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Google hit with $314m fine for collecting data from idle Android phones without permission
Google in 2024: Net profit: $100 billion
The government: "here is a tiny fine that you can't even see in a microscope."
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Google hit with $314m fine for collecting data from idle Android phones without permission
Google in 2024: Net profit: $100 billion
The government: "here is a tiny fine that you can't even see in a microscope."
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Posting for a friend lol
#apt-get = older, lower-level, more script-friendly For normal use, just use apt now. For scripting where 100% backward compatibility matters, use apt-get.
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Nexus Gamers are going to test gpus on Linux (Bazzite)
This is great. Honest people like Steve and Wendell are great for Linux. Let's make sure, as a community, we don't give them a hard time about their distro of choice. I think bazzite is an excellent choice to start until they get comfortable digging deeper into the system.
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HDMI Forum is unwilling to disclose the 2.1 specification for open-source (Linux): according to AMD, they had submitted a functional, HDMI 2.1-compatible driver [for linux?], which the Forum rejected.
That's why HDMI needs to die and display port needs to take over. The TV industry is too big for that to happen of course. They make a shit ton of money off of HDMI
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Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber
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And for that reason alone I built a Linux PC for my 11 year old and told him to go to town figuring things out. (I supervise everything of course). Dude has been doing fantastic so far.
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Microsoft is moving antivirus providers out of the Windows kernel. Hopefully anti-cheat will be next
I never understood kernel level anti-cheat. People STILL cheat. lol
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FFmpeg to Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs
If I had an open source program that is being used by fuckers like Google, who can afford to pay but don't, and then come in and demand shit. I'd just ignore them and pretend they don't exist and continue with my life. Let them bark until they're blue in the face. But first I'd put this as the first line in the README.md “if you're a big corporation and need help, come with money. Otherwise, please don't bother me”.
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Dolphin emulator hits a milestone as the full Wii catalog is now playable
The engineering that goes into these emulators is pure insanity
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Our Channel Could Be Deleted - Gamers Nexus
How is his channel going to be deleted? They appealed the take down and YouTube will reinstate the video in a matter of 10 days if Bloomberg failed to produce proof that he used their copy right shit. I'm actually genuinely asking because I watched the whole video and Steve didn't say anything about their channel being deleted.
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Shamelessly stolen from Reddit
The idea that I should care about a corporate losing money is laughable to me. I'll give anyone a discount when allowed by the company without hesitation.
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Nexus Gamers are going to test gpus on Linux (Bazzite)
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And excellent, because being linux, drawing attention to issues increases the chances of them getting fixed, whereas that is hardly the case for Windows.
This is the most important part of this whole thing to me. Imagine Nvidia watching Steve shitting on them for having horrible drivers on Linux and millions of people seeing that.
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PewDiePie Promoting Self-Hosting, Blocking Ads, Shorts and more
Self-hosting is a literal addiction. lol
I started with just an invidious instance and now I have my own audiobooks app that I’m also turning into a navidrome client. Did I say jellyfin and pihole, too?
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Personally I'm grateful to not need 3rd party packages
I smell something fishy going on. I've been using the AUR for a long time and I'm now just hearing of malware?
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Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud
Technofeudalism. Great book by Yanis Varoufakis. He called it and it’s actually happening.
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RIP Windows: Linux GPU gaming benchmarks on Bazzite (Gamers Nexus)
I'm so glad he went with BazziteOS over a regular distro. Even though, I love CachyOS, but in this case we need to have more new users and we don't want them to deal with any potential issues.
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Google just broke *all* third-party YT clients, including yt-dlp; a full JS implementation is now required.
They're going to keep enshitifying it until they kill it completely. Them blackholes, I mean shareholders, will never have enough money.
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Every now and again a voice comes into my head telling me to install Arch.
Unpopular opinion: install community distros, not corporate ones. That way you can support the developers for their hardwork. Redhat doesn't need our money, they already make enough of it. I use CachyOS, btw.
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Absolutely Legend
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They did it before the Internet was even a thing, my friend.
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Popup Ads in Your Pickup Truck? RAM Trucks Now Feature Scammy Ads on the Center Display
And not even a fucking "don't show again" option. Either "call" or "remind me later". So there is no escape. Either take the ad in the ass or it'll show up again. Fuck that
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Ban of "Nicole" images and potential doxing
Damn, I never thought about it this way. Wow. I always took it as a funny thing not thinking of the person in the photo being an actual person who could very well be harassed. Thank you for bringing this to light. Whoever thought of this is a good human being. <3