Some people Ctr-C / Ctrl-V for fun. I do it professionally.
"Low-quality, spammy, and LLM hallucinated security reports" taking time away from real bugs and features.
Ads are filling the entirety of the Web -- websites, podcasts, YouTube videos, etc. -- at an increasing rate. Prices for those ad placements are plummeting. Consumers are desperate to use ad-blockers to make the web palatable. Google (and others) are desperate to break and block ad-blockers. All of which results in... more ads and lower pay for creators.
It's a fascinatingly annoying cycle. And there's only one viable way out of it.
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Those in power with openSUSE make it clear they will not allow me anywhere near anything related to the openSUSE project. Ever. For any reason.
Well, that settles that, then! Guess I won't be contributing to openSUSE! 🤣
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Have you heard about YouTube's new audio dubbing? They are rolling it out now. New uploads for select creators and evrntually all creators. Will be copied to other languages, via the formerly named Aloud audio dubbing servive.
While this may help creators reach a wider audience. Who owns the rights to those new language dubbed copies? How might Google leverage that data? Might their AI in another language use creator data? YouTube is bragging about dubbing, but nothing about who owns those copies, or how they may be used.
As someone who has done a fair share of wifi troubleshooting, this was pretty freaking fascinating
https://blog.apnic.net/2024/05/17/a-transport-protocols-view-of-starlink/
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Ladybird Web Browser becomes a non-profit with $1 Million from GitHub Founder
Don't wave the LGBT flag? SUSE & openSUSE says you are "Rotten Flesh"
Elementary OS & Asahi Linux declare war on "Right Wing" nerds
NixOS commits a "purge" of "Nazi" contributors, forces abdication of founder
Ladybird Web Browser Developer Attacked by Unhinged, Dishonest Activists
Microsoft Write - The First Word Processor for Windows (ported to Mac... and Atari ST)
Ground Zero for the Personal Computer Industry: 1977's West Coast Computer Faire
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December kicks off with a round of some really friggin' weird stories. But my absolute favorite? The one where Mozilla pays for an expensive rebranding... as a "Global Crew of Activists".
I mean... what on Earth were they thinking? You can practically hear the 5 remaining Firefox users switching to another browser.
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