AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast
Moltbook lets 32,000 AI bots trade jokes, tips, and complaints about humans.
'Reverse Solar Panel' Generates Electricity at Night
It produces only a little power, but its innovative approach could support hardware that operates during lengthy periods of total darkness, such as deep-space satellites.
https://www.extremetech.com/science/reverse-solar-panel-generates-electricity-at-night
YouTube seems to be blocking background video playback on Samsung Internet, Brave, and other browsers
Reports claim YouTube no longer plays in the background on Samsung Internet and Brave, breaking a popular screen-off audio workaround.
https://piunikaweb.com/2026/01/28/youtube-background-play-samsung-internet-brave/
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On Chomsky
Far too much has already been said and written about Noam Chomsky, and some of it has the counter-productive effect of further enhancing his myth.redsails.org
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Epstein has always had close ties to MIT and there was a big scandal about them accepting donations.
It's also been own for several years that Chomsky stayed at Epstein's Paris home at least once, and publicly apologized for his association with Epstein iirc.
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Israel kills 29, including children, in new Gaza ceasefire violation
At least 29 Palestinians, including at least six children, have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza City and Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip since dawn, according to medical sources speaking to Al Jazeera.
The violence comes a day before Israel is due to reopen the Rafah crossing, which links Gaza with Egypt, on Sunday for the first time since May 2024.
Mahmoud Basal, the spokesman of the Palestinian Civil Defence in Gaza, has told Al Jazeera that most of those killed in Israeli attacks today are children.
https://apnews.com/article/mideast-wars-gaza-israel-strikes-88fcbfdbe8ea6265fa3765b7a407a5a7
La Corée du Sud viendra construire des véhicules électriques au Canada
La Corée du Sud viendra construire des véhicules électriques au Canada
Séoul et Ottawa s’entendent pour améliorer « la prospérité économique et la résilience des chaînes d’approvisionnement ».Catherine Morrison (Le Devoir)
Il faut multiplier les annonces du genre pour envoyer un message clair à Washington: "nous allons désormais agir sans votre aval sur un shitload d'affaires vu que vous nous faites chier randomly." Je pense que c'est actuellement la meilleure réponse à donner aux menaces de Trump.
*le move de Carney au sujet des voitures électriques chinoises doit tellement faire chier l'administration de Donald, je paierais pour entendre ce qui se dit à Washington là-dessus!
Canada has gutted its economic migration program
Canada has gutted its economic migration program
Francophones are now the highest priority group of skilled workers, passing over better-qualified applicants who don’t speak FrenchThe Editorial Board (The Globe and Mail)
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Not sure how different things are today than in 2003 but back then it was easier to immigrate to QC as well. It took 6-8 months to immigrate to QC and 3-5 years for the rest of Canada.
I don't think it's a bad idea to prioritize other parameters than growth in our immigration programs. Even though I might lose a great junior on my team who's working on PR and learning French to get it. 😅
Am not a francophone and I live in ON btw.
World's largest particle accelerator begins warming thousands of local French residents with waste energy from the 16-mile Large Hadron Collider
The world’s largest particle accelerator now has an important new mission: heating thousands of homes. The Large Hadron Collider at CERN has begun to funnel the waste heat from its cooling system to a new residential and commercial area in the nearby French town of Ferney-Voltaire, with the new linkup expected to be able to heat several thousand homes at once.
The $100 Billion Megadeal Between OpenAI and Nvidia Is on Ice
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has privately played down likelihood original deal will be finalized, although the two companies will continue to have a close collaborationThe companies unveiled the giant agreement last September at Nvidia’s Santa Clara, Calif., headquarters. They announced a memorandum of understanding for Nvidia to build at least 10 gigawatts of computing power for OpenAI, and the chip maker also agreed to invest up to $100 billion to help OpenAI pay for it. As part of the deal, OpenAI agreed to lease the chips from Nvidia.
At the time, the ChatGPT-maker expected the deal negotiations to be completed in the coming weeks, people familiar with the plans said. But the talks haven’t progressed beyond the early stages, some of the people said.
Now, the two sides are rethinking the future of their partnership, some of the people said. The latest discussions, they said, include an equity investment of tens of billions of dollars as part of OpenAI’s current funding round.
Archived: archive.ph/iOuh5
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-100-billion-megadeal-between-openai-and-nvidia-is-on-ice-aa3025e3
Alt Media is dumping Epstein docs if anyone cares
Israel kills 29, including children, in new Gaza ceasefire violation
At least 29 Palestinians, including at least six children, have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza City and Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip since dawn, according to medical sources speaking to Al Jazeera.
The violence comes a day before Israel is due to reopen the Rafah crossing, which links Gaza with Egypt, on Sunday for the first time since May 2024.
Mahmoud Basal, the spokesman of the Palestinian Civil Defence in Gaza, has told Al Jazeera that most of those killed in Israeli attacks today are children.
https://apnews.com/article/mideast-wars-gaza-israel-strikes-88fcbfdbe8ea6265fa3765b7a407a5a7
Israel kills 29, including children, in new Gaza ceasefire violation
At least 29 Palestinians, including at least six children, have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza City and Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip since dawn, according to medical sources speaking to Al Jazeera.
The violence comes a day before Israel is due to reopen the Rafah crossing, which links Gaza with Egypt, on Sunday for the first time since May 2024.
Mahmoud Basal, the spokesman of the Palestinian Civil Defence in Gaza, has told Al Jazeera that most of those killed in Israeli attacks today are children.
https://apnews.com/article/mideast-wars-gaza-israel-strikes-88fcbfdbe8ea6265fa3765b7a407a5a7
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I was all for the guy before Trudeau left the picture.
But I'm not that smart, so I fell for his tactics.
I don't think he's the guy for the job,
but then again, who is?
With the recent "spotify hack", can one now easily get songs from that hack?
So, there was a "spotify hack" recently, from Anna's Archive, as we all know. My question is:
- Has the songs from that hack been made available? Can one easily get these songs? Say, I want song X from artist Y. Can I search and download?
‘We’re basically pushers:’ Two California courtrooms hear how companies may have hooked kids on social media
Social media addiction was knowingly inflicted on kids, lawsuits say
In two California courtrooms, everyone from school districts to social media users are saying tech companies enabled social media addictionColin Lecher (CalMatters)
Davos Never Learns: The Cluelessness of the Powerful
Davos Never Learns: The Cluelessness of the Powerful - Sinopsis
A healthy dose of hypocrisy remains the surest path to acclaim at gatherings of the global elite.karina (AcaMedia z.ú.)
Ah yes, the Davos Elite, the usual conspiracy scapegoats.
The same group that is organizing the "You will Own Nothing" plot and force you to eat bugs and be locked up in your 15 minute prison.
Lots of topics are brought up at the WEF. Even Trump's word salad of a "speech" got polite applause from those who stayed to the end but I doubt the Davos Elite agreed with his message that the USA needs full ownership of Greenland and Europe can't function without the USA.
Can someone define the differences/commonalities between the Davos Elite and the Laurentian Elite? Is Trudeau the common factor? It's hard for me to keep up with the conspiracy villains.
Freshly re-approved CPC leader Pierre Poilievre will protect Canada from the globalist WEF elites:
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in reply to gigachad • • •What do you expect? Video hosting at scale is expensive and most instances aren't setup or financially equipped to handle videos larger than clips of a few seconds in length (if even that).
You occasionally see direct MP4 links there to catbox or imgur, but those don't always work universally or are slow or hugged to death. Recently I've noticed that a few users here utilize their own homelabs to host larger media uploads, and I like the thought of that. Those seem to just be private "repos" for them, though. I would NOT want to run something like catbox, open to everyone, on my own infrastructure. The thought of what I'd end up with gives me the heebie-jeebies. I don't know how catbox deals with problematic uploads, but that's far beyond my comfort zone.
Ok, so what about Invidious? Invidious links are just shittier and slower Youtube links because they're just proxying, so that's not really a solution. And I'd rather see a YT link posted than an Invidious link since my Lemmy client and/or browser plugin can rewrite YT links to my preferred Invidious server but can't
... show moreWhat do you expect? Video hosting at scale is expensive and most instances aren't setup or financially equipped to handle videos larger than clips of a few seconds in length (if even that).
You occasionally see direct MP4 links there to catbox or imgur, but those don't always work universally or are slow or hugged to death. Recently I've noticed that a few users here utilize their own homelabs to host larger media uploads, and I like the thought of that. Those seem to just be private "repos" for them, though. I would NOT want to run something like catbox, open to everyone, on my own infrastructure. The thought of what I'd end up with gives me the heebie-jeebies. I don't know how catbox deals with problematic uploads, but that's far beyond my comfort zone.
Ok, so what about Invidious? Invidious links are just shittier and slower Youtube links because they're just proxying, so that's not really a solution. And I'd rather see a YT link posted than an Invidious link since my Lemmy client and/or browser plugin can rewrite YT links to my preferred Invidious server but can't do that for the infinite number of random Inv links in the wild. That then forces me to manually massage the URL to go to my preferred server or click through to the slow, overloaded server on the other side of the world with the original link. Yuck to both.
Wait, what was I talking about? lol
Oh, yeah. There's also the expectation that videos linked here should be universally accessible, so linking to a Netflix documentary or something on Paramount+ isn't really going to go over well.
There's just not that many open video platforms. Odysee is one (and I have support for it in Tesseract UI), but it's kind of sketchy. Vimeo isn't really an open/general purpose video platform but does have quality content if you can find it (Tess also supports embeds to there). However, Vimeo was recently acquired by a private equity firm and isn't doing great.
What's left?
Well, we have Loops. That's kind of niche in that it's for short-form videos but it has potential if that's your thing.
Peertube is also pretty great, but we're back to the "video hosting at scale is expensive" problem. I recently setup Peertube for my instance and have been trying to share links to that instead of to elsewhere, so I'm at least trying to address what the meme is saying. Lemmy.WTF also has a Peertube, I believe.
Did I miss anything?
Vimeo Lays Off 'Most' of Its Staff, Allegedly Includes 'the Entire Video Team'
Bruce Gil (Gizmodo)gigachad
in reply to Admiral Patrick • • •Thanks for your write-up. But it's just a meme ;) I know there are a lot of troubles connected to video hosting. I find YouTube links annoying and almost never click them, but I know that's preference.
I use NewPipe btw
Admiral Patrick
in reply to gigachad • • •Heh, perhaps I did overthink it a bit lol.
I've just found that there are generally kernels of truth to most of what gets meme'd here, so I tend to subconsciously zero in on that.
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in reply to gigachad • • •I got tired of YouTube videos on Lemmy. It's always just copy pasted title of video and link to YouTube. I hated it
On Voyager app I added a blacklist on anything with YouTube in it and it cleared that problem up a lot. No countless YouTube ads from accounts that just post there YouTube videos for more views
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in reply to gigachad • • •Be the change you want to see!
Upload to peertube and link. And/or to fedi like lemmy/piefed directly.
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