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Monetization / Big Tech to EU: "Drop Dead" | Electronic Frontier Foundation
« on: Today at 02:02:43 PM »
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/05/big-tech-eu-drop-dead


Good read, but one point bothers me;

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Meta’s answer to this is a “Pay or Okay” system, in which users who do not consent to Meta’s surveillance will have to pay to use the service, or be blocked from it

I don't like “Pay or Okay” but it seems to be a reasonable offer by a vendor.  There has to be some sort of monetization that'll pay the bills.

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Water Cooler / America Takes Its Biggest Step Yet to End Coal Mining - Slashdot
« on: Today at 01:50:38 PM »
https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/05/18/2235223/america-takes-its-biggest-step-yet-to-end-coal-mining?amp%3Butm_medium=feed


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Economics & Investing / Re: >8 billion people, 6 billion jobs.
« on: Today at 01:49:03 PM »
>I'm guessing UBI and work week limitations are going to get more popular.

The godfather of AI agrees, LM.

"AI would increase productivity and wealth, the money would go to the rich and not the people whose jobs get lost and that’s going to be very bad for society”.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cnd607ekl99o

AI 'godfather' says universal basic income will be needed

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Web Development / Re: 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible a decade later
« on: Today at 02:09:41 AM »
>different, unrelated content now

That's a problem within AMZ now.  A vendor will discontinue a product and substitute another --sometimes similar, but often not related-- product.  I come across this when I go to 'buy again' from past orders.

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Water Cooler / Re: NOAA declares a G5 (extreme) geomagnetic storm
« on: May 18, 2024, 02:36:16 PM »
> keep messing around with G5s

BBC: More Northern Lights soon as Sun storms strengthen

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c163j8551ygo


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Water Cooler / Population: High levels of glyphosate found in more than half of sperm samples
« on: May 18, 2024, 01:31:57 PM »
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/17/glyphosate-weedkiller-sperm

High levels of weedkiller found in more than half of sperm samples, study finds | Herbicides | The Guardian

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014765132400486X

Glyphosate presence in human sperm: First report and positive correlation with oxidative stress in an infertile French population - ScienceDirect


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Monsanto shills program to parry negative online comments
http://th3core.com/talk/marketing/monsanto-shills-program-to-parry-negative-online-comments/msg74205/#msg74205

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Hardware & Technology / Re: How to live your life in text files
« on: May 18, 2024, 01:19:33 PM »
quick read. good summation...

https://sive.rs/plaintext

Write plain text files | Derek Sivers

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Web Development / 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible a decade later
« on: May 18, 2024, 01:14:38 PM »
https://www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/2024/05/17/when-online-content-disappears/

Link Rot and Digital Decay on Government, News and Other Webpages | Pew Research Center

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Water Cooler / US: 100% tariff on electric vehicles
« on: May 18, 2024, 12:44:59 PM »
https://insideevs.com/news/720126/tesla-model-3-tariff-batteries/

Cheapest Tesla Model 3 Will Be Hit By Biden's New EV Tariffs

"other parts of Biden’s anti-China trade agenda will have a more significant and immediate impact on the U.S. EV landscape. Case in point: A higher tariff on EV battery imports"

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Water Cooler / Re: Military Drones Changing the Game
« on: May 17, 2024, 10:39:49 PM »
https://old.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1cu8jen/last_night_ukraine_launched_over_a_hundred_drones/

Last night Ukraine launched over a hundred drones at oil facilities around Russia, this is the port of Novorossiysk

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https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/05/17/ukrainian-drone-attacks-on-russia-kill-2-set-oil-refinery-ablaze-a85144

Ukrainian Drone Attacks on Russia Kill 2, Set Oil Refinery Ablaze - The Moscow Times

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Web Development / Reddit brings back its old award system — ‘we messed up’ - The Verge
« on: May 17, 2024, 02:55:47 PM »
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/17/24158848/reddit-brings-back-award-system-gold-coins-messed-up


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Hardware & Technology / Archie, the Internet’s first search engine, is rescued and running | Ars Tech
« on: May 17, 2024, 02:46:03 PM »
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/archie-the-internets-first-search-engine-is-rescued-and-running/

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Traffic / Re: How to block Google's annoying AI overviews and just get search results
« on: May 17, 2024, 01:17:59 PM »
>lots of steps

Debbie: Dark pattern.

from the Ars Technica article posted:
"The power-user way to use Google Search web now takes a lot of clicks. You'd want to click on "more" and then "Web" for actual web results, and then to get Google to actually pay attention to the words you type in, you'd want to click "Tools" and change "all results" to "verbatim." Alternatively, you could also find a more web-focused search engine instead of Google."

>3. Gov't anti-trust regulation

Somehow, I think this shift is in preparation for the inevitable US anti-trust regulation.  EU has already started tightening the screws on tracking.

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Traffic / Re: The man who killed Google Search?
« on: May 17, 2024, 01:08:27 PM »
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/google-search-adds-web-filter-as-it-pivots-to-ai-focused-search-results/

Google Search adds a “web” filter, because it is no longer focused on web results | Ars Technica

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Traffic / AI-infused search: News publishers sound alarm, warn of ‘catastrophic’ impacts
« on: May 17, 2024, 02:57:46 AM »
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/15/media/google-gemini-ai-search-news-outlet-impact/index.html

Debbie: Yup, another nail in the coffin.


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