technology

I've tried a few like kagi, ddg, brave, and so far yandex beats the pants off them and it's free unlike kagi. Just wondering if I should know of anything new.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/34152716

looks neat

https://fortune.com/2025/08/01/artificial-stupidity-ai-trading-stock-market-behaviors-price-fixing-collusion-wharton-study/

In July 2025, a vulnerability in the GiveWP WordPress plugin exposed the names and email addresses of approximately 30k donors to the Pi-hole network-wide ad blocking project. Pi-hole subsequently self-submitted the list of impacted donors to HIBP.

A note that this setup runs a 671B model in Q4 quantization at 3-4 TPS, running a Q8 would need something beefier. To run a 671B model in the original Q8 at 6-8 TPS you'd need a dual socket EPYC server motherboard with 768GB of RAM.

Title, I'm sick of online tech communities that clearly are casually of the opinion that women are stupider than men or stupid outright. Funny how the example of a tech incompetent person is always your grandma never your grandpa—have recently been seeing this archetypal person mutate into your mom now, not even your grandma. I know so many women my mom's generation who have been programming for decades... The assumption that anyone in online tech communities must be a guy because women are too stupid or uninterested in tech, etc.

The thing that annoys me the most is that these men don't think of themselves as anti-woke gamergaters or anything. They probably think of themselves as "progressive" #resist libs IME. It's sad that growing up I had to deal with the attitudes towards me being the only girl who chose to do IT classes at my school (and like, not to blow my own trumpet but clearly the most competent kid in the class by far too—I don't think that's too much of a brag considering I'm talking about a group of like 20 children) and nothing's changed when I'm in online communities of my own choosing as an adult years later.

It's so detached from reality when people think that misogyny is an oppression that's been "overcome" when clearly the majority of men still have as a base unchallenged assumption that women are stupider than men.

Your communities are only going to have fewer and fewer women over time because of these attitudes. And then the men in them will wonder why there's so few women in techy communities. Must be because our feeble female brains are too dumb to understand tech.

https://needtoknow.co.uk/2025/07/30/britains-most-tattooed-man-claims-he-is-unable-to-watch-prn-as-new-age-check-system-mistakes-his-ink-for-a-mask/

https://archive.ph/ndMUS

A few notes:

1. Yes, it does use generative AI. It caches the result per-MP so there are, at most, 660-ish generated images.

2. Yes, this might be illegal. It's meant to protest the "Online """Safety""" Act" by highlighting how useless it is at preventing circumvention. Do not use for anything that might get you a knock on the door.

3. No, the licenses arent valid. The only "real" info used to generate them is the mugshot of the MP in question.

4. No, this doesn't grant you anonymity. ID checkers and their clients will still log your IP and fingerprint your browser info, anyone with the means and motive can still find the real user (just like before!).