JA WestenbergPeople are shocked to discover they need to fact-check ChatGPT and I'm having the uncomfortable realization that they never fact-checked their uncle's Facebook posts, their friend's medical advice, or literally anything Google's top result told them, and suddenly the last decade makes sense...
oxidand
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> By now, WhatsApp feels far from a private messenger and more like another one of Meta’s profit-driven platforms
https://www.zdnet.com/article/400-million-windows-pcs-vanished-in-3-years-where-did-they-all-go/
There is a Russian proverb that translates as "If you have money, you don't need brains". I think this is a good example of it:
https://www.wired.com/story/mark-zuckerberg-welcomes-superintelligence-team/
Why does everyone needs this "#AI"?
Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮Fedora proposal to drop 32-bit support has been withdrawn https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/fedora-proposal-to-drop-32-bit-support-has-been-withdrawn/
The Japan TimesThe fast-rising energy demands of Big Tech are undermining the ambitious climate pledges that Apple, Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft have all made in recent years, according to a report. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/06/30/tech/ai-data-center-net-zero/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #ai #tech #emissions #netzero #bigtech #environment #climatechange #apple #amazon #google #meta #microsoft
Claude ZeinsOk now this is just ridiculous https://mastodon.social/@caseyliss/114738626109660386
#Meta: 0 days since last #privacynightmare
> IP tells you where the request comes from, that’s it. It doesn’t tell you what language the user wants, speaks, or even understands. It fails all the time — VPNs, travel, people living abroad, countries with multiple official languages. This isn’t cleverness, it gives outright annoyance.
https://vitonsky.net/blog/2025/05/17/language-detection/
And that's like 99.99% of all websites with the language selector...
#language #geolocation #localization #translation #ux #webdev #webdevelopment
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