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"Google illegally maintains monopoly over internet search, judge rules"

apnews.com/article/google-anti…


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daniel:// stenberg://
@3AM also waiting for cowasher and codisher in the footsteps of copilot
in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

😂

I migrated to GitLab recently. They might be a bunch of [insert expletive here] as well. But I have HAD IT with Microsoft!


in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

I bet you did not expect to be still working on that little project 24 years later :-)

Congratulations!



1 #million views! Today is a momentous day for the #WHY2025 #MCH2022 #SHA2017 Youtube account.

The video of a talk called "Non-Euclidean Doom: what happens to a game when pi is not 3.14159…" reached 1 million views on Youtube a few minutes ago.

The video is of course also on media.ccc.de and has reached almost a hundred thousand views there.

The recommended way to watch the video is media.ccc.de/v/mch2022-236-non…, but if you want proof of the milestone, check out youtu.be/_ZSFRWJCUY4

This entry was edited (3 months ago)
in reply to WHY2025 Productiehuis

The reason for this massive success is probably a post on news-ycombinator-com in May of 2024 and after the initial rise of viewers the algorithm took over and it became a self perpetuating thing. When there's enough interest, we might dig in the statistics to see if our theory is correct.
in reply to WHY2025 Productiehuis

If you're thinking of going to why2025.org, the recurring Dutch hacker camp (@why2025camp), please sign up for one (or more!) volunteering shifts.

We would really appreciate it if you signed up for one of our AV shifts. Producing these videos takes a lot of effort from our volunteers and we can never have too many shifts assigned to a volunteer ahead of time.








SDR: The Next Level of Shortwave Radio Listening radioworld.com/global/sdr-the-…

Tamas G reshared this.

in reply to David Goldfield

I'd love to get into SDRs, but the windows software that controls the devices is rather inaccessible, at least from what I've tried. And the one piece of software that's relatively good, HDSDR hasn't had updates in some time.


Google si nezákonně udržuje monopol na poli vyhledávání, uvedl americký soud
ceskenoviny.cz/zpravy/2552253
#zpravy #rss
in reply to Lucinek

@Lucinek
Můžete zkusit i searxng.cz
Searxng.cz je open-source metavyhledávač, který respektuje vaše soukromí a poskytuje výsledky z různých zdrojů, aniž by sledoval vaši aktivitu.
🛡️💻Žádné sledování uživatelů
Výsledky z více než 70 různých vyhledávačů
Je bez reklam
in reply to Archos

@Lucinek já můžu doporučit Kagi. Jediná alternativa Google, u které nemám pocit, že dostávám horší službu. Používám to čtvrt roku a vůbec nemám potřebu občas přepnout do Google.

Je placený, což je za mě lepší cesta než reklamy.



Silicon Valley Parents Are Sending Kindergarten Kids To AI-Focused Summer Camps news.slashdot.org/story/24/08/…


#NVidia #NVDA apparently going to delay it's next-gen #Blackwell B200 GPUs for the #AI sector ... Share price drops in pre-market trading from 107.27 at close on Friday to 93.85 at the time of writing (Down 12.5%)
tomshardware.com/pc-components…
in reply to Stewart X Addison

Is there any chance we can encourage you to trend #NVIDIA when that's the company you mean, please? I know what their NASDAQ handle is, but #NVDA is much more widely known as the name of the screen reader we make and the #NVDA hashtag is very widely used for the screen reader. It will save both our communities polluting each other's feeds. If you'd like to find out more about the screen reader, our website is nvaccess.org/ - Thank you!


PSA per Nitrokeys own documentation their security keys DO NOT use the secure element within the device. You should probably start looking for a new key.

docs.nitrokey.com/nitrokey3/fe…


in reply to Matt Campbell

@matt

This is a joke based on the "biblically accurate angels" meme, which depicts angels as a terrifying mass of eyes and wings; the Graphviz drawing is a terrifying tangle of nested protocols.

in reply to Matt Keeter

Ah, got it. I grew up evangelical, but wasn't familiar with the "biblically accurate angels" meme, and didn't know what was biblically accurate about Ethernet being at the top and bottom of the stack as described in the alt text.


A new report from European Commission's Open Source Observatory gives an in-depth analysis of #OpenSource policy across 15 EU and non-EU countries.

It shows that governments are adopting open source to enhance
🔴 digital sovereignty
🟡 data privacy
🟢 control over digital infrastructures

Read the report 👉 europa.eu/!DDyPBb

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We know you can’t get enough of us, so we are back again with #Fractal 8!

discourse.gnome.org/t/fractal-…



I'm fucking dying at this. Dude literally started racist anti-immigrant anti-Muslim riots in the UK, then 4 days later realizes he's a brown dude who converted to Islam
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in reply to modulux

@modulux
I don't know if he did, but he fled the country to avoid jail time.
in reply to P J Evans

I was reading his wikipedia article and while it's hard to tell how seriously to take it, it says:

Tate was raised Christian[139] but later became an atheist.[140] By early 2022, he identified as a Christian again, and said that he tithed £16,000 to the Romanian Orthodox Church on a monthly basis.[141][142] After a video of him praying at a mosque in Dubai went viral in October 2022, he announced on his Gettr account that he had converted to Islam.[143][144][145]







Updated the JAWS to NVDA guide with a Common Problems and solutions section, in an attempt to tidy it up a bit.
feel free to either suggest what you would like to see included in the guide (except Eloquence), or edit it yourself.
github.com/nvaccess/nvda/wiki/…
#nvda #Blind
@NVAccess
in reply to Kara Goldfinch

Thanks so much Kara! That resource is a fantastic help to many users, and it is largely thanks to a lot of work by you!


GOOGLE WAS JUST RULED A MONOPOLY!

This wild day just got wilder! 😲

Here’s what the judge wrote:

After having carefully considered and weighed the witness testimony and evidence, the court reaches the following conclusion: Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly. It has violated Section 2 of the Sherman Act.


This ruling won’t just affect Google but also Apple, Amazon, Meta, and every other Big Tech company that the DOJ is going after!

Let me be blunt. After decades of not doing anything about tech monopolies, the U.S. government just showed it is not playing games!

finance.yahoo.com/news/google-…



Good.

Google's online search monopoly is illegal, US judge rules bbc.com/news/articles/c0k44x6m…



Why can't we have more articles like this one? Don’t Panic: Here’s What’s Behind Today’s Sell-Off - Bloomberg apple.news/AgmR8z7VQQn-faUEC7V…


☆☆☆ github.com/curl/curl is 7 stars away from 35K stars now. ☆☆☆

A totally meaningless number.



O Usha, be careful who you defend. He said what he sad, and that's that... Usha Vance tries to defend her husband's 'childless cat ladies' comment - NPR apple.news/AW3BAeivuSF-XNZRdTW…


Welcome Voyage to the selection of reproducible apps at #IzzyOnDroid – v0.10.1 coming up tomorrow just made it :awesome:

apt.izzysoft.de/packages/com.d…

#reproducibleBuilds

in reply to IzzyOnDroid ✅

eine Frage, war der Sinn hinter dem Repo nicht mal Apps aufzunehmen welche (noch) nicht in FDroids eigenem Repo vorhanden sind?

In letzter Zeit häufen sich bei mir die Apps welche in beiden vorkommen ... oder habe ich das mal falsch verstanden? :D

in reply to Michael

@Michael1 Es war einmal, vor langer Zeit… Und Dinge ändern sich. Früher habe ich Apps, die schließlich bei F-Droid verfügbar wurden, i.d.R. auch aus dem IzzyOnDroid entfernt.

"Damals" hast Du das schon richtig verstanden. Voyage (der Toot auf den Du antwortest) ist aber nicht bei F-Droid zu finden, oder habe ich nur nicht richtig geschaut?



Welcome Austin Moore as #curl commit author 1292: github.com/curl/curl/pull/1437…
#curl



"Apple made a fateful decision that mobile-phone internet should be app-centric, not browser/website centric. Then Android copied their mistake."

Many interesting things in this article, but this is one particular gripe I have about today's Internet. I will go to so much unnecessary trouble just to avoid using somebody's app.

tumblr.com/accordion-druid/685…

#IndieWeb #Enshittification #Web3 #SocialMedia #Blog

in reply to Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them)

Apple didn't make that decision, they tried the browser thing, they initially wanted developers to make web apps instead of native apps, but people really, really didn't want that, to the point of making Cydia because Apple wouldn't budge. They eventually learned their lesson.
in reply to Mikołaj Hołysz

@miki huh, well in that case, the customer was very very wrong on that one, at least from the perspective of creating a healthy Internet in the future
in reply to Mikołaj Hołysz

@miki Apple didn’t release (or, one might say *they withheld*) browser APIs that we needed to make useful web apps. It’s better now, but there is still too much friction. Apple and the App Store won, users and developers lost.

I agree with everything in the article. 💯

in reply to Quinn Comendant

@com @miki Well, the initial mistake was when all the greedy consumer ISPs caused the Internet to go from IP (the protocol) -centric to Web-centric, effectively blocking all other protocols and services.

From that point, did it really matter whether it is web browsers or bespoke apps that dominate? Everything has to be shoehorned into TCP streams formatted as HTTP traffic, regardless of whether it is effective or not. We the users have already lost and have a subpar experience.

in reply to ticho

@ticho @com I think the mistake doesn't just lay with "greedy consumer ISPs", a lot of it was caused by opening up the internet to bad actors, the exhaustion of IPV4 space, an increased focus on privacy and the move to portable, battery-powered devices.

End-to-end connectivity with no firewall is the opposite of what users want because of security, static IPs are bad for privacy and impossible when people constantly switch between WiFi and cellular, and it's a terrible idea to allow unrestricted connectivity if you care about battery life.

in reply to Mikołaj Hołysz

@miki @com Most of that could be solved or mitigated, see e.g. MPTCP (Multipath TCP) for solving reliance on unchanging static IPs.

in reply to Alexandre Franke

Yikes! Thanks for pointing that out. We've retracted the boost and boosted the original post you linked to.

We monitor the #Matrix hashtag to try to find news to reshare with the ecosystem, and will be wary of that particular outlet going forward.

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'The money was critical': Forbes report shows staggering amount Trump earned as president - Raw Story

rawstory.com/news/trump-money-…



Come on @404mediaco. I know this isn't the experience you want when people come to your site.


as an adblock developer you spend a lot of time improving websites despite the owners of said websites constantly trying to make them worse

social.polotek.net/@polotek/11…


Come on @404mediaco. I know this isn't the experience you want when people come to your site.
in reply to Rick Scott 🏳️‍⚧️

many times I wanted to make a blog hall of shame of websites. With that kind of examples. But I felt it would create too much negativity.


This is a wild story that says a lot about right-wing evangelicalism:

1) Matt Bevin, the Republican former Kentucky governor, adopted a boy from Ethiopia for PR purposes
2) Bevin and his wife decided they don't like the boy so they ship him off to an abusive "troubled teen" facility in Jamaica
3) Jamaican government shuts down the horrible group
4) Bevin family abandoned the boy in Jamaica after the facility was closed

kentuckylantern.com/2024/08/04…



If OpenAI were a serious and responsible company they would enable their watermarking feature. But they know that it would completely undermine their product: Nobody wants to read "AI" generated shit and having that easily detectable would shed a bad light on their users. Which it should: If you don't want to write it, I don't want to read it.

(Original title: OpenAI won’t watermark ChatGPT text because its users could get caught)

theverge.com/2024/8/4/24213268…

in reply to tante

Text is just text, you can't watermark text without decreasing its quality.

Simple example, if you ask Chat GPT to count from 1 to 10000, either you get unwatermarked output or you get incorrect output, there's no way to do both.

It's important to note that this doesn't apply to any other format, images, audio and video can be watermarked easily with little to no difference to the human eye or ear.