Phone hardware is getting locked down too, making it much harder to install custom ROMs. This is a full court press on our rights to use our devices as we want. They’ll close most of the loopholes.

Brings new meaning to Google’s decision to (effectively) block side loading on Android

It’s always worth remembering that the people who dislike something tend to be the loudest.

There’s no doubt reactions to Discovery have been mixed. Personally, I enjoyed it. It was uneven and flawed and sometimes frustrating. But there were enough good moments to keep me going. I don’t think anyone can tell you if you’ll enjoy it… You just have to try it and see.

Everyone is terrified of all the social problems AI is causing, but maybe it will just encourage everyone to learn Linux and we’ll achieve utopia.

Exactly. If there are major terrorist attacks, Trump will use that to justify more authoritarianism… It’s win/win for him

Yes, even the UK had to accept this when they were in the EU. But unfortunately it wasn’t very proportional, due to the small districts. Plus no one paid attention to EU elections, so it didn’t have much impact on politics (e.g. it didn’t help win any arguments about changing voting systems).

This is a great move. Governance is extremely important for bigger OSS projects, and the “benevolent dictator” model has its limits.

Spock would have to be DM. As a player he’d be the worst rules lawyer ever.

I think the headline is misleading. He’s not arguing that we should keep fossil fuels. He’s saying we can’t just switch to renewables and keep going on as we currently are. Which is exactly what environmentalists have been arguing for years.

I doubt it. His recent shows are Shrinking and Ted Lasso… Not exactly flops.

Unfortunately, AfD and Musk won’t hesitate to paint this as an islamist attack. They’ll just claim the X posts are fake if necessary.

It may even have been the attackers’ goal.

I don’t know if this is realistic. Considering making a game is a full time job.

Depending on how you measure, it’s more than 200+ years.

The New Zealand Social Media Study did some analysis of fake news during the '20 and '23 election campaigns. They did a bit more in 2020, here are some of their results: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/hppi/psir/psir-research/election/facebook-campaign-communication

I had actually been planning a proposal for this fund for next year (social science). I’d sat through seminars on how to write a good proposal, and no one mentioned funding getting cut was even a possibility. The universities were completely blindsided.

It’s a decision that seems to be driven purely by ideology, and mostly comes from one of the junior coalition partners (Act). I know for a fact that their leader has been expressing discontent about some of the research being done that has been criticising him (I.e. showing how his party spreads misinformation).

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OpenAI published a paper about GPT titled “Sparks of AGI”.

I don’t think they really believe it but it’s good to bring in VC money

Mastodon is pretty different to its competitors. It looks similar to Twitter / Bluesky, but the way the social network functions is completely different.

It’s designed to be anti-infuencer… One of the things I hate about most social media platforms is a few people get all the attention. There are a few reasons for this, but it’s not really based on merit.

I think a lot of people joined Mastodon wanting a Twitter clone. It’s obviously not and Bluesky is, so people moved there. The approach Mastodon takes is far from perfect, and may not work out in the long run. But it seems like it’s worth at least trying something different.

OP is obviously very eco-concious… Instead of using an LLM to generate crap (and burn half the Amazon while doing it) they just recycled

The thing is even if AI could do all that (which is doubtful in my life time), you would still need someone to prompt it with something interesting. And CEO types have never had an interesting idea in their lives