The bangs are the addictive feature for me. You start by typing !w lemmy in the URL bar, with DDG already configured as the default search engine, and DDG will directly serve the search result for this term from Wikipedia. There are hundreds of them like !yt for YouTube or !gm for Google Maps, and the acronyms are intuitive. https://duckduckgo.com/bangs

I’ve been using it for a couple of year now and I only double check Google maybe 1% of the time. And most of those times, I also can’t find what I am looking for on Google. I also can’t go back after getting used to the ! commands.

They are socially conservative, but they have been fairly consistent at asking people not to kill each other for the past decades.

Ecosia and Qwant are building together an EU based index. Maybe then they will become actually independent alternatives to American giants. It will take a while.

There’s better integration with all sorts of other sources of truth beyond the LLM training, which makes it seem smarter.

Is there any other useful edtech than the FOSS app Anki?

It already has a social impact on the people’s whose intellectual property was pirated, the employees traumatized by nsfw filtering tasks and the reduction of white collar junior recruitment (probably non junior too?). I know some people think it’s just a bubble, companies are waiting to see what happens and the job market will recover. I am doubtful of it.
My tech company is pushing us to use it so they provide the top tools. From what I have observed, I have little doubt it will replace a lot of the designing, engineering, coding and communication time. Yes, you will still need some knowledgeable person to guide and review, but less than before. Similarly to how you need less people to build a car today than you did in the 50’, and even less for an electric car, because so much more is automated.
So far automation and the internet did create more better paid jobs than it destroyed, maybe it will happen with “AI” too, but I am skeptical.
Finally, in my opinion, UBI and work time reduction with equivalent quality of life is a desirable future.

AI could make sense one day if it comes with UBI to compensate its social impact and if it optimizes enough processes to compensate for its ecological footprint. We are far* from this and there’s nowhere enough political pressure to make it happen.

Anyone has a link to the original? Couldn’t find it with a basic search.

Bingo

I was reading per chip x employee, and I was like damn, that’s a lot.

Maybe Anthropic somehow attracted more politically conscious people compared to OpenAI, and it shows in the training?

I was saw so annoyed when they started showing shitty video games ads on the frontpage I stopped my subscription.

Here’s a list I had compiled of non Google/Apple alternatives.

• Murena (France) with /e/OS (France) on:
  • Fairphone (Netherlands)
  • Hiroh (USA)
  • SHIFTphone (Germany)
  • Teracube (USA)
• Punkt MC03 (Switzerland)
• Volla (Germany) with Volla OS or Ubuntu Touch (Germany)
• Jolla (Finland) with Sailfish OS (Finland)
• Furilabs (China) with FuriOS (pronounced “furious”) based on Debian with Phosh UI.
• Purism Librem (USA, manufactured in the USA)
• Pine64 (China) Pinephone with Manjaro (Germany), postmarketOS (?) or Mobian (USA)

https://jlai.lu/post/37072765/20908909

As far as I understood, those noises would come from gas or diesel electricity generators and cooling systems.

Hi, I’m the brave soul reading it for you.

Currently, the Dutch government’s code is spread across GitHub and GitLab, neither of which is under government oversight.

GitHub got ruled out first because it’s proprietary software, which directly conflicts with the government’s own policy of preferring open source when options are equally suitable.

GitLab made it further in the evaluation but didn’t survive it either. The issue was its open-core model, where the Community Edition is genuinely free software but the Enterprise Edition is not.

Forgejo came out on top due to its fully free and open source nature. Licensed under GPLv3+ and governed by Codeberg e.V., a democratic nonprofit, it has no enterprise tier, proprietary upsell, or vendor lock-in problems.

Anecdotal personal observation, I didn’t research the literature.

when I search Reddit or read comments online, I often see people joking or implying that Asian women prefer white men over Black men, or that Black men should not even bother. Sometimes it feels like there is a quiet racial hierarchy being reinforced, where whiteness is treated as the safest or most accepted option, and Black men are treated as undesirable, threatening, or socially costly.

Yes, there is still a racial hierarchy being socially reinforce, it is getting weaker, but slowly. The average society moves slowly, seeing black people getting better represented everywhere every year does not mean the previous centuries of racism are over. Intimate relationships will probably be one of the last things to equalize because it is the furthest away from rationality. So we sadly still need strong minded and/or strongly in love “pioneers” defying social conventions and taking the emotional risks to help make this aspect of racism wash away.

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2027, year of Linux car, or bicycle.