While we do have criticisms of its centralized architecture and other choices we highly regard Signal for ushering in a decade of popularizing end-to-end encryption. We particularly appreciate @Mer__edith doing excellent communication work there. It's disingenuous that tech-billionaires Musk/Dorsey fuel attacks on her and another female colleague, hinting at Telegram as a more secure messenger. Comparing security of Signal with Telegram simply results in "Type Error: incompatible arguments".
Someone actually built a Chrome extension to "Hide annoying Google AI Overviews". LOL. Right now it only has 2,000 users, but I wouldn't be surprised if it reaches millions in a few months when SGE (Search Generative Experience) will be rolled out globally. https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/hide-google-ai-overviews/neibhohkbmfjninidnaoacabkjonbahn Duckduckgo is also releasing similar tech using AI .
@nixCraft it would be better to prevent the LLM results from being generated altogether. That would not just save us from the #LLM crap but also prevent the #CO2 emissions being created at all (maybe).
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.
Making software that runs repeatedly or continuously, like CI jobs, more efficient also means less energy. If you’re working on OSS or internal projects at work that you can make similar changes to, please look into it! It’s not exactly #permacomputing but it feels like a tangible computing thing that we all can help with in corporate jobs.
I saw a toot (from a stranger, hence the subtoot) that argued that permacomputing was about redeeming computers. Maybe some permacomputing proponents feel that way, but that’s not the attitude I’m bringing to this endeavor at all. The questions I’m interested in are things like:
• We have all these computers around, how do we make them last as long as possible?
• If or when we reach a point where we stop mass-producing new chips, how can we eke out the most use of extant digital devices?
• Is it possible to build something that counts as a “computer” in a genuinely sustainable way?
• At the root of all of this: what purpose does computation serve for humanity that is even worth carrying on in a more humane society?
Because I deleted (not edited) some of my answers on Stack Overflow (7 in total) during the last two days, my account is now locked because I "defaced" the community.
They seem to be really desperate. But with their decision to sell their data to OpenAI, they sealed their own fate.
"To me, the latest is the latest my OS provides me. If #curl maintainers dont care about pushing the latest into the OSes they support, it's not me to blame. I think curl maintainers should push Centos to provide the latest to all users. What's the purpose of you fixing multiple bugs and security holes if you dont spend time to make it available to the broader audience?"
@ainmosni@GossiTheDog There's nothing inherently wrong, of course, with meeting your spouse at work, but it happens so much more often in these companies because the employee's entire social circle is the company.
gonna make a t-shirt that says "my cool counterculture community is hosted on discord, an alexa top 1000 property, owned and operated by discord inc. under proprietary license."
No tracking! No crapware! No pesticides!
Organic Maps, where freedom resides!
Navigate with privacy, feel the vibe,
Community-driven, let's take the ride.
If your enemy is literally hiding behind children, you don't say, "My enemy made me kill children." You say, "I couldn't kill my enemy, because there were children in the way."
Unless, of course, you don't think the children are really human in the way that your children are human.
