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The shady world of Brave selling copyrighted data for AI training
Just lovely, when you think you found a browser that works decently and cares about privacy...
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The shady world of Brave selling copyrighted data for AI training
Just lovely, when you think you found a browser that works decently and cares about privacy...
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Now no one will ever see all those super long !remindme bot posts set for 5, 10 or 15 years on Reddit
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OK, I'll remind you on 2028 July 5 10:49:32UTC!
(I wrote a memo on a yellow post-it sticker, I hope I won't loose it by next week)
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Can the fediverse scale up indefinitely?
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But would it work with spherical servers in vacuum?
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What's the worst thing you've ever smelled?
For me there are two strong ones competing: Hákarl, basically fermented rotting shark – this smells like a Serbian railway toilet during the war, when it wasn't cleaned for years, but used regularly. It tastes the same. The other was a dog carcass, that was left on the roadside on a nice, hot summer day, and the 'not my job' mentality left it there slowly decomposing over roughly two-three weeks.
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You now have a 1 billion $ bounty on your head and every armed man on Earth is on to you. What do you do to survive as long as possible?
Something with that snail, probably.
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Magyarország belebukott a gyorshajtók elleni küzdelembe
Biciklisként sokat javult a közlekedési kultúra, kevesebben akarnak leszorítani az útról mint mondjuk 10 éve. De autóval merj csak hetvennel menni a hetvenes táblánál...
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Bulgaria and Romania should be in Schengen by end of 2023, says Parliament
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If I remember correctly, the last bulk addition of countries happened sometimes in summer, we traveled to the Czech republic with a passport on Friday, and came back without it on Sunday, and it was definitely not a New Year
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Now YOU can fly to space for $450,000: Virgin Galactic announces first public space tourism flight for three people in August
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What if you sell everything and work for 237 more years?
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How do computers make any color using red/green/blue, when paints make every clor using red/yellow/blue?o
Basically there are two color models, additive and substractive. RGB is additive - turning on red it triggers the red receptors in the eye. If you turn on all three it triggers all your color receptors and you'll see white. That is all the visible spectrum, if you look at the Sun (which you shouldn't) you perceive it as white even if the maximum of the emission is at green.
When mixing paint (subtractive model, like CMYK on printers) if you mix all colors, they absorb different part of the light and don't reflect anything visible for you, and you'll see black(ish)
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Heatwave-linked pollution sees Spanish city urge less car use
They could also urge to remove the coat and tie from the list of necessary clothes. While it was probably practical in 19th century England, it's a torture in 2023 Spain
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Australia's 'retirement age' just became 67. So why are the French so upset about working until 64?
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That's pretty f*cked up. Sure, there are some jobs where you can make a decent contribution at that age – historian? librarian? sure, why not. But please don't force bus drivers to keep working until that age
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Hungary pledges support for Turkiye's decision on Sweden's NATO bid
In Hungarian news this appeared as "Hungary continuously talks with Turkey on the issue" instead of "pledge support"
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INSERT DISK 22 - The joke that STUMPED Monkey Island players
Thanks for this, I'm replaying Curse of Monkey Island now, and I'm just before the tomb scene :)
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Bulgaria and Romania should be in Schengen by end of 2023, says Parliament
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I didn't say this happened yesterday :)
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Article proposes variant of current ΛCDM cosmological model that makes the universe twice as old
Age estimation is a tricky thing - there are no brass labels on distant galaxies showing their age, or if there are, the letters are too small to see. There are several different methods, and while there's some disagreement between them, it's on the magnitude of 0.1Gyr, not 13.7+/-13.
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Bard Update: EU Availability + more languages, Save Chats, Google Lens, Text to Speech and More (Update from 13.07.2023)
Has anyone tried this? What are your opinions?
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lemmy users who have achived their dreams/goal, how did you do it?
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So, like achieving the goal twice?
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Why aren't we just stealing all of the top content from Reddit and posting it here?
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I just checked Lemmy stats - how is it possible that we lost 400 000 users recently? If people check it out and leave for good, wouldn't that still be counted in the user base?
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Do lemmings actually commit mass suicide?
Let's see... Don't eat that plant!
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Article proposes variant of current ΛCDM cosmological model that makes the universe twice as old
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Wikipedia is a good starting point: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_the_universe . I'm not an expert on the topic, but if I'd like to dig deeper, I'd visit Amazon, look for cosmology books, pick something that's expansive, looks like a textbook, plus point if the title contains the word 'introduction' (you'll see the irony inside). It's the best if you find something from after 2010 (after Planck and WMAP missions). I found Weinberg: Cosmology, but that's from 2008. If you have your favorite textbook, check it out from the local library, but make sure NOT to download it from Library Genesis (http://libgen.is/ is the site to avoid) because that would cause the publisher financial losses.