Thanks for sharing. Although I’m an enthusiastic open source user, I haven’t written any code of significance, so I’m not aware: has anyone made a license where use is restricted to individuals and democratically controlled organizations? I’m picturing that would allow for some degree of profit motive while encouraging things like worker co-ops and excluding venture capital controlled entities.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Kick faces possible $49 M fine after French streamer Jean Pormanove dies on airEnglish
3·5 months agoThis is helpful, thanks.
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Technology@lemmy.world•It's rude to show AI output to peopleEnglish
14·6 months agoThis is a good post.
Thinking about it some more, I don’t necessarily mind if someone said “I googled it and…” then provides some self generated summary of what they found which is relevant to the discussion.
I wouldn’t mind if someone did the same with an LLM response. But just like I don’t want to read a copy and paste of chatgpt results I don’t want to read someone copy/pasting search results with no human analysis.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Bluesky is rolling out age verification in the UKEnglish
38·6 months agoPretty concerning that a “western democracy” is doing this, because it gives cover for the next one and the next one.
It’s easy to say “oh I’ll just stop using such and such a service” but what happens when there are no more legal services to switch to?
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Technology@lemmy.world•Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all. They just memorize patterns really well.English
6·8 months agoI think you’re misunderstanding the argument. I haven’t seen people here saying that the study was incorrect so far as it goes, or that AI is equal to human intelligence. But it does seem like it has a kind of intelligence. “Glorified auto complete” doesn’t seem sufficient, because it has a completely different quality from any past tool. Supposing yes, on a technical level the software pieces together probability based on overtraining. Can we say with any precision how the human mind stores information and how it creates intelligence? Maybe we’re stumbling down the right path but need further innovations.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all. They just memorize patterns really well.English
143·8 months agoAgreed. We don’t seem to have a very cohesive idea of what human consciousness is or how it works.
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Technology@lemmy.world•You probably don't remember these but I have a questionEnglish
9·8 months agoOther people replied, but to rephrase: the USB will not work with a car, and there will never be an adapter that will allow it to.
Instead you need a way to send the audio from the ipod headphone jack into your car stereo. Something like this.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Grok’s “white genocide” obsession came from “unauthorized” prompt edit, xAI saysEnglish
8·8 months agoIt’s from the show “I think you should leave.” There’s a sketch where someone has crashed a weinermobile into a storefront, and bystanders are like “did anyone get hurt?” “What happened to the driver?” And then this guy shows up.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Messaging App Used by Mike Waltz, Trump Deportation Airline GlobalX Both Hacked in Separate BreachesEnglish
24·9 months agoI’ve seen more informative reporting from 404 media and others, Signal had more or less said they can’t guarantee security for third party apps. Which makes sense, I can’t guarantee a house I didn’t build is safe. The OP link also talks about how the hacked company is Oregon based, which is technically true that they’re registered there. But the reporting I had read indicated the company was founded and is run by a former Israeli security officer, and has offices in Israel.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Short summary of feature phone market in 2025English
1·9 months agoYes, that’s kind of what I was getting at - having this cloud browser thing would be significantly worse for privacy than even a smart phone.
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Technology@lemmy.world•The Tech That Safeguards the Conclave’s SecrecyEnglish
15·9 months agoSetting aside the financial management of the church, it’s one of the largest organizations in the world which tells people what the purpose of life is. Its members believe the person they’re selecting has authority from God to say what actions are right and wrong.
While I don’t personally believe that, hard not to see it’s a position of significant power and people have an interest in knowing or influencing the outcome.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Short summary of feature phone market in 2025English
1·9 months agoCan you share what your reasons are for considering a dumb phone?
For me I’m probably not actually going to get one, but have idly thought about it. If I were to get one it would be to free me from the attention sink of web browsing and apps. So I don’t find it appealing to consider a dumb phone that still has web browsing but using some sort of work around.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Self-Driving Teslas Are Fatally Striking Motorcyclists More Than Any Other Brand: New AnalysisEnglish
1·10 months agoSure, we’re in agreement as far as that goes. My point was just the commenter above me was indicating it should be common knowledge that Tesla self driving hits motorcycles more than other self driving cars. And whether their comment was about this or some other subject, I think it’s counterproductive to be like “everyone knows that.”
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Technology@lemmy.world•Self-Driving Teslas Are Fatally Striking Motorcyclists More Than Any Other Brand: New AnalysisEnglish
20·10 months agoIt’s helpful to remember that not everyone has seen the same stories you have. If we want something to change, like regulators not allowing dangerous products, then raising public awareness is important. Expressing surprise that not everyone knows about something can be counterproductive.
Going beyond that, wouldn’t the new information here be the statistics?
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Technology@lemmy.world•Matt Mullenweg deactivates WordPress contributor accounts over alleged fork plans | TechCrunchEnglish
38·1 year agoWhy is this guy being such a weenie?
I think it would have helped for the person who posted that to include context, but I would guess they were linking because it also talks about how Kagi isn’t privacy focused.
The linked post goes into detail about why the author views Kagi as not privacy oriented, and that in the author’s opinion Kagi is overly focused on AI. (And was originally started as an AI company)
My thought was that the video loading probably isn’t going to be nearly as fast as TikTok because of the money behind their servers and optimization.



Sorry for a casual, what do you mean cap at 60hz?
I just use Firefox on Ubuntu, which fifteen years ago seemed like enough.
Which also doesn’t seem that casual, but this shit is too much to keep up with. Today my engineer dad was complaining about search engines having too many ads and I asked what he used, and he said besides Google on the one computer he uses Bing on the other.