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New subreddit talking about it here. I'm assuming it will eventually be a Lemmy community...

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The company wants to charge for API access. Its volunteer moderators have other ideas

https://ibb.co/G7JXffk https://ibb.co/qBYG0Dy https://ibb.co/YDqHv9Z https://ibb.co/ByCH71M...

Federated services have always had privacy issues but I expected Lemmy would have the fewest, but it’s visibly worse for privacy than even Reddit....

Using model-generated content in training causes irreversible defects, a team of researchers says. “The tails of the original content distribution disappears,” writes co-author Ross Anderson from the University of Cambridge in a blog post. “Within a few generations, text becomes garbage, as Gaussian distributions converge...

I like devices that are not locked into an OS ecosystem (Apple, I’m looking at you!) and although I already have a Fitbit Aria scale, it gets thrown out when my wife stands on the scale with a pet, to get the pet’s weight (you weigh yourself, hold the pet, and then work out the difference). Having a built-in pet/baby mode is...

official twitter announcement twitter.com/jellyfin/status/1670589982665322496

Why it matters: A recent study at Claremont Graduate University has applied machine learning to neurophysiological data, identifying hit songs with an astonishing 97% accuracy....

Yes, I know that it still exist, and yes, decentralized currency which utilizes distributed, cryptographic validation is not actually a strictly bad idea, but…...

Warner Bros. Discovery is on the eve of launching Max, its new streaming service that combines the already-existing platforms of HBO Max and Discovery+. But don’t expect Aubrey Plaza to be am…

EDIT: I’m putting this up front so it’s the FIRST thing you see and read: I WAS WRONGI ASSUMED (and I know better) that it wasn’t possible for me to have 3000 accounts created within a day or two of going live. I ASSUMED what I saw was accounts that were NOT local, I WAS WRONGI created a process to remove the bot accounts...

Excellent work

I’d like to take my RSS feeds from an aggregator of news to a curated selection of interesting things. Interesting newsletters and blogs are where I think RSS shines, but I struggle to find this content....

Regarding Beehaw defederating from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works, this post goes into detail on the why and the philosophy behind that decision. Additionally, there is an update specific to sh.itjust.works here....

Strap in for the spam-pocolypse. The age of AI garbage fighting AI garbage is at hand and search engines will be one of the most obvious casualties.

tl;dr (copied from the abstract): “Here, a generic effect for continuous energy harvesting from air humidity is reported, […]. The common feature of these materials is that they are engineered with appropriate nanopores to allow air water to pass through and undergo dynamic adsorption–desorption exchange at the porous...

I’ve been on the Fediverse since 2016, and I still get a little mixed up by how things work.