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How to Steal an Election – Climate Town [video](youtube.com)
1 points by botanical 2y ago|0 comments
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California governor signs law banning plastic shopping bags at grocery stores(apnews.com)
4 points by botanical 2y ago|0 comments
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by botanical 2y ago
They don't say much about data privacy.
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by botanical 2y ago
I really dislike how AI is used for everything. To me, AI means a dumb LLM spewing out half-truth and whole lies. But in this instant, it's machine learning in the form of regression analysis: Multivariate adaptive regression spline
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by botanical 2y ago
Israel had 4000 hostages before Oct 7, and more than doubled it since to 10 000. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_prisoners_in_Israe...
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by botanical 2y ago
Apartheid Israel really are terrorists. This was representative of that, killing 2 children in the process. There could be 186,000 deaths since October in their current Genocide of the Palestinians. No wonder Hamas and Hezbollah exist, the
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U.S. Expands Personal Sanctions on Israeli-Spyware Firm Intellexa(haaretz.com)
2 points by botanical 2y ago|0 comments
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Larry Ellison: AI Surveillance will ensure citizens will be on best behavior
5 points by botanical 2y ago|7 comments
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Diesel shop fined $10M for making and selling Emissions Defeat Devices(thedrive.com)
75 points by botanical 2y ago|85 comments
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by botanical 2y ago
Lol, I searched it found it's somehow the email for the "Jukskei River Revival Collective". Also, I'm surprised to see Joburg but not the other cities; it's not really notable for rivers, at least in the city centre
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by botanical 2y ago
They should import data from Mapillary as I see the whole of South Africa is missing. Although most libre licensed products have poor image quality; I hope that improves.
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Google loses fight against $2.7B EU antitrust fine(reuters.com)
3 points by botanical 2y ago|0 comments
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by botanical 2y ago
> we identify the root cause to be high receiver-side processing overhead I find this to be the issue when it comes to Google, and I bet it was known before hand; pushing processing to the user. For example, the AV1 video codec was deplo
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by botanical 2y ago
Hundreds of millions of perfectly good PCs are going to be end-of-life due to this.
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Tesla removed climate manifesto (and other planned goals) from website(insideevs.com)
28 points by botanical 2y ago|3 comments
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by botanical 2y ago
DMCA is a weapon abused by corporations. These laws are written solely for corporations. What I do an end-user is my discretion; if I want to remove or alter data sent to my endpoint, I should be able to without some corporation dictating w
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by botanical 2y ago
I'm on the Firefox snap on Ubuntu but don't get any freezes.
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Google has to face a class action lawsuit over Chrome's data collection(theverge.com)
16 points by botanical 2y ago|1 comments
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by botanical 2y ago
The biggest bully on the world stage is the United States. I'm no fan of Russia or China, but they aren't in conflict with the US. If anything, the military industrial complex that the US bolsters, is the reason for conflict aroun
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JPEG is Dying – And that's a bad thing [video](youtube.com)
2 points by botanical 2y ago|0 comments
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Disney wrongful death lawsuit over allergy highlights danger of fine print(usatoday.com)
19 points by botanical 2y ago|14 comments
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X ordered to pay $600K to fired employee who didn't click yes on email ultimatum(engadget.com)
10 points by botanical 2y ago|0 comments
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Custom ROMs have had just about enough of being Android's second-class citizens(androidauthority.com)
39 points by botanical 2y ago|9 comments
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by botanical 2y ago
AV1 really consumes CPU but x265 and VP9 are easy on the CPU with software decoding.
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ChatGPT is as (in)accurate at diagnosis as 'Dr Google'(newatlas.com)
1 points by botanical 2y ago|0 comments
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by botanical 2y ago
I still can't believe the sham of current "AI" is just brute forcing LLMs to seem intelligent. I use ChatGPT almost every day which is supposedly best-in-class and it is dumb. Valuation of these companies are in the billions
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by botanical 2y ago
It's a shame JPEG XL isn't listed. I've converted all my family scanned photos to make it future proof; editing and saving an image multiple times doesn't degrade it as much as jpeg. Lossless with higher compression mean
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by botanical 2y ago
There's the fraidycat extension that I use to do exactly that: https://fraidyc.at/
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Third-party cookies have got to go(w3.org)
67 points by botanical 2y ago|53 comments
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Israel Maneuvered to Prevent State Secrets Disclosure, WhatsApp vs. NSO Lawsuit(forbiddenstories.org)
20 points by botanical 2y ago|0 comments

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