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by rapnie 10mo ago
The videos too. Geopolitical commentators cannot show e.g. an explosion in Ukraine caused by a drone, and they say "T" instead of "terrorist", and "kaboomed" instead of "killed", etc. Doing so may see
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Isn't is similar to Carter being depicted as a 'weak president' because he had more progressive ideas than an average US president, which make similar amount of sense.. and hence best ridiculed as a threat to "greed is g
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> I saw a video I wanted to share with someone, but it was part of a compilation. So you just search for it, right? There's something with these compilations. Almost as if deliberately AI slop is mixed in to numb the public to it, o
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Cats getting totally excited to see their owner, because they dearly missed them. Cats filmed in night cam dropping weird animals from the forest on sleeping boss. Olympic athletes, gorgeous, but not real. Countless disasters where people d
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Unrelated to this conference I've often heard the "everything is political" argument, and mostly with a passive-aggressive "or else.." (you're up for a political fight) undertone. I once enquired on very mundan
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Fun fact, in my student group at university of twente two people claimed to have developed the first web server for Windows. They called it W4Server and at fist thought of erecting a company called Antelope Software, but later prioritised t
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KC3: Programming language for meta-programming with an embedded graph database(kc3-lang.org)
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by rapnie 10mo ago
Looks like they are ready to scoop up a bunch of EU grant money, perhaps at fediverse's cost. Esp. since it looks (not sure) that an AI company is behind the initiative: https://themodalfoundation.org/
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by rapnie 10mo ago
Launching in early 2026, Eurosky Social [0] is coming. > The next era of social media: built and run in Europe, ruled by our laws. > Eurosky is building a European alternative to Big Tech social media and web services that is focused
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Yes, that is my impression also. Extensively using for a couple of years, and only occasional quirks now and then, e.g. a profile verification issue (seeing the annoying red shields to each comment), but easily fixed. Or a UX update that do
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Yes, there is a lot of affinity towards Canada in Europa, I feel. Last Bastion of Democracy on the North-American continent, and not part of the whacky Trump-Atlantian Hemisphere.
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I learned that Turso apparently have plans for a rewrite of libsql [0] in Rust, and create a more 'hackable' SQLite alternative altogether. It was apparently discussed in this Developer Voices [1] video, which I haven't yet w
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Stick it, because? Always ask why. Perhaps the orange man is shitting in gardens far and wide abroad? Personally I do not want America to fail at all, to flourish even, and for it to remain a democracy at that. It helps. The orange man seem
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> Instead, if I were CEO, I'd go the opposite way: I'd focus on privacy. Where it comes to AI in that regard, I would also focus on direct human connection. Where AI encapsulates people in bubbles of tech isolation and social i
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Discouraging you to do it again.
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Synit: A Reactive Operating System(synit.org)
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From the website: > Synit is an experiment in applying pervasive reactivity and object capabilities to the System Layer of an operating system for personal computers, including laptops, desktops, and mobile phones. Its architecture follo
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An Orbital House of Cards: Frequent Megaconstellation Close Conjunctions(arxiv.org)
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I hear people on Mastodon, who undoubtedly came from X, talk about 'tweeting a Mastodon post' instead of posting or 'tooting'.
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GNU Taler [0] perhaps. They are funded by EU grants, and have a funding program [1] going to stimulate the ecosystem. > We are building an anonymous, taxable payment system using modern cryptography. Customers will use traditional money
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by rapnie 11mo ago
Nice! You might add Prezi as inspiration for zooming and panning across the live dynamic environments, islands on your everything canvas in: https://untested.sonnet.io/notes/an-everything-canvas/
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RFC-8927: JSON Type Definition(datatracker.ietf.org)
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Just one example, but trying to get that revenge porn off the web, can be seen as an attempt to restore ones privacy. Where others should not have the right to continue to peek into ones private life.
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Europe Is a Digital Tenant(medium.com)
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You might give Gleam [0] a try, which is advertised as "language you can learn in a day". It is type-safe, supports the BEAM and you can easily invoke Erlang and Elixir. Compiles to Erlang or Javascript. [0] https://gle
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Yes, there's also the "Eskimo kiss" in Inuit culture. Rubbing noses together, as a climate adjusted habit. From Wikipedia: > Rather, it is a non-erotic but intimate greeting used by people who, when they meet outside, ofte
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A blog writer who injects ads cares in an analogy similar to how a low-level street dealer cares about pushing to clients. It provides the income. Further up the chain it goes much further than just ads, up to state actors who try to influe
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> sliding into a backwater in this space and an open air museum Or a place that follows a different approach than "break it to make it" mad dash, that fosters a different - perhaps richer - culture with tech more aligned to peo
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> AI UI 2026: every day ...
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Hmm, wait a minute.. maybe he was the cause! (no, kidding. just upping the pressure as a good peer :)

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