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flipbrad··on Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you
Osmand for android also embeds results on the map, as an optional layer.
flipbrad··on Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you
There is: the link format is

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Nearby#/coord/52.52000...

Change the lat long to any you want, and change "en." to other language codes to search a different (language) encyclopedia.

flipbrad··on Dutch regulator fines Uber €825M for letting AI deactivate driver accounts
Algorithms, not AI.
flipbrad··on Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results
Deepseek v4 Flash and OpenAi GPT 5.6 Luna are on their free plan, which is fab. I'm not sure more is needed, for web searching.
flipbrad··on Scientists stunned by children's lung recovery in ultra low emission zone
People don't fire their chimneys or have garden bonfires much any more, either.
flipbrad··on Brazilian election filter in X For You timeline
For context: https://x.com/XBR/status/2088341967864320507?s=20
flipbrad··on Park by Robot at London Gatwick Airport
I wonder what the failure mode for something like this is (e.g. in bad weather, after a power cut, a car catches fire, etc). Nobody in the country with keys, cars parked so close together you probably couldn't get in anyway... could be interesting!
flipbrad··on Companies are scrambling to curtail soaring AI costs
How long until this is handled like human hiring (business case, budget, performance reviews, layoffs)?
flipbrad··on Opening up 'Zero-Knowledge Proof' technology to promote privacy in age assurance
The point perhaps is that these things enable discrimination based on extremely gross grained and defective criteria - in some ways the least relevant parts of your identity.
flipbrad··on Pollen tried to remove my article and Google is assisting with it
Should have used a GDPR takedown instead of copyright: in the EU, Google doesn't tell you the identity of the requester, what qas allegedly infringing, or even the affected URl, and there's no ability to challenge. Great stuff. (/s)
flipbrad··on The KIDS Act would require age checks to get online
https://avpassociation.com/ and a few key individual crusaders.
flipbrad··on U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations
Donate to his ballroom project, perhaps? Pay for tokens with his crypto coin?
flipbrad··on U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6
"A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, a capitalist economy subject to stringent governmental controls, violent suppression of the opposition, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism"
flipbrad··on Never Give Them Your Face
This is what the EU has: https://www.eu-digital-services-act.com/Digital_Services_Act...
flipbrad··on Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz
Like this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Minab_school_attack
flipbrad··on Waymo Safety Impact
Isn't the correct answer to this, lobbying for higher speed limits? Rather than chastizing obedience to current rules.
flipbrad··on LoGeR – 3D reconstruction from extremely long videos (DeepMind, UC Berkeley)
N00b question from me, perhaps, but how easy is it to mount and run Lidar on aerial drones?
flipbrad··on ChatGPT Health
"we built foundational protections (...) including (...) training our models not to retain personal information from user chats"

Can someone please ELI5 - why is this a training issue, rather than basic design? How does one "train" for this?

flipbrad··on My 2026 Open Social Web Predictions
Something so grim should be accompanied by its citation, just so we can check it's not a windup
flipbrad··on JetBlue flight averts mid-air collision with US Air Force jet
This perhaps isn't the lind of lethality the DoD has in mind.
flipbrad··on Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban
Hacker News is social media, isn't it?
flipbrad··on AWS is 10x slower than a dedicated server for the same price [video]
Check out how Wikipedia and the rest of the wikimedia universe is run.
flipbrad··on Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year
EU Data Act will be more relevant here, but will take a while to roll out.
flipbrad··on Introducing Stargate UK
Given https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ukusa-agreement-o... , what does sovereignty even mean here?

I also wish we were attracting industries that weren't going to significantly push up electricity consumption on windless days, which will have an outsized effect on electricity prices everyone else pays. At least this says the datacentres will be up north, hopefully not exacerbating transmission issues.

flipbrad··on Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act
This is about the Category 1 duties arriving by 2027, not this year's tranche of rules (such as age gating).
flipbrad··on Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act
A lot of what you are posting is not true. Take for instance your claim that "Ofcom is an industry self-regulation body"
flipbrad··on Data breach exposes 184M passwords, likely captured by malware
Law enforcement / national security. E.g. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/intelligence-serv...

Although I can anticipate what you'll say...

flipbrad··on Human
Douglas Hofstadter would like a word. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Hofstadter
flipbrad··on Increasing Timber Production, an Emergency Situation on National Forest Lands [pdf]
Fake it till you make it (a genuine emergency, that is)
flipbrad··on The surprising powerhouse behind rapid V2X growth: electric school buses
I don't see it as dumb at all. I have solar PV, but adding a 5.8kWh battery would cost over USD 2k / local currency equivalent. As a result, I frequently have to export solar to the grid (during low demand, mid day periods) and then buy it from the grid when it's already in high national demand (and priced accordingly). I also have a 13 year old car that our family is fast outgrowing. It's used once or twice a week mostly for shopping, and also for some occasional long drives to see family etc. The latter are the only times I'd be at risk of starting with low charge (easily avoided). My next car will almost certainly be an EV, or PHEV. I'm supremely eager to be able to leave it in the garage/on the driveway as a home battery that's an order of magnitude bigger than a standalone battery I would buy and then have to devote attic or closet space to (and have to accept a fire risk for). I'm effectively deferring several buying decisions (car upgrade, battery purchase) until I get a good V2G option that is an all-in-one solution.
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