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I looked through the Giant Instruction Manual of Lemmy for this and I couldn’t see any recommendations about titles but I’ll change it for you if I can.


The earliest known burgers I have read about were made and sold as roadside snacks in the Roman empire.


Exactly. If they want honesty in labelling then images of happy cows in fields on dairy products should be replaced by pictures of young calves being pulled from their mothers so they don’t consume the milk.


Have you ever been confused by coconut milk? Do you think that hamburgers come from Hamburg? Are sweetbreads made from wheat and sugar?


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.



40%. That’s nearly a whole cheek.


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


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



Schneier: Self-Driving Cars Are Surveillance Cameras on Wheels
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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As someone who has spent years extolling the virtues of Matrix/Element to family members I can assure you that there is no known rebuttal to the phrase “but I don’t care about privacy”. All it needs is to visit a site and sign up. No software required whatsoever. Good luck with GitHub and your ageing aunt or gobby nephew.


Or just download the full fat version from an overseas server run by the company making the product. Expecting the general populace to compile stuff is a little bit optimistic. We’re talking about a country where most people don’t know what a socket outlet is called or the difference between desktop wallpaper and a screensaver.


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.
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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.


I think you’re probably correct.


Yep, Teddit works well for me because I don’t have a Reddit account. It’s quick and privacy respecting. I think I may have found it through the Privacy Redirect extension for Firefox.


Unsure if this is off-topic for this thread so feel free to delete if that’s the case.

/r/firefox now looks like this.


That moment when you are walking down the street and you accidentally tread in a steaming pile of irony.
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“Lying” in computer-generated texts: hallucinations and omissions
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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Apple joins the opposition to encryption-bypassing ‘spy clause’ in UK internet law
Apple has joined the rapidly growing chorus of tech organizations calling on British lawmakers to revise the nation's Online Safety Bill – which for now is in the hands of the House of Lords – so that it safeguards strong end-to-end encryption.
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50,000 tonnes of copper, 500 tonnes of silver and 100 tonnes of gold.
The GSM Association (GSMA) and a dozen carriers have announced a plan to make a modest dent in the number of mobile phones that languish, unused, unloved, and unrecycled. The consortium proclaimed on Tuesday that five billion mobile phones are "currently sitting unused and unloved in desk drawers around the globe".
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Zoos are often a lot more enlightened these days and many do some valuable species conservation work but I know what you mean.

And yes, I can’t recall seeing a display of happiness like that other than a waggy dog when they see their owner.


Calm down, mate, it was a humorous exercise.




The article says it has no tomato and no cheese. Where I come from we call that bread.


Vanilla, a 28-year-old chimpanzee, had never been outside of a cage or enclosure. She is one of the surviving chimps from the New York-based Laboratory for Experimental Medicine & Surgery in Primates (LEMSIP). Vanilla and her sister, Shake, have a new island home at Save the Chimps in Fort Pierce, Florida. [Video report, 44 seconds]
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I’m with Mike Langberg on this:

Intelligent agents are the technology of the future, and always will be.


Chat GPT and the keynote address
The literal judgement is in on using AI to write speeches
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What is it with the Kennedys? Look back over the generations and they’re either corrupt, philanderers or nut jobs. Or any combination thereof.


In a cage? Why not a small sub near the Titanic?




We didn’t learn about much US history in UK schools. Pretty much just the War of Independence, obvs, and slavery. I knew nothing about the War of 1812 until years later. The problem with UK history is there is so much of it.



This WWII battle wasn’t against Nazis. It was between Black and white GIs in England
This story is well known in the UK. Apparently less so in the US.
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George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four returned to Portland library after 65 years
This book and also Brave New World should be on every school curriculum.
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