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3D printer nightmare fuel: Bambu X1C and P1P started printing while owners were asleep
Friends don't let friends buy proprietary cloud locked printers.
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Intel 'Downfall': Severe flaw in billions of CPUs leaks passwords and much more
They really should be recalled like they were forced to when the fdiv bug happened https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug
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What do you think some of the fediverse's primary stumbling blocks are?
netsplits/defederation.
You can't just tell someone to register for any server, and they will be able to see everything. So they then have to choose a server, which takes effort, and can cause analysis paralysis.
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Then improve the website, for god’s sake!!!
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To be fair, they didn't say who it was better for.
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Maryland police are using drones from a Chinese company that were banned in four states
Interesting that there's more outrage in the media at the UAVs being Chinese, than there is at the police using UAVs to spy on people.
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Google has a VPN service now
A google VPN sounds as sus as huggies condoms.
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Parliament will debate petition: Make lying in the House of Commons a criminal offence - 23rd October 2023
They'd all be in prison if that was law.
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Introducing Crackpipe - your decentralized, self-hosted gaming solution!
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Still less embarrassing than recommending GIMP.
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r/selfhosted is still rising, WTF? Come to Lemmy!!!
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I guess moving to lemmy was too much work.
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Russia Is Trying to Leave the Internet and Build Its Own
I hope they don't, all the best torrent sites are Russian.
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After Raising $235K, Abode Remains Committed to Taking on Adobe
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He says it will be closed source on the kickscammer page
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A rant on the recent Fediverse reply guy discussions, text version in the body of the post.
If you don't want replies don't post in a public forum.
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Apple says it will remove services such as FaceTime and iMessage from the UK rather than weaken security if new proposals are made law and acted upon.
They should just publicly publish all the messages from politicians' accounts.
If they want to see our messages we should be able to see theirs, fair is fair.
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Introducing Crackpipe - your decentralized, self-hosted gaming solution!
I love the chutzpah of it.
Creative commons isn't a licence designed for code though, consider using the AGPL instead.
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One of Reddit’s biggest communities is suggesting users move to Discord
Protesting a walled garden blocking third party apps, by moving to a walled garden that never allowed third party apps, is one of the stupidest things I've seen on reddit.
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How to avoid/handle meltdowns in public
It's not the easiest solution, but I have a prescription for a small amount of diazepam to use as needed to "abort" meltdowns, although it's officially for "panic attacks". Obviously that requires the insight to see them coming which isn't always possible.
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Female surgeons sexually assaulted while operating
Damn, imagine dying during open heart surgery because some old fart couldn't stop himself from grabbing a booby.
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How far could cassettes have gone if there was no alternative?
Tape is still used for backup in industry, the newest LTO-9 tapes can store 45TB compressed per cartridge.
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Following Elon Musk’s lead, Big Tech is surrendering to disinformation
Maybe a hot take, but allowing capitalist corporations to decide what is "the truth" was always a terrible idea.
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An Asian MIT student asked AI to turn an image of her into a professional headshot. It made her white with lighter skin and blue eyes.
She asked the AI to make her photo more like what society stereotypes as professional, and it made her photo more like what society stereotypes as professional.