Switching to OCaml bois (lemmy.world)
PayPal plans an ad network built off your purchase history (www.theregister.com)
Nearly 80% of Americans now view fast food as a luxury (www.ktla.com)
Google Search’s “udm=14” trick lets you kill AI search for good | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
Tack “&udm=14” on to the end of a normal search, and you’ll be booted into the clean 10 blue links interface. While Google might not let you set this as a default, if you have a way to automatically edit the Google search URL, you can create your own defaults.
Hacked data reveals which US gun sellers are behind Mexican cartel violence (www.usatoday.com)
Trump demands drug test for Biden ahead of first debate (thehill.com)
Former President Trump said he wants President Biden to be drug-tested before their first debate....
What's a job you couldn't get paid enough to do?
Dual headphone jack smartphone scores high in new reparability video (www.notebookcheck.net)
Boris Johnson turned away from polling station after forgetting to bring photo ID (www.theguardian.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/14955332
The ad in the middle of this article about conspiracy theories (i.imgflip.com)
Remember when the web didn’t suck?
The Millennial CAPTCHA (www.jwz.org)
Narcissistic conservative parent Facebook is wild (lemmy.world)
Should we replace democracy with science?
I just won an auction for 25 computers. What should I setup on them?
I placed a low bid on an auction for 25 Elitedesk 800 G1s on a government auction and unexpectedly won (ultimately paying less than $20 per computer)...
Tesla pushes for $56bn pay deal for Elon Musk (www.bbc.com)
Google Ramps Up Crackdown on YouTube Ad-Blocking, Targets Third-Party Apps (www.ghacks.net)
Google warns users of these apps that their experience may deteriorate soon. They may “experience buffering issues” or see errors such as “the following content is not available on this app” when trying to watch videos....
There is a school in Wisconsin that uses Linux (opensource.com)
If you guys are interested in hearing the IT directors Ted talk from 2014 here it is youtu.be/f8Co37GO2Fc
Elon Musk's X pushed a fake headline about Iran attacking Israel. X's AI chatbot Grok made it up. (mashable.com)
A shocking story was promoted on the “front page” or main feed of Elon Musk’s X on Thursday:...
We should name the moon. Most people don't call their pets "dog" or "cat".
Meta just showed off Threads’ fediverse integration for the very first time (www.theverge.com)
dems the fact jack (fedia.io)
Touch a file in Linux (programming.dev)
Avast fined $16.5 million for ‘privacy’ software that actually sold users’ browsing data (www.theverge.com)
Avast, the cybersecurity software company, is facing a $16.5 million fine after it was caught storing and selling customer information without their consent. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced the fine on Thursday and said that it’s banning Avast from selling user data for advertising purposes.
Why are mental hospitals run like prisons?
I was recently involuntarily held in a mental hospital where I went through prison like conditions (strip search, had to wear scrubs, was locked in a room outside certain times a day, stuff like that) and thankfully came out in one piece after 8 days of this crap. I was just wondering why we subject people to these conditions...
Is it normal to forget your own age?
I’m still in my 20s, but as of a few years ago I started forgetting what’s my exact age. I always have to stop and recalculate it each time someone asks me. I get asked fairly infrequently, but when I do it’s a bit weird/embarrassing that I have to say “wait, let me calculate”. (I know when I was born, of course.)...