cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/53211662

Source: https://xcancel.com/JeremiahDJohns/status/2011122305439596723

cross-posted from: https://piefed.blahaj.zone/c/comicstrips/p/379406/i-ve-been-tempted

The Flock saga continues.

Reddit’s API is effectively dead for archival. Third-party apps are gone. Reddit has threatened to cut off access to the Pushshift dataset multiple times. But 3.28TB of Reddit history exists as a torrent right now, and I built a tool to turn it into something you can browse on your own hardware.

Hey everyone! In case you haven’t noticed, this is a new community focused on NonPolitical Comics (NPCs), which essentially means no gloom and doom of the day stuff. If you like the idea, help out by upvoting, commenting, or even talking about us! Remember, click like and subscribe!

Website operators are being asked to feed LLM crawlers poisoned data by a project called Poison Fountain.

In the summer time I try and get more creative and when ever possible I’ll climb onto a roof or go by the water for example.

Alexa users who are Amazon Prime members are reportedly being automatically upgraded to Alexa Plus.

Often billed as Billie Holiday, but the original info seems to suggest Nellie Lutcher. Regardless, I’d love a poster of it.

Currently, only lobbyists working more than 28 hours a month are required to register with the commissioner of the Commissioner of Lobbying.

AI infrastructure will provides Meta with a “strategic advantage,” Zuckerberg said. He once said almost the exact same thing about the metaverse.

Two trans women arrested in an absurd “antifa” crackdown face political prosecution for their beliefs. Experts warn it’s a sign of growing authoritarianism in the U.S.

my sweet kitties

After dying a painful death at the hand of the iPhone’s revolutionary capacitive touchscreen, the QWERTY smartphone is rising up from the graveyard this year.

https://huggingface.co/authenyoiris/clod-7b-instruct

https://mas.to/@markwyner/115886175885618595

From MPR News

A new bill has been proposed in the US Senate that would permit artificial intelligence (AI) data center firms to bypass federal electricity regulations by building their own energy infrastructure.

Note: Not my screenshot

There. That’s out of the way. I recently installed Linux on my main desktop computer and work laptop, overwriting the Windows partition completely. Essentially, I deleted the primary operating system from the two computers I use the most, day in and day out, instead trusting all of my personal and work computing needs to the Open Source community. This has been a growing trend, and I hopped on the bandwagon, but for good reasons. Some of those reasons might pertain to you and convince you to finally make the jump as well. Here’s my experience.

Direct link to CCC video of talk: https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-ai-agent-ai-spy

Source: Existential Comics

Wine is a compatibility layer for running Windows apps and games on Linux, a major part of Valve’s Proton and now Wine 11 is finally here.

I’ve been using various contact managers but they all feel like sales tools, so I built Nametag to track the people I actually care about - friends, family, colleagues. It maps relationships, tracks birthdays, and visualizes your network as an interactive graph.

I wouldn’t normally post Times articles but they seem to be the first to run this bit of rare good news.

Notice how they’re trying to smear the victim, not bring the perpetrator to justice

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AT&T and Verizon claim right to a jury trial was violated by FCC fines.

DS9 s7e24 “The Dogs of War”

Today’s game is some more Animal Crossing New Leaf. I’ve made it past the 3 day mark for abandonment! New record for me. What’s with the hat choice? I started buying whatever hat was in the first hat slot in the store. The sombrero just so happened to be today’s. Yesterday’s was a newsboy cap (and so far that one has been my favorite).