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New: a leaked document obtained by 404 Media shows that billion dollar AI video generator 'Runway' had a company-wide effort to rip off YouTube videos without permission, as well as pirated films. We've posted the full spreadsheet of training data 404media.co/runway-ai-image-ge…

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)

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Fracture Sounds have released a really beautiful upright piano library and I wrote a little track using it.
fracturesounds.com/product/hom…


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

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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

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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.

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#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)
#cdnpoli #assnat #polqc #caqastrophe #polcan #languagepolice #fuckthecaq #healthcanada #informedconsent

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Comcast California Announces Live American Sign Language Interpreting Services at Several Bay Area Xfinity Store Locations | Comcast California california.comcast.com/2024/06…

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)

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"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

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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 them
Thomas Claburn (The Register)
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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

A graphic showing our recommended private browser alternatives (Firefox, DuckDuckGo, Tor, Fennec, Privacy Browser).

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
#foss #email #privacy #browser #encryption #cookies
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Angelino Desmet

That might partly be because Vivaldi is openly against crypto"currency" while Tutanota is for. I've dropped Tutanota for that reason.

Here's one of the best takes on why Vivaldi is currently the number one browser and the 95% open source is a trivial “issue”:
blahaj.zone/notes/9vrn6csii37g…

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@secbox @Tutanota @Vivaldi

Spider-hair (@Uraael)

Who do you trust with your browsing? I am in the minority position of never having trusted Google or Mozilla and that largely intuitive stance only grows increasingly correct as the corroborating evidence piles up. My daily driver is Vivaldi.
Blåhaj Zone
@Tuta @Vivaldi Browser @Seth G.

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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)
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Marty Fouts

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.

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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!
questofdungeons.com

#indiegame #roguelike

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 Android
www.questofdungeons.com
#indiegame #roguelike
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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)
#pirati

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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".

survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/t…

1/🧵

#linux #stackoverflow

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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.

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.
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One Year of Accessible Android: Empowering the Blind Community Together accessibleandroid.com/one-year… #Android #Accessibility #Anniversary #Introduction

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 journey
Editorial Staff (Accessible Android)
#Accessibility #android #introduction #anniversary

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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)
#food #ramen #seriouseats

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Derek attributes his experience with NVDA instrumental to his career success and since working at Google has found numerous ways to improve accessibility, both internally and externally.

"A product built by the community, for the community, is better than one built by some company, simply because the community is in charge of what goes into it." - Derek Riemer

#NVDA #NVDAsr #Accessibility #A11y #ScreenReader #FOSS #OpenSource

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#a11y #Accessibility #foss #opensource #screenreader #nvdasr #nvda
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