Florida Braces For Lawsuits Over Law Banning Kids From Social Media
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Monday, Florida became the first state to ban kids under 14 from social media without parental permission. It appears likely that the law – considered one of the most restrictive in the US – will face significant legal challenges, however, before taking effect on January 1. Under HB … ⌘ Read more
You were mentioned in: https://darch.dk/twtxt.txt#:~:text=2024-03-24T22:33:59Z
@sorenpeter@darch.dk
@sorenpeter@darch.dk
@sorenpeter@darch.dk
You were mentioned in: https://darch.dk/twtxt.txt#:~:text=2024-03-24T22:26:06Z
You were mentioned in: https://darch.dk/twtxt.txt#:~:text=2024-03-24T22:25:53Z
You were mentioned in: https://darch.dk/twtxt.txt#:~:text=2024-03-24T22:23:18Z
You were mentioned in: https://darch.dk/twtxt.txt#:~:text=2024-03-24T22:22:46Z
You were mentioned in: https://darch.dk/twtxt.txt#:~:text=2024-03-24T22:21:25Z
You were mentioned in: https://darch.dk/twtxt.txt#:~:text=2024-03-24T22:21:08Z
You were mentioned in: https://darch.dk/twtxt.txt#:~:text=2024-03-24T22:17:30Z
Trump’s Truth Social Is Going Public
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Former president Donald Trump’sTruth Social, a shameless Twitter clone, is set to become a publicly traded company as soon as next week. Shareholders of Digital World Acquisition Corp. voted on Friday to merge with Trump Media and Technology Group, the company behind Truth Social. The vote is a culmination of a years-long saga attempting to merge Trump Me … ⌘ Read more
TrueNAS CORE 13 is the end of the FreeBSD version
Bad news from BSD land – the oldest vendor of BSD systems is changing direction away from FreeBSD and toward Linux. NAS vendor iXsystems has been busy this year, but apart from some statements in online user communities, it hasn’t been talking about the big news. Back in 2022, we covered TrueNAS CORE 13, the new release of its FreeBSD-based turnkey OS for NAS servers, and in that article we mentioned its new product, the Debian-base … ⌘ Read more
if you are not in a “central country” you are screwed. I thought it would be a good idea to promote a LiberaPay page to build some patronage to my free/open projects, but in Brazil LiberaPay can only handle PayPal and it integrates poorly, it doesn’t accept Reais! If you try a direct PayPal donation button it works much better: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=5B4MZ78C9J724 … this is so frustrating.
This is interesting allowing to access a Web with SSH, although a bit complicated for the ‘regular’ user
https://pico.sh/tunnels
I’d expect some one-time password, or some challenge to copy and paste. Anyway, it always makes mi think of alternatives to passwords.
post with no mentions
You were mentioned in: darch.dk/twtxt.txt#:~:text=2024-03-17T00:07:32Z
(#dzobbnq) Thanks @prologic@twtxt.net, I also just manage to get my own version of webmentions working. Please have a read at Webmentions vs. Custom Mentions Spec for Twtxt/Yarn - HedgeDoc and User Lookup for Twtxt/Yarn - Webfinger or Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) - HedgeDoc for how it sorta works2024-03-24T22:14:48Z You were mentioned in: https://darch.dk/twtxt.txt#:~:text=2024-03-24T22:14:48Z
@sorenpeter@darch.dk this dot?
You were mentioned in: https://darch.dk/twtxt.txt#:~:text=2024-03-16T23:56:46Z
@sp@darch.dk ser det her bedre ud?
https://darch.dk/twtxt.txt# mentioned you in:
Hej @sp@darch.dk, dur det?
https://darch.dk/twtxt.txt# mentioned you in:
Yo @sorenpeter@darch.dk let’s see if this webmentions thing works?!
https://darch.dk/twtxt.txt# mentioned you in:
Yo <a href="https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://darch.dk/twtxt.txt&nick=sorenpeter">@sorenpeter<em>@darch.dk</em></a> let's see if this webmentions thing works?!
https://darch.dk/twtxt.txt# mentioned you in:
<a href="https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://darch.dk/twtxt.txt&nick=sp">@sp<em>@darch.dk</em></a> and <a href="https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://darch.dk/twtxt.txt&nick=sorenpeter">@sorenpeter<em>@darch.dk</em></a>
I ate a kiwi
Cognition Emerges From Stealth To Launch AI Software Engineer ‘Devin’
Longtime Slashdot reader ahbond shares a report from VentureBeat: Today, Cognition, a recently formed AI startup backed by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund and tech industry leaders including former Twitter executive Elad Gil and Doordash co-founder Tony Xu, announced a fully autonomous AI software engineer called “Devin.” While there are mult … ⌘ Read more
Thank you, for giving us a choice Microsoft
Most Subscription Apps Don’t Make Money, Report Shows
According to a new analysis of the subscription app economy from mobile subscription toolkit provider RevenueCat, the top 5% of apps generate 200 times the revenue of the bottom quartile after their first year, while the median monthly revenue an app generates after 12 months is under $50 USD. From a report: The “State of Subscription Apps” report offers a bird’s-eye view in … ⌘ Read more
California State Legislator Proposes Ending Daylight Saving Time
Legislation proposed in California “aims to repeal Daylight saving time and put California permanently on Standard time,” reports a San Diego news station:
In November 2018, California voters passed Prop 7, a measure that would allow the state legislature to change Daylight saving time by either keeping it year-round or getting rid of it altogeth … ⌘ Read more
Finally broke down and installed Pipewire. Bare ALSA is only good if you only use one physical sound card ever. Don’t even try Bluetooth.
Public Trust In AI Is Sinking Across the Board
Trust in AI technology and the companies that develop it is dropping, in both the U.S. and around the world, according to new data from Edelman shared first with Axios. Axios reports: Globally, trust in AI companies has dropped to 53%, down from 61% five years ago. In the U.S., trust has dropped 15 percentage points (from 50% to 35%) over the same period. Trust in AI is low across … ⌘ Read more
I came across Google Summer of Code
This one looks interesting, I’ll apply soon, and perhaps is interesting for you as well
https://kiwix.org/en/google-summer-of-code/
Would ‘twtxt’ be a good project for the next one? 🤔
Google Steps Up Microsoft Criticism, Warns of Rival’s Monopoly in Cloud
Alphabet’s Google Cloud on Monday ramped up its criticism of Microsoft’s cloud computing practices, saying its rival is seeking a monopoly that would harm the development of emerging technologies such as generative AI. From a report: “We worry about Microsoft wanting to flex their decade-long practices where they had a lot of monopoly … ⌘ Read more
Germany legalizes recreational cannabis use | CNN ⌘ Read more
Playing with Wireguard and network namespaces today. Resisting the urge to redo my server.
Tinder Owner Inks Deal With OpenAI
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: In a press release written with help from ChatGPT, Match Group announced an enterprise agreement with the AI chatbot’s maker, OpenAI. The new agreement includes over 1,000 enterprise licenses for the dating app giant and home to Tinder, Match, OkCupid, Hinge and others. The AI tech will be used to help Match Group employees with work-related tasks, the compa … ⌘ Read more
Is Philosophy Self-Help? https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/is-philosophy-self-help/
So I had three espressos before 11:00 - today’s going swell.
Cool news from: https://signal.org/blog/phone-number-privacy-usernames/
No ‘GPT’ Trademark For OpenAI
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has denied OpenAI’s attempt to trademark “GPT,” ruling that the term is “merely descriptive” and therefore unable to be registered. From a report: […] The name, according to the USPTO, doesn’t meet the standards to register for a trademark and the protections a “TM” after the name affords. (Incidentally, they refused once back in October, and this is a “FINAL” in all caps denial … ⌘ Read more
Wishing I could do accents like Trevor Noah can.
Your AI Girlfriend Is a Data-Harvesting Horror Show
“A lot of that AI chatbots that you spend days talking to push hard on getting more and more private information from you,” writes longtime Slashdot reader michelcultivo, sharing a report from Gizmodo.
“To be perfectly blunt, AI girlfriends and boyfriends are not your friends,” says Misha Rykov, a Mozilla Researcher from the company’s *Privacy Not Included project. “Alth … ⌘ Read more
‘Damn Small Linux’ is Back - But Bigger
Back in 2006 Slashdot reported on a 50-megabyte “micro” distro called Damn Small Linux. (And in 2012 we wrote that it “rose from the dead” with a new release candidate.)
Now Damn Small Linux has been reborn again, according to its developer’s web site:
Creating the original DSL, a versatile 50MB distribution, was a lot of fun and one of the things I am most proud of as a personal accomplishment … ⌘ Read more
KTeaTime: A customizable tea steeping timer application from the KDE project: https://apps.kde.org/kteatime/
Deep Abandoned Mine In Finland To Be Turned Into a Giant Gravity Battery
James Felton reports via IFL Science: One of the deepest metal mines in Europe – the Pyhasalmi Mine in central Finland – is to be turned into an enormous gravity battery capable of storing 2 megawatts of energy. […] Despite the cool name, the idea behind gravity batteries is really simple. During times when energy sources a … ⌘ Read more
eapl.me jumped to Ruby League 🔻
185/140 calories burned this week!
After getting used to it, I’m loving this date format:
2024-02-06
I liked ‘6feb2024’, although isn’t as international as the former.
And… ‘06/02/24’ is awful, don’t use it!
Pro tip: Don’t run out of space on Btrfs.
Scammer Poses As CFO in Deepfaked Meeting On Zoom, Steals $25 Million
Slashdot reader Press2ToContinue shared this report from WION:
: The Hong Kong branch of a multinational company has lost $25.6 million after a scammer used deepfake technology to pose as the firm’s chief financial officer (CFO) in a video conference call and ordered money transfers, according to the police, in what is being highlighted a … ⌘ Read more
The Fossil Fuel Industry Knew About Climate Change Since 1954
The Guardian reports:
The fossil fuel industry funded some of the world’s most foundational climate science as early as 1954, newly unearthed documents have shown, including the early research of Charles Keeling, famous for the so-called “Keeling curve” that has charted the upward march of the Earth’s carbon dioxide levels. A coalition of oil and car … ⌘ Read more
Linus Torvalds Has ‘Robust Exchanges’ Over Filesystem Suggestion on Linux Kernel Mailing List
Linus Torvalds had “some robust exchanges” on the Linux kernel mailing list with a contributor from Google. The subject was inodes, notes the Register, “which as Red Hat puts it are each ‘a unique identifier for a specific piece of metadata on a given filesystem.’”
Inodes have been the subj … ⌘ Read more
Should You Flush With Toilet Lid Up Or Down? Study Says It Doesn’t Matter
doc1623 shares a report from Ars Technica: Scientists at the University of Arizona decided to investigate whether closing the toilet lid before flushing reduces cross-contamination of bathroom surfaces by airborne bacterial and viral particles via “toilet plumes.” The bad news is that putting a lid on it doesn’t result in any s … ⌘ Read more
Amazon Prime Video Ads Start From Today - Up To 3.5 Mins Per Hour
An anonymous reader shares a report: Amazon Prime Video has been a free perk for those who subscribe to the ecommerce giant’s free shipping service, but if you’re a US Prime subscriber, things change from today. We first learned of the planned change back in September of last year, with the implementation date announced in an email to customers in De … ⌘ Read more