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New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC
Recall won't take snapshots of [...] DRM-protected content.
At least the movie industry will survive this unscathed. Thanks Microsoft. 👍
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New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC
Recall won't take snapshots of [...] DRM-protected content.
At least the movie industry will survive this unscathed. Thanks Microsoft. 👍
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'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives
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I wish it was only limited to support forums. I've even seen a Linux kernel driver where the Issues sections was closed and you should go to Discord instead. No thanks.
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Rabbit data breach: all r1 responses ever given can be downloaded
these keys allow anyone to [...] brick all r1s
the rabbit team is aware of this leaking of api keys and have chosen to ignore it.
Assuming that's true, then just bricking them all sounds like it might even be the ethically correct move.
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ProtonMail and SimpleLogin emails will be blocked from registering on websites
The issue has now been commented on and was closed by the maintainer, where they explained why those blocks would be nonsense.
Hilariously, the issue creator still hasn't given up and is now trying to communicate with the maintainer privately. 🙃
I'd really want to know what's driving them. Surely no sane person would be this persistent without some ulterior motives?
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YouTube looks to be testing server-side ad injection to counter ad blockers
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It might take a lot more effort, but I don't think this will be the end. Google is required by law to label ads as such, giving these tools an opportunity to detect and skip them.
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Adult Swim devs say WB is reverting ownership of games back to them
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Just to give a bit of context: This comes after two months of outright refusal to do even the bare minimum, like transferring the Steam Store listings for games where the devs had full ownership of the IP.
So yeah, it's nice to see that this will seemingly be resolved somewhat nicely, but that's about it.
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i didn't know recipe design existed
I believe this design breaks down once you prepare an ingredient that then gets split for use in two or more later steps.
But now I'm thinking which kind of diagram could be used as well. Some adaption of an UML activity diagram maybe?
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Visual Studio for Mac Retirement Announcement - Visual Studio Blog
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*different thing to VS for Mac, because Microsoft had to give three entirely different products the same name.
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The 4 best Reddit alternatives: Top picks to replace your subreddits - Lemmy is listed first!
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People will turn everything into a Discord server nowadays, no matter how bad of a match it is. I've even seen a Github project disabling their Issue tracker in favor of Discord, which is completely insane to me.
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After USB-C win, EU tells Tim Cook that Apple must 'open up its gates to competitors'.
Can't happen soon enough. Personally, I'd wish this would go much further and would allow every device to be flashable, with only a few exceptions for safety, like cars.
There's also a certain irony that certain other places will go to bat for right to repair, and then turn around and say "Actually, I want to live in a walled garden.", not realizing that these are two sides of the same coin.
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He chose violence
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Why did somebody actively edit out her name?
In this case it was most likely she herself. The original black and white comic has the name, but the colorized version was most likely been taken from her shop (link), which doesn't feature the name.
I'm however impressed by how utterly the person copying the picture messed up the picture. Not only is the crop completely awful, but they also tried to "restore" the comic by giving it a digital look, over-saturating everything in the process, including the JPEG artifacts of the original photo.
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France and Germany, in joint collaboration, have developed a Google Docs alternative - and its awesome! (Netherlands are currently onboarded)
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In the README there's also instructions for Docker Compose, although it's quite the compose file, with SIXTEEN containers defined. Not something I'd want to self-host.
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Philips Hue will force users to upload their data to Hue cloud
Thankfully, while I have a smart plug from them, I've made sure that it's a Zigbee powered one, meaning it's directly connected to my Home Assistant server over it's own frequency/protocol, no app required. Guess that choice is paying off now.
Also, someone should tell whoever is managing that Twitter support account that you should never use the phrase "We're sorry you feel that way", even when you're going for a non-apology.
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From what I gather, the only thing they've got going for them is that they're actually contacting key people to try out the distro, as well as timing that campaign to coincide with the EOL of Win10.
But yeah, so annoying to see when there's so many better alternatives by better people out there.
As for the latter, I haven't confirmed this myself, but I've been hearing that there's a lot of curling into bash going on, so yeah.
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The Way Forward, an update from the team behind Cities: Skylines
They've basically perfected keeping the community mostly happy by toeing the line between putting out solid base games and putting out greedy DLC.
What we're now seeing is what happens when you don't immediately change course after you skimp on making a good base game.
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Language
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Exactly. Locking basic services behind apps should be illegal. Services must be accessible to everyone.
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Year of the Diagonal Linux Desktop, y'all
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Not sure how standard this is, but on Pixel phones the default is no auto rotation, but when the phone detects rotation it will display a tiny rotate button in the corner of the screen for just a few seconds. Best of both worlds IMO.
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Apple loses top phonemaker spot to Samsung as iPhone shipments drop, research company says
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Only sort of related, but it's kind of insane how many different phones Samsung releases. Checking GSMArena, they've apparently released an average of two phones per month over the last year.
Seems a bit overkill to me.
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PSA syncthing-fork has changed owners
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First up, this fork is specifically about the Android client, not any other ones.
The fork of that always had some nice mobile battery saving features added, but morr importantly, the original version has been discontinued.
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Kagi (paid search engine): "Peertube results now show up in regular searches, plus you can filter by "source" to see more Peertube content."
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At the very least their AI Integration Philosophy has a good and nuanced view on the topic. So as long as they actually stick to that those ideas when integrating features it should be fine.