@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-06-22 14:53:00
Acer und Asus verkaufen wieder PCs und Notebooks in Deutschland
Die beiden PC-Hersteller Acer und Asus einigen sich mit Nokia auf einen Patentrahmen. Dadurch darf der Verkauf wieder anlaufen.
https://www.
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-06-22 04:44:36
The first record of the parable commonly known as the "Blind Men and the Elephant" showed up around 2500 years ago, in a Buddhist text from India. At this point it's pretty commonly known. I assume that most folks reading this will be familiar with some variation of it.
If not, it's essentially a story about people who have limited information making assertions about something: one man grabs a tail and says, "it's like a rope," another the trunk and says, "it's like a snake," a third the leg saying, "it's like a tree," and so on. Later variations are less kind to the men, having them not simply report their findings, but fight over them. The first English translation draws a parallel to religion.
This comes to mind for me, because social media has a tendency to incentivize us to make those hard assertions, to dig in, to argue our perspective as part of a spectacle. Free and federated social media isn't structurally that different from corporate media, so the incentive models built to maximize engagement by maximizing conflict tend to leak through the similarities in the user experience and the conditioning of other platforms.
I didn't really come here to critique the fediverse, but rather to remind everyone, "no one sees the whole fucking elephant." We are limited and there are necessarily some things so big they will never be individually comprehensible. Any system that relies on us all agreeing cannot possibly respond to those big things.
We can see that concretely if we look at the difference between "democratic unity" and "diversity of tactics." In the first model, everyone either agrees or gets forced to behave as though they agree (at least on some issues). That's how liberal democracy works. Diversity of tactics (which systematically described, for example, in the "St Paul Principles"), on the other hand, let's people align on goals without needing to agree on exactly how to achieve them. The reality being that often there are multiple "correct" paths, and sometimes those paths can only work if multiple paths are taken in unison.
No one sees the whole elephant. We won't even see the elephant later. People will still be arguing about the elephant long after it's gone. But if you want to get rid of the elephant, you're gonna need to accept that you can't comprehend it all and you're gonna have to figure out a way to work together that doesn't require a unified approach.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-05-21 13:15:45
Sources: Anthropic is in talks to rent servers powered by Microsoft-designed chips; source: Anthropic has steadily increased its Azure usage since November 2025 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/anthropic-talks-use-microsofts-ai-chips…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-05-20 15:41:09
Jeff Bezos says Amazon MGM Studios' decision to acquire and release Melania "was a good business decision", denying that it was "a way of buying influence" (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/jef
@matematico314@social.linux.pizza2026-04-23 03:21:39
Musiquinha para fechar bem a noite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gI9bp98eADQ (me julguem, mas eu acho esta versão da Marisa Monte melhor do que a original). Agora vou dar sachê para os gatos e deitar cedo, mesmo sendo véspera de feriado. Estou muito cansado. Boa noite a vocês que ficam.
@kubikpixel@chaos.social2026-05-20 05:05:11
«Microsoft veröffentlicht eigene Server-Linux-Distribution:
Azure Linux 4.0 positioniert Microsoft naturgemäss primär für den Einsatz in der eigenen Cloud. Bald soll aber auch eine Variante erscheinen, die sich als virtuelle Maschine im Windows Subsystem for Linux betreiben lässt.»
Erst jetzt gesehen und ein wenig überrascht. Mal sehen was das für eine Distro wird und die bestehenden wirklich konkurenziert.
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@cdarwin@c.im2026-06-21 06:55:48
Water in the Colorado River is dwindling to levels that haven’t been seen in decades,
and the seven states whose residents and farmers depend on the river can’t agree on a fair way to divide up what’s left.
Negotiations are going nowhere despite more than six months of ongoing talks, plus cajoling by the Trump administration, which twice gathered governors in hopes of a breakthrough that never came.
States are already sniping at aspects of a water-use plan the federal Bure…
@presseportal_pol_NDS@frawas.de2026-07-22 09:36:14
POL-BS: Ortung überführt Diebe Braunschweig (ots) - Madamenweg, 21.07.2026, 16:30 Uhr Zwei Männer durch geortete Kopfhörer festgestellt Am Dienstagnachmittag stellte ein 22-Jähriger eine Reisetasche vor seinem Hauseingang ab, als er sein Auto ausräumte. Nachdem er sich kurze ... https://www.presseportal.de/blaulicht/pm/1…
@leftsidestory@mstdn.social2026-05-19 00:30:02
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@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-06-18 11:05:53
Accenture says it will buy a majority stake in Dragos and fully acquire runZero and NetRise in a combined deal for the cybersecurity startups valued at $4.18B (Anhata Rooprai/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactiona