9 Google employees were arrested and two dozen were fired after an occupation of Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian's office demanded the tech giant withdraw from Project Nimbus, an AI project to help streamline the operations of Israel's genocidal military.
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Atenção, comunidade!
Estendemos o prazo para submissão de palestras para o #GNOMELatam 2024 até o dia 07 de outubro! Se você ainda não enviou sua proposta, esta é sua chance de compartilhar seu conhecimento sobre @gnome e #SoftwareLivre.
¡Atención, comunidad!
¡Hemos extendido el llamado a charlas para #GNOMELatam 2024 hasta el 07 de octubre! Si aún no has enviado tu propuesta, esta es tu oportunidad de compartir tu conocimiento sobre @gnome y #SoftwareLibre.
Please remember, girls and boys, if you celebrate: UNIX day 20000 is on 2024-10-04 (the 4th of October). It's a special day, since the next round (10000) UNIX day is 30000 at 2052-02-20.
“htmx ~ Why Gumroad Didn't Choose htmx”
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> AI and Tooling Support: It’s worth noting that AI tools are intimately familiar with Next.js and not so much with htmx, due to the lack of open-source training data.
A risk with "AI" for coding I’ve talked about is that it's trained on legacy code so it's going to be a conservative force in software dev, driving people to use outdated but popular approaches. This is the first time I've seen that happen in the wild
Yep Mozilla did bend the knee....
Improving online advertising through product and infrastructure
"Mozilla is going to be more active in digital advertising."
"we do this fully acknowledging our expanded focus on online advertising won’t be embraced by everyone in our community" - blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/im…
I appreciate Mozilla laying their intent out explicitly with no room for interpretation or guesswork.
Personally, I think this is not just a huge misstep, but a deathknell.
It didn't make anything easier though. Every webdev I knew showed little to no critical thinking, and just went where the hype is, so they started developing on Chrome because of the marketing saying it was the hip new thing. Nobody questioned it, or did any sort of critical study or comparison.
It's true IE was garbo.
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History repeating. It happened with Internet Explorer before. But everyone seems to forget.
I have been calling Chrome the "New Internet Explorer" for a reason.
If you had "Mozilla leadership gets roasted by furries" on your bingo card, congrats.
The new one-time-purchase version of Microsoft Office is out.
As usual, Microsoft warns that it’s inferior to the subscription version, since it won’t receive updates and… *checks notes* … lacks the Copilot AI integration.
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Oh nooooo…</sarcasm>
🥳 Exciting news! @loops, the #Fediverse's answer to TikTok, receives a grant from @nlnet! 🎉
Get ready for a new era of personalized short-form videos, remixes, and community interaction - all with the freedom and privacy of #ActivityPub!
Hello! 👋
Meet the W3C Team w3.org/2024/09/w3cteam.html
We are a international public-interest non-profit where since 1994 the Members, staff and public develop open standards and guidelines for an interoperable web to connect and empower humanity.
Our focus: security, privacy, web accessibility, internationalization.
With your help and our proven standards process based on fairness, openness, royalty-free, we make the Web work, for everyone.
Aira X Meta Ray-Bans Beta: Over 75% of Waitlist Now Live!
Over 3/4 of our waitlist now has access to Aira’s professional Visual Interpreting via the Meta Ray-Bans smart glasses! Audio and video are working smoothly, but imagine how much more powerful these smart glasses could be with deeper Meta integration. That’s where we need your help!
If you already have Meta Ray-Bans, it’s not too late to join for Aira early access:
- Open the Aira app
- Go to “More”
- Tap “Smart Glasses”
- Select “Meta Ray-Bans” and complete the form
Your Voice Matters!
To unlock the full potential of hands-free professional visual interpreting, we need your advocacy for better integration with Meta.
Check out our blog for resources, launch details, and a link to our video overview on YouTube:
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💔 Like this child's parents, I would never have considered rabies as a risk from a lost bat fluttering around inside the house, not leaving any obvious bite marks.
So, a reminder to all:
Rabies is nearly always fatal once symptoms develop, but can almost always be prevented if you get the shots soon enough after exposure. If anyone has contact with an oddly-behaved wild or stray mammal, get rabies shots as soon as possible.
And TIL: bats are the main vector in Canada.
Happy National Poetry Day to all those who celebrate.
Here’s a poem called ‘In Search of Poetry’. It’s constructed entirely from popular Google searches about poetry.
Two Chinese nationals were sentenced to prison for scamming Apple out of more than $2.5 million after exchanging over 6,000 counterfeit iPhones for authentic ones.
Fabrice Desré
in reply to Hubert Figuière • • •"The system is designed such that humans don’t have access to individual data. The outputs are aggregated and anonymized, then Anonym destroys the individual data."
I have no words.