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I'm only trying to help
Now you know how linux users feel
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I'm only trying to help
Now you know how linux users feel
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'Rate limit exceeded;' Twitter down for thousands of users worldwide
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Making people unaddicted to twitter deliberately is definitely a W
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As Reddit Drama Continues, ActivityPub Growth Continues to Skyrocket
I feel like I'm going to refer to these places as ActivityPub in the future because I feel like kbin, lemmy, and beehaw sound a bit silly.
Fediverse also sounds like it gets the wrong idea across to a regular person ("does it have to do with 'the feds'?")
I personally like Mastodon, but last time I namedropped it, people were like "ohh, I love that band"
I feel like we're in a naming crisis haha
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Did Hogwarts Legacy ever get cracked successfully?
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you're thinking of EMPRESS
Definitely presented as out of spite
Some people speculate that this is the cover-up persona to hide that they're actually a team with people who have worked on Denuvo themselves, and it certainly sounds more believable than this single woman managing to crack Denuvo in 14 days when every other cracker still in the business can't.
(but also some people are truly insane who knows)
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Astronomers be naming
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The name HD 189733 b is derived from the naming convention used for astronomical objects. Let's break it down:
Therefore, HD 189733 b signifies the first planet discovered orbiting the star HD 189733. This naming convention allows astronomers and researchers to identify and differentiate between different planets and their host stars in a systematic manner.
TOI 849 b is TESS Object of Interest's 849th discovery of interest. The numbers are essentially arbitrary outside of that numbers before them have already been taken.
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Biden condemns ruling against race-conscious admissions: ‘This is not a normal court’ – live
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We are still playing catch-up to millennia worth of oppression. Rectifying historical disadvantages and creating a more inclusive learning environment are both boons that will benefit us in the long run. I don't think it's fair to call that racism. I agree with the need to fund primary education of these communities, that is very needed. I don't necessarily agree with (maybe I'm reading into your message a bit) that colleges don't heavily weigh all the other factors that they do for white people.
As an added bonus, why diverse teams are smarter
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AI Artist Creates Satanic Panic About Hobby Lobby
“Wow!! Now this is Crazy..did The Christian Owners Sale? Or are they just in Compromise ..and crossed the line and gone woke?!! This is absolutely insane..And a line Real Christians would never cross!!” another user said in reply to repost of the pictures on Facebook.
woke is when you sell Baphomet statues
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PSA: When people ask you "What distro should I use?", try pointing them here
"I prefer a distribution which is supported by game publishers." feels like it sets bad expectations considering it's just "do you want a stable Debian/Ubuntu distro?" and 'game publishers' might be a little out of date with their wording/justification
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nah don't worry, Manjaro users will tell you they use Manjaro
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Bluesky temporarily halts sign-ups because so many people are joining from Twitter
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I'm no expert, but I found this blogpost insightful: BlueSky is cosplaying decentralization
The more I read about BS’s protocol, the more I think this is done on purpose.
Why? Because it allows BS to pay lip service to decentralization, without actually giving away the power in the system.
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Another pretty good sign that BS’s decentralization is actually b.s. is the fact that the Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) used by BlueSky are currently “temporarily” not actually decentralized. The protocol uses something imaginatively called “DID Placeholder”. If I were a betting man I would bet that in five years it will keep on using the centralized DID Placeholder, and that that will be a root cause of a lot of shenanigans.
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it decentralizes the cost to the central authority by pushing data load onto volunteers, while planning to keep control by being the biggest kid on the “reach” block.
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Let's Help Urban Dictionary With Their Definitions for spez
i'll admit, it would probably be healthier if you guys could move on now
like sure, keep posting about reddit stuff for the next month, there's probably relevant stuff to talk about, but there's no reason to obsess over spez this bad
as a sidenote, really hate how you need to tie either a google or facebook account to make a definition on this site
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As Reddit Drama Continues, ActivityPub Growth Continues to Skyrocket
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Part of the fallout also involved the rapid development of ActivityPub alternatives to Reddit. Two such alternatives are Lemmy and KBin
you get a slap on the wrist this time for not looking in the article at the very least
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Brain chips to be tested on humans this year, Elon Musk says
given Tesla's trackrecord, paraplegics beware!
obviously other ways get less coverage because it's not as excitingly scifi as propping metal in your brain, but I think I would rather a CTRL-Labs armwrist even if it is owned by Facebook
if you're excited about this kind of stuff I would recommend reading more about OpenBCI, or y'know, anything that already has results within moving things with a thought.
I would sooner look to VR (as soon as we get commercial batteries that can keep up) to be the replacement 'second brain' for a computer if we're talking about the idea he once talked about accessing the internet from anywhere
If Neuralink can prove its device is safe in humans, it would still take several years, potentially more than a decade, for the start-up to secure commercial use clearance, experts earlier told Reuters. The company is also competing with other neurotech companies which have already implanted their devices in people.
like idk journalists should stop talking about Neuralink, all it does is risk stocks related to Musk go up, though this one is soberingly skeptical.
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Voters think Trump is a criminal, Biden is too old and DeSantis is a fascist: poll
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The thing about an old president is that even if he grows senile, there's the entire rest of their administration that generally have the same goals in mind as them.
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Do you think the guys on the titanic submarine will be rescued?
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this video's journalists even are like "dude this is incredibly scuffed", those scientists with them should be considered heroes in some sense
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I've felt more compelled to contribute to the "Fediverse" than I ever did on Reddit.
with 4 comments over 4 days I don't know how much of this is either a secret karma farm or honeymoon phase, but at the same time I don't want to force you to exert more posting than you feel like
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Don't overstate 1.5 degrees C threat, new IPCC head says
We're definitely nowhere near "fuck it" levels, as the article says, we sure can make things a lot more awful if we decide now that we can't do anything about it anyway.
But maybe we need a stronger example than.. Bike lanes.. Though I get the point he's making.
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Valve appear to be not willing to publish games with AI generated content
Seems like sensibly covering their asses given that it's still legally grey (read: noone has brought a significant enough court case) so I wouldn’t be surprised to see more opinions like this start to pop up from various big media hosts.
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After September 1, 2023, all Gfycat content and data will be deleted
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Entirely speculation, but I think this might be why some of the dominoes are already falling?
Like maybe all the ads pulled out of Twitter and saw that it didn't impact the ad companies very much?
If so, it could be the true end to Web 2.0
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Sega calls video games that use blockchain technology 'boring'
What do you mean doing monotonous tasks for a week so you can get 2 bucks isn't engaging?!