#Postgres 18 Beta Is Out: 7 Features You Should Know About - Neon https://neon.tech/blog/postgres-18-beta-is-out
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In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded 70GBs of articles from JSTOR. He faced $1 million fine and 35 years in jail. He took his life in 2013.
Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models without any punishment.
Ham radio turns 100 in South Africa
“The South African Radio League (SARL) wants to broaden its contribution to the growth of amateur radio in sub-Saharan Africa as the organisation celebrates its centenary next month. Amateur radio, also known as ham radio, is a hobby that involves e ...continues
See https://gadgeteer.co.za/ham-radio-turns-100-in-south-africa/
It's fascinating that the vast majority of computer scientists are so publicly and strongly critical of generative AI systems as they are currently being deployed by Big Tech -- unless they happen to be working for one of those firms.
you should cancel Duolingo, not out of solidarity or whatever, but because they have replaced their **linguists and writers** with AI. I was a linguist. machine translation is very good, but it makes **ridiculous** mistakes, and as a language learner, you will not be able to spot them. this is 🚩🚩🚩🚩 https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-ai-jobs-crisis-is-here-now
Debian Developers Pursuing A General Resolution Around AI Models
The Debian developer community is pursuing a General Resolution for voting on their policy around AI models...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-Free-AI-Models-GR
Greta #Thunberg was due to be on humanitarian aid ship attacked by suspected #Israeli drones while it was in international waters.
“I was part of the group who was supposed to board that boat today to continue the voyage towards Gaza, which is one of many attempts to open up a humanitarian corridor and to do our part to keep trying to break #Israel’s illegal siege on #Gaza,”
The Oregon State University's Open Source Lab needs your help 🤝 !
We at #Inkscape rely on them for hosting our website 🌐 , mailing lists 📨 , mail servers 📮 and DNS ℹ️ .
They are also a host for many other open source projects - e.g. #Drupal, #Gentoo Linux, #Debian, #Fedora, #phpBB, #OpenID, #Buildroot/#Busybox, #Cinc, …
Please consider donating 💌 to them so they can keep their services running for all of us!
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The EU is introducing an energy label for phones, together with mandatory requirements for phones sold in the EU;
- 5 years of software updates (AFTER they stop selling the device in the EU)
- providing important hardware parts (during sale and for 7 years after), including free software (if needed), to every repair shop, within 5-10 business days
- batteries have to make 800 charging cycles and still be above 80% original capacity
And on top of that, phones and tablets need this energy label from 20 June 2025, which also includes a fall damage durability and repairability score.
(https://energy-efficient-products.ec.europa.eu/product-list/smartphones-and-tablets_en)
Did you leave your Wii at the #EMF2024 Swap Shop?
If so, it's now hosting my blog:
https://blog.infected.systems/posts/2025-04-21-this-blog-is-hosted-on-a-nintendo-wii/
Huge credit to @jmcwhatever for the effort porting NetBSD to the Wii!
Bluesky is cancelling accounts when foreign governments ask them to, and Threads is doing adverts soon.
The thing to understand about the corporate public messaging systems is that they do not exist to let you publish or to talk to people. That is not the point of them. That's at best just the bait laid to lure you into their trap.
They exist to make money for the shareholders. That's why Threads exists, that's why Blockchain Inc invested to keep Bluesky running.
Only one network exists in order to let people communicate as the point and reason for it's existence. Only one network has no shareholders and no owners.
Only one is fighting for the user, not the shareholder.
#fediverse