AI Video Generator Runway Trained on Thousands of YouTube Videos Without Permission
A leaked document obtained by 404 Media shows company-wide effort collected thousands of YouTube videos and pirated content for training data.Samantha Cole (404 Media)
It turns out a lot of return-to-office mandates were meant to make workers quit
Executives surveyed by Bamboo HR said they hoped return-to-office mandates would encourage "voluntary turnover"Ben Kesslen (Quartz)
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Homestead Piano - Fracture Sounds
A vintage upright piano, recorded in a dry and intimate setting- ideal for composers or songwriters seeking inspiration for their next piece of music.Fracture Sounds
Rust 1.80.0 is now available! 🦀🌈
This release brings you LazyCell, LazyLock, checked cfg names & values, exclusive ranges in patterns, IntoIterator for Box<[T]>, Option::take_if, split_at_checked, and more! ✨
Check out the announcement and release notes: blog.rust-lang.org/2024/07/25/…
Announcing Rust 1.80.0 | Rust Blog
Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.blog.rust-lang.org
FYI Informed consent is an essential component of health care.
If you do NOT speak French and/or are NOT otherwise fluent in French, you cannot give informed consent in French. FULL STOP.
PS FUCK THE CAQ.
montrealgazette.com/news/local…
#assnat #polQC #languagepolice #caqastrophe #fuckthecaq #polcan #cdnpoli #healthcanada #informedconsent
Montreal Gazette
The visits are raising the ire of some hospital staff, who are upset that they are being taken away from their pressing medical duties to be grilled by the OQLF.Aaron Derfel, Montreal Gazette (Montreal Gazette)
Is this new to you❓ Activate email preview now under Settings - Notifications on Android & iPhone!
Plus: Subject lines will be included soon as well. 🎉
@arutaz Tuta does not use Google Push on Android or iOS. In fact, when implementing the push notification service, we did so in a zero knowledge way - meaning even notifications are encrypted and the server does not know anything about your data.
If you use the Tuta app, this happens automatically.
Popredná ruská ekonómka Valentina Bondarenková zomrela po páde z okna
Ruské úrady údajne nenašli žiadne dôkazy o násilnom zápase alebo kriminálnom motíve. l.rockosbasilisk.com/5ajXm
Comcast California Announces Live American Sign Language Interpreting Services at Several Bay Area Xfinity Store Locations | Comcast California
Comcast will provide ASL interpreting services at several Xfinity locations in the Bay Area and Donates $60,000 to community partners to further digital inc ...avalde167@cable.comcast.com (Comcast California)
"I believe reCAPTCHA's true purpose is to harvest user information and labor from websites," asserted Andrew Searles
"If you believe that reCAPTCHA is securing your website, you have been deceived."
reCAPTCHA has used:
819 million hrs of human time
$6.1 billion USD in wages
134 petabytes of bandwidth
7.5 million kWhs of energy
7.5 million pounds of CO2
theregister.com/2024/07/24/goo…
Forget security – Google's reCAPTCHA v2 is exploiting users for profit
Web puzzles don't protect against bots, but humans have spent 819 million unpaid hours solving themThomas Claburn (The Register)
Google drops it's plan of disabling 3rd-party tracking cookies by default in Chrome. 🍪
Looking for a Chrome alternative? Check out our recommendations.
👉 tuta.com/blog/best-private-bro…
#browser #email #privacy #encryption #foss #cookies
Best Private Browsers 2024 | Top 10 To Stop Trackers
When it comes to most secure browsers Firefox is the best alternative to Chrome - and, no, incognito mode doesn't cut it.Tutanota
This is pure cartel behavior: Reddit and Google have cut a deal that will freeze out all other search engines from indexing Reddit, where volunteers do essentially all the work.
This should not be legal.
It is VITAL to replace Reddit, and it will take a global village to do it. If we don't, the cartel wins.
And Google should be broken up by Congress, if the antitrust people won't try.
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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)
Today I worked out that the UK would nearly fit 1:1 scale on a sheet of A-39 paper.
That's using the A paper scale, where A0 is 1m^2 and each number down the scale doubles in area, keeping a 1:sqrt(2) aspect ratio.
That's A minus 39. I make a sheet of that 741.455km x 1048.576 km
(Done in #QGIS using 'Shape tools' plugin)
Hiding Linux Processes with Bind Mounts
Lately I’ve been thinking about Stephan Berger’s recent blog post on hiding Linux processes with bind mounts. Bottom line here is that if you have an evil process you want to hide, use …Righteous IT
zdnet.com/article/switzerland-…
The United States remains reluctant to work with open source, but European countries are bolder.
No, Switzerland does not.
The law that they just passed requires software developed by or specifically for the government to be open but it contains a loophole allowing the use of proprietary software and it contains no incentive to avoid proprietary software.
When we adopted a similar policy at NASA in the 80s the loophole meant that there was no change in the amount of proprietary software we used. I expect the same in Switzerland.
for no particular special occasion but I'm selling my roguelike game for 50 cents if you buy it directly from my website. DRM-Free, Win, Mac, Linux and Android, and you also get a Steam key. Sale ends in 2 days!
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Quest of Dungeons
Quest of Dungeons is a roguelike game with pixel art made for Windows, Mac, Linux, Xbox One, PS4, Switch, Wii U, Nintendo 3DS, iOS and Androidwww.questofdungeons.com
Tohle se #pirati myslím moc nepovedlo. Sice ta jeho kampaň byla nic moc, ale byl aspoň vidět. Byl na kandidátce a dělal kampaň 🤷🏼♂️🔓
denikn.cz/1480831/ferjencik-na…
Ferjenčík na trestné lavici. Piráti nechtějí, aby za ně kandidoval. Je to odplata za videa s Ježíšem
Exposlanec a jedna z nejvýraznějších tváří Pirátů Mikuláš Ferjenčík možná v příštím roce za trest nebude kandidovat do Poslanecké sněmovny. Vyzvali ho k tomu jeho spolustraníci, kterým vadila jeho předvolební videa s Ježíšem.Kateřina Frouzová (Deník N)
Btw to, že byl Ferjenčík tak dole na kandidátce mělo své důvody. A nejen předchozí sněmovní volby.
@marcel_kolaja
I was checking out this year's #StackOverflow annual developer report that few things caught my eye:
1. They have deliberately drawn the wrong conclusion about most popular operating system. They have interpreted #Linux distro as operating system, so they have separately provided numbers for Ubuntu, Arch, Fedora, and etc., and have concluded that "Windows is the most popular operating system for developers, across both personal and professional use".
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1/🧵
Your browser is not supported! It’s probably lacking some serious API, and we can’t possibly make it work, sorry *
* Just kidding. Spoof the UA string, it’ll work just fine.
What's up with execs complaining that people are using their website at objectively low rates?
We previously discussed the CTO & CEO of Discourse ($21M raised) getting mad at 0.5 QPS, calling this "an attack", etc. : mastodon.social/@danluu/111064….
Now, the CEO of iFixit (supposedly ~$50M/yr revenue) calls 11 QPS, "abuse", saying "you're tying up our devops resources", implying it's reasonable for a $50M/yr regularly viral web property to need significant intervention if traffic increases by 11 QPS.
![Kyle Wiens
Hey @AnthropicAI
: I get you're hungry for data. Claude is really smart! But do you really need to hit our servers a million times in 24 hours?
You're not only taking our content without paying, you're tying up our devops resources. Not cool.
If any of those requests accessed our terms of service, they would have told you that use of our content expressly forbidden. But don't ask me, ask Claude!
If you want to have a conversation about licensing our content for commercial use, we're right here.
[screenshots of asking Claude about violating the terms of service for a site]
Eric Holscher:
Yea, they were hammering us over at @readthedocs
as well. We were planning to write a blog post on it, since this behavior is definitely gonna get all AI crawlers blocked because of abuse, not even because of the copyright issues.
Kyle Wiens
xactly! They're shooting themselves in the foot.](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/574883 "Kyle Wiens
Hey @AnthropicAI
: I get you're hungry for data. Claude is really smart! But do you really need to hit our servers a million times in 24 hours?
You're not only taking our content without paying, you're tying up our devops resources. Not cool.
If any of those requests accessed our terms of service, they would have told you that use of our content expressly forbidden. But don't ask me, ask Claude!
If you want to have a conversation about licensing our content for commercial use, we're right here.
[screenshots of asking Claude about violating the terms of service for a site]
Eric Holscher:
Yea, they were hammering us over at @readthedocs
as well. We were planning to write a blog post on it, since this behavior is definitely gonna get all AI crawlers blocked because of abuse, not even because of the copyright issues.
Kyle Wiens
xactly! They're shooting themselves in the foot.")
Dan Luu (@danluu@mastodon.social)
Attached: 4 images Since discourse employees are now dropping in to inform me that the Bing thing is fixed, with the implication that Bing was at fault because Bing fixed the issue. I know.Mastodon
Dave Plummer: The Man Who Scammed Millions
Hello, my friends! Let's hit 20K likes? Check out my website! https://enderman.chToday I am going to tell you a tale of SoftwareOnline.com, the website the o...YouTube
One Year of Accessible Android: Empowering the Blind Community Together - Accessible Android
It's a momentous occasion. On July 25th, 2023, AccessibleAndroid.com proudly emerged as a fully independent international English website. This journeyEditorial Staff (Accessible Android)
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I’m glad serious eats wrote this article on top instant noodles. My list is similar.
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#Food #Ramen #SeriousEats
I've Eaten and Reviewed More Than 5,000 Packages of Instant Noodles—These Are My All-Time Favorites
Over 40 years later and having methodically sampled close to 5,000 unique varieties, this is my current list of the best instant ramen noodles you can find around the world.Hans Lienesch (Serious Eats)
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