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Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising (www.techradar.com)
Windows 11 is getting out of hand with its push for advertisments, frankly - remember the recent full-screen pop-up to persuade users to install Edge or other Microsoft services? Then another advertisment was placed in the Start menu, and now Microsoft has finally worn my temper thin - with a new Game Pass ad coming to the...
Gemma 2 is now available to researchers and developers (blog.google)
Context: Gemma is a group of free-to-use AI models with a focus on being small. According to benchmarks this outperforms Llama 3.
Microsoft really wants Local accounts gone after it erases its guide on how to create them (www.xda-developers.com)
Microsoft removes guide on converting Microsoft accounts to Local, pushing for Microsoft sign-ins....
Microsoft Account to local account conversion guide erased from official Windows 11 guide — instructions redacted earlier this week (www.tomshardware.com)
Microsoft has been pushing hard for its users to sign into Windows with a Microsoft Account. The newest Windows 11 installer removed the easy bypass to the requirement that you make an account or login with your existing account. If you didn't install Windows 11 without a Microsoft Account and now want to stop sending the...
Systemd 256.1 Addresses Complaint That 'systemd-tmpfiles' Could Unexpectedly Delete Your /home Directory (linux.slashdot.org)
Here's what's happening to ad blockers in Google Chrome (and other browsers) (www.spacebar.news)
Never buy .xyz
I just wanted to post this here because I want to help you all and hurt gen.xyz as much as possible. I had a .xyz domain through njal.la which I used to host jellyfin, homeassistant, and other basic things for friends and family. My domain recently became inaccessible without any notice. After a while of troubleshooting, I found...
Raspberry Pi launches its IPO (www.raspberrypi.com)
It was nice knowing Raspberry Pi while they lasted. Going to suck losing something that has changed the homegrown embedded system hobby forever.
This Hacker Tool Extracts All the Data Collected by Windows’ New Recall AI (www.wired.com)
When Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella revealed the new Windows AI tool that can answer questions about your web browsing and laptop use, he said one of the “magical” things about it was that the data doesn’t leave your laptop; the Windows Recall system takes screenshots of your activity every five seconds and saves them...
the fear of missing out a better compression (lemmy.world)
Source - Posted with Reddy
Apple will update iPhones for at least 5 years in rare public commitment (arstechnica.com)
Quake-like game made with JavaScript takes up just 13KB of storage (www.tomshardware.com)
You can play it in your browser here.
Reminder: The DMV uses photos for facial recognition
This is half a decade old news, but I only found this out myself after it accidentally came up in conversation at the DMV. The worker would not have informed me if it hadn't come into conversation. Every DMV photo in the United States is being used for AI facial recognition, and nobody has talked about it for years. This is...
Rule (i.imgur.com)
[meta] "." is not a rule (lemmy.cafe)
Screenshot shows three comments being removed from !196 (this community) by one of 196’s mods with the reason for removal being “.” (literally just a period)....
Rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Words for an Epic Quest, part 3 (lemmus.org)
Incidental Comics by Grant Snider, May 24 2024....
Microsoft’s AI chatbot will ‘recall’ everything you do on its new PCs | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
Strict Recall Rule (lemmy.ca)
The Venn-d diagram where resolution effort and a bit of salmonella overlap?
Rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Apple limits third-party browser engine work to EU devices (www.theregister.com)
cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/12739856...
Google unveils Veo, a high-definition AI video generator that may rival Sora (arstechnica.com)
On Tuesday at Google I/O 2024, Google announced Veo, a new AI video-synthesis model that can create HD videos from text, image, or video prompts, similar to OpenAI's Sora. It can generate 1080p videos lasting over a minute and edit videos from written instructions, but it has not yet been released for broad use.
Secure portal between Internet and internal services
I thought I was going to use Authentik for this purpose but it just seems to redirect to an otherwise Internet accessible page. I'm looking for a way to remotely access my home network at a site like remote.mywebsite.com. I have Nginx proxy forwarding with SSL working appropriately, so I need an internal service that receives...
Inb4 "oxymoron" (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
SGE, ChatGPT and the likes are the stupidest thing to come from AI
This may be an unpopular opinnion.....
Is there anyone here who uses BSD on their desktop? (lemmy.world)
East Asia has lowest car utilization, highest public transportation utilization. North America has highest car utilization and lowest public transportation utilization. (www.visualcapitalist.com)
iPad Pro with M4 chip boasts impressive performance jump compared to just-released M3 MacBook Air (9to5mac.com)
On raw performance might, the M4 really does live up to Apple’s promises, should deliver. Single core is up about 20% compared to all M3 chips and more than 40% compared to M2. The generational computational leap from the previous M2 iPad Pro is at least a 42% jump on single-core and multi-core.
Trans rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Thant's how im getting my future gf
US to impose tariffs on Chinese EVs next week (www.arenaev.com)
Does anyone know of a FOSS Firewall for Windows
I currently use TinyWall Firewall, it works very well, it's small/portable, no complaints I even donated to the Dev but I would really prefer open source, also it needs to be user friendly like TinyWall so my non-tech family members can/will use it like they do with TinyWall.
Immich x FUTO Q&A (www.youtube.com)
Short version of this interview is that nothing is changing, other than they're going to be asking a flat fee "$5-20" for the app, rather than relying on donations. All donation platforms have been closed. However, if you choose not to, as Louis says "that's between you and your God"....
welp ... (lemmy.ml)
Back to the studio! (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Advice - Getting started with LLMs
I'm new to the field of large language models (LLMs) and I'm really interested in learning how to train and use my own models for qualitative analysis. However, I'm not sure where to start or what resources would be most helpful for a complete beginner....
Kagi silently removed all references to Google's index from their website
Hi!...