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Friday Facts #411 - All about asteroids ( factorio.com )

Alpaca: an ollama client to easily interact with an LLM locally or remotely ( flathub.org )

OpenAI and Reddit Partnership ( t.co )

It has finally happened...not surprised though.

Chinese social media companies remove posts ‘showing off wealth and worshipping money’ while the gap between the country's rich and poor widens ( www.theguardian.com )

Targeting posts boasting of personal wealth appears to be part of campaign to ‘purify the internet cultural environment’....

Disaster recovery with ZFS and zrepl ( chromakode.com )

Registration Open: Fedora 40 Release Party on May 24-25 - Fedora Magazine ( fedoramagazine.org )

EU Commission opens formal proceedings against Meta under the Digital Services Act related to the protection of minors on Facebook and Instagram ( ec.europa.eu )

The Commission is concerned that the systems of both Facebook and Instagram, including their algorithms, may stimulate behavioural addictions in children, as well as create so-called 'rabbit-hole effects'. In addition, the Commission is also concerned about age-assurance and verification methods put in place by Meta....

Python script to scrape Instagram and Threads ( github.com )

Hello,...

FTC Warns Car Makers Regarding Privacy ( arstechnica.com )

It's not quite enough for me, personally, but this is a small step in the right direction....

German politician's video of licking public toilets goes viral ( www.thenews.com.pk )

cross-posted from: https://zerobytes.monster/post/932095

It could soon be illegal to publicly wear a mask for health reasons in NC ( arstechnica.com )

Reddit’s deal with OpenAI will plug its posts into “ChatGPT and new products” ( www.theverge.com )

TheMistoAI/ComfyUI-Anyline: Anyline: A Fast, Accurate, and Detailed Line Detection Preprocessor ( github.com )

Exclusive: Musk pushes plan for China data to power Tesla's AI ambitions ( www.reuters.com )

'Hong Kongization?’ - Chinese cyberattacks and disinformation campaigns against Taiwan surge, security agency says ( www.taipeitimes.com )

Taiwan's National Security Bureau (NSB) official Ko Cheng-heng said that Beijing’s campaign against Taiwan would spark a strong backlash from democracies around the world....

Are all Linux vendor kernels insecure? A new study says yes, but there's a fix ( www.zdnet.com )

[Exclusive] Motorola Razr 50 5G, Razr 50 Ultra 5G design, specifications revealed ( www.91mobiles.com )

'Carthage must be destroyed': Mark Zuckerberg t-shirt ignites anger in Tunisia, present-day Carthage ( www.albawaba.com )

cross-posted from: https://lemmit.online/post/2927731...

Building My Home Server | Kev Quirk ( kevquirk.com )

I came across this blog today while searching and I'm finding it very detailed, human, and instructive. For a beginner like me, this kind of resource is invaluable. What does a server failure feel like at a personal level? How do you make decisions about cost or utilizing existing hardware? These kind of thoughtful reflections...

[Personal project] AlgeZip: navigate and manipulate boolean expressions ( github.com )

For some time now, I've been thinking about the concept of interactively manipulating mathematical expressions and equations via software. Like doing some quick algebra in Notepad or similar, except there's no potential for arithmetic/algebra errors, typos, etc. ruining any results....

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