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USA uvalily sankce na advokáta, jehož firmy sponzorovaly Zemana
seznamzpravy.cz/clanek/domaci-…

USA uvalily sankce na advokáta, jehož firmy sponzorovaly Zemana

Za více než polovinou darů pro Stranu práv občanů – Zemanovce byl provázaný systém firem, které z velké části ovládal švýcarský advokát Fabio Delco. Spojené státy nyní Delca zařadily na sankční seznam kvůli praní ruských peněz.
Lukáš Valášek (Seznam Zprávy)

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🎉 VHSky.cz v médiích! 🎉
Cnews o nás napsalo článek: Český projekt VHSky bude konkurovat YouTube. Diváci se při sledování videa stávají peery. cnews.cz/clanky/cesky-projekt-…

Jen chci zdůraznit, že VHSky.cz nevznikly jako konkurence YouTube – naším cílem není nahradit tuto platformu, ale vytvořit bezpečné, nezávislé a komunitní prostředí pro sdílení originálního obsahu.
#vhsky


Český projekt VHSky bude konkurovat YouTube. Diváci se při sledování videa stávají peery

Platforma postavená na otevřeném softwaru PeerTube by neměla být plná reklam, jako je tomu u YouTube. Diváci se při sledování videa stávají peery a sdílejí jej s ostatními diváky, podobně jako u torrentu.
Radomír Kejduš (Internet Info, s.r.o.)
#vhsky
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Nicole Parsons

If Elon Musk can unlock your Tesla, provide location data to authorities, and recordings of people inside the car,...what else can he (or a hacker) do with your vehicle?

Crash it?
Disable the steering or brakes?
Release conversations to competitors?
Photograph your kids?
Prevent it from starting in an emergency?
Force you to upgrade needlessly?
Make it very expensive to maintain or operate?

Enshittification means paying, but not owning, and certainly doesn't mean control.

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"Apple has agreed to pay $95 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that its voice assistant Siri routinely recorded private conversations that were then sold to third parties for targeted ads." arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

Siri “unintentionally” recorded private convos; Apple agrees to pay $95M

Apple users may get $20 each for up to five Siri-enabled devices.
Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)

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My whole life I have seen advertisements for desk jobs that required people to have driver's licenses, use of a vehicle, and insurance, even when there was no driving involved in the job at all.

Requiring a driver's license for employment is now prohibited in California if driving is not reasonably expected to be part of the job duties. This is a huge victory for people who use transit and cycling for their mobility.
gov.ca.gov/2024/12/28/new-in-2…


New in 2025: Protecting more workers | Governor of California

State of California
marissasaldivar (Governor of California)

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For anyone who ants to try the new Toby Doom Launcher, you can download it from stormux.org/downloads/toby_doo…

Just unzip it and place all the files in the top level Toby Doom folder. The zip file contains the source code, the compiled .exe launcher, and some examples for custom games in the TobyCustom folder. There's also a _internal folder that contains all the stuff the .exe launcher needs.

Hopefully it works well for you. For #nvda users, you will need to press alt+down arrow to expand the combo boxes. I plan to eventually look into this and see if they can be expanded by default, but for now it's time for a break so I can actually play Doom instead of coding for it. 🤘

#nvda

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#audio #radio #nowplaying #ambient #live #newage #meditationmusic #tgvradio

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Cudowne. Dziennikarz odszedł, nie odcięto mu dostępu, kradł newsy kolegów ze szkiców artykułów i publikował jako swoje. Koledzy zauważyli i podłożyli fejka, ten łyknął. Pamiętajcie, odbierajcie dostępy odchodzącym pracownikom...

weszlo.com/2025/01/02/jose-pes…


Jose Peseiro w Radomiaku! Interio, gratulujemy newsa. Jak go zdobyliście?

Ekstraklasa - Z pewną nutką żalu, z pewnym niesmakiem, ale jednak zmuszeni jesteśmy to zrobić - zareagować. Nasz były redakcyjny kolega Jan Mazurek postawił nas w
Szymon Janczyk (weszlo.com)
in reply to Aral Balkan

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IzzyOnDroid ✅

Ever seen the HTML produced by an MS Word export? Blood fountains from your eyes. I once cleaned up such a HTML, and the size of the resulting clean HTML was less than 20% of the original. They even used CSS classes, but then explicitly repeated their definitions every.single.time (like "<p class="foo"><font size…><font family…><b><i>blabber</i></b></font></font></p>", with "foo" of course having font size, family, italics, bold already).

But right, worse examples are no excuses…

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If you're surprised Tesla takes and keeps recordings from their cars after seeing the news about the Cybertruck in Vegas, you shouldn't be. This is not something new. Tesla has been taking and storing media for many years, claiming it's used to train their AI capabilities. You can't opt out either.

And Tesla employees do access it, make fun of you, make memes, and share the content internally, without any legitimate reason to access the content.

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

While this is about Tesla, this is a growing problem across this and other industries.

#Tesla #Surveillance #Privacy


Tesla workers shared images from car cameras, including “scenes of intimacy”

Ex-staffers tell Reuters about internal image sharing: “We could see their kids.”…
Jon Brodkin (Ars Technica)
#privacy #surveillance #tesla

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If one of your new year's resolutions was to tighten up your digital/online security, we've got you!

Digital Security Fundamentals Training for Anti-Fascists
January 18th @ noon EST/5PM GMT
Info/enrollment: bit.ly/digisecworkshop

#antifa, #opsec, #digitalsecurity, #antifascism #antifascist

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#DigitalSecurity #antifascist #opsec #antifa #antifascism

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Uitgezonderd wenst jou vele wilde plannen toe in 2025!
Ben je benieuwd naar onze wilde plannen voor 2025? Kom dan zeker naar de volkskeuken op 4 januari waar we 𝐞́𝐞́𝐧 𝐯𝐚𝐧 𝐨𝐧𝐳𝐞 𝐖𝐈𝐋𝐃𝐒𝐓𝐄 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐍 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑 uit de doeken zullen doen!
Meer info over de volkskeuken kan je vinden op onze website --> www.uitgezonderd.org
#wildeplannen
#wildeplannen

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Next week on Thursday Jan 9 comes a new chance to get to learn how to get started with #libcurl development in a live and free webinar with me. Sign up here:

us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

There's a Q&A too of course.


Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: New and Updated: Getting Started with curl. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

Start 2025 with mastering libcurl! Take your URL transfer skills to the next level! Join curl founder and lead developer Daniel Stenberg on January 9th at 10 AM PT for an exclusive webinar, New and Updated: Getting Started with curl.
Zoom
#libcurl

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Here's my end-of-year review of things we learned about LLMs in 2024 - we learned a LOT of things simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/31/…

Table of contents:

The GPT-4 barrier was comprehensively broken Some of those GPT-4 models run on my laptop LLM prices crashed, thanks to competition and increased efficiency Multimodal vision is common, audio and video are starting to emerge Voice and live camera mode are science fiction come to life Prompt driven app generation is a commodity already Universal access to the best models lasted for just a few short months “Agents” still haven’t really happened yet Evals really matter Apple Intelligence is bad, Apple’s MLX library is excellent The rise of inference-scaling “reasoning” models Was the best currently available LLM trained in China for less than $6m? The environmental impact got better The environmental impact got much, much worse The year of slop Synthetic training data works great LLMs somehow got even harder to use Knowledge is incredibly unevenly distributed LLMs need better criticism Everything tagged “llms” on my blog in 2024

Things we learned about LLMs in 2024

A lot has happened in the world of Large Language Models over the course of 2024. Here’s a review of things we figured out about the field in the past …
simonwillison.net
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racist conspiracy theories by ladybird dev

so yeah, the ladybird dev is boosting conspiracy theories and claiming he's been instructed to participate in "reverse racism" against white men as an exec, and how he was "scared to rock the boat".

if you weren't convinced that he's just an asshole by his "pronouns are political" statements before, then yeah.. here's him diving even deeper into this garbage.

it's always the same. starts with "pronouns and genders are political" and devolves into this kind of stuff. this is basically him saying he believes in white replacement theory.

archive.is/ZtQpj

Edit: removed the transphobia claim since he wasn't *explicitly* transphobic

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The most detailed explanation of the European Accessibility Act
#EAA I have read

#EU #accessibility

digitalaccessibilitycentre.org…

The European Accessibility Act: Understanding Digital Accessibility | Blogs | Digital Accessibility Centre

Digital Accessibility Centre (DAC) is a non-profit social enterprise and one of the leading providers of web accessibility services.
digitalaccessibilitycentre.org
#Accessibility #EU #eaa

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Witaj, Polsko! Welcome, Poland!

With the Polish EU Council Presidency, we will challenge current uncertainties and build a stronger, united Europe for all.

To achieve that, Poland will focus on:

⬜Defence and security
🟥Protection of people and borders
⬜Resistance to foreign interference and disinformation
🟥Ensuring security and freedom of business
⬜Energy transition
🟥Competitive and resilient agriculture
⬜Health security

ℹ️ poland25.eu

A photo of the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw, Poland, illuminated at night with the European Union flag superimposed.

Polish presidency of the Council of the European Union

From 1 January to 30 June 2025, it is Poland's turn for the second time to hold the presidency of the Council of the European Union. This kind of chairmanship involves a range of tasks.
Polish presidency of the Council of the European Union
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