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jon, 14 days ago to random

Welcome to today's thread - #CrossBorderRail South East Europe Day 02 31 May 2024 - Tallinn - Lelle - Pärnu - Häädemeeste

Crossing these borders:
None – only crossing Estonia, getting close to Latvia

These borders on the borders map:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-all-the-borders_935041#8/58.744/24.192

Today's routes on the routes map:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-all-the-borders_935041#8/58.744/24.192

swaldman, 16 days ago to random

One of the ways in which many of the costs of LLMs are externalities, forced onto other companies.

Web hosts generally welcome search engine crawlers, as (at least historically) they will help people find the site.
But LLM crawlers are pulling information from the site in order to use it for the LLM owner's profit, to the site owner's detriment.

https://fosstodon.org/@kate/112524141250923512

swaldman, 16 days ago to random

Here is Google's AI search recommending actions that will generate a significant quantity of hot chlorine gas in people's homes.

Mozilla have a petition: https://foundation.mozilla.org/.../google-ai-overviews/

swaldman, 22 days ago to random

Oh, dear.

Launching a comms campaign asking everybody to have bottled water, food, etc., for national resilience: Sensible.

Doing it on the same day that you call a general election? Maybe not the best look 😂

swaldman, 22 days ago to random

This sequence of news updates (bottom to top) is bringing me joy.