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  • I looked through the Giant Instruction Manual of Lemmy for this and I couldn't see any recommendations about titles but I'll change it for you if I can.

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    What are your defining memories of computing in the old days?
    1. Programming big multi-media rigs with eight-hole paper tape and a thumb punch. #FourYorkshiremen
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    Where To Find Actually Good Search Engines?
  • One of the problems I have with search engines when looking for tech solutions is that the results are incredibly out of date. I don't bother any more and just go straight to the product's own support forum. Where possible I add the forum's own search entry to Firefox's search box. At least I no longer get answers to a problem no one has had since 2018.

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  • The earliest known burgers I have read about were made and sold as roadside snacks in the Roman empire.

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  • Exactly. If they want honesty in labelling then images of happy cows in fields on dairy products should be replaced by pictures of young calves being pulled from their mothers so they don't consume the milk.

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  • Have you ever been confused by coconut milk? Do you think that hamburgers come from Hamburg? Are sweetbreads made from wheat and sugar?

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  • Have you ever been confused by coconut milk? Do you think that hamburgers come from Hamburg? Are sweetbreads made from wheat and sugar?

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    Following the Money: A Beginner’s Guide to Using the OpenCorporates API - bellingcat
  • The whole Bellendcat thing sounded a bit sus to me when I first came across them being lionised in the UK press. One plonker sitting in his bedroom outdoing the might of the Five Eyes? Mmm, sure.

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    Following the Money: A Beginner’s Guide to Using the OpenCorporates API - bellingcat
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    ‘CIA sidekick’ gives £2.6m to UK media groups

    https://declassifieduk.org/cia-sidekick-gives-2-6m-to-uk-media-groups/

    NED money has gone to UK investigative groups Bellingcat, Finance Uncovered and openDemocracy, as well as media freedom and training organisations Index on Censorship, Article 19, the Media Legal Defence Initiative, and the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

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    Following the Money: A Beginner’s Guide to Using the OpenCorporates API - bellingcat
  • Pot/kettle.

    ‘CIA sidekick’ gives £2.6m to UK media groups

    https://declassifieduk.org/cia-sidekick-gives-2-6m-to-uk-media-groups/

    NED money has gone to UK investigative groups Bellingcat, Finance Uncovered and openDemocracy, as well as media freedom and training organisations Index on Censorship, Article 19, the Media Legal Defence Initiative, and the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

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    What was your gateway product to open source?
  • It was Mozilla for me back in 2000. I gradually replaced all the proprietary apps I was using on Windows with FLOSS alternatives and then finally made the mover to Linux around 2010. The only closed stuff I use now is an iPhone and I despise it.

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    Hey [@protonprivacy](https://lemmy.world/c/protonprivacy), [@protonmail](https://mastodon.social/@protonmail)
  • A Thunderbird bridge would be useful but the missing Calendar feature for me is search. Other than that it's close to perfect.

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    TIL: F3 and F4 keys in Dolphin
  • Ask ten people what good defaults would be and you'll get ten very different responses. This is exactly why Dolphin, and Plasma in general, are so easy to tweak to your ideal.

    Dolphin the file manager I always wanted.

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    No 10’s Ulez stance reverses ‘decades of clean air progress’, says Sadiq Khan
  • The problem with No. 10 is that there's no one in there old enough to remember walking to school through winter smog. Pollution kills and legislation saves lives: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_Air_Act_1956

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    'Version of PIN' for Boris Johnson's old phone may have been found by govt
  • Mrs Spudger manages a fleet of mobile devices, mostly Apple. She uses an Apple service called Business Manager to administer the devices. Here's a quote from the manual:

    "Reset user passwords

    If users forget their password, you can reset it. Resetting their password allows them to get a new temporary password, at which time they will have to create a new password for their Managed Apple ID."

    In other words, Johnson is talking utter bollocks. He doesn't need to know the password. His best defence is to drop it off a North Sea ferry, in a Rebekah Vardy stylee.

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    Boris Johnson fails to hand over mobile with Covid WhatsApps before inquiry deadline
  • Didn't the Tories bring in some legislation that would enable the government to store all our private communications? I know this buffoon will argue that the law is only supposed to apply to the little people. It doesn't count for old Etonians.

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    A response to the Sarah Silverman suing OpenAI post from yesterday: [AI doesn't read or write like humans, and we shouldn't act like it does.]
  • I don't know what the authors are complaining about. All the AI is doing is trawling through a lexicon of words and rearranging them into an order that will sell books. It's exactly what authors do. This is about money.

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    Nitter, alternative frontend for twitter, is back online!
  • Oh, it's not that simple. I could call, email or any number of other methods. It's just that I'd rather not communicate with a right wing, paranoid, fear-spreading, racist nut job. I just need to know they're still breathing. This individual is spewing bile every single day,

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    What are your must-have packages?
  • Kpat.

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  • I was watching an old episode of Have I Got News For You and a David Cameron promotional site was mentioned so I checked it out. His people must have let the domain name expire as it's now a spam blog called David Cameron Journalism.

    David Cameron improving your life, one shitty link farm at a time.

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    In this week's episode of 'Allo 'Allo!, Thib explains all about bridges.

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    www.newscientist.com Solar panels could be about to get much better at capturing sunlight

    Silicon-based solar cells have a theoretical efficiency limit of around 30 per cent, but adding a perovskite layer enables new designs to harvest more energy

    Could*

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    www.snopes.com Did the Average American Gain 29 Pounds During Pandemic Lockdowns?

    The number stems from a misreading of a 2021 online survey of just over 3,000 individuals.

    Guess what?

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    Police are already using self-driving car footage as video evidence:

    While security cameras are commonplace in American cities, self-driving cars represent a new level of access for law enforcement ­ and a new method for encroachment on privacy, advocates say. Crisscrossing the city on their routes, self-driving cars capture a wider swath of footage. And it’s easier for law enforcement to turn to one company with a large repository of videos and a dedicated response team than to reach out to all the businesses in a neighborhood with security systems.

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    element.io End-to-end encryption; the will of the British people

    83% of UK citizens believe personal conversations on messaging apps such as Element, WhatsApp or Signal should have the highest level of security and privacy possible.

    Today marks the first day of the Report Stage of the Online Safety Bill. As this Bill progresses through the Houses of Parliament, we hope to (once again) raise the alarm around the risks to encryption posed by this Bill.

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    In the basement today we have quite a rare machine (for North America:) The BBC Master 128. It's an evolution of the original Acorn BBC Micro from 1981. My first task is to service the PSU and convert it to 120v, then see if this machine is working.

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    Most of us have seen weather maps at some point in our lives – in geography lessons at school, or in weather forecasts. But what do all the lines, labels and shapes actually mean?

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    Russian moon landings, week long traffic jams, a workforce replaced by automation and above all, too much leisure time!

    These are just some of the bold predictions made in Don Haworth's 1963 BBC 'mockumentary' Time on Our Hands - a remarkable film which projects the viewer a quarter of a century into the future.

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    teddit.net 📣 Announcement: We have reopened. : r/firefox

    The protest has never ended. We have been trying to communicate with Reddit admins, who seemed at first to be willing to

    The protest has never ended. We have been trying to communicate with Reddit admins, who seemed at first to be willing to talk to us, but we are only getting the silent treatment and threats to reopen the subreddit.

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    blog.oup.com “Lying” in computer-generated texts: hallucinations and omissions

    There is huge excitement about ChatGPT and other large generative language models that produce fluent and human-like texts in English and other human languages. But these models have one big drawback, which is that their texts can be factually incorrect (hallucination) and also leave out key informa...

    There is huge excitement about ChatGPT and other large generative language models that produce fluent and human-like texts in English and other human languages. But these models have one big drawback, which is that their texts can be factually incorrect (hallucination) and also leave out key information (omission).

    In our chapter for The Oxford Handbook of Lying, we look at hallucinations, omissions, and other aspects of “lying” in computer-generated texts. We conclude that these problems are probably inevitable.

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    matrix.org The German Digital Healthcare Agency joins the Matrix.org Foundation

    Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications

    We were already proud to announce that the national agency for the digitalisation of the healthcare system in Germany (gematik) had selected Matrix as the open standard on which to base all its interoperable instant messaging standard, back in 2021.

    We are now delighted to let the world know that they are doubling down on sovereignty and sustainability: gematik is the first organisation of the public sector to join the Matrix.org Foundation as a Silver member.

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    www.drive.com.au Volkswagen admits it got it wrong with fiddly touchscreens, apologises to customers

    After widespread public backlash, Volkswagen is shifting away from touchscreens – and back to buttons and dials – for basic controls such as infotainment and air-conditioning.

    I think I just reconnected with VW. Touch screens in cars are probably the worst automotive innovation.

    Obvs not the correct sub for this but can't find anywhere more suitable.

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    federated.photos Spudger on Federated Photos

    Linux • KDE • Mozilla • Matrix • Proton • Music • Star Labs • Veg

    The wet season was supposed to have finished at the end of April so this event was somewhat low key. But hey, it's Volkswagens, innit?

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    federated.photos Spudger on Federated Photos

    Linux • KDE • Mozilla • Matrix • Proton • Music • Star Labs • Veg

    We had a tiny exhibition of Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol prints at our local gallery. Seems like a good opportunity to try a federated photo sharing site.

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    www.bbc.com George Orwell's 1984 returned to Portland library after 65 years

    Man returns George Orwell's dystopian novel to library decades late because of its relevance today.

    This book and also Brave New World should be on every school curriculum.

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