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Zuck's "I believe everyone should have access to superintelligence" quote echoes back to Meta's "Internet.org" effort to provide Facebook for "free" in emerging markets: https://en…

Where I can learn more about the genetic need of people of Sámi heritage to eat animal food? When I tried to search for the details, I found only that it was a traditionally meat h…

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Animal agriculture is a key driver of climate change: https://sentientmedia.org/how-does-livestock-affect-climate-... Along with the high price, that's one more reason to not buy i…

For certain amount of fast growth: yes. Then there's continued "growth-hacking" and enshittification to keep fast revenue growing after the pain point has been solved with dark pat…

From this I learned LLMs are complex and compute-intensive.

I found some kind weather sensor like this in a creek in a sealed clear film canister-sized container. I took it home and looked up the part number. Looks like it was probably part…

What's planned for upcoming versions of Thunderbird are in public roadmaps: https://roadmaps.thunderbird.net/en-US/

Polymarket is currently taking bets on whether Snailman appears in the DC or Marvel universe first.

The book Sentient is not about AI but abount the most amazing physical senses some other animals have. The theme of the scientific findings is that while humans excel with none of …

I co-maintain a popular Linux launcher, Fuzzel, on Codeberg. We have no shortage of contributors despite not being on Github and the quality of contributors there is fairly high. I…

Kobo e-readers can connect directly to library e-book stores and download many titles directly for free from libraries.

I looked at Stow and Chezmoi and also have stuck with YADM. The exact reason is that YADM is so simple and intuitive because it's basically Git-for-dotfiles with so little to learn…

Google described Manifest V2 as significant tech debt with new bugs still found there. Either they are lying or it's a non-trivial feature set to continue to support. So will be in…

"This will also impact other Chromium-based browsers... Neowin points out that Microsoft Edge and Opera are likely to follow suit." This is story about browser Chromium browser mon…

The median would be interesting than the mean, as you can be hollowing out the middle, leaving more low-wage workers and a few very highly paid ones and the "average" still looks g…

Flock is being rejected in a number of cities, thanks to citizens.

The idea that most people can’t afford a $2,000 phone?

"Please do a bunch of work to support a folding phone model only a few people will be able to afford"

No Population Growth in My Backyard -- NPGIMBY.

Voroni is useful for spatial analysis when you want to assign points to a nearest /something/ like airplane positions to the nearest airport. I used for intersection crash analysis…

Besides bankruptcy there is also shutting a business down, in which case are no new owners. Lavabit and Silent Circle being examples of businesses that shutdown rather than comply …

And how you would craft a law to prevent a company from forming sub-companies for specific games to isolate risk? Or make it illegal for a company to go bankrupt? Creating sub-comp…

Summary: author is a fan of the new sizes="auto" and loading="lazy" browser features.

Also, at a moment when "AI" appears in practically all tech marketing, in this environmental impact report they manage to not mention at all the impact of their ChatGPT integration…