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Dentists are pulling healthy and treatable teeth to profit from implants, experts warn in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/05/the-trouble-with-dentistry/586039/

I am reminded of this old (forgive me) The Atlantic piece. It has two through-lines. One is the story of a dentist that was doing malpractice, finding issues in people's teeth that didn't exist so he could milk their insurance (and ruin their lives). The other is the story of why dentistry is separate from the rest of medicine.

how to effectively do what you don't want to do? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

If you have a Mac the free app Tomito in the App Store is a genuinely good pomodoro timer. There are plenty other options, even websites, but this one is my favorite so far.

Mozilla explains their recent foray into advertising - A free and open internet shouldn’t come at the expense of privacy in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Netscape, which was essentially the predecessor to Mozilla, was a well funded VC-backed startup. That’s how they did it.

The official support of Windows 7 has finally ended today! in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I think they are trying to ensure that no future Windows is ever good again. I mean, it was Win10 that made me frustrated enough to permanently kick the habit of using Windows.

Former Google CEO says climate goals are not meetable, so we might as well drop climate conservation — unshackle AI companies so AI can solve global warming in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 weeks ago

His megalomania is so boundless he would sacrifice the entire planet to make money.

TikTok’s parent launched a web scraper that’s gobbling up the world’s online data 25-times faster than OpenAI in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

As for what ByteDance plans to do with a new LLM, a person familiar with the company’s ambitions said one goal has to do with the search function for TikTok.

Last week, TikTok released an update to its current search function focused on [keywords for ads], basically allowing advertisers to search in real time for words that are trending on TikTok. It allows marketers to build an ad with relevant keywords that would ostensibly help the ad show up on the screens of more users.

…

“Given the audience and the amount of use, TikTok with a search environment that is a completely biddable space with keywords and topics, that would be very interesting to a lot of people spending a ton of money with Google right now,” the person said.

A dark vision just flashed in my mind. And I am certain this is what will happen. AI-generated ads done in real time based on the latest “trending” thing. Presented to users basically as soon as the topic has the slightest amount of “trend”.

Just emitting untold amounts of CO2 to show you generated ads in near real time.

Inside the State Department’s Weapons Pipeline to Israel in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

Untold bloodshed, cruelty, and inhumanity. But at least you get some wine and a nice note. Really makes it worth it!

What is your favorite movie of all time? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

E.T.

I am absolutely charmed by the characters, the story, the optimism, and the connection to the unknown.

What can I do with my super old laptop? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Since it’s an old acer netbook with an Intel atom cpu it is highly unlikely it has any hardware decoding built in.

Venezuela announces dismantling of CIA-backed coup plot, arrest of active-duty Navy Seal in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wait… again???

China to Build Morocco High-Speed Rail Line For $350 Million - Newsweek in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Here comes the Lecture.

Commercial spyware vendor exploits used by Kremlin-backed hackers, Google says | Ars Technica in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Wow who could have foreseen back doors getting back doored?

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Is there a better way to browse man pages? (lemmy.ml)
 

For many, many years now when I want to browse a man page about something I'll type man X into my terminal, substituting X for whatever it is I wish to learn about. Depending on the manual, it's short and therefore easy to find what I want, or I am deep in the woods because I'm trying to find a specific flag that appears many times in a very long document. Woe is me if the flag switch is a bare letter, like x.

And let's say it is x. Now I am searching with /x followed by n n n n n n n n N n n n n n. Obviously I'm not finding the information I want, the search is literal (not fuzzy, nor "whole word"), and even if I find something the manual pager might overshoot me because finding text will move the found line to the top of the terminal, and maybe the information I really want comes one or two lines above.

So... there HAS to be a better way, right? There has to be a modern, fast, easily greppable version to go through a man page. Does it exist?

P.S. I am not talking about summaries like tldr because I typically don't need summaries but actual technical descriptions.

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A Gaza influencer built a following with feel-good videos. Now he mourns his family (text.npr.org)
 

"I tend to spread positive energy," Hassouna says. "But when the war started, there was no positive energy."

His darkest hour came on Feb. 12.

The Israeli military unleashed heavy bombings to provide cover for commandos during a successful hostage rescue mission. At least 74 Palestinians were killed in that bombing campaign, according to Gaza health officials.

Hassouna's mother, father, brother, sister-in-law and young nieces and nephew were among them. They were killed as they slept in the home where they were sheltering. It was the one night Hassouna happened to sleep over at a friend's house.

"Now I am by myself," he says. "Why should I live my life without a family?"

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FuturesUnordered and the order of futures (without.boats)
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Zelenskyy fires Ukraine’s top general Zaluzhny (www.politico.eu)
 

And an extra article giving more background and lead up https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-general-runs-out-of-road-kyiv-washington/

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Monaspace - Microsoft presents a new font family for code (monaspace.githubnext.com)
 

The way they talk about it makes it sound like they invented the written word, but that notwithstanding the fonts actually look really nice in my opinion.

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Should lemmy.ml block chatgpt scraping in robots.txt? (lemmy.ml)
 

Some context about this here: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/08/openai-details-how-to-keep-chatgpt-from-gobbling-up-website-data/

the robots.txt would be updated with this entry

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

Obviously this is meaningless against non-openai scrapers or anyone who just doesn't give a shit.

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PipeWire 0.3.77 Released (gitlab.freedesktop.org)
 

PipeWire 0.3.77 (2023-08-04)

This is a quick bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with previous 0.3.x releases.

Highlights

  • Fix a bug in ALSA source where the available number of samples was miscaluclated and resulted in xruns in some cases.
  • A new L permission was added to make it possible to force a link between nodes even when the nodes can't see each other.
  • The VBAN module now supports midi send and receive as well.
  • Many cleanups and small fixes.
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