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Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks
They probably communicated news of the phase out though fax
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Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks
They probably communicated news of the phase out though fax
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Announcing the Ladybird Browser Initiative
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I mean if they're gonna give money without demanding anything I'm sure no complaints from the devs.
Shopify or an exec there might find some value in avoiding Google owning the web, could maybe bring goodwill for the company, or they could just be looking for a write off.
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Solar modules deployed in France in 1992 still provide 75.9% of original output power
As far as I know that's nothing to write home about, monocrystaline solar panels get like ~30 years dropping down to 80% and then slowly begin to fail from there. I'm far from an expert, but my understanding is this is the norm and that if we found out they weren't lasting this long then people would be getting worried about a messed up cost calculous.
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/e/OS Is Better Than Android. You Should Try It
Iirc E/OS is based on Lineage, but takes a horrifying long time to patch in security updates on top of Lineage's already somewhat laggy patches. If you choose to use it make sure you're aware of that going in.
Also, like IIGxC said it's a android. Maybe slightly more private that most stock versions on most phones. But that's like saying [insert Linux distro] is better than Linux.
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Sony won't phase out Blu-ray movie and game discs, only ceasing production on consumer BD-R
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There's a lot of companies that produce them, and at least a few big brand names that are making their own and for sure not just relabeling something else.
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Outcry from big AI firms over California AI “kill switch” bill
The only thing that I fear more than big tech is a bunch of old people in congress trying to regulate technology who probably only know of AI from watching terminator.
Also, fun Scott Wiener fact. He was behind a big push to decriminalization knowingly spreading STDs even if you lied to your partner about having one.
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Firefox to collect your (anonymized) search data
As much as I hate to say it, Firefox is a privacy mess.
Pocket and Fakespot have very bad privacy policies. The Windows version has a unique Mozilla tracker if you download the installer from the website, and the android version has Google Analytics built in. The existing and new telemetry is a but heavy, but it's anonymised so it's really the lesser of the various evils.
My recommendation is LibreWolf & Fennec as alternatives.
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Innertune
Vi Music
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Edit: Maybe check out Ri Music, Vi Music's Successor
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DVDs are dying right as streaming has made them appealing again
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I would absolutely download a car 😆
Free and instantaneous creation of a useful asset? Sign me up
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Amazon says it now runs on 100% clean power. Employees say it’s more like 22%
First off there's no such thing as 100% clean or renewable power. Solar panels are metals (mined with petroleum powered equipment and probably refined in China using coal) plus petroleum products (plastics etc). They're shipped around on trucks and boats, and if they're burnt to remove the petrolium products before extracting the metals when they're 'recyced' then it's literally burning fossil fuels.
Not only that but they're buying RECs. The power they're consuming could very well be 100% generated by coal, but they gave a few bucks to somebody who had solar or wind.
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New youtube layout?
Greyjay Newpipe Freetube
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You can now buy a flame-throwing robot dog for under $10,000
Anyone able to loan me under $10,000? It's for something really cool.
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Cloudflare once again comes under pressure for enabling abusive sites
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Same reason why they serve Lemmy instances despite illegal content on Lemmy: section 230 of the DMCA
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Americans Are Open To Cheap Chinese Cars. That’s 'Scary' For The Rest Of The Auto Industry
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The EPA makes really tight emissions targets for vehicles under a certain size or the auto makers have to pay a fee iirc. Pretty sure they the medium sized stuff out of existance, an unfortunately I'm guessing the same fees would apply to imports too.
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AI Music Generator Suno Admits It Was Trained on ‘Essentially All Music Files on the Internet’
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Taking other people's creative works to create your own for-profit product is illegal in every way except when AI does it.
No, actually its completely legal to consume content that was uploaded to the internet and then use it as inspiration to create your own works.
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Elon Musk’s X defeats Australia’s global takedown order of stabbing video
The ego of an Australian regulator that thought they could tell an American company what they could or could not distribute to non-Australians must be huge. (To clarify, twitter had blocked the video for Australians)
I know the US has a reputation for thinking it's laws apply everywhere but this is on a whole new level
"option likely to achieve the most positive outcome for the online safety of all Australians, especially children."
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Enshittification Continues: Discord to begin showing advertisements on it's free platform
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$4 is probably way more than enough to cover the cost of your account, but the problem is what percentage of people are paying. If it's 1 in 100 or 1,000 and $4 covers 75 average accounts they might be in a bind.
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If it brings you value
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Did startup Flow Computing just make CPUs 100x faster?
It's probably not a total lie, a dedicated chip for specific calculations is probably the only way that we'll see major jumps in processing power for a long while. It can be really effective for highly specific stuff. But the headline itself is certainly pure clickbait on the Verge's and Flow's behalf.
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IPFS is not built on a blockchain