts-california-researchers-battle-cancer-space-kill-switch-rebecsinib

#Cancer #CancerResearch #Space

jbzfn, 10 months ago (edited 2 days ago) to opensource

💩 Canonical finally snapped.

After gaslighting everyone about good intentions, they will now fully commit to their proprietary Snapverse.

Baby steps, then one big Godzilla one.

IPO, MS or GTFO seems to be the party line.

Not gonna join a cult, specially a corporate one, just to be resold back to MS or worse.

At least they can't play the "benefit of the doubt" card anymore.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/07/ubuntu-23-10-new-app-store-deb-support

#Enshittification #Opensource #Canonical #Ubuntu #Snap

jbzfn, 3 months ago to privacy

🔎 This Guy Has Built an Open Source Search Engine as an Alternative to Google in His Spare Time
— 404media.co

“Most of our searches go through the same handful of entities (Google, Bing, Yandex),” Denker told me. “Even other search engines such as DuckDuckGo use Bing for their results. I found it very weird that there essentially is no way to browse the web in an open manner. So that's what I am trying to build.”

#Stract #SearchEngine #Privacy #Opensource

https://www.404media.co/this-guy-is-building-an-open-source-search-engine-in-real-time/

jbzfn, 6 months ago to linux

🐧The Linux kernel scheduler has been accidentally hardcoded to a maximum of 8 cores for the past 15 years and nobody noticed
https://thehftguy.com/2023/11/14/the-linux-kernel-has-been-accidentally-hardcoded-to-a-maximum-of-8-cores-for-nearly-20-years/

#Linux #Kernel #Opensource