"Google illegally maintains monopoly over internet search, judge rules"
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Google illegally maintains monopoly over internet search, judge rules
A judge has ruled that Google’s ubiquitous search engine has been illegally exploiting its dominance to squash competition and stifle innovation.MATTHEW BARAKAT (AP News)
I bet you did not expect to be still working on that little project 24 years later
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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
Non-Euclidean Doom: what happens to a game when pi is not 3.14159…
We all know that the value of pi is a constant with a particular immutable value. Anyone who has done any graphical programming also know...media.ccc.de
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Google Lens now lets you search with your voice and images
Latest update lets you add important context to inquiriesCesar Cadenas (TechRadar)
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SDR: The Next Level of Shortwave Radio Listening
There is a new breed of RF receivers known as software-defined radios, and they are revolutionizing the way in which people listen to shortwave radio.James Careless (Radio World)
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Google si nezákonně udržuje monopol na poli vyhledávání, uvedl americký soud
Washington - Společnost Google si v rozporu se zákonem udržuje monopol na poli internetového vyhledávání, čímž potlačuje konkurenci a brání inovacím. Podle světových agentur to dnes uvedl soud v americkém Washingtonu.ČTK
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
@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 - Slashdot
Silicon Valley's fascination with AI has led to parents enrolling children as young as five in AI-focused summer camps.news.slashdot.org
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Nvidia Blackwell GPUs allegedly delayed due to design flaws — launch expected to be pushed back by three months or more
Microsoft, Meta, Google, and xAI will have to wait a few more months to receive their massive GPU orders.Jowi Morales (Tom's Hardware)
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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.
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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.
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
Progress and trends in the national open source policies and legal frameworks
The report describes shifts in open source policy trends that has taken place in the last 5 years.Monika SOWINSKA
We know you can’t get enough of us, so we are back again with #Fractal 8!
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Fractal 8 released
Because we know you can’t get enough of us, we are back again, and this time, as foretold, it’s to announce Fractal 8! There have been little changes since our release candidate, so let’s recap the main improvements since Fractal 7: Mentions are s…GNOME Discourse
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]
feel free to either suggest what you would like to see included in the guide (except Eloquence), or edit it yourself.
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#nvda #Blind
@NVAccess
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NVDA, the free and open source Screen Reader for Microsoft Windows - nvaccess/nvdaGitHub
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!
Good.
Google's online search monopoly is illegal, US judge rules bbc.com/news/articles/c0k44x6m…
Google's online search monopoly is illegal, US judge rules
The decision is a major blow to Alphabet, Google's parent company, and could reshape how technology giants operate.Nadine Yousif and Michelle Fleury (BBC News)
Don’t Panic: Here’s What’s Behind Today’s Sell-Off — Bloomberg
It’s a bit of the Japanese yen, a bit of US recession fear and a bit of summer madness.apple.news
☆☆☆ github.com/curl/curl is 7 stars away from 35K stars now. ☆☆☆
A totally meaningless number.
GitHub - curl/curl: A command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTMPS, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, T
A command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTMPS, RTSP...GitHub
Usha Vance tries to defend her husband's 'childless cat ladies' comment — NPR
In her first solo interview of the campaign, Usha Vance discussed how her family is adjusting to vice presidential campaign life and what she wants voters to know about her husband.apple.news
Welcome Voyage to the selection of reproducible apps at #IzzyOnDroid – v0.10.1 coming up tomorrow just made it
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„Voyage“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository
Voyage is a lightweight nostr client for Android with a Reddit-like UI.IzzyOnDroid App Repo
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
@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?
aws_sigv4: Fix ordering for headers with same prefix in the canonical request by austinmoore- · Pull Request #14370 · curl/curl
Problem AWS SigV4 signing requires headers to be lexicographically ordered by name. The current implementation uses strcmp on the full header, leading to incorrect ordering when header names have i...GitHub
"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.
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#IndieWeb #Enshittification #Web3 #SocialMedia #Blog
Don't Lie To Me About Web 2.0
If you're like me and you're trying to keep an open mind that there may someday be a non-scam application of blockchains, you've probably read some articles about "Web3", which promises to re-decentr…Tumblr
@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. 💯
@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.
@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.
💬 Fractal 8 Released: The Linux Matrix Messaging App Gets Better!
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#matrix #fractal #gnome #linux
Fractal 8 Released: The Linux Matrix Messaging App Gets Better!
A new upgrade has landed for Matrix users!Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS News)
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.
'The money was critical': Forbes report shows staggering amount Trump earned as president - Raw Story
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'The money was critical': Forbes report shows staggering amount Trump earned as president
Donald Trump's refusal to give up his business when he entered the White House in 2016 ensured he earned more money as commander-in-chief than any other in U.S. history, a Forbes financial analysis revealed Monday.Kathleen Culliton (Raw Story - Celebrating 20 Years of Independent Journalism)
as an adblock developer you spend a lot of time improving websites despite the owners of said websites constantly trying to make them worse
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
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Former KY Gov. Matt Bevin's adopted son reportedly removed from abusive facility in Jamaica • Kentucky Lantern
No one came for Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin's adopted son after authorities removed him from an abusive academy in Jamaica, reports The Sunday TimesDeborah Yetter (Kentucky Lantern)
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)
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OpenAI won’t watermark ChatGPT text because its users could get caught
OpenAI is reportedly internally divided over whether to watermark ChatGPT’s text output, worrying that although benefits exist, it could turn off users.Wes Davis (The Verge)
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.
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I migrated to GitLab recently. They might be a bunch of [insert expletive here] as well. But I have HAD IT with Microsoft!