[-] Spudger@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 9 months ago

One of the problems I have with search engines when looking for tech solutions is that the results are incredibly out of date. I don't bother any more and just go straight to the product's own support forum. Where possible I add the forum's own search entry to Firefox's search box. At least I no longer get answers to a problem no one has had since 2018.

[-] Spudger@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 10 months ago

The whole Bellendcat thing sounded a bit sus to me when I first came across them being lionised in the UK press. One plonker sitting in his bedroom outdoing the might of the Five Eyes? Mmm, sure.

[-] Spudger@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 10 months ago

Pot/kettle.

‘CIA sidekick’ gives £2.6m to UK media groups

https://declassifieduk.org/cia-sidekick-gives-2-6m-to-uk-media-groups/

NED money has gone to UK investigative groups Bellingcat, Finance Uncovered and openDemocracy, as well as media freedom and training organisations Index on Censorship, Article 19, the Media Legal Defence Initiative, and the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

[-] Spudger@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 10 months ago

It was Mozilla for me back in 2000. I gradually replaced all the proprietary apps I was using on Windows with FLOSS alternatives and then finally made the mover to Linux around 2010. The only closed stuff I use now is an iPhone and I despise it.

[-] Spudger@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 11 months ago

I don't know what the authors are complaining about. All the AI is doing is trawling through a lexicon of words and rearranging them into an order that will sell books. It's exactly what authors do. This is about money.

[-] Spudger@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 11 months ago

Good news. I use it once a week to check if a relative is still alive.

[-] Spudger@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 11 months ago

In Australia it's ute (pickup) drivers. If it's a faded mustard colour it's an ancient farmer driving 30 km/h below the speed limit in a no-overtaking area. If it's bright red it's the farmer's grandchild driving at 30 km/h above the speed limit as he* overtakes you in a no-overtaking area.

*It's always a he.

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In this week's episode of 'Allo 'Allo!, Thib explains all about bridges.

[-] Spudger@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 11 months ago

40%. That's nearly a whole cheek.

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[-] Spudger@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 11 months ago

lol There's often a fair bit of waxing involved.

[-] Spudger@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 11 months ago

It says “no fully exposed” arse pix. What percentage of exposed derrière is acceptable? Asking for a friend.

[-] Spudger@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

Impressive.

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Police are already using self-driving car footage as video evidence:

While security cameras are commonplace in American cities, self-driving cars represent a new level of access for law enforcement ­ and a new method for encroachment on privacy, advocates say. Crisscrossing the city on their routes, self-driving cars capture a wider swath of footage. And it’s easier for law enforcement to turn to one company with a large repository of videos and a dedicated response team than to reach out to all the businesses in a neighborhood with security systems.

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Today marks the first day of the Report Stage of the Online Safety Bill. As this Bill progresses through the Houses of Parliament, we hope to (once again) raise the alarm around the risks to encryption posed by this Bill.

[-] Spudger@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

This is irritating. I use Nitter once a week to check if someone's still alive. If I see them posting crap I know they're still breathing.

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The protest has never ended. We have been trying to communicate with Reddit admins, who seemed at first to be willing to talk to us, but we are only getting the silent treatment and threats to reopen the subreddit.

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There is huge excitement about ChatGPT and other large generative language models that produce fluent and human-like texts in English and other human languages. But these models have one big drawback, which is that their texts can be factually incorrect (hallucination) and also leave out key information (omission).

In our chapter for The Oxford Handbook of Lying, we look at hallucinations, omissions, and other aspects of “lying” in computer-generated texts. We conclude that these problems are probably inevitable.

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We were already proud to announce that the national agency for the digitalisation of the healthcare system in Germany (gematik) had selected Matrix as the open standard on which to base all its interoperable instant messaging standard, back in 2021.

We are now delighted to let the world know that they are doubling down on sovereignty and sustainability: gematik is the first organisation of the public sector to join the Matrix.org Foundation as a Silver member.

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