L: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0j97xegz5no
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44865655
posted on 2025.08.11 at 11:53:55 (c=1, p=4)
Where is the rain we were promised? ☔
Had the pleasure of spending a weekend in Filey! If you want to feel that nostalgic charm of a seaside town, do go!
Google Gemini wants to read your search history
https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/google-gemini-wants-to-read-your-search-history/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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encompasses many features, but until now, it has not requested access to your Google Search history. This changes with the introduction of the company’s new Gemini Personalization model. discovered that this feature is part of the Google app beta (version 16.8.31). When you select the Gemini Personalization model, a confirmation pop-up will appear. If you grant […]
The fediverse is an ecosystem where you - not some incellionaire obsessed with eugenics - own your digital identity.
Where your social graph belongs to you, not an algorithm’s shifting fucking whims.
Where moving from one service to another doesn’t mean losing everything you’ve built and everything you’ve ever said.
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-fediverse-isnt-the-future-its-the-present-weve-been-denied/
For years, the internet has been shrinking. Not in size, not in data, but in ownership. A vast, decentralized network of personal blogs, forums, and independent communities has been corralled into a handful of paved prison yards controlled by a few massive corporations. Every post, every “friend,” every creative work—
We are 46 days into Trump ending the Ukraine war in 24 hours, and so far Trump has produced 0 concessions from Vladimir Putin.
But according to Trump, Ukraine must give up Crimea, give up NATO membership, give their minerals to the US, remove their president, and stop fighting Vladimir Putin, while he has time to build up a stronger force for attacking Ukraine.
This is not a peace deal. This is a Putin deal.