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When the fuck did a mobile hotspot become something you have to pay extra for?
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When the fuck did a mobile hotspot become something you have to pay extra for?
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Unity Claims PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo Will Pay Its New Runtime Fee On Behalf Of Devs
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Sorry to nitpick, but I see the comparison of a company market cap with country GDP a lot and it's a pet peeve of mine lol. Market cap is the value of the company, while GDP is equivalent to the total "revenue" that a country's economy generated that year. So a better comparison would be 2022 Microsoft revenue vs 2022 GDP of a country.
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Uber CEO balks after a reporter tells him the cost of his 2.9-mile Uber ride: 'Oh my God. Wow.'
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$10*
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Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media
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Jack Dorsey doesn't "own" Blusky, he just gave them grant money in the beginning to kick things off, and is one of the board members.
"Prior to the seed round, Bluesky's website described the company as a Public Benefit LLC owned by CEO Jay Graber and other Bluesky employees. Post-seed round, the company describes itself as a public-benefit C Corp."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluesky_(social_network)#Company_history
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Nitter is over - It's been a fun ride
If you want to follow Twitter accounts from Mastodon, there's a bridge called Bird.Makeup that still works and is working on a workaround to this issue.
I'm working on a Mastodon client called Agora that integrates this bridge into the search, so that if you search for "[email protected]" it automatically loads the bridged Mastodon version of the profile: https://agorasocial.app/#/andrew.masto.host/a/111844567849084915
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Lenovo bets its Motorola smartphone brand will be the third-biggest globally in 3 years
It would help to not have a complete mess of a naming scheme for their phones. It should be:
Moto E: Budget/entry level Moto G: Mid-range Moto Edge/RAZR: Flagship phones
There’s no need to confuse everything by adding 20 different versions of each tier with stylus/power/activ/whatever added to the name.
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If the ideal setup is many medium sized instances rather than a few huge ones, wouldn't that mean users would need to subscribe to duplicate communities in all of those instances?
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That's the thing, if instance admins do that to avoid duplicate communities, won't that just mean that a few huge instances will be the ones with most of the popular communities, and have outsized sway/traffic costs?
Then we're back to square one and defeat the whole purpose of distributing load across many medium instances. Or am I misunderstanding how this works?
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I abandoned my iPad for an Android tablet and didn’t hate it
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Tablets are good for "consumption" vs laptops/desktops that are better for "creation/production".
If all you want to do is browse the web, social media, watch videos, etc then tablets are a simpler interface for doing that, compared to dealing with all the extra things involved in a desktop OS.
For creation/production, aka "real work", laptop/desktop is obviously much more efficient and powerful for that.
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Introducing Bitmagnet: A self-hosted BitTorrent indexer, DHT crawler, content classifier and torrent search engine with web UI, GraphQL API and Servarr stack integration
Dude this is amazing! Exactly the sort of thing I've been hoping would pop up to further "decentralize" the torrent search experience.
So I'm trying to run it on my machine through the docker-compose option, and I'm seeing something weird. It shows as successfully running, but when I go to the port it should be running on, I get "unable to connect" on my browser.
When I check my containers running, it shows the 3 bitmagnet containers, but the port doesn't show.
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Scientific papers
Anna's Archive just added an academic papers feature called SciDB: https://annas-archive.org/
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AppleTV hardware now supports Tailscale, with exit nodes.
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You can now install Tailscale on AppleTV. Tailscale is a sort of personal VPN service that allows you to directly connect your personal devices to each other over the internet. tvOS 17 added support for VPNs to run on Apple TV.
What this means in the case of AppleTV region coding:
If for example, you have a computer at home that's running tailscale, and you take your AppleTV with you while on vacation in let's say, Egypt, you can set Tailscale on your AppleTV to use the Tailscale node on your home computer as an exit node, and you'll be able to stream Hulu on that AppleTV in your hotel in Egypt normally because the traffic is tunneling through your computer back home in the US, and it thinks that's where you're located.
Normally with commercial VPNs, that wouldn't work because Hulu/Netflix/etc have a list of IP addresses associated with VPN services, and so they'd detect youre connected to that VPN and block you from using it. But in the case of tailscale, the IP address they see is that of your computer back home, so they don't think you're connected to a VPN.
This can also theoretically help get around Netflixes password sharing restrictions, because if the account owner runs an exit node on their AppleTV, and the other password sharers set their AppleTVs to use that owners AppleTV as their exit node, Netflix will think the logins are all coming from the same IP address located in one place.
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The iPhone 13 mini is dead, leaving small phone lovers in a lurch
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The common complaints i’ve read are that it had mediocre battery life and the screen felt cramped.
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PSA: Nova Launcher has been owned by analytics company Branch since 2022
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You can find some solid open source alternatives here, the ones I like most are Lawn Chair and Kvæsitso:
https://alternativeto.net/software/nova-launcher/?license=opensource
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Samsung Considers Foundry Division Spin-Off as Poor 3 nm Yields Deter Customers
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Intel is talking about spinning its fab off
Intel's Foundry Services will still be part of Intel as a company, as opposed to AMD spinning their foundry off into a separate company called Global Foundries.
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Radicle: Open-Source, Peer-to-Peer, GitHub Alternative
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Off the top of my head: with Forgejo, you alone have the burden of hosting your repo, which means if your repo becomes popular, you have to deal with the costs of all that traffic to it.
The nice thing about the P2P/seeding aspect of Radicle is that anyone can clone your public repo and help seed it to others.
I see that Forgejo is working on federation which should help distribute the load of hosting a repo, but that doesn't look to be completed yet
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Average Ground Water Temperature in the Contiguous U.S.
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Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media
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I don't see how that's accurate if it's jointly owned by its employees.
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Tails: A Place on Lemmy for Mastodon Posts
Great concept! Btw in addition to this, if you post something on Mastodon and tag the lemmy community in the post, it posts it to Lemmy directly.
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Elon Musk Booed At Valorant Tournament
This is just the tech equivalent of tabloid gossip, and is worthless as tech news. Grow up OP
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Poptalk.scrubbles.tech is going down temporarily due to fear of federating CSAM
I get that the Lemmy devs are swamped with a lot of github issues, but how is this not one of, if not THE top priority for them right now? It's mind blowing that instance admins don't have the ability to disable the automatic caching of images from other remote instances.
If any shit show instance that ends up having CSAM can then cause an admin's instance to inadvertently cache/host that same content, why the fuck would anyone be motivated to host an instance and deal with the liability?