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Only approved phones can pass Google’s new reCAPTCHA, locking out privacy-focused alternatives
Is the recaptcha on Google search engine, apps, android os more than one? or is it strictly 3rd party websites?
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Only approved phones can pass Google’s new reCAPTCHA, locking out privacy-focused alternatives
Is the recaptcha on Google search engine, apps, android os more than one? or is it strictly 3rd party websites?
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Fediverse Growth?
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Yeah, for Facebook. Will people trust smaller sites like Piefed.zip, in droves?
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Man jailed for a month despite Flock showing he was 5 miles from crime scene
Here's a legal tip you likely don't hear everyday.
Wear clothing worn by a smaller percent. This could reduce the chance of false accusations if you truly are innocent. I mean in this specific case it probally could.
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Fediverse Growth?
I'm actually afraid the opposite might actually happen.
if users (especially new potential users to the Fediverse.) find that social media requires them to id verifiy most of them will probably just either stick to a narrow smaller few of sites they know people use, or they'l obsolete themselves from the social media aspects of the internet entirely.
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Google to challenge German ruling saying it is liable for AI-generated false claims
I actually want to find out how Google will get out of this one. Without any type of lobbying. Even in the u.s ai search promp resualts are technically considered Googles own speech and they are legally responsible. Sadly no one in government seems interested in enforcing ai and even where there is there is this push to take the power from the states to regulate ai.
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New York Becomes First State to Ban Bots That Scrape News Sites
Realistically what good would it do once you already had scraped the pattern of news sites it's already over. All this is doing in actuality is preventing new start ups from competing in the ai space. so really this is the fastest enshitification world record of a medium. Whether you like or hate ai this is actually an enshitification of it. ( I hate ai.)
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'Bots have now passed human traffic online,’ Cloudflare boss laments — says agentic traffic wasn’t expected to eclipse real people until next year
Hopefully ai bot traffic isn't surpassing human users yet on the Fediverse.
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You Can Now Get a Religious Exemption From Using AI at Work
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or just let people opt out entirely flat out?
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New plans to stop children taking, sharing or viewing nude images
This is literally impossible even with ai and a dangerous bill for big tech. While for smaller Fediverse Communities it's much much easier to moderate that type of content since
a. we don't have to rely on a corporation to provide the tools we need.
b. you would only be responsible (I think) for content on your own local feeds. However if you are responsible for federated content appealing as well, might want to federate with servers with some type of user verification (not id verification) but like verifying your use purpose of a server they are joining. and defederate from other servers that are not moderating their local feeds.
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‘You Will Not Speak on Flock Tonight’: County Commissioner Refuses to Let Residents Opposing Flock Speak at Meeting
Why can't people talk about flock in a public forum? They claim its because there's lots of them. I think it's because they just don't want to hear what people think about it. Some kind of ai spy tracking agenda.
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3D Franchises that went 2D | Game Sack
Rayman and Sonic are some interesting case studies for this type of thing.
Sonic started with 2d when it was at its original peak(SNES.genesis) then dived into 3d in its peak with the Saturn and Dreamcast and ps2 Gamecube, Xbox. and now with the switch Sonic dived back into 2d with games like Sonic mania, and some mobile games, wile still delivering 3d. Sonic has a lot of boht 3d and 2d games from that ip.
Rayman is similarly interesting but what is interesting about it particularly was the first game was 2d but was (for 2d game standards) made for more modern hardware, the ps1/ Atari Jaguar. In the case of Rayman, hardware limitations weren't as much of an issue you can actually view the 2d genre as a genre. Then it dived into 3d with the second and third game. but then interestingly, for their ps3/Xbox 360 and Wii/wii u. Rayman games they again made a 2d game for modern hardware. You could play 2d for the genre itself not strictly because of hardware limitations. Rayman is probally one of the better games to fairly compare 2d and 3d games in the same IP.
Both of these are platformers however. not fighting games or others particularly.
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Google demanding a Portuguese developer to add age verification to an app because of a Texas law
That is 100% true u.s states laws are essentially federated. However, Google and Meta are big 'monopolistic' the companies who want to be able to profit and age verification opens that up for them and so expect them to use terms like 'global regulations' or any excuses to further push for verification.
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Websites have a new way to spy on visitors: Analyzing their SSD activity
Can they actually force a write of a large file to test it or do they look at your specs? If they can actually force a large file writing whether it's 100 mb or 50 gb, 1tb this isn't even really a privacy issue it's just a, tech companies can just step all over you and your ardwae st to make sure your human or to make sure they can track your preferences.
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App Store users in Texas will now need to verify their age
How easy is it to just install a firewall and block the parent moderating app from getting any data?
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UK’s Starmer gives Apple, Google 3 months to stop children sending nude images
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That's what i'm concerned about.
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Opensource AI Must Win
I'm not as up to date (like at all lol) with specifically open source ai. Is it any better then corporate ai? Including data center-like resources use? or otherwise?
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US | Trump FCC warns all broadcasters to follow orders or be punished like ABC
As much as they (alt right/conservatives) talk about being censored. I don't think any u.s democrat elected official has ever went this far against their networks, as much as they disliked their views. This doesn't look good.
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"Scan to Verify You're Human": Google's reCAPTCHA is trialing a new "experimental challenge type" which requires desktop users to use an Android or iOS device to be able to pass it
Does this appear on Google search or on specific websites that use this REcapcha?
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‘Heartbreaking’: 2-year-old girl dies after being hit by car on beach
This wouldn't happen with public transit. At the very least it is much much less likely.
I feel like cars should be either heavily restricted at beaches or banned. If someone is at a beach playing in the sand and normal beach activities and a car could cause this type of distress. If not banned there should at the least be a more clearly visible parking lot seperated from the beach.
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When it was cool to play Xbox on a CRT.
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It's basically like with the ps2, there were some ps2 homebrew titles that I remember seeing on YouTube that did something related to 720p, but most retail games didn't fully utilize that. The original Xbox for the most part, (maybe there might be some obscure exceptions) the games would actually show up nice and crisp on a CRT at either a native or close to native CRT resolution, with better graphics then the ps2 and GameCube.