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.
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.
¡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.
> 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is that it's trained on legacy code so it's going to be a conservative force in software dev, driving people to use outdated but popular approaches.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
"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."
"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.
I like Mozilla, or rather I liked what Mozilla once was. Over the years I've volunteered time on various Mozilla projects - both online and in-person. I've advocated for Firefox for two decades.....
Time after time, especially in recent years, I've given Mozilla the benefit of the doubt - because I both believed they were honestly doing things for the right reasons.
Browser development and maintenance is a costly endeavor - any firefox fork has to either commit to that upkeep, or rely on being able to sift critical changes from unwanted cruft in a timely manner.
Ultimately I think the only way we can dig ourselves out of this mess is by making it easier to build and maintain browsers (There are perhaps alternative foundations to build on, such as servo on the horizon - but they too need funding.)
No, the death knell was when Google built a better browser than Internet Explorer, Safari and Firefox, supplied it with cutting edge developer tools, and gave it away for free. It was a monopolist's move and it worked.
No, they didn't see an opening and took it. They swindled and deceived people, rigged the game so only they could win. Don't talk about Google like some dashing maverick, deftly dodging the sluggish giants. They're bullies, and cheats, and should be referred to as such.
Sorry but I'm sick of framing this abuse as if it were something to be admired and respected. Cutting edge? Really?
@cy Were you using Internet Explorer or Firefox when Chrome was introduced? I was. IE was garbage - Firefox was decent. Hell, Seamonkey was better than IE! But Chrome was still better, and they had an open source variant, Chromium, that was better in the same ways. 1/2
Maybe the Google plan was always to dominate the market, but Chrome didn't catch fire because of that. It caught fire because it made browsing easier and web development tolerable. Every web developer I knew back then developed on Chrome and tested on the other browsers in later stages of the process. 2/2
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.
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.
I know GitHub is not the easiest site to navigate with a screen reader, but if you find any of my accessibility projects useful, I'd appreciate if you consider clicking "Star this repository." Stars can indicate a project's popularity and quality, boosting its visibility. According to Github, stat, VOCR has over 5k downloads but only 53 stars. github.com/chigkim/vocr/
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Californians Could See a Credit on Their Electricity Bill. How Much Will You Get? (More than 11.5 million California households will receive an average $71 credit on their October electricity bills, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Wednesday.) gvwire.com/2024/10/02/californ…
Unmute Holiday Gift Guide Returns for 2024! - Unmute unmute.show/unmute-holiday-gif… - Come one come all! Everyone is invited. Click the link to find out all the details and how you can participate.
Ich höre gerade dieses Interview mit Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk zur Gründung der DDR und kann das bei Interesse zum Nachmachen empfehlen. ardaudiothek.de/episode/das-wi…
💔 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.
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.
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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.