Futurology Today

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/17960881

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday said he supports the deployment of Western troops to Ukraine as one of the "best instruments" to "force Russia to peace."

The Ukrainian leader also said Europe was entering a "new chapter" of cooperation and would have "new opportunities" with Donald Trump returning to the White House later this month.

"Our goal is to find as many instruments as possible to force Russia into peace," Zelensky told a meeting of Ukraine's defense allies in Germany.

Referring to discussions about the possibility of NATO countries sending troops to Ukraine, he said: "I believe that such deployment of partners' contingents is one of the best instruments."

"Let's be more practical in making it possible," he added.

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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/17063654

Poland's president has urged the government not to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should he attend the Auschwitz liberation anniversary event later this month, his office said Thursday.

Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20250109164203/https://www.rawstory.com/polish-president-says-don-t-arrest-netanyahu-at-auschwitz-ceremony/

SpinScore: https://spinscore.io/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rawstory.com%2Fpolish-president-says-don-t-arrest-netanyahu-at-auschwitz-ceremony%2F

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I didn't use Linux for a while, last was when Nvidia got explicit sync, I installed it again, and still the games I play under Wayland is not smooth, it's getting almost a hundred FPS, but the feeling is not even half of it, it's like I'm getting 25 30 FPS or something, on X11 I can feel I'm playing with 100 FPS. Is this really an Nvidia problem for all? Or only me? I have latest open drivers right now.

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A week ago on the radio, there was an interview broadcast where someone remarked "if dueling was legal, mass shooters and terrorists wouldn't be terrorizing, they'd be dueling" which led me down a rabbit hole which led me to wanting to make something out of it as it's now one of my fixations. Throughout history, though, it has come in many kinds, from guns to swords to jousting and, at one time, Canadian logrolling. What kind, real or fictional, is your favorite?

From Universal Crossword Themeless Sunday 67, Jan 7th, 2024

To give you a sense of the minefield this means we're entering

Summary

Three UnitedHealth-owned companies—HealthMarkets and its subsidiaries—were ordered to pay over $165 million for deceptive practices in Massachusetts between 2012 and 2016.

A Suffolk County judge ruled they violated the Massachusetts Consumer Protection Act by misleading consumers into buying unnecessary supplemental insurance, with agents trained to obscure costs.

The penalties include $50.1 million in restitution and $115.1 million in civil penalties, the largest ever under the state’s consumer protection law.

UnitedHealthcare plans to appeal.

If there with AGPLv3 AI, I would definitely try, would there be a reason not to use it? I wish there was a GPLv3 AI to install. I would not use a GPL2 AI.

As a real would code example of the difference between GPL2 and 3, not license but code, look at Linux kernel vs Linux-libre. For the limited hardware that a Linux-libre distribution supports, it's a much smoother and cleaner system to run.

An AGPL3 AI can't hide any nefarious or bias programming, so I see it truely working as a servant, while retaining zero information of users for data collecting. Look at open hardware like RISC V and how far that has come once companies saw they were free to engineer their own version of a RISC V CPU. It's made RISC V to be at the very beginning point to get closer to ARM, when it was once worthless. Having a AGPLv3 AI for anyone to design their own version with everybody pushlishing their server source code for AI, would there be a downside to using it?

Hey everyone! I'm excited to introduce BotKit, a new framework specifically designed for creating standalone ActivityPub bots.

What makes BotKit different from typical Mastodon bot approaches is that it creates fully independent ActivityPub servers. This means your bots aren't constrained by platform-specific limitations like character limits or attachment restrictions. Each bot is a complete ActivityPub server in itself.

The API is designed to be extremely straightforward. You can create a complete bot in a single TypeScript file, with intuitive event handlers for follows, mentions, replies, and more. Here's a quick example:

const bot = createBot<void>({
  username: "mybot",
  name: "My Bot",
  summary: text`A bot powered by BotKit.`,
  kv: new MemoryKvStore(),
  queue: new InProcessMessageQueue(),
});

bot.onMention = async (session, message) => {
  await message.reply(text`Hi, ${message.actor}!`);
};

BotKit currently supports Deno, with plans to add Node.js and Bun support in future releases. It leverages all the federation capabilities of Fedify but abstracts away the complexity, letting you focus purely on your bot's behavior.

The framework is still in early development, but we'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback. Feel free to try it out and let us know what kind of bots you build with it!

• Repository: https://github.com/dahlia/botkit
• Documentation: https://botkit.fedify.dev/