Category: Technology

Старенький нетбук от Acer в современных реалиях

Накатил на старенький Acer Aspire One 722 с 2ГБ RAM и процессором с частотой 1ГГц довольно лёгкий AntiX. И, если использовать только с предустановленный софт, работает всё действительно довольно шустро. А вот если…

By Alex Semёnov

Musk uses expletive to tell audience he doesn't care about advertisers that fled X over hate speech - CTV News [2023-11-29]

Billionaire Elon Musk said Wednesday that advertisers who have halted spending on his social media platform X in response to antisemitic and other hateful material are engaging in "blackmail" and, using a profanity,…

By canadianguy

After 151 years, Popular Science will no longer offer a magazine - The Verge [2023-11-27]

After 151 years, Popular Science will no longer be available to purchase as a magazine. In a statement to The Verge, Cathy Hebert, the communications director for PopSci owner Recurrent Ventures, says the outlet needs…

By canadianguy

LetsFit ID205L Review - Is it Any Good?

I got the ID205L smartwatch as a Christmas gift two years ago. I wear it almost every day and night, and here are my favorite and least liked features.…

By BusyBird15

Why several big-box stores have ditched their self-checkouts - CBC News [2023-11-22]

After Dwayne Ouelette took over the Canadian Tire in North Bay, Ont., last year, he decided to buck the trend and ditch the store's four self-checkout machines — which had been there for a decade.…

By canadianguy

IBM, EU, Disney and others pull ads from Elon Musk's X as concerns about antisemitism fuel backlash - CTV News [2023-11-18]

Advertisers are fleeing social media platform X over concerns about their ads showing up next to pro-Nazi content and hate speech on the site in general, with billionaire owner Elon Musk inflaming tensions with his own…

By canadianguy

Who would be dumb enough to pay to use a search engine?!

Me. I decided to pay to use kagi.com, an alternative search engine. …

By Libb

EFF: Законы об авторском праве против нейросетей и ИИ

В последнее время только и разговоров, что об ИИ: ИИ то, ИИ сё. ИИ повсюду, и многим это не нравится. Не нравится это авторам, на чьих работах искусственный интеллект обучается. Не нравится это и тем, кто боится, что…

By Alex Semёnov

Welcome.

Welcome to my public notebook. Here you will find some howtos about coding, server administration and networking. I'm a IT guy who work in a public administration office in Italy, linux kernel contributor and ethical…

By tactictux

What to do with new technology...

"A rubber duck skiing down a powder snow mountain in Iceland" "A friendly and powerful Jedi Rubber Duck breaking through the front lines of an army of Sith and droids in a snowy mountain setting. Cinematic setting"…

By wildente

Reading a binary watch, tips & tricks

I first learnt binary as a kid at school and on a few (admittedly rare) occasions it has been useful to know it for my day job (since I work in IT). However these days, it is primarily just something I use to read my…

By ruario

Why AI Lies - For chatbots, the truth is elusive; it is for humans, too - Psychology Today [2023-10-27]

Attorney Steven Schwartz heard about large language models (LLMs) from his children. He read a few articles on the subject, one saying that the new artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots could make legal research…

By canadianguy