Reblog via DW Innovation

#Stract is a new, #opensource, #nonprofit #search engine. It has a lot of interesting functions. For example, users can exclude known copycat sites from search queries, focus on indie blogs, or do fediverse search only.

You can test Stract over here:
https://stract.com

And check out the repo on #GitHub:
https://github.com/StractOrg/stract

There's also an interesting article on Stract by @404mediaco:
https://www.404media.co/this-guy-is-building-an-open-source-search-engine-in-real-time

Reblog via Joseph Cox

New from 404 Media: This Guy Has Built an Open Source Search Engine as an Alternative to Google in His Spare Time

"I found it very weird that there essentially is no way to browse the web in an open manner. So that's what I am trying to build." https://www.404media.co/this-guy-is-building-an-open-source-search-engine-in-real-time/

Reblog via ploum

"I’m not on Mastodon because there’s nobody there, there’s not enough users to make it succeed, my whole community is on Twitter and don’t want to migrate and… hey… I now have a #Bluesky account! Please follow me on Bluesky, it’s very cool, it belongs to a billionaire but is decentralised. Or at least, the billionaire promises us it will be, which is cool."

– Basically every silicon valley pundit

Reblog via Sheril Kirshenbaum

Earth has more livestock than humans, wild mammals & birds combined.

Visualizing the Biomass of Life by scientific illustrator Mark Belan ⬇️ #science #art

Note: I boosted this from Mastodon. Seems the original image is here: https://www.behance.net/gallery/146949057/Visualizing-the-Biomass-of-Life?locale=en_US

Reblog via Lisa Melton

Shout out to everyone who can remember their childhood phone number, but not the password they created yesterday.
You are my people.

Reblog via Lime Bar

Here is my personal plea for you.

If possible in any way: Go somewhere you can experience the totality of the eclipse this year.

If you've never experienced one, it is better than you can imagine.

Celestial mechanics become *real* in a way that is awe inspiring. You'll experience a strange melange of smallness paired with a connectedness unlike almost any other event in your life.

Make plans now.

https://science.nasa.gov/eclipses/future-eclipses/eclipse-2024/where-when/

#space #eclipse

Reblog via nixCraft 🐧

I really don't think it's fair that my generation
* had to help our parents use the printer
* have to help our kids use the printer

Reblog via Christina Warren

this is a perfect combination of all of my favorite things: movies, internet piracy, ASCII art, terminal nerdiness and shitposting https://ascii.theater/

Reblog via Dwight (DB) 🤔

not sure who to attribute this to – there is NO reason any of us should have to "thrive in a fast paced environment" or "work well under pressure." most of our daily work is not an emergency and our culture of fake urgency and immediacy just to make more profit for people in the c-suite is burning people out.
stop sending people into fight or flight and expecting them to bend over backward because you dont know how plan or manage resources properly

Reblog via Timnit Gebru (she/her)

"There’s a lot of disagreement over how soon the artificial general intelligence moment will arrive. Microsoft researchers say they’ve already seen “sparks” of AGI in GPT-4 (Microsoft owns 49% of OpenAI). Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says AGI will arrive in just two to three years. DeepMind co-founder Shane Legg predicts that there is a 50% chance AGI will arrive by 2028."

Can I too pull numbers out of my behind & predict the 2nd coming, and get taken seriously?

https://www.fastcompany.com/90990042/agi-ai-explained