IT Management sucks
I have been in IT Management for close to 15 years and I really don’t like it anymore. Has anyone out there in Lemmy-land ever moved into a technical role after this many years?...
Thoughts on Social Media - John Scalzi (whatever.scalzi.com)
SpaceX Starlink Satellites Have to Dodge Objects in Orbit Nearly 140 Times Every Day (gizmodo.com)
Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement. (www.theverge.com)
Sarah Silverman, Christopher Golden, and Richard Kadrey are suing OpenAI and Meta over violation of their copyrighted books. The trio says their works were pulled from illegal “shadow libraries” without their consent.
Facebook turns over mother and daughter’s chat history to police resulting in abortion charges (www.theverge.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/1874605...
How an AI-written Star Wars story created chaos at Gizmodo (www.msn.com)
Scientists make ibuprofen and other common painkillers from paper industry waste (www.engadget.com)
A group of scientists from the University of Bath have developed a process for converting turpentine, a paper industry waste product, into chemical precursors used in making pharmaceutical drugs…
Meta's 'Threads' wants to colonize the Fediverse (fortune.com)
I really hope this is a complete failure, like Meta itself.
Let the Platforms Burn (doctorow.medium.com)
I reverse-engineered all Timex Datalink watches and devices, the Notebook Adapter, and the CRT graphics in Ruby! (lemmy.world)
Heya! I thought I’d mention that I’ve been doing a bunch of development on the optical Timex Datalink watches! I have been carefully sniffing data from the original Timex software with a logic analyzer, and have fully reverse engineered every Datalink protocol, the serial Notebook Adapter, and even the CRT syncing graphics!...
I reverse-engineered all Timex Datalink watches and devices, the Notebook Adapter, and the CRT graphics in Ruby! (lemmy.world)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/1287820...
Instagram’s Threads surpasses 100 million users (www.theverge.com)
2 authors say OpenAI 'ingested' their books to train ChatGPT. Now they're suing, and a 'wave' of similar court cases may follow. (www.businessinsider.com)
Two authors sued OpenAI, accusing the company of violating copyright law. They say OpenAI used their work to train ChatGPT without their consent.
Elon Musk Urges Mr Beast to Post Videos on Twitter for Equal Earnings (i.imgur.com)
Junk websites filled with AI-generated text are pulling in money from programmatic ads (www.technologyreview.com)
Twitter Blue accounts fuel Ukraine War misinformation (www.bbc.com)
This is why comedian Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT (www.businessinsider.com)
Comedian Sarah Silverman is one of three people suing OpenAI, the company behind AI chatbot ChatGPT for copyright infringement.
High Frequency Traders want to start using High Frequency radio for financial data (www.radioworld.com)
Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement (www.theverge.com)
“I am ASTOUNDED that the face-eating leopards have eaten my face!” (universeodon.com)
The First Social-Media Babies Are Growing Up—And They’re Horrified (www.theatlantic.com)
How would you feel if millions of people watched your childhood tantrums?
Canadian judge rules the thumbs up emoji counts as a contract agreement (www.engadget.com)
A Canadian judge has ruled that the popular “thumbs-up” emoji not only can be used as a contract agreement, but is just as valid as an actual signature. The Saskatchewan-based judge made the ruling on the grounds that the courts must adapt to the “new reality” of how people communicate, as originally reported by The...
Suspended Twitter account tracking Elon Musk's jet moves to Threads (www.reuters.com)
July 8 (Reuters) - Jack Sweeney, the creator of an account tracking Elon Musk’s private jet in real time, has moved to Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter-rival Threads after being suspended from Twitter last year.>...
What to do with a broken monitor?
Found this bad boy next to the dumpster. 32" Samsung. Anything I can do to salvage it? Or is it too expensive to fix? (I’m pretty handy)...