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Favourite thing I've learned in 2023: Rosenthaler Platz U-Bahn station in Berlin is entirely decorated with radioactive uranium glazed tiles.

@gigabecquerel visited with a geiger counter to check.

chaos.social/@gigabecquerel/10…

gigabecquerel

2023-02-06 15:11:55


The
whole
fucking
station

is uranium glazed???
That must be tens of kg of uranium!

Hot damn I almost didn't want to leave

Edit:
Fuck sake there are so many armcair experts here.
NO, this is NOT dangerous!
Radiation is all around you and so far you have done just fine surviving that.
It's a nice color and an interesting historical fact, and that's all there's to it.


@gigabecquerel

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Mozilla is working on bringing Firefox 🦊 to iOS 🥂

Real Firefox with Gecko 🦎!

Apple's over a decade long ban on competitive third party browsers has almost certainly cost Firefox significant market share and 100s of millions in lost revenue.

theregister.com/2023/02/07/moz…


Mozilla, like Google, is looking ahead to the end of Apple's WebKit rule

Work on a Gecko-based version of Firefox for iOS is underway, again
Thomas Claburn (The Register)

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We had a great time at #FOSDEM! If you came to see @mattj and @zash from the Prosody team at the Real-time Lounge area, it was nice to meet you! If not, maybe we'll catch you next year :)

As well as @mattj's talk about FAST auth in Prosody, also check out Saúl's talk about how the #Jitsi team used #Prosody and #XMPP to scale video conferences to over 10000 participants. The recording is now online: fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event…


FOSDEM 2023 - P10K: getting 10000 participants into a Jitsi meeting

fosdem.org
#xmpp #fosdem #prosody #jitsi @Zash @MattJ

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The great big Matrix 2.0 main-stage talk from #FOSDEM2023 is now available online! Come see how we're making Matrix go voom 🏎️ with the world first demo of iOS Element X beta; the Waterfall SFU for Element Call; P2P Matrix & scriptable Third Room in WebXR! youtube.com/watch?v=eUPJ9zFV5I…

Matrix 2.0 — How we're making Matrix go voom!

NOTE: we'll update the FOSDEM 2023 playlist as we gather all the talks. Stay tuned for more Matrix content.Matrix is an open standard for secure, decentralis...
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gigabecquerel

The
whole
fucking
station

is uranium glazed???
That must be tens of kg of uranium!

Hot damn I almost didn't want to leave

Edit:
Fuck sake there are so many armcair experts here.
NO, this is NOT dangerous!
Radiation is all around you and so far you have done just fine surviving that.
It's a nice color and an interesting historical fact, and that's all there's to it.

This entry was edited (2 years ago)

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Soeben habe ich 20.- CHF sinnvoll ausgegeben; #thunderbird von #mozilla ist auf unsere #Spende angewiesen. Vielleicht kannst ja auch Du mithelfen, dass dieses sinnvolle Projekt in Zukunft weiter existiert:

give.thunderbird.net

#Hilfe #opensource #email

Just now I spent 20.- CHF wisely; thunderbird by mozilla depends on our #donation. Maybe you can #help to keep this useful project going in the future?


Give to Thunderbird | Give to Thunderbird

I gave to @mozthunderbird today to #freetheinbox. Join me to support communication privacy.
Give to Thunderbird
#email #opensource #mozilla #thunderbird #hilfe #help #donation #spende

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Google used to take pride in minimizing time we spent there, guiding us to relevant pages as quickly as possible. Over time, they tried to answer everything themselves: longer snippets, inline FAQs, search results full of knowledge panels.

Today's Bard announcement feels like their natural evolution: extracting all value out of the internet for themselves, burying pages at the bottom of each GPT-generated essay like footnotes. blog.google/technology/ai/bard…

Rendering of an iPhone with a Google result page for "Is piano or guitar easier to learn and how much practice does each need?" with a three paragraph AI-generated response from "Bard." Two search results are partially-obscured at the bottom of the screen.

An important next step on our AI journey

Introducing Bard, Google's experimental conversational AI service powered by LaMDA — plus, new AI features in Search coming soon.
Sundar Pichai (Google)
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Andy Baio

Personally, I wish that the "code red" response that ChatGPT inspired at Google wasn't to launch a dozen AI products that their red teams and AI ethicists have warned them not to release, but to combat the tsunami of AI-generated SEO spam bullshit that's in the process of destroying their core product. Instead, they're blissfully launching new free tools to generate even more of it.

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Apt that while at #SOOCon23 I can share that our Our colleagues in the #OpenSource policy team @NHSTransform have published this set of digital playbooks to encourage open source development, testing, adoption, and deployment.

transform.england.nhs.uk/key-t…
#stateofopencon


Open source digital playbook

NHS Transformation Directorate - transformation to improve health and care for everyone
NHS Transformation Directorate
#opensource #stateofopencon #soocon23
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Giuseppe Sollazzo

And great to see our case study included: a model to predict a patient's length of stay at admission. Developed as an #opensource from inception alongside our colleagues at @gloshospitals who are now deploying it in the wild.
#stateofopencon #SOOCon23

transform.england.nhs.uk/key-t…


Long stayers risk stratification

NHS Transformation Directorate - transformation to improve health and care for everyone
NHS Transformation Directorate
#opensource #stateofopencon #soocon23

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Ne pas oublier de soutenir la communauté des développeurs de monde numérique Libre. Cela fait plusieurs années, maintenant, que j'utilise @thunderbird, alors il était temps pour moi de lui offrir un premier don! ✔ give.thunderbird.net/fr/

Faire un don à Thunderbird | Faire un don à Thunderbird

J’ai fait un don à @mozthunderbird. Vous aussi, soutenez la confidentialité des communications. #freetheinbox
Faire un don à Thunderbird
@Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

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“This is not a wish list. This exists. This works. This has been implemented and it's working now. It's working now in many applications, platforms and services.”

From “Podcasting 2.0: it's all about Interoperability” #fosdem
(How Podcasting 2.0 will save the Open Internet)
Full video here: 👉️ fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event…

FOSDEM 2023 - Podcasting 2.0: it's all about Interoperability

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#fosdem
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Sean Randall

@valiant8086 I presume it's not been specifically trained on audiobooks, or if it has, it's a young model. Speaker recognition in a fiction work is hardly a trivial matter, not to mention a bank of voiceform adaptations to connect to each speaker, which then also need to be run through whatever tone or intent deterministic algorithm they already use, which will often include markers outside the dialogue. Complex business! But who'd have predicted such results even to this standard?
@valiant8086

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Getty Images sues AI art generator Stable Diffusion in the US for copyright infringement

theverge.com/2023/2/6/23587393…


Getty Images sues AI art generator Stable Diffusion in the US for copyright infringement

Getty Images has filed a lawsuit against Stability AI, accusing the company of using 12 million Getty Images to train its model without permission. It’s the latest salvo in the ongoing legal war between rights’ holders and AI startups.
James Vincent (The Verge)
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