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sturlabragason ,

the top 50% richest people should have

The rest of people are already working these mandatory jobs.

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warisboring.com/the-cola-fleet-how-pepsi-once-con…

Top EU Court Says There’s No Right To Online Anonymity, Because Copyright Is More Important (www.techdirt.com)

The key problem is that copyright infringement by a private individual is regarded by the court as something so serious that it negates the right to privacy. It’s a sign of the twisted values that copyright has succeeded on imposing on many legal systems. It equates the mere copying of a digital file with serious crimes that...

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Just to back you up:

mullvad.net/en/why-privacy-matters

“The most common argument used in defense of mass surveillance is ‘If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear’. Try saying that to women in the US states where abortion has suddenly become illegal. Say it to investigative journalists in authoritarian countries. Saying ‘I have nothing to hide’ means you stop caring about anyone fighting for their freedom. And one day, you might be one of them.”

sturlabragason ,

Nice pic!

Know it’s not this one but it’s interesting

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayam_Cemani

sturlabragason ,

Hey ai watup

Instagram's unskippable ads test causes outrage among users (www.techspot.com)

Instagram has long been accused of stealing features from platforms such as TikTok, Snapchat, and Twitter/X. It appears that the company has looked to YouTube for its latest idea: unskippable ads that you have to watch for a period of time before being able to scroll further....

sturlabragason ,

Nothing.

What was the effect of the reddit migration on reddit; nothing.

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Isn’t this in response to the heatwave in Mexico? fastcompany.com/…/mexico-city-bogota-water-crisis…

sturlabragason ,

This is great! Is it open source? The only thing I found missing was an about page.

sturlabragason ,

Yeah, when someone says private I assume I can self host.

sturlabragason ,

Looks delish! Got a recipe?

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80% of all apartments in Iceland have gone the same way this year.

samstodin.is/…/attatiu-prosent-ibuda-hefur-farid-…

And rent has gone up.

It’s around 30-40$ per m2 in Reykjavik.

I.e 2400$ for a crappy 850sq ft.

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This beatiful country is run by a council of greedy cousins.

bokalind.is/…/a-slod-kolkrabbans-hverjir-eiga-isl…

sturlabragason ,

It’s a global issue, but takes many forms. IMHO Iceland is worst in this aspect in the nordics. I like Denmark the most. Every place I’ve lived has it’s own set of problems.

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My pleasure. Got some interesting facts about the pacific northwest?

sturlabragason ,

Unix gang

sturlabragason ,

That wallpaper is cray!

sturlabragason ,

Dude I love you!

sturlabragason ,

Isn’t this just a screengrab from a win98 VM?

sturlabragason ,

Honestly I thoughr about doing it after suggesting that it might have been a VM. Maybe it was someone like me.

sturlabragason ,

We will rebuild!

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danevirke

sturlabragason ,

Here’s data for other contries for those interested; www.wri.org/data/aqueduct-40-country-rankings

sturlabragason ,

ipfs.tech

sturlabragason ,

“He used to hang around the old No. 1 fire department on Greene Street all the time and the firemen started calling him ‘the little bum,’” one friend told The Miami Herald in 1976. “He was always bumming things—asking for favors, like little kids do.”

sturlabragason ,

Yeah sorry friend, didn’t mean to spoil the surprise. Was hoping the voteocracy would decide whether people were interested in the spoiler or not 😅

sturlabragason ,

❤️

sturlabragason ,

Here is the translation of the Danish text into English:

“Chaos and Confusion” during Exams after Word Update Ministry warns that Microsoft programs may cause problems for students with Mac computers during written exams.

For several written exams, students with Mac computers have experienced issues with Microsoft Word if they had the latest version of the program installed.

BY Thomas Prakash TODAY AT 10:42

High school student Silje Højer Lauritsen was about an hour into her exam on Thursday when her computer started having problems. Suddenly, her Word program began running slowly. The word processing program “froze,” and she could not save her answers for the assignment in the marketing subject, where she was explaining companies’ value chains.

  • It was really frustrating, especially because you are already so stressed and have so many thoughts during an exam, she says. Many of the other students in the exam room at the HHX high school in Risskov, Aarhus Business College, experienced similar problems. Silje Højer Lauritsen estimates nearly half of them did.

Problems at several high schools IT staff and teachers ran in and out of the room to help the students, and they ended up giving them an extra hour to complete the exam. However, not everyone succeeded.

It was almost as if it wasn’t an exam anymore because there was so much chaos and confusion. SILJE HØJER LAURITSEN, STUDENT, HHX HIGH SCHOOL IN RISSKOV

  • I have a friend who had her assignment deleted because of it, and now she has to take a makeup exam in August, says Silje Højer Lauritsen.

At several other high schools in the country, the same problems have been experienced in recent days.

  • It caused a lot of unrest in the exam situation for the affected students, says Flemming Madsen, IT manager at Aalborg Business College. The problem is due to a recent update to Microsoft Word, which can cause the program to run slowly and crash for students with Mac computers.

‘Use other programs, or take frequent backups’ The Ministry of Education is aware of the problem and warns educational institutions that there may be issues with the latest version of Word and Excel for Mac users.

  • Users who have updated the programs to the latest version may find that the programs run slowly, freeze, and crash. This means that examinees are delayed in their work, and parts of their answers risk being lost, writes the Danish Agency for Education and Quality and the Danish Agency for IT and Learning in a message to schools.
  • We encourage institutions to inform students about this problem so they can take precautions, such as taking frequent backups or using other similar programs, the recommendation says. One solution could be to uninstall the new version and reinstall an earlier version of the program - downgrading Word from version 16.85 to version 16.84.

Help to solve the problem The Danish Agency for IT and Learning provides guidance on its website on how Mac users can solve the problem and downgrade to an older version of Microsoft Word.

Distracted from the task The ministry states that it is not responsible for the use of so-called third-party programs used by institutions and students and therefore does not have an overview of how many were affected by the problems. At the HHX high school in Risskov, Silje Højer Lauritsen felt that the IT problems made an already stressful situation even more stressful.

  • It was almost as if it wasn’t an exam anymore because there was so much chaos and confusion, she says.
  • I felt that it took a lot of focus away from my tasks.

Microsoft apologizes At Microsoft, one of the world’s largest IT companies, they regret that the latest update is causing problems.

  • We are aware that there may be issues with the latest version of some of our products for Mac users, reads a written response from Microsoft in Denmark.
  • We apologize for the inconvenience and take the problem very seriously. We are in close contact with our product team, who are working to solve the problem. In the meantime, we encourage all affected users to follow the recommendations to reinstall an earlier version and take frequent backups, says Microsoft.
sturlabragason ,

“Britain’s National Health Service allowed blood tainted with HIV and Hepatitis to be used on patients without their knowledge, leading to 3,000 deaths and more than 30,000 infections, according to the 2,527-page final report by Justice Brian Justice Langstaff, a former judge on the High Court of England and Wales.”

sturlabragason ,

For someone doing a study on LLM they don’t seem to know much about LLMs.

They don’t even mention which model was used…

Here’s the study used for this clickbait garbage :

dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3613904.3642596

Publishers are a cancer. Knowledge is meant to be shared, freely. (mander.xyz)

The university should be the place demonstrating socioecological change, serving as a site of experimentation and praxis (see Dunlap et al., 2023). This, however, could not be further from the truth. Beside advancing technologies of digital, political and military control (Chatterjee & Maira, 2014), not to mention genetic...

sturlabragason ,

osf.io

“OSF is a free, open platform to support your research and enable collaboration.”

vox.com/…/open-access-elsevier-california-sci-hub…

sturlabragason ,

It seems my (very hated choice) of an Bing independent search engine is paying off; Brave Search.

Before you start telling me the CEO is a fucking dickwad, I know. Most leadership types are.

sturlabragason ,

search.brave.com is independent.

sturlabragason ,

Well I didn’t intend for it to come off as to dickish or patronizing, but I guess I can see that now, and for that I am sorry. It might be my toxic personality bleeding trough :D

But you are totally correct, I could have phrased my comment wayyy better.

Also;

I don’t really like Brave at all, I don’t like Mozilla either. It’s more that I am forced to use something that doesn’t interrupt my productivity. Frankly I don’t like the state of the internet, and especially browsers, one of the the most important aspects of the experience. I’d really prefer to use something that is akin to Linux when it comes to browsers, i.e. not run by a board of ass wipes. Same for my search engine. I’m glad for the parts of it that are modernized-retro, i.e. easily being able to self-host/web-host containerized stuff, add stuff to your RSS feed, Lemmy etc. I’d like a browser that embodies some of that. I host a bunch of stuff on a Ubuntu laptop running Traefik and some containers… Gives me a warm feeling.

sturlabragason ,

brevity is the soul of wit

sturlabragason ,

Dude, you know what this means? We’re best friends now ❤️

sturlabragason ,

You get me ❤️ 😅

sturlabragason ,

We need to create a secondary indepentent tamper proof economy.

sturlabragason ,

I like to think of economies (and nation-states) as loosely coupled monolithic legacy systems.

Due to poor developer practices and lack of architecture, parts of these systems have poorly written functions that hog 99% of the resources. You would not try to patch or update such a poorly designed system because there is no way to correct all the myriad built-up legacy back-doors, bugs, privilege escalation vulnerabilities, etc. The systems have been completely corrupted and cannot be recovered. We would like to avoid shutting off the hardware on which these systems run (the human race).

So we slowly drain away processing power to power up a new properly designed scalable system.

This new system is intentionally designed to avoid all pitfalls of the old system. It purposefully avoids attempts at privilege escalation, resource hogging, and doesn’t allow bad coding practices. Through scalable architecture, we implement a modular and resilient system that is decentralized and federated. Better yet, this new system is written in a language that is incompatible with the old system; they can only interface via APIs specifically designed to minimally interface with the old and unsafe system.

Of course, you’re right, it’s not independent or tamper-proof, but we can sure as shit try to make it that way!

sturlabragason ,

Here ya go:

open.spotify.com/track/7AMX299eQzkQBqQ4vJp6Y4?si=…

sturlabragason ,

That’s an excellent point!

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Yeah but who the fuck figured it out and how? Sounds to me like those fellows did their homework?

As someone who is aging. Late thirties. How can I keep my finger on the pulse of current trends, particularly in music?

As an example. I grew up in hip-hop but at a certain point I stopped listening to new people and realised recently that I’d slept on some bangers. Like Kendrick particularly, but even people like Juice WRLD and Xxxtentacion....

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I get all the inside info from my teenage kids 😅

Here’s some in no particular order;

open.spotify.com/track/42VsgItocQwOQC3XWZ8JNA?si=…

open.spotify.com/track/7ooMMJ57DvXJ9QrdA2IKzb?si=…

open.spotify.com/track/3wGXyJGsCf1myH5MooQIqE?si=…

open.spotify.com/track/48PNPySDWhDzPYKd0VHzRZ?si=…

open.spotify.com/track/3rKHEHCqPnYOzSMEt5DJKq?si=…

open.spotify.com/track/2mdNOsotHkz5POLtu0qCJm?si=…

open.spotify.com/track/6nWjnyGiPqb5bmkhsyYvLZ?si=…

open.spotify.com/track/6uU1QhxwtrnOdALd4K1nBs?si=…

open.spotify.com/track/3qX1dqmDdmMvvfMVfsx4Bh?si=…

And a bunch of music from the 00s and 10s which is now old school and cool 😅

sturlabragason ,

Counterpoint: not good enough for global warming!

I had the same opinion until recently. Wasn’t all that scared of heat until I read “The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet” by Jeff Goodell

www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/63251778

That surprise ending aint looking all too good: xkcd.com/1732/

sturlabragason ,

Dark

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Wanted to say that actually Hobbits have quite large feet, but as it turns out that was just something in the movies, and nowhere alluded to in the books.

thegamer.com/weird-things-hobbit-anatomy-lord-of-…

But yeah, too bad about your, you know…

sturlabragason ,

I built my own, it doesnt do what you ask, but it does what I want 🙂

sturlabragason.github.io/…/Curated-News.html

sturlabragason ,

I like your comment, it’s honest and accurately describes how a lot of my views are formed.

The Sign (lemmy.stuart.fun)

For context, in case you don’t have kids (therefor you probably don’t watch Bluey), the family in the car (the Heelers) was selling their house to move for a job but ultimately, the dad (Bandit) decided staying at their house with family was more important. As a final act of demonstration, he lifts the for-sale sign out of...

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Better start prepping the opentofu arguments for the enterprises we’re collectively involved with.

sturlabragason ,

Yeah I was guessing that part. It’s 37.5 for me in DK. Still waiting for the 4 day work-week.

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