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Lastest Riot Vanguard Update Can Brick Your Hardware (If You're a Cheater)
Yeah your game is so important that you get to destroy people's hardware? Shit should be illegal.
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Lastest Riot Vanguard Update Can Brick Your Hardware (If You're a Cheater)
Yeah your game is so important that you get to destroy people's hardware? Shit should be illegal.
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Flock CEO calls Deflock a “terrorist organization”
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Careful! I think logic and questions are the new terrorist things to do! Oooo scarey!
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Bill Gates to give away 99% of his wealth in the next 20 years
And he'll still be a billionaire. And he got that money by suppressing the world with proprietary software. He's single handedly helped hold humanity back. I don't care the good he's done as it's built on the back of all the harm he's done.
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The circle of life
Literally was in a presentation at work the other day where they said someone used 2 million tokens and the next person used 1 million and they were so excited by it.
I didn't get it. I asked went 2 million was better than 1 million. The VP basically said it's not, just costs us more money.
So why the hell is the presentation acting like it's a fucking victory?
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id Software insists in new statement that it still has "the crew we need to build the games and tech we're known for"
Yeah, we just laid off all the engine people we use to build the games we're known for.
And now we're moving to an engine none of us knows and isn't ours. What's the worst that can happen?
Totally certain Microsoft will be a good steward and give them time and money to completely transition to ...
The person writing this post has been sacked ...
The person that was writing about the sacking has been sacked. There are five lights.
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Kernel Anti-Cheat Is an Overreach
Kernel anticheat is a virus. There are zero reasons a video fame should have full access of your system.
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Mastodon is about to launch its take on Bluesky’s starter packs
It's not just Mastodon. MANY open projects are working on theirs as well. Bonfire (as well as others) are working on Circles. Surf has curated feeds. :) It's built into the Fediverse. ;)
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Rick Moranis Officially Ends Retirement for ‘Spaceballs 2,’ Sequel Announces Full Cast as Filming Starts
I'm SUPER excited, but also VERY concerned. So I'll be cautiously optimistic. But seeing the new Naked Gun with Liam Neeson, though a completely unrelated project, I'm hopeful that today's Hollywood might actually be able to pull this off.
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Go Away Microsoft! The Netherlands is Quietly Building Its Own GitHub Replacement
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Digital sovereignty. Codeberg is funding development of forgejo. Forgejo will federate to other instances. So you can have your own repo and someone on another forgejo can interact remotely. So no need for centralized platforms anymore. Power of the Fediverse! :-)
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What the actual fuck.
Dude literally said it:
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From millions of dollars to under a grand: The dramatic fall of the NFT
What? You mean digital art that infinitely reproducible, can't actually be owned, WASN'T the next big thing? Oh jeez. I hope the metaverse succeeds and if not then AI surely will RIGHT?!?!
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Flock CEO calls Deflock a “terrorist organization”
So we've moved on from Woke finally and just calling everything terrorist now? At least I won't have to ask everyone saying "everything is so woke now" to define woke and watch them sputter.
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Lemmy.world Is Anti‑Humanity. How Its Admins Weaponized Defederation to Silence Palestine Solidarity
Lemmy.world is run by Ruud, a man that lives in the Netherlands. He does not have the same legal protections as say Reddit. He has to obey his laws in his country. Looking up Netherlands laws, it would seem to me that having any user named "Murder all " is literally against the law in the Netherlands. So he has two choices. Literally risk going to prison, or having to take it down.
The brilliance of the Fediverse, as you realize because you've posted this on Piefed, anyone can create a server and build their own connections.
I'm against hurting anyone, but I'm in the US, where people have that right to say those things. Ruud isn't.
These servers have specific rules for their communities for a reason. Most aren't here to make money. No one is paying Ruud to keep people in power. He doesn't even have to run ANY service, but he is. Because he believes in the Fediverse. But he's still bound by his laws and it's his server.
I've spoken to Ruud on an episode. He's a lovely man that doesn't deserve this hate.
I understand the frustration. Lemmy.world is a large instance where there are tons of people, but you don't know the laws.
I'm not denying the censorship at all. I'm not denying that we need to speak out for Palestinians. But he HAS to follow his country's laws or there will be no services. And when you say ggod that's what you want, the more servers shut down, the more people will turn away. The more people are forced back to big tech where they will censor you to protect their investment. Reddit IS protected by that speech under section 230, but they'll still censor it.
The best you can do, start your own instance. It's possible it might be blocked by Lemmy.world if your server is breaking their rules. But at least you can get your message out.
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YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable - Dexerto
I recommend Peertube. There's not much there yet, but myself and others are trying.
Also, did you know you can upload your video to Peertube and have YouTube pull it via RSS? That's what I'm doing!
All of my stuff you'll find on Peertube and I don't have to do anything else to get it up on YouTube.
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Cory is amazing. I interviewed him on Fireside Fedi and that dude has so many well thought out points. He changed my mind on Threads coming into the Fediverse.
Link for anyone interested. https://video.firesidefedi.live/w/huevh4L6r1yMYXqcQMi8gR
https://audio.firesidefedi.live/@firesidefedi/episodes/cory-doctorow-livestream-2025-05-13-18-59-21
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Congress Is Considering Abolishing Your Right to Be Anonymous Online
Honestly, I look at this and I see a future where everyone runs their own Federated services. I can verify my child's age as well as mine and I'm the best one to decide what they can and can't see. So I only need to worry about me and my family.
Or a local community can run it for themselves.
A forced move away from social media, because they can't afford the risk, to one where we all run our own stuff and can follow who we want.
This is only 1 possible outcome of course, and it's wildly idealist, but it's a future I'm going to push for no matter what. So I'm very biased, so don't take my opinion into account. :D
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Microsoft 365 Copilot is a commercial failure
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Fuck you Microsoft and other Big Tech assholes AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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TIL that Truth Social is (was?) based on Mastodon
Not only is it Mastodon, but before it released a bunch of folks went and looked it up. They realized it was Mastodon, but had no attribution. So Mastodon sent a 30 day notice to properly display the open source licensing or lose access to it. If they refused, then Mastodon could have taken them to court and almost certainly have easily won.
While I don't like Trump, or what he stands for, this is the power of open source. You want to create your own toxic sewage social network? You can. You want to create your own growing, beautiful, welcoming, social network, you can. You can build anything you want.
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Kernel Anti-Cheat Is an Overreach
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That's not a justified reason. To each their own, but no game is worth compromising my entire system.
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Google Is Closing Android. 37 Orgs Are Fighting Back.
Techlore has their own Peertube BTW.
This video is on there. You can follow a peertube channel directly from Mastodon or Piefed.
If folks want a peertube account there are many services out there. I personally run tubefree.org for those interested.