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‘Nothing is changing’ — Reddit is denying a report from The Washington Post that it might force users to log in to see content if it can’t reach deals with AI companies
Nothing is changing says company that keeps changing everything
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‘Nothing is changing’ — Reddit is denying a report from The Washington Post that it might force users to log in to see content if it can’t reach deals with AI companies
Nothing is changing says company that keeps changing everything
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Elon Musk Now Wants to Charge ALL Users For Twitter
Do it. Not doing it is square bro.
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Side Effects of Ketamine Could Explain a Lot About Elon Musk's Behavior
I think it's fair to say that ketamine may be affecting his faculties, but this is dipping it's toe into "the drugs make him do it!" sanewashing.
Drugs don't make people assholes. They were assholes before they took the drugs, and the drugs emphasise what an asshole they are.
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I Convinced HP's Board to Buy Palm for $1.2B. Then I Watched Them Kill It in 49 Days
I developed one of the top ten apps in the webOS App Store. I released it about 6 months before they shuttered Palm and started the transition of webOS in to a vague "embedded and mobile things" open source OS that eventually ended up on, primarily, LG televisions.
It was my first big success as a computer science student. When I started working on my next big app idea it was about 80% complete when the new dropped that they were discontinuing all phones and tablets. Palm used to send me free phones and tablets too, and I spent a lot of time in the community forums, I had reviews on webOS Nation, and so on
I maintain to this day that enyo is one of the greatest app development frameworks ever written and I wonder what the landscape of web development would look like today if they'd moved faster to liberate it from mobile devices. The webOS team were also earlier adopters of nodeJS for their native services. It felt like living in the future using them at a time when the iPhone 4 was barely out.
If you can believe it, after that I moved over to Windows Phone, where history repeated without the afterlife. After that, I felt cursed but, honestly, I chose both platforms because the stores weren't saturated with 100 versions of every app imaginable.
They were great times. Five big mobile platforms, free devices, open APIs to work with - it really was a digital gold rush.
I now have LG TVs in every room and it's so strange to use webOS in it's final(?) form. Wonderfully, there's a homebrew community just as there was back in the day, albeit on a much smaller scale. I've even made a wrapper for some home assistant features.
webOS is dead. Long live webOS
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Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994
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They should put it adjacent to the up arrow key so that when I hit it accidentally, copilot can ask "did you mean to press the up arrow key?", which will cause me to smash the keyboard with my fists and then I'll need to buy another one. Sales will skyrocket.
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Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette
The use of the term "Dark traffic" here is to paint the use of ad-blockers as something nefarious. Don't use it, fuck these people right in their stupid mouths.
I propose using the terms "clean traffic", for ad-blocked website traffic, and "dogshit traffic" for everything else.
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Tesla confirms it has given up on its Cybertruck range extender to achieve promised range
"Thanks for all the $16k loans at 0% shmucks. We've kept the interest we made while rates have been up and now you can have it back while they're dropping. Of course, your money is now worth less than it was when you gave it to us during high inflation. Suck it losers. Love, T E S L A"
EDIT: deposit was $150. Still shitty but not the same impact
EDIT 2: Or $2000? ... tl;dr: shitty
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Very clever...
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You can use nano without having to read anything about nano. That might be the only thing that is better about it than vim, but it's a damn important thing.
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YouTube's Latest Update Shows That Online Monoculture Is Dead
keep showing viewers the videos that we think they’ll love
We'll keep profiling you and target you with videos that drive engagement, so largely things that inspire rage or conflict between you and others. Extra points if we drive your political and social views further to the right.
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Great! I like getting tracked by 766 third parties! thanks Outlook
766 third parties
Facebook: look what they need to mimic a fraction of my power
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It really is given that they've willingly entered a game of cat and mouse and chosen to assume the role of a blind, limbless mouse.
As others have said before me, I feel for the poor engineers who have to implement this stuff as any technical solution short of DRM is provably impractical and unworkable.
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Maybe building a better internet means going backwards
Stop using Google. Stop using Facebook and Twitter and TikTok. Stop complaining about the loss of things that still exist because you spend all your time on trash websites. Stop stepping in dog shit and saying everything stinks.
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I've tried nearly every browser out there and these are my top 6 (none are Chrome)
I switched from Firefox to Floorp and haven't looked back. Less bloated, same features, haven't found an extension that isn't compatible yet.
Same with Fennec on Android.
This article is pretty poor overall. Why recommend Arc, a browser that requires a user account to even open a webpage, and which the author himself said will probably be disappearing in the near future as part of their own product strategy?
Lame clickbait aimed at nobody.
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Yeah third party thinker just use your brain duh
I'm a big fan of my keyboard
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Plex Will Block Media Servers at Abuse Prevalent Hosting Company
This is virtually akin to banning AWS or DO. Hetzner are a legitimate and widely used cloud platform.
This is akin to Google blocking Verizon because of some spam calls. A ridiculous premise that shows huge immaturity on Plex's part.
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male voters
Democrats: ......... But why male voters?
Mamdani: you serious? I just told you that a moment ago!
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Zoom has “Zoom fatigue,” requires workers to return to the office
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When you don't have a good reason for something but you also don't have to justify your actions, this is the kind of dumb shit you throw at the wall to just make the conversation end.
"Middle management are feeling fragile and insecure and solving that matters more than actual productivity, especially for a company who has a share price history that you could ride a sled down". There's a real reason if you want one.
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Orbán: 'There is no war in Ukraine' as no declaration of war from Russia
You know what Viktor? Even kids can work out what's going on in Ba Sing Se. Which makes you dumber than a small child.
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No one really understands our struggle
Historically people with the title "lord" have had it so hard.
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What do you think would happen if Putin was assassinated right now?
During his next public speech, you'd notice that his eyebrows are slightly bushier, his voice is slightly deeper, and he's suddenly an inch taller.