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janrosenow, 2 hours ago to random

Die britische Regierung hat hart daran gearbeitet, Wasserstoff als die Wunderwaffe für saubere Heizenergie zu etablieren.

Doch die Realität hat die Vision eingeholt.

Heizen mit Wasserstoff in Grossbritannien ist gescheitert.

Mein Artikel im Focus.

https://amp.focus.de/earth/experten/heizen-mit-wasserstoff-britischer-heiz-rueckzieher-zeigt-welche-fehler-deutschland-vermeiden-sollte_id_259979701.html

communia, 8 hours ago to random

Libraries face significant barriers to transition their lending practices from analogue to digital. 📚🖥️

Today, we are releasing our policy paper #19 with recommendations for an EU-wide right to e-lend:
https://communia-association.org/policy-paper/policy-paper-19-on-e-lending/

jake4480, 2 days ago to microsoft

With the impending doom of ICQ in June and the new crappy version of Teams coming in July, I would like to post this meme one final time

#ICQ #Teams #Microsoft #MicrosoftTeams

GossiTheDog, 4 days ago to random

Google search thinks you should use glue to stick together a pizza as its AI is trained on Reddit, where 11 years ago a user called “fucksmith” posted suggesting it was a good idea.

kate, 5 days ago to random

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danderson, 9 days ago to random

How to tell your OSS is ridiculously popular: people aren't 100% sure they didn't embed it, and tack on the software equivalent of "packaged in a facility where peanuts were also present" to the license list.

This watch contains software, so statistically probably contains at least traces of curl.

nixCraft, 10 days ago to opensource

Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund Becomes First Governmental Sponsor of FFmpeg Project. See https://ffmpeg.org/index.html#stf24 and https://www.sovereigntechfund.de/tech/ffmpeg #opensource #unix #linux

tdp_org, 13 days ago to webdev

My pals in BBC World Service have been doing some awesome work on "lite" versions of their news articles (other page types to follow).
They essentially skip the Server-Side React hydration which means you end up with a simpler HTML+CSS page, no JS.
Page sizes drop significantly:

• Transferred: ~600KB -> 30KB
• Total: 1.65MB -> 135KB
  Just append .lite on a URL e.g. https://www.bbc.com/mundo/articles/crgyyvdz1dro.lite
  There's no on/off UX at the moment but they're working on that too.
  #WebDev #WebPerf #WebPerformance #BBC

Screenshot of a BBC World Service Mundo "lite" page with Dev Tools open showing bytes transferred and total as stated

xtaldave, 14 days ago to strucbio

Open letter to Nature editors complaining about the lack of code availability for AF3 (Publishing code is normally a prerequisite for publishing in Nature)

(Yes, I am fully aware of the irony of using a Google form to do this - not my idea, just sharing.)

#StructuralBiology #Alphafold #Crystallography #CryoEM #NMR @strucbio

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf6ioZPbxiDZy5h4qxo-bHa0XOTOxEYHObht0SX8EgwfPHY_g/viewform

hanno, 15 days ago to random

Today, 16 years ago, Debian published a security advisory announcing CVE-2008-0166, a severe bug in their OpenSSL package that effectively broke the random number generator and limited the key space to a few ten thousand keys. The vulnerability affected Debian+Ubuntu between 2006 and 2008. In 2007, an email signature system called DKIM was introduced. Is it possible that people configured DKIM in 2007, never changed their key, and are still vulnerable to CVE-2008-0166? https://16years.secvuln.info/

ChrisMayLA6, 18 days ago to ukteachers

The cost of a university education is increasingly falling on students & their families as inflation eats into available support.

This is not an accident but rather an evident shift away from an approach that saw 'massification' of higher education as a good thing.

We're slowly (but clearly) moving back to a situation where a university degree becomes only plausible if you have family financial backing....

University is returning to its earlier class composition.

#education #universities

hanno, 21 days ago to random

For reasons that I cannot disclose right now, but will soon, I recently looked into BIMI. And... I have some concerns. BIMI is a spec built on top of DKIM and DMARC, and allows companies to show a logo beside their emails in supporting frontends (like gmail). It requires purchasing a very expensive certificate, I think the justification for it is dubious, and I am not a fan. But even if we put that aside, it's also very strange on a technical level. 🧵

beep, 23 days ago to random

“Amazon has launched a new ‘one-click to quit the union’ tool, and they’re relentlessly pushing it to every worker in their Coventry warehouse. […] If a worker scans the QR code and clicks the link, Amazon’s software automatically generates a letter from the worker and then emails it to the trade union, ending their membership.”

A legal challenge to some gnarly union-busting tactics that Amazon’s deployed in one of its warehouses in the UK: https://www.foxglove.org.uk/2024/05/02/legal-challenge-to-amazon-uks-new-one-click-to-quit-the-union-tool/

sandlapper37, 25 days ago to random

BenCisco, 25 days ago to random

Flawless

xtaldave, 24 days ago to random

Excellent work everyone
#UKNews #UKElections

jonty, 27 days ago to random

User: you charge me when people make unauthorised requests to an S3 bucket?

AWS: yes of course

User: but

AWS: working as intended

User: but

AWS: thank you for your money

https://medium.com/@maciej.pocwierz/how-an-empty-s3-bucket-can-make-your-aws-bill-explode-934a383cb8b1

fkamiah17, 27 days ago to UKpolitics

This is brilliant. Some rancid TERF emailed the Lib Dem Mayoral candidate in her area with some "polite questions" and got this response.
Bravo Hannah 👏 🤣

#UKPolitics #TransRightsAreHumanRights

Dear Vonny I unequivocally support trans rights, as do the Liberal Democrats. I have absolutely no interest whatsoever in any of your hate filled agenda which is persecuting an already vulnerable minority and putting children at risk. Trans people are no threat to me whatsoever as a cis woman. You are extremely welcome to take your mayoral vote elsewhere. Best regards Hannah

gabrielesvelto, 28 days ago to random

This is gonna be fun: OpenAI runs afoul of the GDPR because it generates false information about individuals and they don't have full access to the data that pertains to them.

From the article:

> Maartje de Graaf, data protection lawyer at noyb: “The obligation to comply with access requests applies to all companies. [...] It seems that with each ‘innovation’, another group of companies thinks that its products don’t have to comply with the law.”

https://noyb.eu/en/chatgpt-provides-false-information-about-people-and-openai-cant-correct-it

kravietz, 1 month ago to random

Did you know that #Greenpeace still spends significant resources on fighting life-saving projects such as Golden Rice?

Vitamin A deficiency is a serious health problem in developing countries in Asia and Africa, causing an estimated 250,000 to 500,000 cases of blindness in young children every year. The World Health Organisation estimates that half of these children die within 12 months of losing their sight. Malnutrition rates vary. In the Philippines, 17 per cent of children under six are Vitamin A deficient, while in Bangladesh the rate is about 20 per cent.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/children-could-die-because-of-greenpeaces-golden-rice-activism/

GottaLaff, 1 month ago to Michigan

👀👀 “#Trump, Rudy #Giuliani and Mark #Meadows are unindicted co-conspirators in the #Michigan attorney general's case against the state's so-called "fake electors" in the 2020 election, a state investigator revealed in court on Wednesday.”
#legal
https://trib.al/OpHzqi2

javi, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

offf, this story about how Google made google search into a pile of seagull shit hits me hard:

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

Around the time of this story, I was living through a similar situation in my work life (on a much smaller scope, of course, WordPress.com first, Tumblr later).

Back in 2019, working on WordPress, I started finding myself, almost weekly, arguing against people who wanted to take the product we were working at and made it worse if that mean they could squeeze 0.1% more revenue from it

The 0.1% figure is not even a random number: I remember this speciffic A/B test on WordPress.com that was declared a success and shipped to 100% of the users because it increased the free-to-paid conversion by 0.1%. Soon after it was released, I found out that as a side effect, it increased the churn of free users by 20 something %,so I called for an urgent rollback and removal of the change. So I was promptly explained that we didn't care about free-users churn, because finance had calculated the average long-term value of the free users to be something like $2 per year, and the increase in conversion was bigger than what we could get from them.

Everything became about growth hacking. Everything became thinly-veiled dark patterns. In our private dev slack channels, we joked that since it was impossible to make it smaller or less conspicuous, the next thing the growth team was going to ask us to do was to make the 'free plan' button flee away from the mouse pointer when the user tried to click it. We kept making our product worse, we kept consciously crippling the cheaper versions so we could force people to move to the more expensive options.

Back then I was the lead of one of the two dev divisions working on WordPress.com, so my job was mainly to discuss what we were going to be doing, when and how. And I was getting drained by a constant state of fight against a constant wave of shit they wanted us to build. So much than by the end of 2020, the CEO quietly told me to follow the growth team plans and shut up or step down.

So I requested to move to tumblr, because I thought the pastures were greener over there. But it was all the same: Adding login walls to what we were pretending to be "the last bastion of the free internet", cramping in embarrasingly obvious money-making schemes disguised as features, and making them silently opt-out instead of opt-in so the less people the possible would deactivate them, having to fend off the pressure from the CEO to make everything algorithmic timelines because, you know, tiktok makes a lot of money and why aren't we, etc etc.

I found myself in a place where building something good that people enjoy using was no longer a priority, but tricking people into generating more money for the company was. And when I looked around me, I could see that happening everywhere else, not only in my company. Experiencing the start of the enshittification years from inside wasn't easy.

And, as in the article, the people who decided to turn the shit-metter up to 200%, have a name, in every case. And these people, no matter if they are called Sundar and Prabhakar or Matt and Mark, are destroying the internet. These people are milllionaires, or billionaries, and are destroying our shared, common spaces to squeeze some extra cash from us.

That's why the fediverse and its principles are important. Because that's how we take back internet from their dirty hands. That's how we make internet resilient against them. That's how we build the commons.

unknow, 1 month ago to random Polish

Nadchodzi nowa, lepsza jakość spambotów 🎉😏

inquiline, 1 month ago to random

Hats off:

"Billionaire Elon Musk, found dead in his home last night, says it is not the role of social media networks to determine what is true or not.

The Tesla and X owner, who is believed to have died from a heroin overdose while watching animal porn, said he would fight any attempts to stop the spread of misinformation on his platform"

https://theshovel.com.au/2024/04/23/elon-musk-dead-at-52-misinformation-laws/