@BramVanDriel

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Alle posts vanuit eigen interesse en opinie. Physicus. Fan van Skepter en Godot en FL Studio. Bezorgd om laag tempo energietransitie. Fietst tegenwoordig meer dan vroeger.
How Google Maps is shaping where we eat.
Josh Toussaint-Strauss discovers that great restaurants are disappearing on Google Maps, despite having lots of reviews and high ratings, so he sets out to get to the bottom of it and finds out that what Google Maps shows us isn't necessarily what we want to see
https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2026/mar/19/how-google-maps-is-shaping-where-we-eat-video?utm_source=globalmuseum #globalmuseum #googlemaps #restaurants

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Colleagues at work are thrilled with how well Microsoft’s Copilot helps them find e-mails and files. No one seems to remember it was Microsoft who:
* Gradually crippled Outlook’s search functionality;
* Ruined File Explorer’s simplicity; and
* Turned the Start menu search into a joke

How great it is that we can now use computationally expensive algorithms that are right *most* of the time...

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In a survey of 25 countries, the United States was the only country in which more adults describe the morality of their compatriots as bad than good. 53% of respondents said that the morality and ethics of other people in their country is either somewhat or very bad. Since this is a new question for Pew Research, the team says they don't know whether this is a long-held view or something new. A million miles away in sentiment, but just kilometres away geographically, 92% of Canadians think other Canadians are either very good or somewhat good.

https://flip.it/bFGW8O

#USNews #CanadianNews #Morality #Data

In 25-Country Survey, Americans Especially Likely To View Fellow Citizens as Morally Bad

Across 25 countries, Americans are the most likely to see the morality and ethics of people in their country as somewhat or very bad.

Pew Research Center

We are aware of recent reports regarding targeted phishing attacks that have resulted in account takeovers of some Signal users, including government officials and journalists. We take this very seriously.

To be clear: Signal’s encryption and infrastructure have not been compromised and remain robust. These attacks were executed via sophisticated phishing campaigns, designed to trick users into sharing information – SMS codes and/or Signal PIN – to gain access to users’ accounts.

The end user licensee agreement #EULA of my eight year old #hue light bulb has exploded in length while I was just hanging around in my house..

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Früher war das Autoland Deutschland das Zentrum der Innovationen. Heute müssen wir immer öfter nach #China schauen. #BYD präsentiert einen Akku, der in 5 Minuten von 10 auf 70% geladen werden kann und in 10 Min. fast ganz voll. Nicht, dass man das unbedingt bräuchte. Aber damit hat wirklich niemand mehr ein gutes Argument gegen die #Elektromobilität. Das ist der Verbrennerfraktion in Deutschland aber egal. Und so verspielen wir in Deutschland immer mehr unsere Zukunft und unseren Wohlstand.
NEW ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 2.4% in 2025 as coal fell to a 400-year low. Incredibly, we used less coal last year than than in 1600, when Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne and Shakespeare was writing Hamlet. All the details in our article: www.carbonbrief.org/...

@OlivierBurnier @ublockorigin

Mistral: two blocked requests.

Cloudflare Insights ("is the site up") and a single Intercom beacon POST that didn't even retry.

that's it. no Statsig. no tracking GIFs. no Google Analytics. no distributed tracing. no proof-of-work challenge. no KETCHUP_DISCOVERY_CARD. nothing.

a French AI company nobody talks about is running the cleanest frontend in the entire field by a factor of roughly 150x and we're all sleeping on it

les français ont tout compris

#mistral #privacy #infosec