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10 votes
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Robot learns to see in thirty minutes (2022)
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Gordon E. Moore, Intel co-founder behind Moore’s Law, dies at 94
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My channels were hacked, streamed crypto scams, then deleted last night
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Incredible invention - this drone could change everything
21 votes -
These new tools let you see for yourself how biased AI image models are
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Adobe announces Firefly, generative AI tooling inside of Adobe Creative Suite products
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Update to Kagi Search pricing
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What are the potential negative consequences of open-sourcing the Twitter recommendation code?
I'm not sure anything quite like this has happened before. What problems could happen as a result of this?
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How social media shapes our perceptions about crime
7 votes -
The history of ecommerce: 1979 to 2023
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AI can fool voice recognition used to verify identity by Centrelink and Australian tax office
11 votes -
Another megathread for news/updates/discussion of ChatGPT and other AI chatbots
Hype is still going strong since the previous one.
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GPT-4 announced
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Major Reddit outage in progress
20 votes -
Micro datacenters begin trials as commercial heating units
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A weapon to surpass Metal Gear
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GPT-4
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A flock of chickens, held for ransom — Growing cyberattacks on Canada's food system threaten disaster
9 votes -
The lost art of lacing cable (2018)
9 votes -
Why Sweden is (still) betting on the metaverse – we chatted to the experts on why Swedes are so keen on virtual worlds
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Microsoft’s Bing is an emotionally manipulative liar, and people love it
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The internet’s richest fitness resource is a site from 1999. ExRx.net is little changed since the days of GeoCities yet beneath its bare-bones interface is a deep physiological compendium.
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The Verge complains about ubiquitous login prompts
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Hackers claim they breached T-Mobile more than 100 times in 2022
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How many battery-operated devices do you have in your home?
A student asked me this question today. They were looking into lithium batteries and e-waste and whatnot. My initial response was something low, like maybe five or six, but the more I thought...
A student asked me this question today. They were looking into lithium batteries and e-waste and whatnot.
My initial response was something low, like maybe five or six, but the more I thought about it, the higher the number kept climbing — old phones, key fobs, wireless mice, flashlights, a food thermometer, etc.
I’m not sure I have an official count yet, but the number is WAY higher than my gut reaction. I also thought it was an interesting thought experiment, so I figured I’d ask here to prompt people to do their own inventory.
How many battery-operated devices do you have in your home? (They don’t have to specifically be lithium batteries, but if you want to limit it to just that, feel free).
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Megathread for news/updates/discussion about Musk's takeover of Twitter – Part 3
Part 1, Part 2
12 votes -
Could we make the web more immersive using a simple optical illusion?
8 votes -
Belgium launches nationwide safe harbor for ethical hackers
10 votes -
Testing Spotify's virtual radio host – the service curates a stream of songs I've heard before. Do I really need this?
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The rise of self-hosted apps
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Danish parliament urges lawmakers and employees to remove TikTok on work phones as a cybersecurity measure, saying “there is a risk of espionage”
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Request: Alternatives to the Raspberry Pi?
I will shortly have need for a small, low power (power as in watts, not compute power) system for always-on Home Assistant use. However, Raspberry Pis are out of stock everywhere and while they...
I will shortly have need for a small, low power (power as in watts, not compute power) system for always-on Home Assistant use. However, Raspberry Pis are out of stock everywhere and while they can be had for extortionate prices on various auction/marketplace sites, I'm not sure I want to spend a load of money on something which might not even be what it claims to be.
Home Assistant suggest Odroid which I'd probably go for the C4 edition but it's relatively expensive (I need to add an MMC and a psu and various other things to the listed main board price)
Any suggestions? The Asus Tinkerboard looks overkill and is very expensive. It needs to be capable of running a standard Linux distro, ideally Home Assistant's own OS. Low power consumption is a definite, 2-3W at idle is probably the maximum I'd be happy with. Wifi is a bonus although not required right now - but the ability to add it if needed is essential. Some amount of expansion capability would be good if I want to add hardware sensors or bluetooth or a Zigbee transceiver or whatever. It needs some reasonably amount of compute grunt I assume but I don't think HA is all that hungry for number crunching power. The machine will more than likely be headless at first but a little bit of GPU and graphical IO would be handy if I want to stick a display on it in the future, which I might want to.
Any ideas? Oh, and also must be easily available in/to the UK.
15 votes -
Fine-tuning to enable Stable Diffusion to generate very dark or light images easily
4 votes -
The internet is already over
7 votes -
SolidGoldMagikarp and other words that cause buggy behavior with ChatGPT
18 votes -
Computer dating 1960s style (1966)
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Hayes command set history: The tech that dialed in a million modems
5 votes -
The fediverse is already dead
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Megathread for news/updates/discussion of ChatGPT and other AI chatbots
There's a lot of discussion out there and it doesn't seem to be dying down, so it seems like we should have a place for minor updates.
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Google lawyer warns internet will be “a horror show” if it loses landmark US Supreme Court case
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9yo son wants to join Discord to talk to friends. Any advice?
Well, as the headline says my son wants to join Discord to talk to his friends while playing Roblox on the iPad. Up until now he's been using Teams to communicate while playing. Recently his...
Well, as the headline says my son wants to join Discord to talk to his friends while playing Roblox on the iPad. Up until now he's been using Teams to communicate while playing. Recently his friends have been switching to Discord so naturally he wants that too.
I only know Discord by name so I'm looking for insight into how it works and how safe it is for children and in general. I'm aware that the age limit is 13.
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The prompt box is a minefield
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Fanless x86 mini PCs are getting absurdly fast and cheap
Pretty much what the title says - I’ve been looking for something small and not too expensive to run a few VMs on recently, and I’m just genuinely amazed at where the tiny SBC space is at right...
Pretty much what the title says - I’ve been looking for something small and not too expensive to run a few VMs on recently, and I’m just genuinely amazed at where the tiny SBC space is at right now.
The Celeron N5105 seems to be the go to choice at the moment. You can get an entire machine running that CPU that’s slightly smaller than an old double CD jewel case, for $150. Less than $200 if you want 16GB RAM and a fast NVMe SSD in there too. Four decent quality 2.5GbE NICs thrown in as a bonus. And it’s not that much slower than my expensive full size desktop from late 2020.
Part of me thinks I’m just getting old - phones have been plenty of people’s primary computer for years now, after all - but there’s something about having a real standalone x86 PC that size for literally 1/5th the price of a flagship phone that just blows my mind.
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US Supreme Court declines to hear Wikimedia Foundation’s challenge to NSA mass surveillance
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Meta launching paid subscription service for Facebook, Instagram
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Google Adsense is bringing a bunch of policy changes that affect how your sites are monetized
Yesterday, Adsense support sent an email to their users regarding their upcoming policy changes. This primarily affects how subdomains are monetized. Going forward, your subdomains inside the...
Yesterday, Adsense support sent an email to their users regarding their upcoming policy changes. This primarily affects how subdomains are monetized. Going forward, your subdomains inside the primary domains in the "Sites" section (www, etc.) won't be allowed, any existing ones will be removed and their rules will be merged with the primary domain (such as example.com).
Furthermore, what constitutes a "Site" will also change henceforth. You can only add a primary domain (such as example.com) and the subdomains which are listed on the public suffix list (such as github.io, blogspot.com, etc.). Thus, your own subdomains (such as xyz.example.com or www.example.com) won't be allowed in Adsense.
I don't know what they will achieve by doing this considering they already vet and audit each site before approving them for adsense? In any case, other alternatives to Adsense exist such as Propeller Ads, CJ Affiliate, etc. for those affected by this move but I don't know their efficacy.
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Whispers of AI’s modular future
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Toolformer: Language models can teach themselves to use tools
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Dear Quora, please stop holding information hostage on the internet and remove the paywall
The benefits of a free and open Internet is something that the millennial generation created long ago to make this world a better place and full of opportunities for everyone, not just those who...
The benefits of a free and open Internet is something that the millennial generation created long ago to make this world a better place and full of opportunities for everyone, not just those who can afford access to it. These benefits are something that makers of quora platform themselves used in the form of open source software like Python, Django, HTML, etc. to build that very platform in the first place.
But now, by denying those benefits to others and bringing in a paywall, quora is striking on its own proverbial roots. There are much better ways to reward their content creators than holding their answers hostage with a paywall. The plain old advertising revenue sharing model can be still used, just like Adsense does. This is a win-win thing where everyone gains including the platform, content-creator and advertiser.
It's extremely important to oppose this paywall move by quora because this attacks the very foundation of the free and open Internet as we know it. Imagine what happens tomorrow if other informative sites like StackOverflow, Wikipedia, etc. start following quora's path. Imagine the plight of the poor and under-privileged sections of the society who cannot afford costly subscription to information. And yet, as members of the evolved human race of 2023, they very much deserve access to this information.
I urge all netizens who consider themselves part of this free and open culture tribe to sign this petition and through it, convey our grievance to quora and let them know why this is wrong and what is at stake (our freedom).
If you agree with my cause, I urge you to sign this change.org petition created in this regard requesting Quora to revert the Paywall move.
5 votes