> Fast forward to 2018. OpenAI releases GPT-1, and suddenly, the future of content creation becomes crystal clear. AI-generated content, indistinguishable from human-written text, is on the horizon.
> (…)
> I'm sure that a vast amount of valuable content is being overlooked. Information that you might search for may never appear in Google's results. Not because it doesn't exist, but because Google has chosen not to include it.
vincentschmalbach.com/google-n…
Big Tech eating itself.
Google Now Defaults to Not Indexing Your Content - Vincent Schmalbach
Picture this: It’s ten years ago, and you’ve just launched a new WordPress blog. Within hours, sometimes even minutes, your content is indexed by Google.Vincent Schmalbach
Evaluating Adobe’s new cloud-based auto-tagging feature for PDF
Our expert Principal Accessibility Consultant, James Baverstock covers how to access Adobe's new cloud-based auto-tagging feature for PDFs and how well it compares to Acrobat Pro’s previousabilitynet.org.uk
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"The Biden administration has quietly pushed more than a half-dozen countries to weaken, delay or rethink baby formula regulations aimed at protecting the public’s health — sometimes after manufacturers complained, a ProPublica investigation has found."
propublica.org/article/baby-fo…
#PublicHealth #breastfeeding #BabyFriendly #formula #marketing #advertising #business #trade
Under Biden, U.S. Officials Fought Baby Formula Regulations Around the World
U.S. officials have challenged baby formula regulations in more than half a dozen countries, sometimes after manufacturers complained. Critics say the efforts are undermining public health.ProPublica
I stg things like this in a bio continues to be a great predictor of terrible behavior:
> Straight, cis, LGBTQ+ ally.
shit do I need to add this to my bio
did I miss a techbro memo? am I out of compliance
CC: @hrefna@hachyderm.io
House Committee Calls On CrowdStrike CEO To Testify On Global Outage - Slashdot
According to the Washington Post (paywalled), the House Homeland Security Committee has called on the CrowdStrike CEO to testify over the major outage that brought flights, hospital procedures, and broadcasters to a halt on Friday.yro.slashdot.org
Please stop marketing your protocol’s use of the double ratchet algorithm as “what Signal uses” even if it’s strictly true. People confuse other E2EE protocols with the Signal protocol and get misled into thinking that OMEMO and megolm offer the same amount of privacy.
Saying you use a component of the Signal protocol is less misleading. Then again, it has many components.
Wise Sons Deli Enhances Accessibility for the Blind and Visually Impaired with RightHear Technology - RightHear
Discover the transformative power of Audio Format Signage in enhancing accessibility and inclusivity in public spaces.Noa Nadler (RightHear)
From Ad Identifiers to Global Privacy Control: The Status Quo and Future of Opting Out of Ad Tracking on Android
Sebastian Zimmeck, Nishant Aggarwal, Zachary Liu, Konrad Kollnig
arxiv.org/abs/2407.14938 arxiv.org/pdf/2407.14938
arXiv:2407.14938v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Apps and their integrated third party libraries often collect a variety of data from people to show them personalized ads. This practice is often privacy-invasive. Since 2013, Google has therefore allowed users to limit ad tracking on Android via system settings. Further, under the 2018 California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), apps must honor opt-outs from ad tracking under the Global Privacy Control (GPC). The efficacy of these two methods to limit ad tracking has not been studied in prior work. Our legal and technical analysis details how the GPC applies to mobile apps and how it could be integrated directly into Android, thereby developing a reference design for GPC on Android. Our empirical analysis of 1,896 top-ranked Android apps shows that both the Android system-level opt-out and the GPC signal rarely restrict ad tracking. In our view, deleting the AdID and opting out under the CCPA has the same meaning. Thus, the current AdID setting and APIs should be evolved towards GPC and integrated into Android's Privacy Sandbox.
Let's make the map small in the page.
Also let's make the popover constrained in that map view so that it's hard to actually see the relevant info,.
Web design today.
there was a comedy gag on some tv show where a news guy is reading the headlines, but keeps getting crowded into a tinier & tinier square as they keep adding more & more captions, chyrons, stock tickers, etc etc
that's exactly what it feels like, only without the humour
With the ascension of Harris, white supremacy is going to be on overdrive for the next few months as the election creeps closer.
As someone that has been attacked by virulent bigots a time or two, here are some things I’ve learned to not be overwhelmed with their bullshit.
Don’t waste time trying to reason with people who engage in bad faith as hostile as possible. Put no energy into it. Their goal is to wear you down. Report, block, and ignore.
Lean into positive connections you’ve made on the fedi. It’s tough finding a healthy community in a place that has a very strong anti-Black streak, so when you find good people, hold onto them.
Take breaks. As many as you need. Emotionally charged moments happen as we are people, but they don’t have to define how we engage with each other. The fedi isn’t going anywhere. Take time for yourself.
Remember the fedi does not represent a definitive opinion of a significant part of the human population. It’s getting bigger, but it’s still only a percent of a percent. It’s easy to get caught up in convos with niche groups that don’t mean anything in the long run. Make sure to go touch grass regularly.
Essentially, most of us are strangers, so don’t take negative interactions personally. People who engage in toxic communication styles are saying more about themselves than you. They just want to bring you into their angst. Make a different choice.
I’ll drop more later, but these are a good start.
You are entitled to your space. Move like that. People that do not respect consent are not people that deserve the privilege of your consideration.
WOW! Something just let loose on the far side of the sun and Earth (as well as the entire solar system) are getting peppered with hard protons. Debris from the blast emerged in the form of a full halo CME. Hard protons are good at charging spacecraft bodies, fogging their cameras, and causing reboots of onboard computers. Indeed, you can see a hint of the "fog" in the movie above. Each speckle is a hard proton striking the spacecraft's digital camera. spaceweather.com has the latest on this big, BIG boom.
#CME #Boom #protons #SOHO #Spaceweather #FullHaloCME
It's amazing to see how many buses a single subway rail line needs to be temporarily replaced for track construction.
#mbta rail replacement buses for the red line. Full buses every 2-3 minutes, bus berth full of buses. And that's only one line!
Don't underestimate the capacity of a subway train system!
A statement that does not inspire confidence:
"Our [Honeywell] Level-6 [Minicomputer from the 1970s] has been deassessioned and shipped to EDF Energy who own and run eight nuclear power stations in the United Kingdom." — ricomputermuseum.org/collectio…
Honeywell/Ultimate Level-6
Our Level-6 has been deassessioned and shipped to EDF Energy who own and run eight nuclear power stations in the United Kingdom.www.ricomputermuseum.org
abc.net.au/listen/programs/big…
#media #journalism #democracy
Read all about it! — why local news matters and what we can do to save it
Who's watching your local council, keeping you abreast of issues in your neighbourhood, and celebrating your community's achievements? That used to be the role of your local newspaper, but now many of us don't have one.Natasha Mitchell (ABC listen)
Kassensturz nach dem #Urlaub, wieviel Strom haben wir verfahren, was hat es gekostet:
550kwh Strom auf ca. 3000km zu insgesamt 205€
Da ist die initiale Ladung @home mit drin (Mischpreis 18cent/kwh) sowie Monatsgebühr für #Bonnet boost und #ionity passport power.
Das macht 6,83€/100km und ca. 18,3kwh/100km. (1/x)
It's kinda funny that I don't even care anymore that "not everyone is on Mastodon". It is definitely a good thing. The same happened in the past with IRC and Telegram. You know they still exist, lots of people like me use them and I still will not use the popular ones that much or at all.
Few things I like in IRC over Matrix, or any other protocol in professional setting:
- Does not try to blend #security and #decentralization. By not having security at all is one way to implement a sound security model. This allows to design security properties both by means of infrastructure security, i.e. outside the protocol, and also by tunneling, i.e. inside the protocol (classic example is off-the record messaging). This keep the core protocol compact and sound, and easy to verify for correctness, which is by itself a strong security property.
- Has both decentralized and client/server based topology since 1988(!). It is a network of servers, which together form an IRC network.
- Protocol messages are both rigidly structured AND still human-readable (unlike JSON), and have a clean specification (RFC 1459).
- Features not in the protocol itself can be implemented efficiently with bots, given the ease parsing and producing IRC protocol messages.
- IRC network heals fast from failures and has high #availability properties, given the clean and rigid definition of what it does and what it does not do.
Hey folks, I’m on a new instance using GotoSocial and having issues migrating from my other instance.
Would you mind sharing this post so I can federate and regain connections? Thanks!
Kolik tak může stát výměna disku na kole u #Škoda Octavia?
Měl jsem půjčené auto na 14 dní a ten disk někde odřel. Půjčovna po mě chce Datum, Místo a Popis Děje - což já vůbec netuším a vymýšlet si samozřejmě nechci.
Na což mi řekli, že když tyto údaje nedodám, tak to zaplatím ze svého, cca 20 až 30k.
Nevím kua 🤔
There's now an implementation of the reading-flow property behind a runtime flag in Canary! As part of the work to implement this we need to make some decisions about how to handle elements with display: contents, and I've written a post to ask for your feedback and use cases.
developer.chrome.com/blog/read…
Request for developer feedback on reading-flow and elements with display: contents | Blog | Chrome for Developers
Help us to make sure reading-flow meets your needs.Chrome for Developers
Switzerland now requires all government software to be open source zdnet.com/article/switzerland-… by @sjvn
Switzerland is one of the world's leading #opensource countries; now, if only the United States could follow its lead!
Switzerland now requires all government software to be open source
The United States remains reluctant to work with open source, but European countries are bolder.Steven Vaughan-Nichols (ZDNET)
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Big model release today: Meta AI's Llama 3.1 series, including Llama 3.1 405B which appears to be the first openly licensed model that genuinely competes with current top proprietary models GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet
My notes here: simonwillison.net/2024/Jul/23/…
Introducing Llama 3.1: Our most capable models to date
We've been waiting for the largest release of the Llama 3 model for a few months, and now we're getting a whole new model family instead. Meta are calling Llama …simonwillison.net
#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today today with 10 updated and 1 added apps:
* FluxTube: Ad-free YouTube client using piped API
Oh, and the #Magisk repo had some updates as well as 1 added module:
* AshLooper: Boot Loop Protection
Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo 
IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository
This is a repository of apps to be used with F-Droid. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).IzzyOnDroid App Repo
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POL-K: 240723-2-K Verletzter Radfahrer - Zeugensuche nach Unfallflucht
Köln (ots) - Am Samstagabend (20. Juli) gegen 20.30 Uhr ist ein 59 Jahre alter Radfahrer wegen eines mutmaßlichen Fahrmanövers eines dunklen SUV in Köln-Flittard gestürzt....Polizei Köln (Presseportal.de)
If we stopped versioning the Matrix spec and room versions and let each MSC evolve independently that’s basically what would happen. Each client would pick a version of a given MSC and the ecosystem would stagnate on old broken versions of everything.
The worst of Matrix thanks to the development processes of XMPP.
Better versioning is part of why Matrix clients are better, and definitely much of why people generally prefer it over XMPP. Not because the protocol is better in theory, but because the development processes ensure the system actually moves forward.
XMPP couldn’t pull this off when it had tech-giant money.
When ChatGPT summarises, it actually does nothing of the kind.
One of the use cases I thought was reasonable to expect from ChatGPT and Friends (LLMs) was summarising. It turns out I was wrong. What ChatGPT isn’t summarising at all, it only looks like it…R&A IT Strategy & Architecture
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in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •My response (Fedi link). Google has a longstanding bias against new sites as part of its Experience, Expertise, authoritativeness, and trustworthiness (EEAT) guidelines, not in spite of them.
LLMs just exacerbated an issue that already had a long history, and Google’s established-site bias has long been visible (though perhaps less so in the past). It’d crawl instantly but not index for weeks or months.
On a more selective Google
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