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Meta's $1.4 Trillion Reckoning: Can Infinite Scroll Be Illegal? - Gadget Review


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Flock's Network Is Losing Value to Cops as More and More of Its Cameras Go Offline


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PJM Interconnection, the ‌biggest U.S. grid operator, proposed on Thursday a new framework that would force data centers to use back-up generators when electricity supply on the grid approaches dangerously low levels.


Yeah that's not better. Not to mention, how do we know if the datacenter is just hosting AI garbage, or your local hospital's servers?

Unable to delete double-post on Lemmy from Friendica


!Fediverse

Hey - I accidentally replied to a top-level post when I meant to reply to a comment within a post within a Lemmy Community (c/homebox). I copied my comment over as a new reply and then deleted the original.

At first, it looked like that was all I needed to do, but then the top-level reply showed back up on lemmy.world. I have already "Deleted Comment Globally" within Friendica, so I'm not sure how to remove the double-post.

Am I missing something, or is this a bug of some sort?

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This sounds like a breakage in the way that Friendica and Lemmy interact. I'd report it as a bug on both sides, see if you can get folks to work towards figuring out a way to resolve it.

The different Fediverse software implement things in their interpretation and sometimes there's a divide that can be resolved. :)

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Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots /// In just over a week, the Hanover Institute has published at least 100 articles that appear tailor-made to influence chatbots


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Especially given it has a similar effect to how spam emails are often deliberately bad so they just don't waste their time with people that waste some of their time before wising up. If you only get the most easily duped people in the first place, that's a lot less time wasted.

With LLMs, you're explicitly targeting people that are less likely to strongly ideologically object to things (like LLMs, or genocide funding) on moral grounds, you're getting the people that are willing to just get a quick answer without having to look into it deeply, and you're getting the people who's sole goal it is to flood the web with any SEO-optimized slop they can with the least effort possible.

LLMs self select for people not willing to put in cognitive effort, that are easily influenced and less careful about fact-checking things.

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Help - Trouble with Backing Up


!HomeBox

Hey Homebox Community.

I'm having some trouble getting Backups out of my Homebox install - it seems that I'm running into bug #1592 (github.com/sysadminsmedia/home…).

The bug seems to be fixed by merge #1596 (github.com/sysadminsmedia/home…) which says its merged into main, however the homebox:latest image does not seem to have been updated past 0.26.2.

It does seem that I can get the backups created and pull them out of the container manually for the moment... do I just need to wait until another version upgrade? Is there some other tagged version I should be using besides :latest? Do I need to avoid using the prebuilt image and build an image myself from source?

Thanks in advance!

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Thanks for the quick response!

It seems that I'm having a different issue when I use :main (image attachments no longer load, and backup fails with errors stating WRN ../go/src/app/internal/core/services/service_exports.go:534 > export: attachment blob missing, skipping ).

Can I trust the backup zip files that are created in /data/<uid>/exports/ when using the :latest image until there is an update?

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Friendica - Using Circles for Privacy


!GigglezNet Community Tips

Friendica uses the concept of 'Circles' to manage both privacy and feeds.

To create a personal feed, create a new Circle.

To add something to a feed, add it to the Circle.

To view a feed, view the Circle.

#giggleznettips #privacy #feeds #views #friendica #circles #fediverse

Friendica - Using Circles for Privacy


!GigglezNet Community Tips

Friendica uses the concept of 'Circles' to manage both privacy and feeds.

On the 'permissions' tab of a post within the Friendica UI, you can select the Circles that you want to share a post with.

If you want to share something with most of a community, you can also list any accounts that you specifically do not want to be able to see the post.

#giggleznettips #privacy #posting #friendica #circles #fediverse

GigglezNet Group Announcement - Good Video Essays


!GigglezNet Community Tips

Introducing the new GigglezNet Community Group Good Video Essays

Make a new post tagging !Good Video Essays and your post will be shared to the @Good Video Essays group.

Add the group to your contacts to see posts made to the group.

About Good Video Essays

Good Video Essays is a GigglezNet Community group for sharing thought provoking and informative videos, with the intent of starting discussions.

#giggleznetcommunity #giggleznettips #friendica #announcement #groups #forums #feeds #fediverse

Friendica - Interacting with Lemmy Communities


!GigglezNet Community Tips

Under the hood, Friendica can speak to other Fediverse servers similarly to how gmail.com email servers can talk to outlook.com email servers. What this means is that you can use other social media platforms from within this one!

For example, lets say you want to interact with posts from a Lemmy Community (conceptually similar to a 'subreddit'). If you want to receive posts from a community directly in your feed, you can do so by adding a contact for `!communityname@lemmy.instance`. If you want to make a new post to that community, you can do so by tagging the user `!communityname@lemmy.instance`.

You can browse Lemmy Communities by going to individual instances in your web browser (sh.itjust.works and lemmy.world being two of the larger english speaking instances). If you find a Community you like, it is highly recommended that you add it as a contact as described above because it allows you to see multiple different Lemmy Communities within your feed, without having to browse multiple separate sites for updates from specific communities/groups.

#giggleznettips #friendica #lemmy #fediverse #feeds #posts #community #subreddit #forum #groups

Using Friendica - Important Local Information


!GigglezNet Community Tips

Even if your local government doesn't broadcast information 'in the fediverse', you can still get local news feeds from your local government via RSS!

Hillsboro, OR Feeds Directory: hillsboro-oregon.gov/business/…

Vancouver, WA - City Main Feed: cityofvancouver.us/feed/

#giggleznettips #friendica #fediverse #rss #localnews

Using Friendica - GigglezNet Community Tips


!GigglezNet Community Tips

If you're having trouble using parts of GigglezNet, you can search Friendica for the #giggleznettips tag to find posts from GigglezNet users and administrators on how to use GigglezNet.

Want to help out? Have a tip on 'how to do something cool' with GigglezNet that you want to share? Make a post including the tag #giggleznettips, and include tags to indicate what parts of GigglezNet you're talking about - if enough people find it useful, it will be added to the GigglezNet Community Tips Message Board!

Please don't use the #giggleznettips tag on Public posts - tips specific to GigglezNet may not apply to other users of the Fediverse, and may therefore create confusion for them.

#GigglezNet #help #git #friendica #activitypub #fediverse #email #roundcube #homebox #vaultwarden #jellyfin #immich #n8n #ollama #ntfy

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What do you mean how is it better to agree to the price before hand? That cannot be a serious question. If it's too expensive at least you know ahead of time and can just not accept. You cannot be scammed by a driver going around in circles and increasing the price when you've already paid. In a taxi, you can. Uber/Bolt are objectively better in this regard, there is no point denying it and expecting to be taken seriously. Even my old parents who can barely use tech prefer to use Uber for that reason.

It's an outdated system and one of the two main reason they are dying in so many places. The other is service quality - never heard of a cab you can call with an app where it shows you how far it is and how long you have. At least where I live, you have to call for one and just hope they show up.

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Agent 327: Operation Barbershop


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This three-minute teaser for a full-length animated feature is based on Dutch artist Martin Lodewijk's classic comics series Agent 327. The Blender Animation Studio is currently developing the story and seeks for funding to bring this adventurous comedy animation film to an international audience.

More information: agent327.com

Entirely made in Blender, released as Creative Commons for Blender Cloud subscribers.

Join cloud.blender.org today, get 10 years of film production history, tutorials, and help us making more!

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Glass Half - Blender animated cartoon


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Two amateur art critics meet in a gallery and argue passionately about the pieces they see, until finally they find a piece on which they can agree...

All of the visuals of the film have been realized using Blender and other free/open source software, the film itself and all the assets are being released open and free as Creative Commons CC-BY.

You can support us by joining Blender Cloud, a monthly subscription that makes projects like this possible:

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Directed by: Beorn Leonard
Produced by: Ton Roosendaal, Blender Institute

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Cosmos Laundromat - First Cycle. Official Blender Foundation release.


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On a desolate island, suicidal sheep Franck meets his fate in a quirky salesman, who offers him the gift of a lifetime. Little does he know that he can only handle so much lifetime. (Target audience age: 13+)

"Cosmos Laundromat" started in 2014 as an experimental feature film, in which an adventurous and absurdist love story is being told by multiple teams - each working in their own unique style. The opening of the film, the 10 minutes pilot "First Cycle", has been made in the Netherlands by the studio of Blender Institute in Amsterdam.

The film itself and all of the artwork files were made with free/open source software and are available under a permissive license. Free to share, free to remix and free to learn from.

Want to see more? Subscribe to the Blender Cloud, our Open Production platform. cloud.blender.org/join

Production website: gooseberry.blender.org

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Sintel - Third Open Movie by Blender Foundation


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Help us making Free/Open Movies: cloud.blender.org/join

"Sintel" is an independently produced short film, initiated by the Blender Foundation as a means to further improve and validate the free/open source 3D creation suite Blender. With initial funding provided by 1000s of donations via the internet community, it has again proven to be a viable development model for both open 3D technology as for independent animation film.
This 15 minute film has been realized in the studio of the Amsterdam Blender Institute, by an international team of artists and developers. In addition to that, several crucial technical and creative targets have been realized online, by developers and artists and teams all over the world.

www.sintel.org

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Tears of Steel - Blender VFX Open Movie


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New 4k re-rendered version available! youtu.be/41hv2tW5Lc4

"Tears of Steel" was realized with crowd-funding by users of the open source 3D creation tool Blender. Target was to improve and test a complete open and free pipeline for visual effects in film - and to make a compelling sci-fi film in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

The film itself, and all raw material used for making it, have been released under the Creatieve Commons 3.0 Attribution license. Visit the tearsofsteel.org website to find out more about this, or to purchase the 4-DVD box with a lot of extras.

(CC) Blender Foundation - tearsofsteel.org

Duration: 12 minutes. Available also in HD and DCP 2.35:1, Dolby 5.1.

Age: Suitable for 12 years and older.
Language: English spoken
Production: Blender Institute

Producer: Ton Roosendaal
Director & Writer: Ian Hubert
Director of Photography: Joris Kerbosch
Composer: Joram Letwory

Starring: Derek de Lint, Sergio Hasselbaink, Rogier Schippers, Vanja Rukavina, Denise Rebergen, Jody Bhe, Chris Haley

Crew: Andreas Goralczyk, David Revoy, Francesco Siddi, Jeremy Davidson, Kjartan Tysdal, Nicolo Zubbini, Rob Tuytel, Roman Volodin, Sebastian Koenig, Brecht van Lommel, Campbell Barton, Sergey Sharybin.

Project funding: Blender Foundation,
Netherlands Film Fund, Cinegrid Amsterdam

Premium Sponsor: Google
Main Sponsors: NVIDIA, Hewlett-Packard Workstations, Camalot AV Services, BlenderGuru.

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Big Buck Bunny 60fps 4K - Official Blender Foundation Short Film


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Enjoy this UHD High Frame rate version of one of the iconic short films produced by Blender Institute!
Learn more about the project here bbb3d.renderfarming.net. Support more Open Content at cloud.blender.org.

NOTE: currently, YouTube allows 60fps only on 1080p videos. We uploaded the video in UHD, so maybe in the future it will be available in UHD 60p. You can download the original version at bbb3d.renderfarming.net.

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Spring - Blender Open Movie


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Spring is the latest short film produced by Blender Animation Studio. Made in Blender 2.8.
Get the production files, assets and exclusive making-of videos by joining Blender Cloud at cloud.blender.org

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Spring is the story of a shepherd girl and her dog, who face ancient spirits in order to continue the cycle of life. This poetic and visually stunning short film was written and directed by Andy Goralczyk, inspired by his childhood in the mountains of Germany.

The Spring team used the development version of Blender 2.80 for the entire production, before the software was in official Beta even. As for all of Blender’s Open Movies, the entire production process and all its source files are being shared on the production platform Blender Cloud.

Director: Andy Goralczyk
Producer: Francesco Siddi
Executive producer: Ton Roosendaal
Music: Torin Borrowdale
Sound: Sander Houtman
Concept art: David Revoy
Animation director: Hjalti Hjalmarsson
Modeling and shading: Julien Kaspar
Animation: Ignacio Conesa, Nathan Dillow, Pablo Fournier
Rigging: Juan Pablo Bouza
Lighting and effects: Pablo Vazquez, Sam Van Hulle
Software and Pipeline: Brecht van Lommel, Jacques Lucke, Jeroen Bakker, Sergey Sharybin, Sybren Stüvel, Tobias Johansson

Rendering IT4INNOVATIONS VSB - Technical University of Ostrava

Format: 3D animated film, 7:44 minutes. 5.1 sound. No dialogs. Fit for an audience of 6 years and older (PG). Everything you see was made with Blender, GIMP, Krita and Inkscape.

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Coffee Run - Blender Open Movie


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Fueled by caffeine, a young woman runs through the bittersweet memories of her past relationship. Get the production files, assets, tutorials and exclusive making-of videos by joining Blender Cloud at cloud.blender.org/p/coffee-run

Follow Blender Cloud
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Sprite Fright - Open Movie by Blender Studio


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Produced by Blender Studio. Made in Blender. Rated PG-13.
Get the production files, assets and exclusive making-of videos by joining Blender Studio at studio.blender.org/films/sprit…
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Charge - Blender Open Movie


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CHARGE is an open movie, made entire with Blender. Get the production files, assets and exclusive making-of videos by joining Blender Studio at studio.blender.org/films/charg…

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In an energy-scarce dystopia, an old destitute man breaks into a battery factory but soon finds himself confronted by a deadly security droid and no way out.

Blender Studio is the creative part of the Blender HQ. A dedicated team of artists and developers challenge themselves with creative-technical targets to help Blender users and to drive Blender development forward. This happens in an open source production environment and by sharing everything they make in an open and free license.

Want to know more? Join the studio today and help the team to create & share. studio.blender.org/

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SINGULARITY - Painterly Space Adventure


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Our story takes place in a distant age of the universe, when the stars and galaxies were young. When an ominous cosmic event swallows the icy home of a small space critter, he must find refuge among a group of luminous creatures watched over by a mysterious celestial being.

Subscribe to Blender Studio to access invaluable production knowledge from Blender Studio, while securing Blender's future. Learn more at studio.blender.org/welcome/

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Numberphile - A Sudoku Secret to Blow Your Mind


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!Good Video Essays

Numberphile - Infinity is bigger than you think


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!Good Video Essays

Kurzgesagt - The Real Reason Why You Have Allergies


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!Good Video Essays

Folding Ideas - Line Goes Up - The Problem With NFTs


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!Good Video Essays

Folding Ideas - The Future is a Dead Mall - Decentraland and the Metaverse


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!Good Video Essays

Folding Ideas - Why It's Rude to Suck at Warcraft


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!Good Video Essays

Folding Ideas - This is Financial Advice


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!Good Video Essays

Benn Jordan - This Flock Camera Leak is like Netflix for Stalkers


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!Good Video Essays

Benn Jordan - Datacenters Behaving Like Acoustic Weapons


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!Good Video Essays

Benn Jordan - I Saved a PNG Image To A Bird


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Benn Jordan - Breaking The Creepy AI in Police Cameras


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!Good Video Essays