Running @fedora Fedora 41 Beta as my daily computer for a few days: things work very smoothly, and @gnome Gnome 47 looks fantastic. The fact that many apps are installed as @FlatpakApps Flatpak may help. Only major issue so far: proprietary Nvidia drivers mess up all gtk4 applications, so even […]
As OpenAI trained its speech-to-text on YouTube, it tends to end all sorts of transcripts with things such as "subscribe to my channel" in (relatively) less used languages https://blog.gdeltproject.org/what-openais-whisper-teaches-us-about-the-dependence-of-the-large-models-revolution-on-youtube/
By focusing on climate impact, perhaps missing part of the point, and yet, much of the criticism is valid and useful "Shrinking the economy won’t save the planet" #degrowthhttps://www.vox.com/future-perfect/371640/economic-growth-climate-change-degrowth-science-global-warming
I've decided trying out to try out the #shinylive#runiverse version. Things get stuck when exporting the app, with either an "access denied" here […]
Incredible stuff in #Georgia#ForeignAgent law. If organisations do register as foreign agents, then they will get government grants! So, presumably, the Georgian government will pay them to carry out the interests of foreign actors? And if not, I suppose they were not […]
Useful considerations on the risks of focusing on "competitivess" for European development https://open.substack.com/pub/thecounterbalance/p/europes-competitiveness-problem?r=177dc&selection=8ced43ba-c128-402c-8a59-e685a0f27621&utm_campaign=post-share-selection&utm_medium=web
On the dangers of groupthink - "Globsec security forum insists Ukraine is still winning the war" - https://www.intellinews.com/visegrad-blog-globsec-security-forum-keeps-on-believing-that-ukraine-is-winning-the-war-341413/
English word of the day for me: argot noun [sing., U] (from French) informal words and phrases that are used by a particular group of people and not easily understood by others (kind of like jargon, or slang)