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[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 108 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Ads?! in Ubuntu? Never! They were simply "integrating online scope results into the home lens of the dash" 🤡

(that is an actual quote from the sentence immediately following "We’re not putting ads in Ubuntu" in Mark Shuttleworth's blog post responding to the entirely predictable backlash after they did this, twelve years ago...)

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 8 points 6 days ago

To answer your question: yes, YTA 🤦

Also, I'm deleting this post per asklemmy rule 3.

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 weeks ago

also: The Oyster was an erotic magazine published in London in 1883

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

The tone which comes across in the video (linked from the other post I linked to in this post's description) is unfortunately much less amicable than this article conveys.

 

Their resignation is already being discussed in another post here from yesterday: One Of The Rust Linux Kernel Maintainers Steps Down - Cites "Nontechnical Nonsense"

...but I think this LWN reporting (from back in June) deserves its own post as it makes it easier for those of us who are not kernel hackers to follow what is going on.

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago

the guy speaking off camera in the linked 3min 30s of the video is Ted Ts'o, according to this report about the session.

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That label is there because I'm subscribed to XBlock Screenshot Labeller and it misclassified this image. (You can find here and here more info about how labelers in ATP work...)

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

i hope you're joking but if you're not i assume you live in the bay area? if you want to go to their pitch tonight, here's its eventbrite.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/19628702

image transcriptscreenshot of this bluesky post (which you can read without logging in here) from ‪@comraderobot.bsky.social‬ ("Notorious RBMK") saying:

my friend who still lives in palo alto gave me permission to share this mailer he got.

there’s unhinged and then there’s tech unhinged

image in post has two photos of people wearing EEG electrodes, one xray of a human head, an EEG data plot over a silhouette of a head, and this text:

REM sleep is the next Al

The upcoming era of physical reality integrated with dream worlds advanced by the REMspace startup

  • Controlling a smart home from dreams
  • Transferring speech from dreams
  • Controlling virtual cars from dreams
  • Interacting with dream worlds using brain implants
  • Social media for sharing dream journals
  • Smart sleep masks powered by Al
  • Many other breakthroughs from our lab (videos and tech)

Don't miss the pitch of the year for potential partners and investors

Aug 29th Palo Alto

Above the image is an (inaccurate) BlueSky label saying "Possible tumblr screenshot" with a "hide" button.

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the guy behind this startup:

 

image descriptionSide-by-side pictures of actors Judge Reinhold and Alan Tudyk, labeled with blue text in a Star Trek-reminiscent font "Judge Reinhold as Tom Paris" and "Alan Tudyk as Paul Stamets"

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