Spotify's new Showcase tool lets artists pay to promote their music in the Home feed | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Another reason to never listen to anything recommended by spotify
Microsoft has not stopped forcing Edge on Windows 11 users. (www.ctrl.blog)
Can I keep fried eggs in fridge?
How long? Does it change the concistency or taste?...
Roku lays off 300 workers and removes streaming content to save money (www.engadget.com)
Roku looks to be seriously tightening its pursestrings. The company’s laying off a full ten percent of its workforce, over 300 employees, in addition to a conducting a number of other cost-cutting measures, as reported by Variety. These job cuts are just the beginning, as Roku’s also removing streaming content, consolidating...
Google is killing Play Movies & TV, will only have three video stores left (arstechnica.com)
Carmakers are failing the privacy test. Owners have little to no control of the data they hand over (www.ctvnews.ca)
Fairphone 5 Announced! (shop.fairphone.com)
Looks like a new model for the Fairphone has been announced! What do you think about it?...
any soapy cilantro enjoyers? (infosec.pub)
Kevin doesn't share though (sh.itjust.works)
Living conditions in Ukraine are resembling a new slavery, a triumph of Western 'democracy' in the 21st century (english.almayadeen.net)
Yes I actually had an argument about this (midwest.social)
Scraped data of 2.6 million Duolingo users released on hacking forum (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
The scraped data of 2.6 million DuoLingo users was leaked on a hacking forum, allowing threat actors to conduct targeted phishing attacks using the exposed information.
Parents used to warn their kids that literature would rot their brains. Then it was the radio, TV, and video games. Now it's TikTok.
Socrates bemoaned those young’ns who had the audacity to read their Homer, instead of memorizing it....
Pure evil (i.imgur.com)
If the same game is available and on sale on GOG and Steam, on which platform you rather buy it?
I’ve had this question looking at the Quake con sale, and Call of Cthulhu Dark Corners of the Earth is for sale on both platforms. I ended up buying it on GOG. What is your opinion?
‘Everything you’ve been told is a lie!’ Inside the wellness-to-fascism pipeline (www.theguardian.com)
Community Discussion: Apps Worth Every Penny!
Hey, Android enthusiasts! 📱...
Trump pleads not guilty to charges that he plotted to overturn election (www.washingtonpost.com)
Former president Donald Trump pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges that he conspired to overturn the results of the 2020 election, appearing in the federal courthouse that sits just blocks away from where his angry supporters stormed the Capitol building in an effort to keep him in power.
Why do we not eat pig or cow?
When I eat chicken, I call it chicken. Chicken wing; chicken drumsticks etc....
Twitter neighbours complain of lit-up ‘X’ sign working at high intensity (www.theguardian.com)
New logo for Elon Musk’s social network strobes over San Francisco neighbourhood, prompting complaints and mobilising building inspectors
China says US military aid to Taiwan will not deter its will to unify the island (apnews.com)
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China accused the United States of turning Taiwan into an “ammunition depot” after the White House announced a $345 million military aid package for Taipei, and the self-ruled island said Sunday it tracked six Chinese navy ships in waters off its shores....
US announces $345 mil. military aid package for Taiwan (koreatimes.co.kr)
The U.S. announced $345 million in military aid for Taiwan, Friday, in what is the Biden administration’s first major package drawing on America’s own stockpiles to help Taiwan counter China....
My Opinion: NewPipe, Piped, Invidious, etc's days are numbered.
With Reddit shutting down its API setting a precedent in the corporate tech world (and Reddit was a major outlier in that a ton of their users are technical minded and support third party clients, YouTube does not have that kind of userbase and will not get backlash for it), Twitter doing whatever the fuck they’re doing, and...
Unpacking Google’s new “dangerous” Web-Environment-Integrity specification (vivaldi.com)
Reddit’s only free iOS app icons are ugly now (www.theverge.com)
tl;dr: They locked the original icon behind Reddit Premium.
