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News

[fr] Science4All - Pourquoi encore se battre pour la démocratie ?

Why weather forecasts have gotten so good.

Jacob Kaplan-Moss (Django maintainer) on consensus, snipped from Django Chat - Talking about Django’s history and future.

Lengthy memoranda and gobbledygook language: Be short and use plain English, via DF.

Ghanaian fantasy coffin maker Paa Joe.

25 years of Windowlicker! Merci Berthe.

SMBC: Together, Consciousness, Caveman.

Software

Redis adopts dual source-available licensing. The race to replace Redis (HN). “SSPL is bad” (HN). Prime Time: The downfall of Redis.

Games

Making a game last forever.

AI

Releasing Common Corpus: the largest public domain dataset for training LLMs, via swillison.

Ars: ASCII art elicits harmful responses from 5 major AI chatbots.

Shitty tech ℹ️

There is no EU cookie banner law.

Reddit’s “Advertise like a Redditor” ad product a.k.a. misleading ads disguised as actual “organic content”. Via nelson.