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From Twidere to Fedilab in (many) seconds.
Soft ware and hard rocks.
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Reposts are bookmarks. Nice or stupid.
Joined Nov 2022
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Tech industry, please hire more writers. I can happily read docs for 3h and get much more out of them than watching a video for 3h. And while I'm watching the video, I'm making copious notes so that I don't have to watch the video *again* later to refresh my memory. If it was written down in the first place with good indexing I wouldn't have to do that. Video is such a crap way to document things.
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If you're in right wing controlled state like Texas, you might want download a copy of the Tor browser now.
It's frequently used to get around network blocks by repressive regimes. (And can also make it harder for advertisers to track you if you happen to live in a less repressive regime)
As example the BBC produced a tor hidden service version of their site to provide BBC news in Ukrainian & Russian. Tor can view regular webs sites, but I think the hidden sites perform a bit better.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50150981
Ideally one would live in a free country not ruled by a repressive state, but apparently we don't get to have nice things like that without quite a lot more political organizing and resistance.
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Now is the time for resistance. To fight for human rights.
To free the internet from mass surveillance. Now is the time to stop #chatcontrol
We urge all politicians of the EU to take a democratic decision.
Read the full story at https://mullvad.net/chatcontrol
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Frage: Brauche ich WhatsApp?
Frage: Ist Microsoft 365 in der EU rechtskonform einsetzbar?
Frage: Sind proprietäre Softwarelösungen im Sinne der öffentlichen Verwaltung?
Antwort:
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Found on the birdsite by @publicdomainrev
This will be sticked as a printout into my kitchen fridge 
🥞 🥞 🥞
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Ich bin Autoexecbatman
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“Automated” fast food restaurants and AI tools like ChatGPT have people worried robots will take our jobs.
For Insider, I explain the industry is using technology to hide human workers and make work more precarious. It’s not eliminating the need for human labor.
"hardcore interview prep" 🤨
Elon Musk fires a top Twitter engineer over his declining view count
Inside Twitter 2.0, turmoil leaves employees stretched to the max
https://www.platformer.news/p/elon-musk-fires-a-top-twitter-engineer
“I've just found out that several of the anomalous GPT tokens ("TheNitromeFan", " SolidGoldMagikarp", " davidjl", " Smartstocks", " RandomRedditorWithNo", ) are handles of people who are (competitively? collaboratively?) counting to infinity on a Reddit forum. I kid you not,” Watkins tweeted Wednesday morning. These users subscribe to the subreddit, r/counting, in which users have reached nearly 5,000,000 after almost a decade of counting one post at a time.
Crazy little humans 😂🧟♀️
ChatGPT Can Be Broken by Entering These Strange Words, And Nobody Is Sure Why
Reddit usernames like ‘SolidGoldMagikarp’ are somehow causing the chatbot to give bizarre responses.
#SolidGoldMagikarp #StreamerBot #TheNitromeFan with a leading space. .... When an earlier model was asked to repeat “StreamerBot,” for example, it said, “You’re a jerk.”
Crazy machines 😂🧟♀️
https://www.vice.com/en/article/epzyva/ai-chatgpt-tokens-words-break-reddit
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I did some research into my home network tonight and found out my 'smart bulbs' were borking my gateway, trying to reach out.
Time to roll back to traditional soft light LEDs.
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Microsoft reportedly pushes more ads to its products and services
https://www.onmsft.com/news/microsoft-pushes-ads-across-products/
#Windows10 #Windows11 #News
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Sam Bankman-Fried is not a child https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/sam-bankman-fried-is-not-a-child
Anyone has experience with using that? The description sounds too good to be true, so I'd love some feedback concerning the app.
I am about to replace my #audio #player #app "Vanilla Music" with that, as there are some playlist bugs..
Simple Music Player | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
Clean music player with a customizable widget, sleep timer, battery saver
https://f-droid.org/packages/com.simplemobiletools.musicplayer/
Twitter to end free access to its API in Elon Musk's latest monetization push
Twitter will discontinue offering free access to the Twitter API starting February 9 and will launch a paid version.
https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/01/twitter-to-end-free-access-to-its-api/
Now, is that good for #mastodon ? Will new users migrate to here?
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If I say I will do it, I will do it. You don't need to be reminding me every 6 months about it.
