President Donald Trump has issued an executive order calling for an increase in production of phosphorus and glyphosate-based herbicides — chemicals that research has linked to an increase in multiple types of cancers among individual users. The executive order stated that “glyphosate-based herbicides … play a critical ...
The research, commissioned by nonprofits including Beyond Fossil Fuels and Climate Action Against Disinformation, did not find a single example where popular tools such as Google’s Gemini or Microsoft’s Copilot were leading to a “material, verifiable, and substantial” reduction in planet-heating emissions. ...
Erwartbar, wenn man einen Blackwaterrock-Lobbyisten als Bundeskanzler hat und dessen Partei in der Regierung den Ton angibt. Quasi Politk von Reiche für Reiche.
Crazy! Just played a mission, takes me waaaaay back. I just gotta ask: did they also port the bug where the range of the Atreidis sonic tank depends on the game speed?
Fallout Shelter (working title) is a new reality competition series based on the hit Amazon drama and computer game of the same name. The dwellers (contestants) live together in a top-secret vault, where they will compete in a series of games that tests the seven core attributes from the Fallout world. Strength, perception, ...
"I think we've done a lot of damage with very well-respected people who have painted a doomer narrative, end of the world narrative, science fiction narrative," Huang said in his interview with No Priors. "I appreciate that many of us grew up and enjoyed science fiction, but it's not helpful – it's not helpful to people, ...
Developers making mods and plugins for hentai games and sex toys say Github recently unleashed a wave of suspensions and bans against their repositories, and the platform hasn’t explained why. ...
Sounds like RokChip really needed to put their hand on that hot stove top to understand they'd get burned. Hope they learn their lesson and improve their handling of FOSS code in the future.
On January 1, I received a bill from my web hosting provider for a bandwidth overage for $155. I've never had this happen before. For comparison, I pay about $400/year for the hosting service, and usually the limitation is disk space. ...
I have experienced something similar. I run a small forum for a computer games series, a series I myself have not been interested in a long time. I am just running it because the community has no other place to go, and they seem to really enjoy it.
A few months ago, I received word from them that the forum barely responded anymore. I checked it out and noticed there were several hundred active connections at any time, something we have never seen before. After checking the whois info on the IPs, I realized they were all connected to meta, google, apple, microsoft and other AI companies.
It felt like a coordinated DDoS attack and certainly had almost the same effect. Now, I have a hosting contract where I pay a flat monthly fee for a complete server and any traffic going through it, so it was not a problem financially speaking, but those AI bots made the server almost unusable. Naturally, I went ahead and blocked all the crawler IPs that I could find, and that relieved the pressure a lot, but I still keep finding new ones.
Fuck all of those companies, fuck the lot of them. All they do is rob and steal and plunder, and leave charred ruins. And for what? Fan fiction. Unbelievable.
Generative KI ist unausweichlich. Auch deshalb, weil Influencer, Fernsehsender, Marken und Co. eine Geisteshaltung entwickelt haben, dass generierte Imitate genau das gleiche seien wie Originale. Ist die Kritik an generierten Inhalten aus der Zeit gefallen? Beschweren wir uns nur über ein neues Werkzeug, oder geht diese ...
According to the document, the CPB also plans to request numerous additional personal data in the ESTA application. This includes all – including professional – phone numbers and email addresses used in the past five or ten years, names and phone numbers of close family members, as well as their birth dates and places. ...
A four-slide comic featuring a kangaroo and a man. The Kangaroo asks:
- I'm a communist, and what are you?
The man answers cautiously:
- I'm an anarchist.
The kangaroo responds:
- Cool, we can be friends until the revolution.
Then it continues:
- After that it gets difficult.
There is always a right tool for every job
RFK Jr. Supports Trump Push to Ramp Up Glyphosate Output, Angering MAHA Backers ( truthout.org )
President Donald Trump has issued an executive order calling for an increase in production of phosphorus and glyphosate-based herbicides — chemicals that research has linked to an increase in multiple types of cancers among individual users. The executive order stated that “glyphosate-based herbicides … play a critical ...
House committee advances bill to ban chemtrails ( www.alreporter.com )
A Potentially Infinite Number of AI Homer Simpson ‘Cover Songs’ Have ‘Poisoned’ Soulseek ( www.vice.com )
Kristi Noem pulls plane off search for overboard Coast Guardsman to deport migrants ( www.rawstory.com )
Claims that AI can help fix climate dismissed as greenwashing ( www.theguardian.com )
The research, commissioned by nonprofits including Beyond Fossil Fuels and Climate Action Against Disinformation, did not find a single example where popular tools such as Google’s Gemini or Microsoft’s Copilot were leading to a “material, verifiable, and substantial” reduction in planet-heating emissions. ...
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Reiche-Pläne entfachen Debatte: Ministerin will private Solar-Besitzer zur Kasse bitten ( www.t-online.de ) German
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What's yours?
Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are already sold out for the entire year, says Western Digital ( mashable.com )
Dune II written in HTML5 / JavaScript ( github.com )
https://dune2js.com/
European Parliament Votes Overwhelmingly For "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women" ( www.erininthemorning.com )
Is Windows FOSS now? ( lemmy.blahaj.zone )
https://zomglol.wtf/@jamie/116059523957674208 ...
Budweiser is currently cheaper in Germany than in the United States*
My friend in Germany sent this to me. The price is €0.75 per can after a discount using the grocery's app. ...
Red Hat Plans to Add AI to Fedora and GNOME - Slashdot ( linux.slashdot.org )
hey, what the fuck!? ...
Merz’s party vows to clamp down on Germany’s ‘lifestyle part-time work’ ( www.theguardian.com )
Scientists have confirmed that a 26ft tall, tree-trunk-shaped organism, first discovered in Scotland in 1843, isn't a fungus or plant, but an entirely distinct evolutionary branch of life ( www.telegraph.co.uk )
cross-posted from: ...
What’s a place you visited once and decided never again?
996 isn't about productivity, it's about keeping workers' living expenses low
996: 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., 6 days a week ...
Stromversorgung: Deutschland greift Habecks Gaskraft-Plan wieder auf ( www.heise.de )
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Bethesda announces a new Fallout... reality show ( store.steampowered.com )
Fallout Shelter (working title) is a new reality competition series based on the hit Amazon drama and computer game of the same name. The dwellers (contestants) live together in a top-secret vault, where they will compete in a series of games that tests the seven core attributes from the Fallout world. Strength, perception, ...
NVIDIA CEO Doesn't Want "Well-Respected People" to Criticize AI ( 80.lv )
"I think we've done a lot of damage with very well-respected people who have painted a doomer narrative, end of the world narrative, science fiction narrative," Huang said in his interview with No Priors. "I appreciate that many of us grew up and enjoyed science fiction, but it's not helpful – it's not helpful to people, ...
ich🧊⛸️iel
Dreifache Mutter in Minneapolis erschossen: „Absolute Immunität“ für ICE-Beamte – JD Vance sorgt mit Aussage für Entsetzen ( www.tagesspiegel.de ) German
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Github Banned a Ton of Adult Game Developers and Won’t Explain Why ( www.404media.co )
Developers making mods and plugins for hentai games and sex toys say Github recently unleashed a wave of suspensions and bans against their repositories, and the platform hasn’t explained why. ...
another Freud post for the day
Chinese semiconductor outfit has Linux MPP repository on Github disabled after a DMCA takedown request & FFmpeg team accuses it of using libavcodec code without attribution | Tom's Hardware ( www.tomshardware.com )
European leaders rally behind Greenland as US ramps up threats ( www.theguardian.com )
The current list of distractions
AI went nuts on my website and generated a $155 excessive bandwidth bill
On January 1, I received a bill from my web hosting provider for a bandwidth overage for $155. I've never had this happen before. For comparison, I pay about $400/year for the hosting service, and usually the limitation is disk space. ...
I have kidnapped a head of state, join me at my luxury resort for details
Israel says it will bar aid groups, including Doctors Without Borders, from Gaza ( www.npr.org )
„Sprachlos über eure Solidarität“: Berliner Stadtmission erfährt nach Brandanschlag auf Kältebus breite Unterstützung ( www.tagesspiegel.de )
Danke den Spendern
Jesse Welles - The Department of war ( youtu.be )
Kassenärzte-Chef will "Kontaktgebühr" bei jedem Arztbesuch ( www.tagesschau.de )
In the ’90s, Wing Commander: Privateer made me realize what kind of games I love ( arstechnica.com )
whotd uses brave ( lemmy.blahaj.zone )
https://masto.hackers.town/@mav/115790298656083453
How long?
Graduate instructor who gave failing grade to Samantha Fulnecky no longer teaching at OU ( www.koco.com )
Ultralativ – Künstliche Intelligenz: Für euch reicht’s ( youtu.be )
Generative KI ist unausweichlich. Auch deshalb, weil Influencer, Fernsehsender, Marken und Co. eine Geisteshaltung entwickelt haben, dass generierte Imitate genau das gleiche seien wie Originale. Ist die Kritik an generierten Inhalten aus der Zeit gefallen? Beschweren wir uns nur über ein neues Werkzeug, oder geht diese ...
Some hairy worms, huddling on a tree. [OC]
Kay eye ess ess eye en geee. No not really. Hiding from predators for the night. Tomorrow morning they will continue devouring my tree.
Nicki Minaj Praises Trump During Surprise Appearance With Erika Kirk at Turning Point USA Event ( www.hollywoodreporter.com )
5D glass storage 'memory crystals' promise up to 13.8 billion years of data storage resilience — crams 360 terabytes into 5-inch glass disc ( www.tomshardware.com )
Offenbar war hier jemand mit der Werbung unzufrieden. Fühle ich… German
What will all the computing infrastructure be used for when companies admit commercial AI isn't cost-effective?
ESTA: USA wants to check social media accounts of European travelers as well ( www.heise.de )
According to the document, the CPB also plans to request numerous additional personal data in the ESTA application. This includes all – including professional – phone numbers and email addresses used in the past five or ten years, names and phone numbers of close family members, as well as their birth dates and places. ...
We can be friends until the revolution
- I'm a communist, and what are you?
The man answers cautiously:
- I'm an anarchist.
The kangaroo responds:
- Cool, we can be friends until the revolution.
Then it continues:
- After that it gets difficult.