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Viruses are known as notorious killers, but to some organisms, they’re a tasty snack. This virus-eating could have a meaningful effect on how nutrients and energy flow through ecosystems. https://www.quantamagazine.org/with-nothing-to-eat-except-viruses-some-microbes-thrive-20230221/

Just build websites.

Another day, another miracle:

Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have discovered an entire new class of synthetic antibiotics - these compounds do not invoke bacterial resistance! If proven, is absolutely some of the most important medical work of our time.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/ebiom/article/PIIS2352-3964(23)00026-9/fulltext#%20

The skies are epic here.

#photography #cassonephoto #landscapephotography #tennessee

Drivers and PRIME Profiles are now placed inside GNOME Settings!

This means that you will no longer find them in the Vanilla Control Center.

A recent toot by @L_howes (I am unable to quote-toot) did let me rethink how important it is when using pure ML/AI protocols (particular generative ones) to always remember that they are intriguingly build on correlation only. Causation comes with the builder or user.
Thus generative AI like #ChatBotGPT does not do science, it mimics it. It does not create art, it copies and mimics it. And when we claim a language model makes things up, it really only does what it is trained for

Here's a first... I just got an email because ChatGPT suggested an article I wrote to somebody. Could I send them a copy? Except, I never wrote the article, it doesn't exist. PLEASE realize right now that this tool isn't pulling out cool references for you. It's making plausible titles and matching them to authors names.

Copyleft is copyright. Moreover, it's the progressive brunch of copyright development.

#copyleft #copyright

::: FALKON

Looking for a new alternative for a web browser?

Falkon is a Qt-based lightweight one - kicking ahead in development.

Falkon has grown to be feature-rich - how much so in your opinion - why not give it a spin?

Please report all the bugs possibly encountered to forward this browser by KDE 🙏

=> https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.kde.falkon

#Falkon #browsers #KDE #QtWebEngine #Qt #Linux #web #Qupzilla #OpenSource #FreeSoftware

My problem with that “Bing told me it loves me” article is that the author waited until the last paragraphs to explain why, leading to misunderstanding about what’s messed up about it. (tldr: by mentioning jungian psychology and dark fantasies he primed the statistical model to cobble together dark, existential, and manipulative strings of words)

There is no concern that Bing is secretly alive or sentient.

There is concern this software could be harmful to people who don’t understand that.

Now Cory talking about the GPT3 mergers with search engines , especially Google with their 'huge secretive apparatus', says @pluralistic ... It's an 'incredibly weird pathological decision' to put this 'habitual liar' into their search engine, when it's already struggling with so much shitty SEO spam - this is so true 😬

The Swedish government advises against using Zoom in a recent report.

Read more about why they’re pushing instead for more open-source solutions like Nextcloud Hub! 👏

#Nextcloud #NextcloudHub #privacy

https://nextcloud.com/blog/swedish-government-advises-against-zoom/

Dear retards: bitcoin can't fix anything if'n ya just hoard it. It only works for society if you spend it. Nobody believes anything you say about it fixing the world when we know you're just trying to hype the price of your stash in USD.

I've been very quietly playing with #Logseq for a week or so and I have to say it's an amazing piece of software. Granted, the learning curve is steep and I miss #Obsidian and some of it's predictability but Logseq never fails to find little ways of delighting me. It’s difficult but I’m trusting it.

Logseq feels very natural in many ways and I'm excited to continue this journey.

Thanks to #debian, #lineageOS, @fdroidorg , #mozilla, @k9mail, @thunderbird, #logseq and many more for all the awesome free software

#ilovefs

@msw I can only judge that advocacy based on what I can see and know about. I"m pleased to hear the assertion, though, and look forward to seeing it come to pass over time - will observe with interest.

That said, as a #FOSS advocate, I would not accept a role with AWS or any other of the #FrightfulFive corporations and those many who aspire to be among them (I have rejected offers from other anti-#FOSS mega-corporations in the past) @alcinnz @downey @skyfaller

@alcinnz there are people for whose commitment to principles we shared I used to have a great deal of respect... but some recent have gone to work for Microsoft or Google or Facebook, among other rapacious tech mega-corporations. and I cannot maintain my admiration for their commitment. @msw @downey @skyfaller

@alcinnz sorry, Adrian. We've got to call out those who have vested interests and remember, at some level of seniority (which I strongly suspect Matt meets or exceeds), who we choose to work for is an ethical decision, and we need to take responsibility (and hold others responsible) for that. @msw @downey @skyfaller