Grok AI Gains Vision and Voice Features in iOS App
xAI has launched a new Voice Mode for its Grok chatbot, introducing a feature called Grok Vision that lets users interact with the world through their smartphone camera. Much like ChatGPT and Google Gemini, Grok can now interpret what your phone sees and respond in real time.

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Using Grok Vision, iPhone users can point their camera at an object and ask “What am I looking a … ⌘ Read more

Money Worries: Just 13% of Americans Feel Confident About Their Finances
Study Fiinds Staff,    -  Study Finds

_Stephan: Financial insecurity and stress, as this study shows, are hallmarks of American society. We are truly becoming a neo-medieval culture with The population the United States is 347,275,807. In 2025, the United States has 902 billionaires, which is the highest number of billionaires in the world, according to [Forbes](https://www.google.c … ⌘ Read more

Former Google CEO Warns That AI Is About to Escape Human Control
Noor Al-Sibai,  Staff Writer  -  The Byte

_Stephan: Sunday, I watched the segment of 60 Minutes discussing AI. Here is another view. What I don’t see any of these people discussing is the reality of what has happened as a result of the weaponization of the internet as a result of intentional misinformation, and how it has served tech billionaires supporting Trump’s fascist coup. I think the issue … ⌘ Read more

I Clicked a Random Button in Google Slides — Then Google Paid Me $2,240

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The strange trick that exposed a hidden security flaw (and how you can find bugs like this too).

[Continue reading on InfoSec Write-ups »](https://in … ⌘ Read more

‘Victory for scammers’: Trump fires 90% of Consumer Protection Agency staff
Jake Johnson,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story | Common Dreams

_Stephan: Donald Trump is both a fascist authoritarian and a lifelong scammer and grifter. Steaks, University, I am sure you can remember some of them. Or do a Google search, you’ll be amazed he is not in prison. So it is entirely predictable that as President, he is making it very hard to catch scammers and grifters. Un … ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Haha 🤣 Figures 🤦‍♂️ Also no need to be concerned with that here, I’ve personally blocked the ASN(s) of Microsoft, OpenAI, Claude and Google 😂

(#n2rbwua) @movq@movq Haha 🤣 Figures 🤦‍♂️ Also no need to be concerned with that here, I’ve personally blocked the AS …
@movq @www.uninformativ.de Haha 🤣 Figures 🤦‍♂️ Also no need to be concerned with that here, I’ve personally blocked the ASN(s) of Microsoft, OpenAI, Claude and Google 😂 ⌘ Read more

Google Gemini Advanced & 2TB Storage Free for Students
Google is offering their Gemini Advanced AI model for free to students, along with 2TB of free storage. This is a limited time offer where students must sign up by June 30, 2025. Students will need a valid .edu email address to be able to signup for the deal. Google says you can use Gemini … Read More ⌘ Read more

Judge Rules Google is a Monopoly (Again… for the 2nd time this year)
The odds of Google being broken up into Mini-Googles just keeps getting higher. ⌘ Read more

“Move to iOS” app continuously refused to run as intended and expected, so couldn’t migrate mum’s Android based phone data. Most of her stuff is on a Google account, but not the SMS/MMS/RCS messages. Haven’t found a way to export, then import those into iOS.

She isn’t too happy having to keep the old phone just for the messages. Need to find a way to go through them, export multimedia attachments, and import them into iOS. I don’t think it’s going to happen, but I am not letting her know yet. 😅

Vibe coding with GitHub Copilot: Agent mode and MCP support rolling out to all VS Code users
In celebration of MSFT’s 50th anniversary, we’re rolling out Agent Mode with MCP support to all VS code users. We are also announcing the new GitHub Copilot Pro+ plan w/ premium requests, the general availability of models from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI, next edit suggestions for code completions & the Copilot code review agent.

The post [Vibe coding with GitHub Copilot: Agent mode and MC … ⌘ Read more

Are You a Nintendo Fan? There’s an iPhone App For That Now
Nintendo today released a new iPhone app that can provide you with daily updates about company news, upcoming game releases, and more.

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Nintendo Today! is available in the App Store for the iPhone for free, and it is also available in the Google Play … ⌘ Read more

Security updates for Wednesday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (nginx and ruby-rack), Fedora (expat and libxslt), Mageia (bluez, dcmtk, ffmpeg, and radare2), Red Hat (container-tools:rhel8, gvisor-tap-vsock, kernel, kernel-rt, libreoffice, and podman), SUSE (buildah, forgejo, gitleaks, google-guest-agent, google-osconfig-agent, govulncheck-vulndb, grafana, helm, libxslt, php8, python-gunicorn, and python-Jinja2), and Ubuntu (freerdp2 and varnish). ⌘ Read more

[$] Multiple memory classes for address-space isolation
Brendan Jackman has been working to try to get ahead of the next hardware CPU
vulnerability
before it gets discovered. In January, he posted the second version of
a patch set that introduces
address-space isolation (ASI) as a way of
preventing future CPU vulnerabilities from leaking important
information. The core concept is to ensure that data that is not currently
ne … ⌘ Read more

Budget phone wars: The three cheaper Androids taking on Apple’s $1000 iPhone 16e
Google has just unveiled its new cut-price Pixel phone to join a crowded field. ⌘ Read more

Hi! For anyone following the Request for Comments on an improved syntax for replies and threads, I’ve made a comparative spreadsheet with the 4 proposals so far. It shows a syntax example, and top pros and cons I’ve found:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KOUqJ2rNl_jZ4KBVTsR-4QmG1zAdKNo7QXJS1uogQVo/edit?gid=0#gid=0

Feel free to propose another collaborative platform (for those without a G account), and also share your comments and analysis in the spreadsheet or in Gitea.

Le printemps se rapproche, les fusillades aussi
Les semaines, en France, se suivent et ne se ressemblent pas, sauf peut-être sur le constat qu’il devient de plus en plus difficile d’éviter les arrosages au plomb dans certains quartiers. Et pour s’en convaincre, on pourra taper un mot comme « fusillade » (ou « tirs ») dans Google News, et obtenir assez rapidement un petit état des […] ⌘ Read more

DOJ Says Google Must Sell Chrome, Can Keep AI
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CNCF Joins Google Summer of Code 2025 – Calling All Contributors!
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The Firefox “Terms of Use” Backlash Threatens to Destroy What’s Left of Mozilla
Mozilla accidentally shares internal Google Doc with Lunduke (for one minute). ⌘ Read more

I’m going to bed. I left them a 1 Star rating and full Review on Google Maps 🤣
I’m going to bed. I left them a 1 Star rating and full Review on Google Maps 🤣 ⌘ Read more

Why you got to lie to me Google?

Why you got to lie to me Google?

@prologic@twtxt.net Have you tried Google’s robots.txt report? https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6062598?hl=en . I would expect Google to be pretty good about this sort of thing. If you have the energy to dig into it and, for example, post on support.google.com, I’d be curious to hear what you find out.

On my hit list of assholes tech giants that break the rules and are bad web citizens:

• Microsoft
  

• Google
  

• Alibaba
  

• Open AI

• more to come…

**On my hit list of assholes tech giants that break the rules and are bad web citizens:

• Microsoft
  

• Google
  

• Alibaba
  

• Open AI

• _more to come …**
  On my hit list of assholes tech giants that break the rules and are bad web citizens:

• Microsoft

• Google

• Alibaba

• Open AI

• more to come… ⌘ Read more

(#xbiyfxq) * 8a77b64 - (HEAD -> master) edge: Ban Google's ASN (21 seconds ago) <James Mills>
* 8a77b64 - (HEAD -> master) edge: Ban Google's ASN (21 seconds ago) <James Mills> ⌘ Read more

It would appear that Google’s web crawlers are ignoring the robots.txt that I have on https://git.mills.io/robots.txt with content:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

Evidence attached (see screenshots): – I think its the the Small Web community band together and file a class action suit(s) against Microsoft.com Google.com and any other assholes out there (OpenAI?) that violate our rights and ignore requests to be “polite” on the web. Thoughts? 💭

**It would appear that Google’s web crawlers are ignoring the robots.txt that I have on https://git.mills.io/robots.txt with content:

User- ...**
It would appear that Google’s web crawlers are ignoring the `robots.txt` that I have on [https://git.mills.io/robots.txt](https://git.mills.io/robots.txt) with content:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

”`

Evidence attached ( see screenshots): – I think its the the Small Web com … ⌘ Read more”`

reviewing logs this morning and found i have been spammed hard by bots not respecting the robots.txt file. only noticed it because the OpenAI bot was hitting me with a lot of nonsensical requests. here is the list from last month:

• (810) bingbot
  
• (641) Googlebot
  
• (624) http://www.google.com/bot.html
  
• (545) DotBot
  
• (290) GPTBot
  
• (106) SemrushBot
  
• (84) AhrefsBot
  
• (62) MJ12bot
  
• (60) BLEXBot
  
• (55) wpbot
  
• (37) Amazonbot
  
• (28) YandexBot
  
• (22) ClaudeBot
  
• (19) AwarioBot
  
• (14) https://domainsbot.com/pandalytics
  
• (9) https://serpstatbot.com
  
• (6) t3versionsBot
  
• (6) archive.org_bot
  
• (6) Applebot
  
• (5) http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm
  
• (4) http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html
  
• (4) Googlebot-Mobile
  
• (4) DuckDuckGo-Favicons-Bot
  
• (3) https://turnitin.com/robot/crawlerinfo.html
  
• (3) YandexNews
  
• (3) ImagesiftBot
  
• (2) Qwantify-prod
  
• (1) http://www.google.com/adsbot.html
  
• (1) http://gais.cs.ccu.edu.tw/robot.php
  
• (1) YaK
  
• (1) WBSearchBot
  
• (1) DataForSeoBot
  

i have placed some middleware to reject these for now but it is not a full proof solution.

‘Godfather of AI’ sounds alarm on Google weapons plan
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‘Most dangerous technology ever’: Protesters urge AI pause
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Google Launches New Versions of Gemini, Including ‘Thinking’ Model
Google today announced updates to Gemini, the company’s AI product that competes with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, DeepSeek, and Apple Intelligence.

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在 Go 中實現 TOTP 認證：實踐指南
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Why Samsung’s latest Ultra can claim to be the best android available right now
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Digital transformation driven by community: Kubernetes as example
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o autor é Kostya Petrenko

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Cake Wallet adds XMR/WOW passphrase restore support
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The latest version of Cake Wallet is now live for public beta testing here on Github as well as on Google Play (testers channel) and Apple TestFlight. This release of Cake Wallet brings support for Zano, a privacy-preserving cryptocurrency with additional alias and token functionality to Cake Wal … ⌘ Read more

Samsung changes little for S25 phones, but AI collaboration with Google grows
Gemini is the new default chatbot on the Galaxy S25 phones, which otherwise are near-identical to last year. ⌘ Read more

Go 表達式引擎之理解與使用 cel-go
在現代應用中，表達式求值引擎已經成爲許多系統不可或缺的一部分。它可以讓業務邏輯與代碼分離，爲動態規則配置提供極大的靈活性。而 Google 開源的 cel-go (Common Expression Language for Go) 就是這樣一款輕量級、高性能的表達式求值引擎。無論你是初學者還是需要在項目中集成 cel-go，這篇文章都將帶你從入門到精通！什麼是 CEL 和 cel-go？CEL（ ⌘ Read more

Ten Times Google Maps Solved the Case
In these ten cases, everything from Street View snapshots to Google Earth satellite imagery played a key role in uncovering crazy truths, finding missing persons, and piecing together unsolved mysteries. Some of these crimes are bizarre, some are tragic, and others are almost too coincidental to believe. But they all share one thing in common: […]

The post [Ten Times Google Maps Solved the Case](https://listverse.com/2025/01/18/ten-times-google-maps-solved … ⌘ Read more

Google Begins Requiring JavaScript For Google Search
Google says it has begun requiring users to turn on JavaScript, the widely-used programming language to make web pages interactive, in order to use Google Search. From a report: In an email to TechCrunch, a company spokesperson claimed that the change is intended to “better protect” Google Search against malicious activity, such as bots and spam, and to improve the over … ⌘ Read more

Will The Linux Foundation Purchase Chrome?
The courts are primed to force Google to sell Chrome, & Google is preparing by setting up a “Chrome” organization within The Linux Foundation. ⌘ Read more

EU Not Reassessing Apple and Google Antitrust Investigations, But New Administration Could Shift Priorities
The European Union is “reassessing” its investigations into big U.S. tech companies like Apple, Meta, and Google, claims Financial Times, though a spokesperson from the European Commission has denied that such a review is taking place.

![](https://images.macrumors.com/article-new/2024/01/App-Store-vs-EU-Feature-2.jpg … ⌘ Read more

It’s nice to see that some Crawlers actaully respect rate limits and respect a 429 Too many requests response 👌 Thank you Google! 🙌 …
It’s nice to see that some Crawlers actaully respect rate limits and respect a 429 Too many requests response 👌 Thank you Google! 🙌 ⌘ Read more

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz well even after doing the new fixes my invidious instance is still dead because google blocked my ip i think and i don’t have a proxy server so uhhhhhhhhhh. not much to watch unless i use videos on my server

Did you have disallow rule in robots.txt? (I think not because can google several twtxt.net posts)

(#qed3omq) Bloody fucking hell. I think one of Google’s GenAI crawlers was just hitting my Gitea instance quite hard. Fuck 🤬 Geez
Bloody fucking hell. I think one of Google’s GenAI crawlers was just hitting my Gitea instance quite hard. Fuck 🤬 Geez ⌘ Read more

使用 Go 構建基於時間的一次性密碼 -TOTP- 生成器
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**(#5eultoa) @andros Bah 🤦‍♂️

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@andros @twtxt.andros.dev Bah 🤦‍♂️

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Employees Speak Out: Google, Apple, Microsoft, & Intel Discriminate Against White Men
“I’d love to hire you, but, unfortunately, you’re a white male.” ⌘ Read more

Go Protobuf 新增全新不透明 API
Protobuf 是 Google 的語言中立的數據交換格式。早在 2020 年 3 月，就發佈了 google.golang.org/protobuf 模塊，這是對 Go protobuf API 的重大修訂。該包引入了對反射的一流支持、一個 dynamicpb 實現和 protocmp 包，以便於測試。現在，我們將爲生成的代碼發佈一個新的 API，我們將說明創建新 API 的動機，並展示如何在 ⌘ Read more

10 Catastrophic Translation Fails in History
Translation seems like an easy task these days, with the help of technology such as Google at our fingertips, but it isn’t always so simple. Simple translation when trying to greet someone from another country is one thing, but interpreting major documents or treaties is another. Translators and interpreters are professionals with years of experience, […]

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Track Santa’s Journey From the North Pole Using Google’s Santa Tracker
Have you been good this year? If so, you may be interested to know that Google has launched its annual Santa tracking feature, allowing Santa to be tracked in real time on his journey to the North Pole as he prepares to deliver presents to children around the world.

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Google Tells Courts How Google Should Be Punished (and Tried to Hide it)
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New ‘HomePod’ With 7-Inch Display, A18 Chip, and More Reportedly Launching Next Year
Apple plans to release a new “HomePod” with a 7-inch LCD display, an A18 chip, and Apple Intelligence support in 2025, according to DigiTimes.

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JMP: Newsletter: Year in Review, Google Play Update
Hi everyone!

Welcome to the latest edition of your pseudo-monthly JMP update!

In case it’s been a while since you checked out JMP, here’s a refresher: JMP lets you send and receive text and picture messages (and calls) through a real phone number right from your computer, tablet, phone, or anything else that has a Jabber client.  Among other things, JMP has these features: Your phone number on every device; Multiple phone numbers, one app; Free as … ⌘ Read more

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Go 語言五種實現 broadcaster 的方法，你喜歡哪一種？
昨天看到 Jaana Dogan 創建了一個 broadcaster 的庫， 話說美女 Jaana Dogan 又回到了 Google 了麼。她的實現我們就當做 broadcaster 的第一個實現吧。什麼是 broadcaster？就是村口的大喇叭，一播音，全村都知道了。Jaana Dogan 實現的這個 broadcaster 只有通知的功能，沒有傳遞消息，也不能重用。我們就以這個庫爲基準，看 ⌘ Read more

Apple Maps on the Web Gains ‘Look Around’ Support
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The high-end Chinese phones taking on Apple, Google and Samsung
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Google Drive? Can he give direct link? Idk about he but twtxt feed can he hosted in s3!

@bender@twtxt.net I wonder where that dude who was hosting his twtxt feed in a google drive go? 😆 that was hilarious!!

(#rbniy5q) > PhD level science questions? (+1)
niftydude an hour ago
A PhD level science question is a question that can only be answered by sci …

PhD level science questions? (+1)

niftydude an hour ago

A PhD level science question is a question that can only be answered by scientific research and experimentation.

And no, by “research”, I do not mean googling.

Literally the whole point of a scientific PhD is to perform experiments and study to answer a specific research question that no one has looked into yet.

Whilst Chat … ⌘ Read more

使用 Go 開發 AI Agent 的選擇：Genkit for Go
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Every time you use ChatGPT, half a cup of water goes to waste
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Google Accuses Microsoft of “Dark Patterns” with Edge Browser on Windows
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‘Egregious’: Google facing two Australian class actions
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(#ijnuv7q) @slashdot what the hell?! Google Chrome is neither a business nor a company. I mean, I agree that Google should probably be broken up …
@slashdot @feeds.twtxt.net what the hell?! Google Chrome is neither a business nor a company. I mean, I agree that Google should probably be broken up but what the fuck is this got to do with Google Chrome, which is based on an open source Chromium which is itself as a fork of KHTML/Webkit?! 🤔 da fuq … ⌘ Read more

‘A cheap magic trick’: Amazon, Google, Meta accused of dodging Senate questions
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DOJ: Google Must Sell Off Chrome
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Always has been. Web spec is too hard to implement your own web browser from scratch (nothing can, even Google and Apple, they forked KHTML). So if we not count forks we have only three browsers: Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Apple Safari

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Wayback Machine & Google Website Cache Go Offline Weeks Before 2024 Election
With a Presidential election days away, the biggest ways to record online statements are conspicuously broken. ⌘ Read more

I installed GrapheneOS for the first time on Wednesday last week on a used Pixel 7a, and I’m impressed. Installation was almost seamless, and I was able to do it from another Android phone. I’ve run into very few wrinkles, even using Google’s proprietary apps with GrapheneOS’s “sandboxed” version of Google Play Services. The main problems I’ve noticed: I can’t cast, and Google Timeline doesn’t seem to work (though I imagine the intersection between people keen to use GrapheneOS and keen to have Google log their location history is pretty small).

Bringing developer choice to Copilot with Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro, and OpenAI’s o1-preview
At GitHub Universe, we announced Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro, and OpenAI’s o1-preview and o1-mini are coming to GitHub Copilot—bringing a new level of choice to every developer.

The post [Bringing developer choice to Copilot with Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro, and OpenAI’s o1-preview](https://github.blog/news-in … ⌘ Read more

Google Search gets AI spin in Australia as chatbot comes alive
The company says everything that made it the preferred search engine is still there and that it also has quick answers via the bot. ⌘ Read more

Wikipedia’s War on Israel, USA, & Truth
Pro-Hamas and Pro-Iran editors flood Wikipedia (& Google) with false data, while Wiki Media Foundation earns hundreds of millions of dollars. ⌘ Read more

The best Apple, Google and Samsung phones of 2024
Want to know the best smartphones of 2024? We’ve done all the hard work for you. ⌘ Read more

Are we ready for an internet with no Google search?
25 years ago, Google’s minimalist search engine was a revelation. What would happen if the US government moved to break up its dominance? ⌘ Read more

Can Google’s search dominance be broken by its break-up?
Google could be broken up if the US Department of Justice has its way - but it will take years to possibly get to that point. ⌘ Read more

Google May be Broken Up as a Result of Lost Lawsuit
Google has been ruled to be a monopoly, with multiple remedies being proposed… ⌘ Read more

Google Ordered to Support Alternative App Stores and Payment Methods in Play Store
Epic Games has successfully forced Google to change its Play Store business model following the conclusion of a 2020 antitrust lawsuit. A U.S. judge today decided that the Google Play Store has an illegal monopoly, and Google has been ordered make multiple changes as a result, reports _[Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-judge-orders-google-open-up-ap … ⌘ Read more

pluja launches experimental ‘AI-driven’ weekly Monero podcast
pluja1 has announced2 the launch of XMR.FAN 3, an AI-driven experimental weekly podcast that aims to deliver the latest insights and news from the world of Monero and privacy:

I’ve been experimenting with Google’s NotebookLM, voice generation (elevenlabs/piper), and other AI tools (SD, flux…). I discovered that these are really useful to produce very decent weekly news overviews, so I made this websi … ⌘ Read more

Epic Games Accuses Samsung and Google of Colluding to Prevent Sideloading on Galaxy Devices
Fortnite creator Epic Games today filed a lawsuit against Google and Samsung, accusing the two companies of anticompetitive behavior that discourages Android users from … ⌘ Read more

JMP: Newsletter: eSIM Adapter (and Google Play Fun)
Hi everyone!

Welcome to the latest edition of your pseudo-monthly JMP update!

In case it’s been a while since you checked out JMP, here’s a refresher: JMP lets you send and receive text and picture messages (and calls) through a real phone number right from your computer, tablet, phone, or anything else that has a Jabber client.  Among other things, JMP has these features: Your phone number on every device; Multiple phone numbers, one app; Free as i … ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net I don’t trust Google with anything, sorry, pass. Oh, and you need to sign in on your Google Account (or whatever they call it these days).

Speaking of AI tech (sorry!); Just came across this really cool tool built by some engineers at Google™ (currently completely free to use without any signup) called NotebookLM 👌 Looks really good for summarizing and talking to document 📃

如何用 Go 來構建 LLM 應用
隨着大型語言模型（LLM）及其相關工具（如嵌入模型）在過去一年中能力顯著提升，越來越多的開發者考慮將 LLM 集成到他們的應用程序中。由於 LLM 通常需要專用硬件和大量計算資源，它們通常作爲網絡服務打包，提供 API 供訪問。這就是 OpenAI 和 Google Gemini 等領先 LLM 的 API 工作方式；即使是像 Ollama 這樣的自託管 LLM 工具，也將 LLM 封裝在 RES ⌘ Read more

構建由大型語言模型（LLM）驅動的 Go 應用程序
隨着過去一年大型語言模型（LLM）及其相關工具（如嵌入模型）的能力顯著增長，越來越多的開發者開始考慮將 LLM 集成到他們的應用程序中。由 於 LLM 通常需要專用硬件和大量的計算資源，它們最常見的形式是作爲提供 API 訪問的網絡服務。這就是領先的 LLM 如 OpenAI 或 Google Gemini 的 API 的工作方式；即使是運行你自己的 LLM 工具，如 Ollama[1]，也會將 ⌘ Read more