The thing I hate most about AI, in the current era:

Google, DDG, Bing, etc. are all now effectively worthless on the first 2-3 pages, for most of my queries having to do with *anything* general.

Even specific queries like 'smart outlet energy consumption card HA'.

The problem is AI slop; there are thousands of websites (even some old venerable sites that were sold off) that just have "that exact query as a web page", but the results are AI generated, and have no helpful information inside.

So, Google just launched a major new AI demo that requires people to relax their browser security settings. Wow.

GitHub took down the repository just now. It was up for 19 hours when we reported it. GitHub took action within roughly 2.5 hours, which was rather quick.

Linux Is Perfect Unless You're Blind #Linux #YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvxdkmPka20

@geerlingguy@mastodon.social The Internet, soon...

Addio alle chiamate spam dai finti numeri italiani: l'agcom mette finalmente una pezza.

L'AGCOM blocca lo spoofing: entro 6 mesi stop alle chiamate commerciali con numeri italiani falsi usati da call center esteri.•Previste multe fino a 1 milione di euro per gli operatori telefonici che non fermano le chiamate di telemarketing truccate.

#spam #agcom #telemarketing

https://www.smartworld.it/news/agcom-spoofing-chiamate-truffa.html

might be a controversial take but pirating photoshop doesn't hurt adobe and is thus bad

you're still using their software and learning it and getting used to it

you're contributing to the pandemic of people that can't use anything but adobe products

you're contributing to the "oh but my friends/colleagues use it so I don't have a choice"

pirating adobe products means the dependency on adobe products doesn't go away. you're only worsening it

❄️ NixOS 25.05 has been released.

https://nixos.org/blog/announcements/2025/nixos-2505/

#NixOS #Nix #Linux

Watching Microsoft’s robots telling Microsoft’s other robots that they need to agree to Microsoft CLAs in between Microsoft’s developers begging Microsoft’s robots to actually understand the problems they’re trying to fix in Microsoft's platform code on Microsoft's version-control website is kind of amazing.

This is definitely the future Terry Gilliam promised us.

What being a Windows user is like in 2025

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/05/in-3-5-years-notepad-exe-has-gone-from-barely-maintained-to-it-writes-for-you/?comments=1&post=43746095

If your industry (AI) can only exist by ripping the work of others without credit, then it shouldn't exist.

The big companies are just steamrolling over the rights of everyone because they're getting away with it. Governments have been cowardly to act on this.

💥 Refund4Freedom is here! 💥

The FSFE and @ItaLinuxSociety are happy to announce the launch of Refund4Freedom!

👀 This initiative promotes the right to choose your operating system and get a refund for pre-installed software that you don’t want.

Check out its website for more information - https://refund4freedom.org/

📆 And save the date! Join our launch event on 29th May (in Italian).

Registration for the event: https://pretix.eu/fsfeItaly/refund4freedom/

#SoftwareFreedom #DeviceNeutrality #FreeSoftware

Many have asked how to avoid Google AI search results. Here are some suggestions:

1. Use other search engine like DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, or Qwant instead of Google.

2. If you must use Google search, avoid Google Chrome. Use Ungoogled Chromium or LibreWolf instead.

3. If you still want to use Google Chrome, append &udm=14 to your search queries.

4. If you find steps 1-3 too complicated, visit https://udm14.org.

Regardless of your approach, enhance your privacy by using tracker blockers, Tor, VPNs, AdGuard, uBlock Origin, or other DNS-level blockers. Combining several of these tools is even more effective.

#Privacy #AI #Google #GoogleAI #GoogleSearch

Why old games never die, but new ones do

Link: https://pleromanonx86.wordpress.com/2025/05/06/why-old-games-never-die-but-new-ones-do/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44083917

Per chi ha qualcosa su #Meta oggi è l'ultimo giorno per dirgli che non possono usare i nostri contenuti per la loro #AI https://youtu.be/vrmJqcnWbo4

The #EuropeanCommission has published an "Impact Assessment on retention of data by service providers for criminal proceedings". It is open for comment until 18 June: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/14680-Impact-assessment-on-retention-of-data-by-service-providers-for-criminal-proceedings-_en

This is a terrible proposal which will seriously weaken the fundamental #privacy rights of #European #citizens. Please take the time to read it and add your comments. You don't have to be an #EU citizen to comment.

#ec #politics #democracy #freedom

@strangequark@dice.camp plus it has been written by a mysterious "High Level Group" to which @echo_pbreyer@digitalcourage.social asked their names but only got a blacked out list.

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1kvmguc/comment/muanbqa/

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/going-dark-expert-group-eus-surveillance-forge/

🇬🇧 Have you heard about the #EUGoingDark plan to reintroduce blanket #DataRetention & undermine #encryption 🔓?

Intransparent 🇪🇺 work on what the new EU Parliament & Commission should implement after the #EUelections will be finalised in Mai & June.

#Pirates

⚠️ Avviata dal 21 maggio al 18 giugno la consultazione pubblica con cui la UE vorrebbe chiedere di conservare i dati per MOOOLTO tempo⚠️

Il quesito sembrerebbe posto per far credere che la polizia E I SUOI FORNITORI non riescono a combattere il crimine a causa di normative di #DataRetention troppo eterogenee (=cioè "troppo restrittive" 😈)

https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/14680-Impact-assessment-on-retention-of-data-by-service-providers-for-criminal-proceedings-_it

@privacypride

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