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/
Be the change you want to see!
Upload to peertube and link. And/or to fedi like lemmy/piefed directly.
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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)
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?
There's a lot of Japanese stuff on nyaa. They even have a lossless audio section. Lossy is usually 128k or 320k mp3. I do lossy myself, but I encode to m4a low-complexity 192k (the highest option it has). So I grab lossless and encode to my settings, then use mp3tag for perfect metadata control (free for you Windows guys; $30 on Mac). Then it's a unique file. Can still be sonically identified, but so can the tracks you legit ripped from CD, so that doesn't matter.
Also collect Japanese music, mostly j-rock.
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Furthermore 96kbps is more than enough for casual listeners. You may hear a difference but most people wont care tbh.
As far as I know what they archived was not MP3 compressed but rather opus or ogg.
‘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)
Vampire [any]
in reply to Zerush • • •I don't get it.
Why are people who use email or something unable to operate a chatbot?
Zerush
in reply to Vampire [any] • • •Vampire [any]
in reply to Zerush • • •The meme is "giving a chatbot to an email user is like giving pedals to a paraplegic"
Why are email users comparable to paraplegics. What are they unable to do that everyone else can?
This feels like clarifying with mud.
Le_Wokisme [they/them, undecided]
in reply to Vampire [any] • • •Zerush
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in reply to Le_Wokisme [they/them, undecided] • • •Le_Wokisme [they/them, undecided]
in reply to Vampire [any] • • •Vampire [any]
in reply to Le_Wokisme [they/them, undecided] • • •That's getting a bit too vague for me.
How is giving people a chatbot like giving paraplegics pedals? Nobody has explained it yet.
Egonallanon
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in reply to Gil Wanderley • • •Gil Wanderley
in reply to MinnesotaGoddam • • •To quote a well known microblog meme:
Not all wheelchairs need pedals, like not all apps need AI.
jaybone
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in reply to Zerush • • •Hey look naked ableism
You have some options. Be a mature adult, apologize, recognize that stuff like this is real mobility assistive and rehab tech, or go the lemmy mod and admin route, double down and throw a hissy fit. Up to you.
Etterra
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