Zedstrian
Moved over from Reddit after the API debacle. Most interested in news communities, while being in favor of popular self-determination and against the use and propagation of generative AI.
Primary account history
- @Zedstrian@kbin.social (2023)
- @Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com (2023–26)
- @Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz (2026–)
- 2 Posts
- 269 Comments
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News@lemmy.world•EU KIDS Act will require age verification for all online and perhaps offline games to "protect children"English
10·3 days agoUsually ratings systems are merely in place to restrict who can buy certain games, not who can play them after they’re purchased.
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News@lemmy.world•Ford's CEO urges caution on Chinese automakers, says Europe is 'too late'English
30·6 days agoWhat’s too late are these outdated car companies failing to invest sufficient resources into electric car R&D.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Trump orders US government to call AI ‘Super Intelligence’English
59·6 days agoAny outlet that calls AI ‘super intelligence’ will join the fellow propagandists on my blocklist.
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World News@lemmy.world•IRGC writes an open letter to American peopleEnglish
101·6 days agoThe Trump administration being authoritarian doesn’t make the Iranian government any less-so.
OpenAI scraps rollout of new model over
safetyprofitability concerns.FTFY
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Technology@lemmy.world•Apple's A20 Pro shatters Geekbench 7 single-core record — 2nm chip beats desktop Intel Core i9 and AMD Ryzen 9 by up to 32%English
123·8 days agoApple intentionally limits what features iOS and ‘iPadOS’ have versus macOS to sell as many devices as possible. An alternate reality where Apple were consumer-friendly would converge all three operating systems into one, with a limited feature set on smaller screens that expands into the full feature set if connected to an external monitor with a docking adapter.
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Linux@programming.dev•SHOBR: CLI for job search via browser automation, event-sourcing, and GroffEnglish
13·8 days agoQuality semantic parsing requires some LLM, there’s not much leeway around it.
Many things that were done entirely without LLMs before seem to magically ‘require’ them now.
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Technology@lemmy.world•User alleges Google illegally retained customer data and announces legal actionEnglish
3·8 days agoBetter to link the original Medium article than this AI slop regurgitation of it.
Edit: Upon review, even the Medium article seems to be AI-written.
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Technology@lemmy.world•U.S. arrests executives of Oxygen Forensics, accusing them of concealing that their software was developed in RussiaEnglish
231·9 days agoU.S. authorities have accused executives of Oxygen Forensics, a company that sold software to the Pentagon and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), of concealing that the company was controlled by Russian citizens and that its software was developed in Russia.
The crime they should be charged for is selling software to both American and Russian terrorists.
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Linux@programming.dev•I automated my entire Linux desktop with 4 bash scripts—and reclaimed hours every weekEnglish
31·10 days agoThe average user can’t be expected to remember all of the commands needed to use their regularly used programs, and those that don’t want to shouldn’t be expected to.
For instance, the terminal could be used to reformat storage devices, but MintStick essentially replicates the Windows GUI for doing it, making the transition less cumbersome for the average user.
The more users Linux has the more resources it will get. For power users, nothing stops developers from also maintaining terminal support.
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Linux@programming.dev•I automated my entire Linux desktop with 4 bash scripts—and reclaimed hours every weekEnglish
144·10 days agoThe more you get into using Linux, the more likely you are to start using the Terminal for various tasks. Now, I’ll admit that you don’t need to do everything in the Terminal. But I truly believe knowing your way around it is pretty vital to the Linux experience (for me, anyway), whether it’s learning basic short commands or playing video through the Terminal.
To make Linux more palatable to Windows and macOS users, I think it’s important to shift as much of the Linux experience away from the terminal and into GUI programs as possible.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Apple's new watches are always listeningEnglish
292·10 days agoSteve Jobs was also an asshole, just an influential one.
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News@lemmy.world•US citizen injured after ICE agents reportedly mistook him for fugitiveEnglish
41·10 days agoA police statement said the alleged victim told officers he received head, face and neck injuries during the beating.
Defining him as an ‘alleged victim’ shows whose side the police are on.
Also, the ICE agents’ actions wouldn’t have been justified even if he were a fugitive.
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News@lemmy.world•Appeals court allows Pentagon to label Anthropic a national security riskEnglish
7·11 days agoThe Supreme Court:
The constitution doesn’t mention any limits on AI-powered autonomous weapons or mass surveillance, so they clearly must be legal!
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Technology@lemmy.world•Meta's Muse personal agent is a hit, as AI commerce starts to take offEnglish
13·13 days agoThere’s no worthwhile alternative to CBS for a story this astroturfed.
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World News@lemmy.world•Trump administration to welcome up to 17,500 more White South AfricansEnglish
41·13 days agoAlternative to CBS.
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Technology@lemmy.world•AccuWeather, National Weather Service add “Lake America” to mapsEnglish
181·14 days agoInaccuWeather
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Technology@lemmy.world•Google says its Gemini AI model hacked three other companiesEnglish
40·16 days agoThe fact that so many people don’t see these ‘hacking’ stories for the pure and unabashed marketing that they are is why the AI bubble has grown as large as it has.
The technology should still be improved as much as possible.