AI systems are great at tests. But how do they perform in real life?
AI systems are great at tests. But how do they perform in real life?
Measuring the actual effects of using AI systems is no easy task.The Conversation
Looking back at my transition from Windows to Linux in an anti-customer age
- Hackenews.
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Looking back at my transition from Windows to Linux in an anti-customer age
I am a computer professional that helps the public with technology. I have been troubleshooting computer problems for over 25 years. To find out more about me, visit my home page.Scott Larson
Why are so many musicians removing their music from Spotify?
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- Reddit.
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Besides issues of compensation and streaming monopoly, some musicians don’t want their music to ‘kill people.’
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Come creare un dominio personalizzato collegato al proprio utente su Mastodon (alias)
Mastodon funziona come una federazione di server ed usa il protocollo Webfinger per risolvere gli indirizzi degli utenti. Puoi configurare una pagina sul tuo dominio che risponda alle richieste Webfinger rimandando al tuo indirizzo Mastodon originale. Creerai perciò un alias che potrai usare e far usare su Mastodon.
In poche parole se hai l’utente @pippo ed il tuo dominio è casa.com potrai essere cercato e menzionato su Mastodon anche come @pippo@casa.com .
La teoria è semplice, piazzare un file json di configurazione dentro una cartella con sottocartella sul tuo sito nel tuo dominio.
Siccome io ho una VPS linux-debian con YunoHost e wordpress installato, spiegherò come approciarsi utilizzando questa configurazione.
Prima di tutto bisogna creare un file index.php che contenga il seguente codice:
<?php
$res = @$_GET['resource'];
if ($res != 'acct:UtenteMastodon@MioDominio.com') {
header('HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found');
die();
}
header('Content-Type: application/json');
echo json_encode([
'subject' => 'acct:UtenteMastodon@mastodon.social',
'aliases' => [
'https://snowfan.masto.host/@UtenteMastodono',
'https://snowfan.masto.host/users/UtenteMastodon'
],
'links' => [
[
'rel' => 'http://webfinger.net/rel/profile-page',
'type' => 'text/html',
'href' => 'https://snowfan.masto.host/@UtenteMastodon'
],
[
'rel' => 'self',
'type' => 'application/activity+json',
'href' => 'https://snowfan.masto.host/users/UtenteMastodon'
]
]
]);
?>
Sostituire a snowfan.masto.host il server mastodon desiderato, a MioUtente il nome utente ed a MioDominio il nome del dominio.
Il file lo possiamo creare in locale e trasportarlo alla VPS con ftp, oppure collegarci con SSH e crearlo con nano.
Se siamo collegati con SSH alla VPS, digitare SU seguito dalla password di root. spostiamoci alla cartella di worpress o alla cartella root del dominio che ci interessa, nel caso di worpress dovrebbe essere “/var/www/wordpress” o nel caso di installazioni multiple potremo avere “/var/www/wordpress_2″.
In questa cartella dobbiamo creare una cartella .well-known ed una sottocartella al suo interno webfinger e dentro webfinger posizionare lo script-file index.php.
eseguire da root o tramite sudo il seguente comando:
chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/wordpress/.well-known
Questo comando cambia proprietario e ne permette la gestione ad apache/ngix
Digitare i seguenti comandi controllando che le cartelle siano corrette:
sudo find /var/www/wordpress/.well-known -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
sudo find /var/www/wordpress/.well-known -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
Questi comandi danno i corretti permessi alle cartelle ed al file.
A questo punto non ci rimane che testare che funzioni tutto, dal nostro browser preferito immettere questo url debitamente corretto col dominio giusto:
miodominio.com/.well-known/web…
Se tutto funziona dovremmo vedere a video uno script json.
Il passaggio successivo è andare su mastodon e digitare nel box di ricerca: @UtenteMastodon@MioDominio.com se anche questo passaggio funziona abbiamo fatto tutto correttamente. Se riceviamo una pagina 404 ci potrebbe essere un problema nello script che va verificato.
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Building ultra cheap energy storage for solar PV
Building Ultra Cheap Energy Storage for Solar PV
Solar still needs storage cheap enough to move energy between seasons. I have been working on a startup to do this for the last two years.Austin Vernon (Austin Vernon's Substack)
MotoGP Ungheria 2025: vince sempre Marquez, la noia domina.
Il Gran Premio d’Ungheria 2025 ha visto per l’ennesima volta il dominio di Marc Marquez, che al Balaton Park ha conquistato la sua 14ª vittoria consecutiva, firmando la sesta doppietta stagionale tra Sprint e gara lunga. Sul podio, insieme al pilota della Ducati Lenovo, sono saliti Pedro Acosta con la KTM e Marco Bezzecchi con l’Aprilia, regalando tre marchi diversi nelle prime tre posizioni.
quotidianomotori.com/motogp/mo…
MotoGP Ungheria 2025: i risultati e l’ordine di arrivo della gara - Quotidiano Motori
Risultati MotoGP Ungheria 2025: ecco l’ordine di arrivo della gara al Balaton Park con tempi, distacchi e sorpassi decisivi.Mario Roth (Quotidiano Motori)
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Keanu Reeves racconta la nascita del Cadillac Formula 1 Team
Dopo il successo della docuserie premiata con un Emmy, Brawn: The Impossible Formula 1 Story, Keanu Reeves torna con un nuovo progetto. L’attore e produttore sarà la voce narrante della serie che documenta la nascita e il debutto del Cadillac Formula 1 Team, il nuovo progetto americano targato TWG Motorsports e General Motors.
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Keanu Reeves racconta la nascita del Cadillac Formula 1 Team - Quotidiano Motori
Keanu Reeves è il protagonista della docuserie sul debutto del Cadillac Formula 1 Team a Melbourne che avverrà nel 2026.Caterina Di Iorgi (Quotidiano Motori)
Comet AI browser can get prompt injected from any site, drain your bank account
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36251461
::: spoiler Comments
- Hackernews.
:::Source: zack_overflow on X/Twitter.
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Comet AI browser can get prompt injected from any site, drain your bank account
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Source: zack_overflow on X/Twitter.
"Scamlexity": When Agentic AI Browsers Get Scammed
We Put Agentic AI Browsers to the Test - They Clicked, They Paid, They FailedGuardio Research Team (Guardio)
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MotoGP Ungheria 2025: risultati e ordine di arrivo della Gara Sprint al Balaton Park
La MotoGP ha fatto il suo debutto assoluto in Ungheria sul nuovo circuito del Balaton Park, con la prima gara Sprint della storia del GP ungherese. Una prova spettacolare, segnata da incidenti al primo giro e da un dominio incontrastato di Marc Marquez, al suo tredicesimo successo consecutivo.
quotidianomotori.com/motogp/mo…
MotoGP Ungheria 2025: i risultati della Gara Sprint - Quotidiano Motori
MotoGP Ungheria 2025: risultati e ordine di arrivo della Gara Sprint al Balaton Park. Distacchi, protagonisti e cronaca della corsa.Mario Roth (Quotidiano Motori)
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Chinese women exploited in Telegram voyeur rooms urge authorities to act
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36242572
Cooking at home vs eating out vs delivery: what’s your situation?
My boyfriend (20) and I (18) have been living together for 2 years in an urban apartment. For us, it usually goes like this:
- Delivery
- Eating out
- Cooking at home
We visit our parents (and they visit us) often, and they give us lots of home-cooked food. We mostly cook at home just for fun.
I’m curious what it’s like for other people, especially in different age groups or family setups!
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Twitch launches anti-bot crackdown and viewership numbers plummet across the platform overnight: Turns out 50% of the audience was just robots pretending to enjoy hot tub streams.
- Twitch's new anti-bot system caused viewer counts to nosedive across hundreds of channels, with some losing over half their displayed audience.
- Channels running 24/7 reruns saw the biggest drops, with Mira falling from 2,000+ to under 200 viewers overnight.
- The cleanup affects sponsorship deals and ad rates since brands have been paying premium prices for audiences that were partially fake.
Twitch launches anti-bot crackdown and viewership numbers plummet across the platform overnight
Twitch's anti-bot enforcement led to sharp drops in displayed viewership across many channels. The shift raises implications for rankings, ads, and sponsors.Riley Fox (Spilled)
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Kick streamer Raja Jackson brutally attacks wrestler during live show
- Raja Jackson attacked an unconscious wrestler with 20+ real punches after being fake-hit with a beer can during a wrestling show.
- The victim was reported as "barely breathing" and requiring emergency medical attention after the assault.
- Kick immediately terminated Jackson's channel and removed all footage of the attack.
Kick streamer Raja Jackson brutally attacks wrestler during live show
Raja Jackson attacked a wrestler during a live Kick stream, leaving the performer unconscious. His channel was terminated as police have yet to announce charges.Riley Fox (Spilled)
Kick streamer Raja Jackson brutally attacks wrestler during live show
- Raja Jackson attacked an unconscious wrestler with 20+ real punches after being fake-hit with a beer can during a wrestling show.
- The victim was reported as "barely breathing" and requiring emergency medical attention after the assault.
- Kick immediately terminated Jackson's channel and removed all footage of the attack.
Kick streamer Raja Jackson brutally attacks wrestler during live show
Raja Jackson attacked a wrestler during a live Kick stream, leaving the performer unconscious. His channel was terminated as police have yet to announce charges.Riley Fox (Spilled)
Kick streamer Raja Jackson brutally attacks wrestler during live show
- Raja Jackson attacked an unconscious wrestler with 20+ real punches after being fake-hit with a beer can during a wrestling show.
- The victim was reported as "barely breathing" and requiring emergency medical attention after the assault.
- Kick immediately terminated Jackson's channel and removed all footage of the attack.
Kick streamer Raja Jackson brutally attacks wrestler during live show
Raja Jackson attacked a wrestler during a live Kick stream, leaving the performer unconscious. His channel was terminated as police have yet to announce charges.Riley Fox (Spilled)
Writing with LLM is not a shame.
- Hackernews.
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Writing with LLM is not a shame. An essay about transparency on AI use.
Do we have to disclaim how we use AI ?reflexions
How to run LLMs on PC at home using Llama.cpp
Tinker with LLMs in the privacy of your own home using Llama.cpp
Hands on: Everything you need to know to build, run, serve, optimize and quantize models on your PCTobias Mann (The Register)
Chinese women exploited in Telegram voyeur rooms urge authorities to act
Chinese women exploited in Telegram voyeur rooms urge authorities to act
A stranger alerted Ms. D to an online chatroom where her private images were being shared. Now she and other angry Chinese women are pushing officials to punish the offenders.Yuxuan Jiang (CNN)
Elon Musk says xAI has open sourced Grok 2.5 model weights; Will Open Source Grok 3 model weights in 6 months.
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- Hackernews.
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xai-org/grok-2 · Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.huggingface.co
Trump administration halts work on an almost-finished wind farm
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- Hackernews.
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The Trump administration has ordered companies to stop construction of a wind farm that's being built off the coast of Rhode Island.
A German ISP tampered with their DNS - specifically to sabotage my website
- Lobsters;
- Hackernews.
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A German ISP tampered with their DNS - specifically to sabotage my website
One of Germany's biggest ISPs changed how their DNS works, right after I exposed an organization that they’re part of.lina.sh
how to build a coding agent
- Hackernews.
:::
how to build a coding agent: free workshop
😎The following was developed last month and has already been delivered at two conferences. If you would like for me to run a workshop similar to this at your employer, please get in contact.Geoffrey Huntley
Tiny reactor boosts fusion with a sponge-like trick
Researchers use electrochemistry to boost nuclear fusion rates
Using a small bench-top reactor, researchers at the UBC have demonstrated that electrochemically loading a solid metal target can boost nuclear fusion rates.UBC Science
Researchers use AI to turn park reviews into science
Researchers use AI to turn park reviews into science
New study reveals secret to the parks people lovenews.ufl.edu
Soft skin, sharp senses: New robotic ‘touch’ sees danger before it hits
Soft skin, sharp senses: New robotic ‘touch’ sees danger before it hits
Soft robots need advanced sensing to safely interact with humans, but combining multiple sensors in soft materials is difficult.EurekAlert!
Mastodon är i motsats tilll Bluesky ett socialt medium som kontrolleras av användarna. Det är decentraliserat och federerat vilket betyder att det finns många servrar (som kallas instanser) som kör programvaran Mastodon.
OpenMower: Let's upgrade cheap off-the-shelf robotic mowers to modern, smart RTK GPS based lawn mowing robots!
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36230046
YouTube Video.
Let's be honest: The current generation of robotic lawn mowers sucks. Basically all of these bots drive in a random direction until they hit the border of the lawn, rotate for a randomized duration and repeat. I think we can do better!Therefore, we have disassembled the cheapest off-the-shelf robotic mower we could find (YardForce Classic 500) and were surprised that the hardware itself is actually quite decent:
- Geared sensored brushless motors for the wheels
- A sensored brushless motor for the mower motor itself
- The whole construction seems robust, waterproof and all in all thought through
- All components are connected using standard connectors, therefore upgrading the hardware is easily possible.The bottom line is: The bot itself is surprisingly high quality and doesn't need to be changed at all. We just need some better software in there.
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Le thème proposé pour le cercle de parole est : "Être à l'écoute de soi-même et des autres" Et chacun est libre de s'exprimer sur ce qu'iel souhaite 🌸
📅 Dimanche 31 août de 9:00 à 10:00
Pour calculer votre heure locale, cliquez sur ce lien : xrb.link/E74VPL1A93J
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🧘♀️🧘🏼♂️🧘🏾♀️ Parce que l'activisme est un engagement externe ET une transformation intérieure, c’est dans un esprit de compassion et d’approfondissement de la connaissance de soi que nous prétendons évoluer et communiquer les un‧es avec les autres.
clanker youtubici rompono la quiete in modo sempre più metallico
È semplicemente da non credere che sono ormai anni e anni (e ho perso il conto di quanti) che su YouTube c’è il problema degli spammer e, anziché migliorare peggiora sempre di più! #YouTube è un’impresa che si regge interamente su un datamining inquantificabilmente grosso — per i video consigliati, per controllare che i video […]
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in reply to Pro • • •It’s going to be plagiarism so yes, it is.
I’ve asked Copilot at work for word help. I’ll ask out something like, what’s a good word that sounds more professional than some other word? And it’ll give me a few choices and I’ll pick one. But that’s about it.
They’re useful, but I won’t let them do my work for me, or give them anything they can use (we have a corporate policy against that, and yet IT leaves Copilot installed/doesn’t switch to something like Linux).
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in reply to morphballganon • • •That's true. Where I was, I didn't have access to a physical one, but could have Googled it. Google often sources Dictionary.com which includes a thesaurus, but also gives AI answers.
That said, the AI gives several choices, so it's not choosing anything. Still, point taken.