Archived link: https://archive.ph/Vjl1M

Here’s a nice little distraction from your workday: Head to Google, type in any made-up phrase, add the word “meaning,” and search. Behold! Google’s AI Overviews will not only confirm that your gibberish is a real saying, it will also tell you what it means and how it was derived.

This is genuinely fun, and you can find lots of examples on social media. In the world of AI Overviews, “a loose dog won't surf” is “a playful way of saying that something is not likely to happen or that something is not going to work out.” The invented phrase “wired is as wired does” is an idiom that means “someone's behavior or characteristics are a direct result of their inherent nature or ‘wiring,’ much like a computer's function is determined by its physical connections.”

It all sounds perfectly plausible, delivered with unwavering confidence. Google even provides reference links in some cases, giving the response an added sheen of authority. It’s also wrong, at least in the sense that the overview creates the impression that these are common phrases and not a bunch of random words thrown together. And while it’s silly that AI Overviews thinks “never throw a poodle at a pig” is a proverb with a biblical derivation, it’s also a tidy encapsulation of where generative AI still falls short.

What optimization do these kind of apps use?

Automakers and tech developers testing and deploying self-driving and advanced driver assistance features will no longer have to report as much detailed, public crash information to the federal government, according to a new framework released today by the US Department of Transportation.

https://archive.ph/wWwjG

Fuck the stupid morons who defend Apple.

Imagine if Microsoft banned Windows users from installing the software they want on their computer.

Imagine if Microsoft required all software developers to give them 30% of their earning or Microsoft will ban them from Windows

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28675950

You might not like it, or you don't want to hear it at all. But the thing is, for people with ADHD to do simple tasks, they need to mentally break down the process/task and do things 1 by 1.

I'm guessing that most of you know, some of you don't know and the rest of you know but don't implement this.

For ADHDers, Doing simple tasks like taking a shower, making a cup of coffee, cleaning your desk always seem very hard and require a lot of motivation. Or it has been perceived as such. Now, I'm not going further into explaining the brain chemistry behind it. But, what happens basically is, brain gets familiar with feeling overwhelmed to move the body for the things it deems as unnecessary. So it reduces our willpower, drive and desire to do and feel certain things. But it does all of these subconsciously. So we can't detect it in real time.

But we can perceive. As soon as we start to observe ourselves from a 3rd person perspective, as soon as we start to question our actions, our brain get exposed to us. We can see, feel, and know about our behavior that's been directed by the brain in real time.

All these time, there has been the messenger chat head circle floating in a corner of my phone screen. Now, if I had been the person I was 1 month ago, then I'd get easily swayed by the chat-head and would forget about writing the post.

So, what to do in these kind of situation? Not only we need to perceive ourselves as an outsider, we need to constantly question ourselves about our aim, purpose and priority.

So, no matter what spicy conversation people are having inside my messenger app and I get to see the number of messages increasing through the floating chat-head, I have been questioning myself from the moment I started writing the post. Such as:

1. [ My name ], is messenger that important to you right now?
2. [ My name ], Are you going to fall into the same rabbithole again?
3. [ My name ], is this how you decided to make a change?
4. Don't you wanna help people who have the same problem as yours?

-- Upper discussion was the first phase. Now the second.

So, in order to literally complete the tasks that seem difficult for us to do, we need to mentally break it down to multiple points/methods.

Meaning, we need to have our inner monologue explaining all the consecutive methods to finally complete the task. Another questioning session. But this time, questions come with actions.

For example, let's assume that you're reading this post laying down in your bed and you're thinking of making a coffee. So, instead of thinking, "I need to make a coffee", Ask yourself, "What do I need to do to make a cup of coffee?"

Then break down the process. Mentally.

Think to yourself, "First, I need to put the phone away." Immediately put the phone aside your bed or on your bedside table.

Then again, Think to yourself, "Then I need to get up from the bed and start walking towards the kitchen." Immediately get up from the bed and start walking.

And the methods go forward. Try to break down a task as detailed as possible. And perform each action after you've thought it.

Ultimately, you need to make your inner monologue a weapon for yourself against your lazy brain, not for it to become a weapon for your brain against yourself.

When you face minor distractions along the way while completing a task in this method, acknowledge the distraction, observe it, analyze it's destructive effects over your life by using your inner monologue, questioning session.

I had to get up from my chair to shoo off a cat 7 paragraphs ago, but I didn't ignore the act as a distraction. I kept questioning myself similar to what I wrote in the 1st phrase. Turned out, I didn't lose much drive and desire required to write this long post.

Most of you know this method. Some you don't know and the rest know but don't implement. That's my personal observation here.

Pardon my cluttered and complex long sentences as English is not my native language.

I'd like to know about your opinions, advices and experiences on this matter if you're happy to share. Peace 🤝

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28662179

Israel has completely wiped out Rafah, turning a fifth of Gaza's territory into a giant buffer zone. This is part of Israel's plan to permanently remain in Gaza and facilitate the ethnic cleansing of its people.

Satellite imagery captured Thursday shows extensive damage at one of Russia's largest ammunition depots after it caught fire and exploded earlier in the week.

Title is a little sensational but this is a cool project for non-technical folks who may need a mini-internet or data archive for a wide variety of reasons:

"PrepperDisk is a mini internet box that comes preloaded with offline backups of Wikipedia, street maps, survivalist information, 90,000 WikiHow guides, iFixit repair guides, government website backups (including FEMA guides and National Institutes of Health backups), TED Talks about farming and survivalism, 60,000 ebooks and various other content. It’s part external hard drive, part local hotspot antenna—the box runs on a Raspberry Pi that allows up to 20 devices to connect to it over wifi or wired connections, and can store and run additional content that users store on it. It doesn't store a lot of content (either 256GB or 512GB), but what makes it different from buying any external hard drive is that it comes preloaded with content for the apocalypse."

The facebook page Canada Proud often posts news updates, citing mainstream news sources. But the posts sometime add misleading details not found in the original reports, according to a review by The New York Times.

One of its posts this month said Prime Minister Mark Carney had suspended his campaign because of “connections with China” and cited a major Canadian news outlet, Global News, as its source. But the Global News article did not actually mention any connections to China.

Canada Proud describes itself as a “grass-roots group of Canadians” concerned about the country’s direction. The page is owned by Mobilize Media Group, a Toronto public affairs firm.

The company has bought more than $250,000 in ads targeting Canadian voters

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/technology/canada-election-facebook-instagram-meta.html

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/62295325

Someone toss his ass in prison already!

Archived without paywall:

https://web.archive.org/web/20250424134846/https://www.404media.co/even-the-u-s-government-says-ai-requires-massive-amounts-of-water/

The Israeli military acknowledged on Thursday that it was responsible for killing a United Nations aid worker in a strike on a UN guesthouse in Gaza last month, backtracking on its previous denials in the face of mounting public evidence of Israeli responsibility.

The Israeli military said its preliminary investigation into the incident “indicates that the fatality was caused by tank fire from IDF troops operating in the area.”

Ceasefire:

• Permanent ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine

• Immediate initiation of technical implementation negotiations

Security Guarantees for Ukraine:

• Robust security guarantees for Ukraine

• Guarantors: a group of European and willing non-European states

• Ukraine agrees not to pursue NATO membership

• Ukraine may pursue European Union membership

Territorial Arrangements:

• Crimea: U.S. grants de jure recognition of Russian control

• Luhansk: U.S. grants de facto recognition of Russian control

• Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, Kherson: De facto recognition of Russian control of occupied parts

• Kharkiv Oblast: Ukraine regains territory

• Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant & Kakhovka Dam: Ukraine regains control under U.S. administration, energy distributed to both sides

• Ukraine gains full navigation rights on the Dnieper River and control of the Kinburn Spit

Economic Provisions:

• U.S.–Ukraine economic and minerals cooperation agreement

• Full financial compensation and reconstruction of Ukraine

• Removal of all Russia-related sanctions imposed since 2014

• Resumption of U.S.–Russia economic cooperation, including energy and industrial sectors

Border agents forced the 19-year-old, who cannot read, to sign a transcript of his arrest he says was false.

Two Belgian teenagers who were found with thousands of ants valued at more than €8,000 and allegedly destined for European and Asian markets will be sentenced in two weeks, a Kenyan magistrate has said.

Njeri Thuku, sitting at the court in Kenya's main airport, said she would not rush the case but would take time to review environmental impact and psychological reports filed in court before passing sentence on 7 May.

❗️A ship smuggling Ukrainian grain from occupied Crimea has been seized in the Black Sea

Ukraine’s State Border Guard and Security Service conducted the operation as part of efforts to combat Russia’s economic crimes.

Investigators found that the vessel had transported around 5,000 tons of Ukrainian wheat from Sevastopol in late 2024, using a foreign flag to mask its origin—part of Russia’s so-called “shadow fleet.”

Navigation equipment, documents, and other evidence were seized onboard. The ship is now under arrest, and the crew is in custody for legal proceedings. The investigation is ongoing.

https://t.me/DPSUkr/25944