The Consumer Safety Technology Act– what could this mean for the private sector?
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MKBHD's Panels wallpaper app is shutting down
Panels is shutting down
Panels will shut down on December 31, 2025. Thank you for being part of the journey.panels.art
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‘The new price of eggs.’ The political shocks of data centers and electric bills
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Can't really help you. I got through to the article, but the page doesn't archive well and copying text on mobile is a pain.
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The political shocks of data centers and electric bills
Across the country, Democrats have seized on rising anxiety over electricity costs and data centers in what could be a template for the 2026 midterm elections.The Boston Globe
Netflix kills casting from phones
Casting support is still available on older Chromecast devices or TVs that support Google Cast natively, according to Netflix’s support page
Netflix kills casting from phones
Netflix has removed the ability to cast shows and movies from phones to TVs, unless subscribers are using older casting devices.Jess Weatherbed (The Verge)
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But yea, complain about ads, price and casting as you keep paying them.
MKBHD's Panels wallpaper app is shutting down
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MKBHD is shutting down the Panels app at the end of this month, citing issues with finding the right development team fit.
You can no longer buy collections, and you must download existing wallpapers before the app is removed.
Users will receive automatic pro-rated refunds for active subscriptions, and the app code is promised to be open-sourced after shutdown.
MKBHD's Panels wallpaper app is shutting down, here's what's next
MKBHD is shutting down the Panels app this week. Users will get automatic refunds, and there are plans to open-source the code. Read on!Aamir Siddiqui (Android Authority)
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Users will receive automatic pro-rated refunds for active subscriptions, and the app code is promised to be open-sourced after shutdown.
That's the correct way to wind down a cloud based subscription app.
Not that I'm in favor of the entire business model of cloud based subscription apps, but at least Marques is ending this one the right way.
‘Refusers brought us a ceasefire, now we are in new critical phase’
Didi here. As a refuser and the head of Refuser Solidarity Network, I'm writing to you at a fragile moment. News shifts by the hour: one headline declares a "ceasefire," the next warns of the "reoccupation" of Gaza. Amid the confusion, one truth remains clear: the only force that has ever stopped Israel's wars of annihilation is the people who refuse to fight them.This ceasefire was not granted by the government or diplomacy. It was forced into being by resistance: by global outrage, by organizing, and by soldiers who said no. Refusers slowed mobilization, broke ranks, and disrupted the machinery of war.
Now those same refusers face a new challenge as Israel prepares to reoccupy Gaza under the guise of peace. That is why we are turning to you today. RSN is launching its end-of-year campaign to grow this movement with the momentum of the ceasefire. Netanyahu is betting on silence, on the world's attention fading so he can deepen control. But we are still here. The struggle did not end but changed phase.
That is why we need you today. We plan to continue training organizers, support refusers, and build the movement that can stop this. Help us today to reach our end-of-year goal of $50,000 so that we can continue to support refuser groups, build up their infrastructure, and expand our movement.
In recent weeks, Israeli officials have begun sketching plans for a long-term reoccupation of Gaza. New military zones have been mapped across the Strip, separating the west from the east. Armed checkpoints and "buffer areas" are expanding even though they are supposed to be temporary, effectively carving Gaza into controlled enclaves. Displaced Palestinians remain barred from returning home. The Israeli government doesn't even pretend this is temporary while it entrenches itself in the Gaza Strip. This is a new phase of domination that is poised to expand. We need a strong resistance movement to stop it.
At RSN, we know refusal works. It worked during the Intifada, it worked during this war, and it will work now. Our mission is to make refusal widespread, organized, and impossible to ignore. We support the networks that make it happen: from reservist groups to grassroots activists.
Together, we are building the most powerful resistance Israel has ever known, a movement that grows stronger each time someone says enough. But refusal demands resources. It needs us. Because the truth is, the ceasefire is fragile, the fire has not ceased, and the occupation is not over. Yet we have an opportunity to end the Israeli occupation, but it can happen only with real resistance.
But resistance will continue to grow, despite the ceasefire, and in spite of Israel's plans. Support the movement that makes it possible and contribute to our campaign today. Your donations will provide crucial support in this critical phase. It will allow us to expand our work by building refuser groups' organizational capacity, mentoring, media consultation and mental health support.
In solidarity,
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(Taken from an email sent to me by the Refuser Solidarity Network. Emphasis original.)
Refuser Solidarity Network's End-of-Year Campaign
For over 20 years we at Refuser Solidarity Network, have supported Israeli refusers and war resisters. We launched this campaign in response to the increasing needs of activists on the ground.app.moonclerk.com
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It was forced into being by resistance: by global outrage, by organizing, and by soldiers who said no.
I'm not sure how to put this politely because all the effort by the above groups and what they risk in doing so but... no.
It was forced by Hamas, the resistance fighters and the palestinians under siege of torture and death.
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Israel offers disgusting excuse for murdering children
Israel violated the ceasefire again, this time killing an 8-year-old and an 11-year-old — claiming it's their fault we've killed them
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Police are feeding passport photo data into facial recognition databases
Big Brother Watch have warned that this facial recognition drive "affects everyone with a passport" — threatening rights and civil liberties
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Switzerland no longer wants American cloud in the public sector
The Swiss privacy regulator Privatim has taken steps to ban Microsoft, Amazon, and Google’s American cloud services for government agencies. Data storage within Switzerland offers no protection against American laws, Privatim argues.
Switzerland no longer wants American cloud in the public sector - Techzine Global
Zurich bans American cloud services for government. Data storage in Switzerland offers no protection against the CLOUD Act.Berry Zwets (Techzine)
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Exclusive: jury in anti-genocide activist 'terrorism' trial 'told to ignore international law'
Former MP Chris Williamson spoke exclusively to Skwawkbox and the Canary, revealing the instructions given to the jury
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Youth Equality Coalition: fuck yer flags, fund our future
Youth Equality Coalition are a breath of fucking fresh air, and they're showing squabbling leftists exactly how it's done
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Kyodo News protests unauthorized use of articles by Perplexity
Kyodo News on Monday sent a letter of protest to Perplexity AI Inc., accusing the U.S. startup of using its articles without permission to provide online responses generated by artificial intelligence for its web search engine and infringing the Japanese news agency's copyright.Kyodo said in the letter that Perplexity must immediately stop using its articles published on the website 47 News, which features articles created by Kyodo and its member newspapers, and compensate for damages resulting from the unauthorized use of Kyodo's distributed articles, among other demands.
Kyodo News protests unauthorized use of articles by U.S. startup
Kyodo News on Monday sent a letter of protest to Perplexity AI Inc., accusing the U.S. startup of using its articles without permission to provide online responses generated by artificial intelligence for its web search engine and infringing the Japa…KYODO NEWS (Japan Wire by KYODO NEWS)
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My totally local, DIY alternative to Pocket and Instapaper
TL;DR
I setup a local workflow that allows me to turn a webpage to an epub on my android phone and send it to my Kobo
Introduction
Since Mozilla killed Pocket, i have been looking for an alternative that didn't depend on decisions from any tech company, but only on myself.
I used the Pocket feature quite a lot, and, even if I appreciated the effort from Kobo to replace it with Instapaper, I didn't want to depend on someone else for something as simple as reading an article later on my eink device.
I considered Wallabag and Readeck, but, for both I had to depend on someone else server, or I had to self-host, and I didn't want to deal with the complexity.
I wanted an approach where I was in control, so all the steps needed to be based on FOSS software that I could at least understand.
The basic idea
I thought that what I needed is a 2 step approach, and I could solve both of them
- Turn a webpage into an epub
- Send the epub to my kobo
The explanation below is long, but, especuially following step 1-a and step 2-a is fairly easy and doesn't involve any modification or coding
Step 1: Turn a webpage into an epub
In the long search to do this I ended up finding 2 apporaches, on available "off the shelf" and one that involved much more coding.
Step 1-a: einkbro
i found out that there is a fantastic FOSS browser, EinkBro, that is designed for eink screen devices, but works very well for any Android device. It is slick, fast, configurable and well designed. It implements the readibility library from mozilla, which is great, and, more than anything else, can directly export webpages as epub files. You can configure the toolbar so that the "export to epub" icon is directly visible. The exported epub is nice, looks like the "readibility" version of the webpage (probably because it is...).
So, when I want to save a article I share it from my browesr to einkbro, and, from there, I export it to epub.
Step 1-b: Termux + readiblity scrape + pandoc
For this one I went all-in the rabbit hole of total control... Or maybe I could have done worse.
Anyway, here are the components:
- Termux: a terminal emulator for android, that allows you to do almost whatev you can do in a terminal emulator on a full blown Linux machine
- Readability scrape is a command line tool that scrpaes an url and returns a simplified version of it, using the readability library from Mozilla (as in the read-mode from Firefox)
- Pandoc is a command line tool that can convert documentation from one format to another, like, in our case, html to epub
I won't go into the details , of how to install what. In case, just ask.
I setup termux so that, if i share a webpage to termux via Andorid share menu, it triggers the following script ~/bin/termux-url-opener (see this webpage to understand how termux handles shared URLs):
termux-toast "termux received $1" # toast message to war that the url was received
termux-chroot "~/scripts/webpage_to_epub.sh" $1 note: for some reasons pandoc works as intended only if executed in chroot, so that's why the follwing script is launched as from the command
termux-chroot in the snippet abovewebpage_to_epub.sh
\#!/bin/bash
# final desitnation of epub file
FINAL_DIR="~/storage/shared/Documents/epub_articles/"
# Check if the URL argument is provided
if [ "$#" -ne 1 ]; then
echo "Usage: $0 <URL>"
exit 1
fi
URL="$1"
JSON_OUTPUT=$(readability-scrape --json "$URL")
# Check if the readability command was successful
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
echo "Error: Failed to scrape URL."
exit 1
else
echo "readibility scrape: SUCCESS!!"
fi
# Extract title and content using jq
TITLE=$(echo "$JSON_OUTPUT" | jq -r '.title')
CONTENT=$(echo "$JSON_OUTPUT" | jq -r '.content')
AUTHOR=$(echo "$JSON_OUTPUT" | jq -r '.byline')
CONTENT_LENGTH=$(echo "$JSON_OUTPUT" | jq -r '.length') # Length in characters
# Calculate reading times based on character length
# Convert characters to words (approximate)
WORDS=$(($CONTENT_LENGTH / 5))
# Calculate reading times based on two speeds (200 and 300 words per minute)
READING_TIME_LOW=$(($WORDS / 300)) # For 300 wpm
READING_TIME_HIGH=$(($WORDS / 200)) # For 200 wpm
# Format the output for reading time
if [ "$READING_TIME_LOW" -eq "$READING_TIME_HIGH" ]; then
READING_TIME="${READING_TIME_LOW} minutes"
else
READING_TIME="${READING_TIME_LOW} - ${READING_TIME_HIGH} minutes"
fi
# Output the estimated reading time
echo "Estimated reading time: $READING_TIME"
# Format the current date in ISO format (YYYY-MM-DD)
CURRENT_DATE=$(date +"%Y-%m-%d")
# Remove accent characters and sanitize the title to create a valid filename
SANITIZED_TITLE=$(echo "$TITLE" | iconv -f UTF-8 -t ASCII//TRANSLIT | tr -cd '[:alnum:]_ ') # Convert to ASCII and keep alphanumeric characters
SANITIZED_TITLE="${SANITIZED_TITLE// /_}" # Replace spaces with underscores
# Create the final filename with date prefix
EPUB_FILE="${CURRENT_DATE}_${SANITIZED_TITLE}.epub"
# Create a temporary HTML file
HTML_FILE=$(mktemp /tmp/readability_output.XXXXXX.html)
# Write the complete HTML output
cat <<EOT > "$HTML_FILE"
<html>
<head>
<title>$TITLE</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>$TITLE</h1>
<div>
$READING_TIME | <a href="$URL">original link</a>
</div>
<hr />
$CONTENT
</body>
</html>
EOT
# Create a temporary title file for metadata
TITLE_FILE=$(mktemp /tmp/title.XXXXXXXXX.txt)
# Write the Pandoc YAML metadata block
cat <<EOT > "$TITLE_FILE"
---
title: "$TITLE"
author: "$AUTHOR"
EOT
# Convert the HTML file to EPUB including the metadata
\#pandoc "$TITLE_FILE" "$HTML_FILE" -o "$EPUB_FILE"
pandoc "$HTML_FILE" -o "$EPUB_FILE"
# Check if pandoc command was successful
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
echo "EPUB generated: $EPUB_FILE"
mv "$EPUB_FILE" ~/storage/shared/Documents/epub_articles
else
echo "Error: Failed to generate EPUB."
fi
# Clean up temporary file
rm "$HTML_FILE"
read -p "Press [Enter] key to continue..."I spent time to craft the script to produce an output that I like, but, honestly, it's not better than the one produced by einkbro in Step1-a. The advantage with the termux script is that it is a one click process. I share the link to termux, and the script generates the epub and saves to a folder that is setup in the next step to do the uplaod automatically
Step 2: send the epub to my kobo
Again also for step 2 i found 2 alternatives, one more "manual" and direct, and the second more automatic
Step 2-a: share to http
For this I use a simple app, share via http: I share the epub file via android share menu to this app. The app generates a mini web server at my local IP address (on the wifi, that can also be the one from android hotspot). I then use the kobo browser to the local address. The browser asks if you want to download the file. Once downloaded the file is added to the kobo ebooks.
By using Nickelmenu I added a shortcut to the kobomenu to start the browser, to make things faster.
This is the simplest solution, everything work locally, no third party involved
Step 2-b
As an alternative I setup a nextcloud sync.
- On android I setup the folder where I save epubs as "automatic upload", so epub files are uploaded to a folder on my nextcloud as soon as I asve them
- On kobo I setup nexcloud syncronization. There is more than one alternative, I used this one. Whenever I connect my kobo to wifi, the new epubs are downloaded to my kobo and added to the library.
The only downside is that to delete an article, I have to delete form the nexcloud foder; if I delete it from my kobo, it gets re-added as soon as I connect the wifi
Conclusions
Maybe this looks too complex, but I learned a lot of stuff and had fun in the process. i find that pandoc is probably a bit too much for what it is needed here, in the end the epub content is a bundle of html and images, probably there is a better and slicker way to package them. If you have any suggestion to improve the workflow it is welcome 😀
What do you use these days?
GitHub - plateaukao/einkbro: A small, fast web browser based on Android WebView. It's tailored for E-Ink devices but also works great on normal android devices.
A small, fast web browser based on Android WebView. It's tailored for E-Ink devices but also works great on normal android devices. - plateaukao/einkbroGitHub
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Aid cuts have shaken HIV/Aids care to its core – and will mean millions more infections ahead
Reports highlight devastating impact of slashed funding, especially in parts of Africa, that could lead to 3.3m new HIV infections by 2030
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Most Grounded A320s Back in Service After Airbus Issues Rapid Software Fixes
Most of the Airbus A320 aircraft temporarily grounded worldwide have returned to service after Airbus completed urgent software updates addressing a flight-control computer vulnerability flagged by European regulators.
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Police Swarm KLM Boeing 777 In Atlanta After Passenger Triggers Emergency Slide
The passenger was arrested after ranting about a gun and opening an emergency door.
Two people killed in helicopter crash near Rzeszow, Poland
Two people were killed on Saturday when a Robinson R44 Clipper II helicopter (reg. F-HEAT) crashed near the village of Malawa, close to Rzeszów in southeastern Poland, according to the state fire service.
Community mourns pilot killed in mid-air collision over southwest Sydney
Tributes are pouring in for a pilot who died after two light aircraft collided mid-air over southwest Sydney on Sunday, leaving one plane destroyed (a Van’s RV-7 registered VH-EWS) in nearby bushland while the other (another Van’s RV-7 registered VH-NMG) managed a safe landing. The pilots were part of four aircraft of the Freedom Formation Display Team.
Delta regional jet slides off runway in Des Moines, forcing overnight airport closure
A Delta Connection flight arriving in Des Moines slid off the runway Saturday night amid blowing snow and icy conditions, prompting the temporary closure of Des Moines International Airport and the cancellation of multiple flights.
Vilnius Airport shut again after suspected smuggling balloons enter airspace
Lithuania’s main airport was forced to halt operations once more on Sunday after suspected contraband-carrying balloons were detected in its airspace, marking at least the tenth closure at Vilnius Airport since early October.
Several suspects detained after smuggler balloons disrupt flights at Vilnius Airport
Ten of the 25 weather balloons that flew into Lithuania from Belarus over the weekend and disrupted flights at Vilnius Airport have been found and a number of suspected smugglers have been detained, an official said on Monday morning.LRT.lt (lrt.lt)
Russian Drone Incursions Lead To Moldova Airspace Shutdown
Russia has continued to violate Moldovan airspace.
Delta Airbus A350 Makes Emergency Landing In Tokyo After Hydraulic Problems
A sudden hydraulic issue forces an unexpected landing in Tokyo.
del works on directories? I'm going by very old memories here
Uh... kinda? Powershell has many POSIX aliases to cmdlets (equivalent to shell built-ins) of allegedly the same functionality. rmdir and rm are both aliases of Remove-Item, ls is Get-ChildItem, cd is Set-Location, cat is Get-Content, and so on.
Of particular note is curl. Windows supplies the real CURL executable (System32/curl.exe), but in a Powershell 5 session, which is still the default on Windows 11 25H2, the curl alias shadows it. curl is an alias of the Invoke-WebRequest cmdlet, which is functionally a headless front-end for Internet Explorer unless the -UseBasicParsing switch is specified. But since IE is dead, if -UseBasicParsing is not specified, the cmdlet will always throw an error. Fucking genius, Microsoft.
Micron plans $9.6 billion HBM fab in Japan as AI memory race accelerates
U.S. chipmaker set to expand Hiroshima site with heavy support from Tokyo.
Virginia Democrat flips seat in state legislature by taking on datacenters
John McAuliff won against a Republican by focusing on something affecting all his constituents: the cost of energy
Chinese vendor showcases first mass-produced Imagination DXD GPU with ray tracing — sports modern features like super resolution, too
The company claims to have doubled rendering performance and had demos running at ICCAD 2025.
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Data centers in Oregon might be helping to drive an increase in cancer and miscarriages
Amazon data centers might be adding to a public health crisis in Morrow County, Oregon.
Linux 6.18 kernel lands with Asus ROG Ally and Lenovo Legion Go 2 fixes
Linux Torvalds has released the last kernel update for the year. The merge window for Linux 6.19 is now open, but it's expecting some delays.
https://www.neowin.net/news/linux-618-kernel-lands-with-asus-rog-ally-and-lenovo-legion-go-2-fixes/
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Most Grounded A320s Back in Service After Airbus Issues Rapid Software Fixes
Most of the Airbus A320 aircraft temporarily grounded worldwide have returned to service after Airbus completed urgent software updates addressing a flight-control computer vulnerability flagged by European regulators.
Most Grounded A320s Back in Service After Airbus Issues Rapid Software Fixes
Aviation News – Most of the Airbus A320 aircraft temporarily grounded worldwide have returned to service after Airbus completed urgent software updates addressing a flight-control computer vulnera…aviationnews.eu
Revisiting Jill of the Jungle, the last game Tim Sweeney designed
DOS platformers didn’t have a reputation for being fun, but this one is a blast.
SmartTube has been comprised
Release Important Announcement · yuliskov/SmartTube
Important Announcement Friends, it seems that my digital signature has been exposed. This signature protects the app from fake and malicious updates, so there is a risk that someone may try to rele...GitHub
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The app id is being changed, so there is no way to push new updates with that signature anymore. Hence the need to re-install the app.
Also it looks like the developer is adding VirusTotal scan workflow for all new releases moving forward.
That said, I'm not familiar with the developer or the situation enough to comfortably say it's safe.
fix backups on api 30+ and app id change · yuliskov/SmartTube@a78a301
Browse media content with your own rules on Android TV - fix backups on api 30+ and app id change · yuliskov/SmartTube@a78a301GitHub
[Announcement] The Last of the Druids Livestream Twitch Drops
Watch The Last of the Druids live reveal at www.twitch.tv/pathofexile on Thursday, December 4th (PST) and you'll be able to earn the Verdant Wilds Dodge Roll Effect with Twitch Drops!
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Start Time: December 4th 11:00 AM PST
End Time: December 5th 11:00 AM PST
You will get the Verdant Wilds Dodge Roll Effect after 45 minutes of accumulated watch time on any channel with drops enabled streaming Path of Exile 2 during the event. This means that the drop is guaranteed for everyone who has watched any Path of Exile stream for this amount of time. This promotion is available for all accounts.
If you're planning to stream Path of Exile 2 during our livestream and want to enable Twitch Drops for your viewers, you can do it via your Twitch Creator Dashboard here.
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Visit your Twitch Settings page while logged in. If your account isn't connected, click the "Connect" button for Twitch under "Other Connections". Complete the process on Twitch and you will be redirected back to your Twitch Settings page. If your account is already connected, this page should say "Your Path of Exile account is currently linked to your Twitch account."
After you've accumulated enough watch time to earn your Verdant Wilds Dodge Roll Effect, you must redeem it from your Twitch Inventory before the promotional period ends. Then it will be immediately available in your microtransactions list in Path of Exile 2 and will later be made available as a Quicksilver Flask effect in Path of Exile. The Verdant Wilds Dodge Roll Effect will be available for purchase from the store at a later date.
We can't wait to share the details of The Last of the Druids with you! To stay up to date in the lead up to the livestream be sure to check out our Twitter, Facebook and Forums. We'll see you at GGG Live at www.twitch.tv/pathofexile!
Early Access Announcements - The Last of the Druids Livestream Twitch Drops - Forum - Path of Exile
Path of Exile is a free online-only action RPG under development by Grinding Gear Games in New Zealand.Path of Exile
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Advent Calendar
Zen Mischief Photographs
This year for our Advent Calendar we have a selection of my photographs from recent years. They may not be technically the best, or the most recent, but they’re ones which, for various reasons, I rather like.
© Keith C Marshall, 2014
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John Lee Hooker — The Healer (1989)
“L’album blues più venduto in assoluto per uno dei più grandi bluesman ancor oggi in circolazione”, recitava la pubblicità del disco a fine anni novanta, poco prima della morte avvenuta nel 2001 a ottantaquattro anni... Leggi e ascolta...
John Lee Hooker — The Healer (1989)
“L’album blues più venduto in assoluto per uno dei più grandi bluesman ancor oggi in circolazione”, recitava la pubblicità del disco a fine anni novanta, poco prima della morte avvenuta nel 2001 a ottantaquattro anni. Il termine “blues” è probabilmente più abusato che usato in questo disco che, sinceramente ho ascoltato fino alla nausea, per la sua immediatezza, per la sua ascoltabilità ma non certamente per la sua sonorità marcatamente blues. Con questo disco, la chitarra più corteggiata del rock insieme a Muddy Waters e anche l’unico a uscire e te... silvanobottaro.it/archives/373…
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[Research] At least 80 million inconsistent facts on Wikipedia – can AI help find them?
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I watch a YT channel that talks and researches History on Wales, and on that somewhat narrow topic alone, he has found some ridiculous mistakes on Wikipedia. There are tons but few people are aware as they may lack the suffiency in knowledge or background to know how wrong they are. AI will surely make that problem worse. I have caught ChatGTP to be wrong numerous times on some topics within my wheelhouse. When I tell it is wrong it "apologizes," corrects itself and just adds what I told it. Well, if it had found the data before, then why does it have to wait until it is corrected? If kids use this for school, they are so fucked.
Who wants to put glue on their pizza?
Finding inconsistencies is not so hard. Pointing them out might be a -little- useful. But resolving them based on trustworthy sources can be a -lot- harder. Most science papers require privileged access. Many news stories may have been grounded in old, mistaken histories ... if not on outright guesses, distortions or even lies. (The older the history, the worse.)
And, since LLMs are usually incapable of citing sources for their own (often batshit) claims any -- where will 'the right answers' come from? I've seen LLMs, when questioned again, apologize that their previous answers were wrong.
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in reply to unitymatters • • •Can't seem to find the actual article, so I'll just engage with this small paragraph here.
Capitalism needs to be regulated (or better yet, replaced). Given that the US is currently experiencing the effects of unfettered capitalism (fascism, bribery, oligarchy, price gouging, monopolization, market collusion, just to name a few), I'm for more oversight.
However, the current administration and current Congress are both generally disinterested in actual regulation and, in my opinion, unqualified to implement something like AI-powered guardrails. It's just the whole "blockchain everywhere" debacle all over again.
Furthermore, who would develop and maintain such a system? There would almost certainly be bids from the usual suspects (i.e. billionaires) who would "definitely develop it in good faith, trust me bro." They definitely wouldn't use that kind of access to hamstring the bot that's supposed to be regulating them. /s
Rather than just putting a bot in charge, how about we just make the wealthy pay their fair share? How about strong legislation that prevents fraudulent transactions and mergers? How about meaningful punishments that deter bad actors, rather than slaps on the wrist that are just "the cost of doing business?"
We don't need robots and software, we need sensible legislation.