Aslak Raanes

@aslakr
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Poster på norsk og noe engelsk. Booster (?) i tillegg ting som er på dansk, svensk og tysk.

Posts in Norwegian and English. Might boost posts in Danish, Swedish and some German.

🗺️ #Trondheim, #Norway 

🧑‍💻 #NTNU 

#searchable
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Keep in mind that "buys chrome" means "buys the automatic updater that can install arbitrary code on computers that run chrome".

The UK government saying "delete old emails" to save water. 🤦‍♂️

Most emails average about 50k of storage even for someone who gets a lot of attachments, and will have exactly zero effect on data center consumption.

"Don't use cryptocurrency" and "don't use generative AI" would of course be thousands of times more effective.

people are always like "support mental health" until its the non-cutesy mental illness like bpd, bipolar, or schizophrenia

has anyone ever made a man page viewer which shows you a table of contents for the man page so you can easily navigate through the sections?

(please do not tell me about `info`)

Jaha, GP skär ner rejält på antalet journalister och ”för att möta utmaningarna framöver planerar redaktionen att ta mer hjälp av AI”. #medier #aihype
https://www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/nedslagen-stamning-pa-goteborgs-posten-16-tjanster-forsvinner
Nedslagen stämning på Göteborgs-Posten – 16 tjänster försvinner

Göteborgs-Posten förlorar 16 tjänster när Stampen Media genomför ytterligare besparingar. Cirka 60 tjänster ska bort inom koncernen vilket väntas minska ...

Sveriges Radio

Hei kjære #Norge! Ej lure på om vi he nåken som e aktive rundt problematikken med avviklinga av Windows 10? Til dømes kampanjar, plakatar o.l. som leda folk til å vurdere #Linux på sin gamle PC, for å hindre unødvendig e-avfall, bedre digital suverenitet og liknande? https://endof10.org/nn

#NorskTut #Allheimen #Noreg

The fact that the UK Government is asking people to delete their emails rather than to ban AI factories and other nonsense is so incredibly upsetting and so fucking inhumane...

UK Asks People to Delete Emails In Order to Save Water During Drought

As Britain experiences one of its worst droughts in decades, its leaders suggest people get rid of old data to reduce stress on data centers.

404 Media
One of my more pedantic nitpicks is finding it annoying that people forget that in the movie Minority Report the "tech" was not AI or fancy algos but three psychic orphans with weird drug-induced aliments who spend most of their time in a milk pool
WSJ - The White House plans to conduct a far-reaching review of Smithsonian museum exhibitions, materials and operations ahead of America’s 250th anniversary to ensure the museums align with President Trump’s interpretation of American history. https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/white-house-to-vet-smithsonian-museums-to-fit-trumps-historical-vision-78875c8a?mod=hp_lead_pos8