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Google si nezákonně udržuje monopol na poli vyhledávání, uvedl americký soud
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#zpravy #rss

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
#RSS #zpravy

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#NVidia #NVDA apparently going to delay it's next-gen #Blackwell B200 GPUs for the #AI sector ... Share price drops in pre-market trading from 107.27 at close on Friday to 93.85 at the time of writing (Down 12.5%)
tomshardware.com/pc-components…

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)
#AI #nvidia #nvda #blackwell
in reply to Stewart X Addison

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NV Access

Is there any chance we can encourage you to trend #NVIDIA when that's the company you mean, please? I know what their NASDAQ handle is, but #NVDA is much more widely known as the name of the screen reader we make and the #NVDA hashtag is very widely used for the screen reader. It will save both our communities polluting each other's feeds. If you'd like to find out more about the screen reader, our website is nvaccess.org/ - Thank you!

NV Access

Empowering lives through non-visual access to technology
NV Access
#nvidia #nvda

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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

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
#opensource
This entry was edited (1 year ago)

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We know you can’t get enough of us, so we are back again with #Fractal 8!

discourse.gnome.org/t/fractal-…


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
#fractal
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modulux

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]

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Updated the JAWS to NVDA guide with a Common Problems and solutions section, in an attempt to tidy it up a bit.
feel free to either suggest what you would like to see included in the guide (except Eloquence), or edit it yourself.
github.com/nvaccess/nvda/wiki/…
#nvda #Blind
@NVAccess

SwitchingFromJawsToNVDA

NVDA, the free and open source Screen Reader for Microsoft Windows - nvaccess/nvda
GitHub
#blind #nvda @NV Access

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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!

finance.yahoo.com/news/google-…

Yahoo is part of the Yahoo family of brands

finance.yahoo.com

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☆☆☆ 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

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O Usha, be careful who you defend. He said what he sad, and that's that... Usha Vance tries to defend her husband's 'childless cat ladies' comment - NPR apple.news/AW3BAeivuSF-XNZRdTW…

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

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Welcome Austin Moore as #curl commit author 1292: github.com/curl/curl/pull/1437…

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
#curl

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"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.

tumblr.com/accordion-druid/685…

#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…
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#blog #web3 #socialmedia #indieWeb #enshittification
in reply to Quinn Comendant

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ticho

@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.

@miki @Quinn Comendant
in reply to ticho

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miki

@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.

@Quinn Comendant @ticho

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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

kentuckylantern.com/2024/08/04…


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 Times
Deborah Yetter (Kentucky Lantern)

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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)

theverge.com/2024/8/4/24213268…


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)
in reply to tante

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miki

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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My #Epson L486 #printer stopped working because of a full waste ink pads.
🔍 Finding new pads?
✅ Easy, they are on aliexpress or allegro...

🔧 Replacing pads?
✅ Easy, one screw in the back, plenty tutorial videos on youtube...

0️⃣ Reset software counters?
❓ Tool found on epson.com didn't work.
✅ The following one did. Of course, I had to start it in Windows in virtual machine as I don't have any win machine laying around and I don't trust the app.
github.com/Ircama/epson_print_…


GitHub - Ircama/epson_print_conf: Epson Printer Configuration tool

Epson Printer Configuration tool. Contribute to Ircama/epson_print_conf development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub
#epson #printer

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New SpoonStack Dev Blog is up! Introducing the BitLadle project - highly efficient, Disability-Driven server tech for the unrepresented masses:

spoonstack.org/devblog/2024/08…

Making cool online stuff shouldn't be reserved for a small handful of people with privilege, money, time, and/or skills. BitLadle is part of changing that.

#DisabilityDrivenDevelopment

Tech Notes: the BitLadle Project

spoonstack.org
#DisabilityDrivenDevelopment

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"Social media wasn’t web 2.0, it’s what *killed* Web 2.0!

You might think I’m arguing over mere nomenclature but the important fact is that this era existed, and the Web3 pitch pretends it didn’t. We already had decentralized internet with social features. This fact contradicts the story the Web3/blockchain advocates want to tell you, so their story skips this entire era."

Good post over here: accordion-druid.tumblr.com/pos…

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...
accordion-druid (Tumblr)

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Chipmakers puting AI cores in your CPU and not letting you use them for absolutely anything is the biggest waste of silicon in the history of modern computing.

Those tensor cores are godsend for things like large-scale CAD simulations but the only SDKs/samples provided are hardwired to run pretrained models.

There's no way to access the matrix/tensor capabilities directly. And that goes for both AMD and Intel.

#ai #NPU #tensor #programming #hardware #cpu

#programming #AI #hardware #cpu #npu #Tensor

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It seems that even those who are not interested in sports and do not follow the Olympic Games have already read about the "50-year-old Turkish man who showed up at the competition in a wrinkled T-shirt, without special equipment, and took the Olympic silver without even taking his hand out of his pocket."

"Surely, Turkey sent some kind of hitman to Paris!" social media marvels.

In the blink of an eye, Yusuf Dikec, a previously unknown figure outside professional circles, a retired gendarmerie officer and professional shooter, became a global internet meme and sensation.

Everything is great! The moral of this story could be: no matter how old you are, keep doing what you love, and your best achievements may still lie ahead, even if you are an athlete over 50!

But another nuance caught my attention.

The fact is, Yusuf Dikec did not win the Olympic silver alone. It was a team event. Shooting alongside him was his colleague Sevval Ilayda Tarhan. In the same T-shirt, in the same pose, and also with minimal equipment.

The only difference is that he is 51, and she is 24. He began professional shooting around the time she was born.

Dikec is an excellent shooter with a plethora of medals from prestigious competitions, but he had never made it to the Olympic podium until his young partner grew up and competed with him on the same team.

If we look at the individual performances of these shooters in the same discipline where they took silver as a team, we will see that Tarhan finished 7th, while Dikec only came in 13th.

Now let's trace how mass consciousness works: we simply do not notice the woman standing next to him. It does not matter who she is, how she is dressed, how she shoots, or how unique her achievement is. We only see the man in the "wrinkled T-shirt," deliberately nonchalant, and create a romantic image of a "hitman." We spread a photograph in which he is shooting alone, and the result of this shooting is 13th place! Yet, we declare that he won "silver."

Why does the logic of mass culture work this way? After all, patriarchy has long ceased to exist, feminism is unnecessary, equality has been achieved, at least in Paris 2024 for sure!

This is how patriarchal myths about great male victories are born before our eyes. These images are entrenched in culture and shape our thinking. Meanwhile, women's contributions and achievements are simply erased from history. It was like this before. Unfortunately, it still happens today.

#Paris2024 #YusufDikec #SevvalTarhan #Olympics

Translated text. Original text from Maya Guseynova

Photo of the two Turkish shooters side by side. They are aiming at a target with similar firearms. Both have one hand in their pocket while shooting.
#olympics #paris2024 #yusufdikec #sevvaltarhan

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