Serra @serra@social.cleverlibre.org

Periodic reminder of all the things you have to do to get a stock Firefox to stop phoning home: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-stop-firefox-making-automatic-connections

(Before anyone says "Firefox sux, use [whatever Chrome rebranding]", all of the others do this too and none of them publish a guide to turning it off or even provide ways to turn it off.)

Pet peeve of the day: all the people talking about how ChatGPT is not “conscious” and how it does not “understand” what it is saying, but just putting likely-sounding words together into likely-sounding sentences.

Extra bonus points for using an example of a math problem as a way to show how these AI chat-bots talk about things they don’t really understand.

The irony. The lack of self-awareness. It burns.

is it awkward having to come up with excuse after excuse for not having any cash to spare?

that must suck. at least you don’t have to ask hundreds of people you don’t know to acknowledge your existence as a human being

protip: just keep a bit on you in case someone needs it

"No one wants to work anymore."
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RT @jamieson
This is demented https://www.wsj.com/articles/that-plum-job-listing-may-just-be-a-ghost-3aafc794?mod=mhp
https://twitter.com/jamieson/status/1637817227410825225

When JavaScript Fails:

“We’re not talking about 3% of users being affected, but 3% of visits. Remember, the problem isn’t that people have turned JavaScript off, it’s that JavaScript isn’t reliable. Meaning it affects all of us, about 3% of the time.”

https://scribe.rip/@jason.godesky/when-javascript-fails-52eef47e90db

by Jason Godesky (https://jason.godesky.net/) via @slightlyoff

"‘For too long,‘ Europe thought ‚the market would take of everything itself,‘ the EU's Green Deal chief Frans Timmermans said Thursday. ‚We now understand that the strategic choices China made a decade ago are now coming home to roost and we also have to make our own strategic decisions now for the decades to come.‘
https://www.politico.eu/article/5-things-to-know-about-europes-bid-to-stay-in-the-clean-energy-race-net-zero-critical-raw-material/

You can tell when an argument hits home by the number of trolls it brings out on social media. When I recommended Thom Hartmann's article linked below two days ago, posting excerpts from it, a number of trolls immediately came out of the woodwork.

Hartmann's argument is essentially one that anyone who takes what happened with Nazi Germany and the Holocaust seriously doesn't dismiss lightly: It can happen here.

#fascism #trans

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https://hartmannreport.com/p/what-will-happen-to-everyone-who

“While the 15-minute city has nothing to do with creating ghettos where people will be locked in, fake news like this circulates broadly and quickly, making it crucial for policymakers to convey clear messages about what’s at stake.”

Separating the reality from the conspiracy theories (and lies).

#15MinuteCities #cities #communities #cars

https://theconversation.com/15-minute-cities-how-to-separate-the-reality-from-the-conspiracy-theory-200111

ChatGPT and AI could completely replace the need for StackOverflow for coders as long as it constantly told me my question was irrelevant, had already been answered, and berated me for not doing my own research first and then downvoted me.

RT wenn ihr findet, dass auf deutschen Autobahnen ein Tempolimit gelten sollte

This took way too long but we now finally also have a proper journey progress display in #KDE Itinerary's onboard API powered live view.

Just learned set theory and I cannot contain myself.

A short introduction on how to use your desktop system for #MobileLinux development using a nested #phosh session (and without having to compile anything):

https://phosh.mobi/posts/phosh-dev-part-0/

This is planned to have follow up parts, let's see how this works out.

#LinuxMobile

I was also able to collaborate with http://ankhaneko.art for the artwork / puzzle on the back. This also inspired the software inside, made by Sake.

Which browser do you use?