Letter: "We are Volunteers for Paris 2024 and we resign due to the lack of Covid-19 measures"
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We are Volunteers for Paris 2024 and we resign due to the lack of Covid-19 measures
We have been enthusiastic in the preparation of the Games as international volunteers. However, we are more and more worried at the lack of any actions from the organizers to address the epidemic of Covid-19 that is still going on across Europe and t…Volontaires Inquiets Paris 2024 (Mediapart)
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Cool URLs Mean Something - The History of the Web
Earlier this month, MTV News abruptly pulled their site off the web without warning, eliminating a virtual archive of pop culture news stories that date back to 1997.Jay (The History of the Web)
Excuse me we are now living in a time where search engines strike exclusivity deals with websites to exclusively show results of these websites on the one search engine?? Will I need to go with Google to look up reddit posts, Bing to see movie information, and DuckDuckGo for info on ducks now?
I love our post-capitalist cyberpunk dystopia.
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Mojeek (@Mojeek@mastodon.social)
Google Is the Only Search Engine That Works on Reddit Now Thanks to AI Deal “They’re [Reddit] killing everything for search but Google,” Colin Hayhurst, CEO of the search engine Mojeek told me on a call.Mastodon
How to use Windows Pro's BitLocker device encryption on any PC
BitLocker is officially only available for Windows 10/11 Pro. However, the tool is actually also included in the Home versions, just hidden.Peter Stelzel-Morawietz (PCWorld)
"come work with us in our offices in London, Amsterdam, & Berlin, or in our co-working spaces in Dublin, Lisbon, Paris, Munich, Warsaw, or Bucharest"
if you're forcing people to come into an office to make zoom calls all day, why not just let them work from home 😅
[Checklist] How to make back-to-school (and family life) easier with a password manager | 1Password
Discover the top back-to-school checklist by 1Password for students and parents. Learn how to manage digital identities and passwords effortlessly, simplify logins, and ensure online security.Agile Bits, Inc.
Guide Dogs and Tech innovations: Celebrating International Assistance
AbilityNet's Head of Digital Inclusion, Robin Christopherson explores the cutting-edge technologies enhancing the abilities of assistance dogs, showcasing the incredible synergy between traditionalabilitynet.org.uk
We Asked a Top Criminologist How Burglars Choose Homes. It's Easier Than You Think
We got the lowdown on burglaries from an expert. Here's what they suggest to foil common home thieves.Tyler Lacoma (CNET)
«Google Is the Only Search Engine That Works on Reddit Now Thanks to AI Deal»
We move to the next level of information feudalism: some of the few bits of human-generated things left on the internet are now blocked off from being openly searchable…
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Google Is the Only Search Engine That Works on Reddit Now Thanks to AI Deal
DuckDuckGo, Bing, Mojeek, and other search engines are not returning full Reddit results any more.Emanuel Maiberg (404 Media)
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Trump claims 62,000 people were at the Butler rally.
Maybe 62,000 would _claim_ to be for street cred, but the only estimate I can find is 20,000, by the county GOP chair.
He said he got 25,000 in the South Bronx. He got 8-10k.
He said one in NJ got 105k. Even Jesse Watters said it was no more than 30k.
Just lies all around.
#USPol
Idea:
Fine-tune an LLM on pairs of (function source code, compiled function in assembly) for all the open source projects in C you can find.
This feels like extremely low-hanging fruit, you can generate a sensible dataset to do this with almost no human input.
I wonder how good of a decompiler you could get from something like this.
There's nothing more infuriating than a program knowing exactly what I want to do, but erroring out and telling me how to do the thing properly instead of just doing the thing.
If you notice you're writing an error message like "you clearly wanted to do X, this is not how you do X, here's what you have to do", perhaps re-think your approach and just do X.
@jscholes There's a config setting for that now.
It feels like some sensible people are working on git now and ironing out the biggest issues, UX-related and otherwise.
Another reason to use ALT text which some people might not have considered: it benefits people who are not visually impaired as well.
As #Mastodon is #decentralized there is no central network hosting all of the images. Should the admin of a server decide to purge old images to save space, users accessing older posts will not know what an image was without an ALT text.
Take this post from 2022 for example.
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#Wholesome picks of the day:
➡️ @heyheymomo - Super-cute happy web comic
➡️ @GoatsLive - Follows the daily life of two pet goats on a small farm
➡️ @hootalex - Really sweet bird illustrations, art, stamps etc
➡️ @Gynux - Creating storybook-like bright, cute illustraations
➡️ @crossing - Unofficial Animal Crossing account, news, events etc
➡️ @LittleBearCrochets - Designs crochet amigurumi patterns, often cute colourful animals
➡️ @Minimus - Small mouse helping people learn Latin
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#Wholesome picks of the day (continued):
➡️ @mawsonbear - Small bear creating little picture books to cheer people up
➡️ @gnatho - Videos from garden birdhouse
➡️ @selfcare (more frequent) & @selfcare_gentle (less frequent) - Bot posting self-care advice, especially for those working
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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today with 13 updated and 2 added apps:
* TaskLabAct: save and sync on your git server a TODO list and shareable links
* Fossify Calculator: Simple and open-source calculator for quick and easy calculations – and app number 12 in your green collection. One app for each month now!
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
X redesigns water pistol emoji back to a firearm
Link: blog.emojipedia.org/x-redesign…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
X Redesigns Water Pistol Emoji Back To A Firearm
X (fka Twitter) has quietly redesigned its 🔫 Water Pistol emoji to display as a firearm. This diverges from the cross-platform conversion of this emoji from firearm to water pistol from 2016 to 2018.Keith Broni (Emojipedia)
Share this with your elderly relatives who are Republicans
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Trump suggested people with disabilities ‘should just die,’ nephew reveals in memoir
Fred Trump III writes that his uncle, Donald Trump, made the shocking suggestion during an Oval Office meeting in May 2020Andrew Feinberg (The Independent)
CrowdStrike is offering its partners a $10 Uber Eats gift card as an apology for crashing millions of computers around the world due to a defective software update.
“To express our gratitude, your next cup of coffee or late night snack is on us!,” says the email from CrowdStrike's chief business officer Daniel Bernard.
But some found that the gift card didn't work, while others got an error message saying the voucher had been canceled.
More from @lorenzofb: techcrunch.com/2024/07/24/crow…
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@matrix I'm receiving a massive amount of abusive and transphobic room invites from matrix.org telling me to go kill myself and other such pleasantries.
I've forwarded screenshots of these abusive and disgusting invites to abuse@matrix.org but they keep coming. What is being done to keep users safe?
Switzerland passes law requiring #OpenSource software in the public sector. "All public bodies must disclose the source code of software developed by or for them, unless precluded by third-party rights or security concerns" Well done @maemst, great work!
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Switzerland mandates software source code disclosure for public sector: A legal milestone
Switzerland has enacted the "Federal Law on the Use of Electronic Means for the Fulfilment of Governmental Tasks" (EMBAG), establishing a mandatory requirement for open source software within public sector bodies.Axel Thévenet
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in reply to Kitty Wife Milkshake • • •Seirdy
in reply to Kitty Wife Milkshake • • •Common Crawl is the closest thing we have to an open index, though it doesn’t meet your requirement of ignoring robots.txt for corporate websites while obeying it for personal sites. Unfortunately, being open and publicly available means that people use it to train LLMs. Google did this for initial versions of Bard, so a lot of sites block its crawler. Most robots.txt guides for blocking GenAI crawlers include an entry for it now.
Common Crawl powers Alexandria Search and was the basis of Stract’s initial index, both of which are upstart FOSS engines.
A similar EU-focused project is OpenWebSearch/Owler.
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seirdy.one: See Original (POSSE).Common Goals with Common Crawl - Open Web Search – Promoting Europe‘s Independence in Web Search
ows.eu Team (Open Web Search – Promoting Europe‘s Independence in Web Search)Matija Šuklje
in reply to Seirdy • • •@Seirdy, do you have or know of a more nuanced analysis of Common Crawl (compared with OWS)?
I recently blocked it for my blog togethet with (other) GenAI crawlers, but I'm on the fence and would like to re-evaluate with more info.
@marta
Seirdy
in reply to Matija Šuklje • • •@hook CC is an index for anybody to use. This reduces the barrier to create alternatives to other indexes, like those owned by Google/Bing/Yandex. On one hand, this makes upstart engines and research like the Web Data Commons possible; on the other hand, it allows all sorts of bad actors (non-consensual GenAI, for instance) to index your pages easily. If Common Crawl embedded information from the upcoming W3C TDM Reservation Protocol in each site/page, this would be partially resolved; bad actors could ignore this but well-behaved actors would at least know what they’re welcome to do with each page. Right now, they don’t even know so they can’t comply with your preferred rules easily; all they have are X-Robots tags, which are a bit limited.
I think that the CC does more good than harm on my site, so I allow it. I can’t speak for everyone else.
Seirdy
Unknown parent • • •LisPi
Unknown parent • • •@Jessica @404mediaco @Mojeek @privateger That's pretty much what I expected, yes.
Or for them to completely destroy what remains of old.reddit and only have a captcha-intensive basically mobile-only site.
Seirdy
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