This is the story you need to read about generative models' power consumption. Real numbers are hard to come by, but no matter what the per-query consumption rate is, the scale of the usage makes it a problem.
And the energy demand from data centers isn't imaginary.
If you have feelings on what we should build next, you can help make them a reality! We've opened a Hardware Product Manager role on the team:
I was originally investigating this report that Postman is not HIPAA compliant. I found that Postman is not just wholly unsuitable for anyone testing a healthcare application — it has virtually zero…a data scientist (Medium)
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Lyria 2 is our latest music generation model. It delivers high-fidelity music and professional-grade audio, across a range of genres and intricate compositions.Google DeepMind
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Google is bringing a new live view feature to its Gemini apps on iOS and Android, allowing users to live stream their surroundings to Gemini to get...Juli Clover (MacRumors.com)
Ever wondered about what MZLA is, how it relates to Thunderbird, and how it works with (but is different from) Mozilla and the Mozilla Corporation? Curious about how we work with the Thunderbird Council, our community governance? Want to know more about our future plans, including the mobile apps, Thundermail, and Thunderbird Pro? Check out the newest Community Office Hours with Director Ryan Sipes answering these questions and more.
blog.thunderbird.net/2025/05/v…
Confused about MZLA, Thunderbird, and Mozilla? Director Ryan Sipes is our guest to explain this as he talks about our past and future.Monica Ayhens-Madon (The Thunderbird Blog)
Curious about MZLA, how it relates to Thunderbird and how it works with (but differs from) Mozilla and the Mozilla Corporation? Want to know more about future plans, including Thundermail, and Thunderbird Pro? Watch the newest Community Office Hours with Director Ryan Sipes.
blog.thunderbird.net/2025/05/v…
Confused about MZLA, Thunderbird, and Mozilla? Director Ryan Sipes is our guest to explain this as he talks about our past and future.Monica Ayhens-Madon (The Thunderbird Blog)
The upper echelon of Canada Post can f*ck a duck.
Seriously, get back to the bargaining table, or f*cking resign!
For anybody who's been putting video on the web for a long time and cares about accessibility, Able Player has been the feature leader for accessibleJoe Dolson (Joe Dolson Web Accessibility)
Jak na soukromí v mobilním telefonu
V tomto blogpostu jsem si pro vás připravil praktické tipy na to, jak lépe chránit své soukromí na mobilním telefonu: od operačního systému, přes prohlížeč až po VPN.
#Android #DNS #GrapheneOS #ios #mobil #openSource #soukromí #tracker #VPN
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(reakce na tento příspěvek se může zobrazit jako komentář pod článkem)
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Softwarové klávesnice v mobilu jsou něco, co jsem doteď vůbec neřešil. Používal jsem to, co bylo na daném telefonu jako výchozí. Nicméně když si uvědomíte, že přes ně jde vše, co na mobilu napíšete, rozhodně stojí za trochu pozornosti.Sesivany's blog
Enjoy writing fiction in Markdown, and prefer keeping ownership of your files in the filesystem, but still want beautiful ePub3 ebooks and paperback output? Your uncle Matt feels the same way!
I created a configuration and example project for pandoc, the fab #FOSS markup converter, to produce beautiful novels from your folders full of Markdown files. Lots of booky, novel-y, typographical/layout niceness. I'll be using this with #emacs. 💜
Read all about it here: github.com/mattgemmell/pandoc-…
Novel export configuration for pandoc (Markdown to ePub and PDF) - mattgemmell/pandoc-novelGitHub
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I literally just made a bootable live cd for nixos to boot into a browser on a whim for a test. I had 0 knowledge of this 10 minutes ago and 5 of those minutes was writing the iso to the usb stick. Nix surprises me again. And you can make any type of image you want... digitalocean, ec2, hyperv, vmware, etc. Its nuts:
github.com/nix-community/nixos…
Collection of image builders [maintainer=@Lassulus] - nix-community/nixos-generatorsGitHub
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well that answers that, Andy's got his next title sorted.
[Sadly, you will never be able to read Andy Weir's 'The Last Algorithm,' one of multiple non-existent books recommended by the Chicago Sun-Times in major AI snafu | Popverse](thepopverse.com/literary-recom…)
The Sun-Times has just offered the best argument against using generative AI in journalism, publishing a recommended summer reading list filled with books that aren't actually real.Graeme McMillan (Popverse)
The JAWS Home Subscription offers a flexible and cost-effective way to access the world’s most powerful screen reader — with the convenience of annual, two-year, or three-year plans.Freedom Scientific eStore
Hey Jamers 🙂
Over the past few weeks, the team has been hard at work improving stability, fixing bugs, and rolling out some exciting new features, both in the core and across all platforms.
👀 Wondering what’s new under the hood?
Check out Dev Update #13 and see what’s been happening:
jami.net/de/dev-update-13/
Welcome to this new Jami development update! Over the past few weeks, we've focused on stability, maintenance, and some key feature improvements across both the core and platform-specific components. Let’s dive into what’s new.jami (Jami)
Lmao.
After firing 700 employees for AI, Swedish company admits their mistake and plans to rehire humans. What went wrong with OpenAI + Klarna parnership? Despite initial optimism, the company has now acknowledged that the shift to AI has negatively impacted service quality and faced major public backlash for using AI finance.yahoo.com/news/firing-… The CEO want human workers back and looking for humans to replace those AI tools powered by shity OpenAI.
Who says you can’t have #privacy and #security in an OS?
Meet PureOS — the #Linux OS that respects you.
No ads
No trackers
No #surveillance
No terms of service traps
PureOS supports Purism’s Librem 5 & Liberty Phone.
More Info: puri.sm/posts/what-is-pureos-a…
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.Purism SPC
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 released
lwn.net/Articles/1021827/ #LWN
Red Hat has announced the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10. A blog post accompanyi [...]LWN.net
Microsoft has disabled the ICC Chief prosecutors email account.
But let’s keep all dependencies on US IT alive. What could possibly go wrong?
techzine.eu/news/privacy-compl…
The International Criminal Court has been paralyzed by sanctions. Microsoft cooperates with the US government and therefore poses a risk.Erik van Klinken (Techzine)
I'm SO glad I don't maintain any huge projects used by thousands of people on github
github.blog/changelog/2025-05-…
Say goodbye to manual, repetitive issue creation. With Copilot, creating issues for bugs, tasks, and feature requests on GitHub is now faster and easier—all without sacrificing quality. What’s new Natural…The GitHub Blog
Kids, you would hate it.
You would feel so alone, you'd never find your 'tribe', you'd feel like you would have to conform with what everyone else would be doing and there would be little outlet for you to complain about that.
I was a kid without Internet, the problem isn't the Internet, it's the Nazi Peados who control it. The Tech Bros, the Governments, those wankers.
"thank you for your existence" - I do get lovely emails as well in my #inbox
daniel.haxx.se/email/2025-05-2…
![Subject: Just a quick thank you for your existence
Hi Daniel,
I was digging around in the credits section of an app (YouTube
on my Xbox, actually), and I saw “libcurl” listed - and your
name came up when I looked into it. I had no idea one person’s
work has helped support so much of the internet I use every
day.
I just wanted to say: thank you. Not just for the code, but
for the spirit behind it. The way you’ve built and shared
libcurl, all these years, quietly powering so much without
expecting credit… it really moved me. Most people never see
that kind of work, but I stumbled across it and it left an
impression.
So this is just a small message to say:
Thank you for existing.
[name redacted]](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/669718 "Subject: Just a quick thank you for your existence
Hi Daniel,
I was digging around in the credits section of an app (YouTube
on my Xbox, actually), and I saw “libcurl” listed - and your
name came up when I looked into it. I had no idea one person’s
work has helped support so much of the internet I use every
day.
I just wanted to say: thank you. Not just for the code, but
for the spirit behind it. The way you’ve built and shared
libcurl, all these years, quietly powering so much without
expecting credit… it really moved me. Most people never see
that kind of work, but I stumbled across it and it left an
impression.
So this is just a small message to say:
Thank you for existing.
[name redacted]")
LibreOffice 25.8 will be released as final at the end of August, 2025 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 25.8 Alpha1 the first pre-release since the development of version 25.8 started at the beginning of December, 2024.x1sc0 (LibreOffice QA Blog)
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Oh hey, Firefox just announced it's closing down. That's a shame.
hackread.com/firefox-tests-ai-…
Mozilla Firefox tests AI-powered Perplexity Search Engine in its address bar for version 139, signalling a potential shift in search partnerships.Deeba Ahmed (Hack Read)
Windows 11 is getting more AI shortcuts, but is Microsoft in danger of cluttering up the OS with AI creep?
https://www.techradar.com/computing/windows/windows-11-is-getting-more-ai-shortcuts-but-is-microsoft-in-danger-of-cluttering-up-the-os-with-ai-creep?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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New AI actions are coming to desktop foldersDarren Allan (TechRadar)
Heading to #KotlinConf later this week? So are two members of our mobile team! Be sure to say hi if you see them in talks and in the hallway track, and we've even been told @kewisch is bringing some Thunderbird for Android stickers to share!
Linux distribution package managers are so great, that every application and language builds its own package manager to sidestep them.
github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/…
This PR adds a minimal built-in plugin manager vim.pack. This is a first step towards resolving #20893. A general design is a minimized (496 LOC for core functionality when PR is opened) and rework...GitHub
Michael explains how he uses the BT Speak editor as a simple way to keep track of his events and appointments without involving the calendar application.#ass...YouTube
🤔🤔 Firefox Tests AI-Powered Perplexity Search Engine Directly in Browser hackread.com/firefox-tests-ai-…
Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell ‘hyper personalized’ ads techcrunch.com/2025/04/24/perp…
<why would anyone trust this?
Perplexity is building its own browser is to collect data on everything users do outside of its own app to sell ads.Julie Bort (TechCrunch)
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The other large issue, for me personally, is lacking interop with the other open decentralised protocol XMPP.
I run Bifrost, but it seems abandoned and buggy and I will probably have to switch it off soon, as it does not work well.
There was Parsee, which was hosted on a git that's no longer in existence, but still listed on matrix.org as alpha. That looked promising.
To win me back as a fan, personally:
- it must be more performant
- it must be interoperable with XMPP
#GitLab's newly introduced on-by-default nearly unnoticeable "Read More" hyperlink on bug report descriptions, subtly cutting off any contents longer than the browser window's viewport height—even when you're just following the mandatory template!—has got to be the dumbest anti-feature design of the year.
It's barely been a few days and I've already had someone tell me that I didn't provide the required information, yet it was all there in the description I wrote with the form! 🤦
How several different tools support alt text.Whitney Lewis (Pope Tech Blog)
🚨Only until May 27 🚨
Meta users in the EU - Object now, or Meta will use your data to train Meta AI.
Here's how: 👉 tuta.com/blog/how-to-turn-off-…
Noticed an AI assistant is now in your WhatsApp? Meta’s AI feature is now being rolled out in the EU and you can’t turn it off – but you can stop the AI invasion by opting for privacy-focused alternatives.Tuta
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