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Lemmy Defederation Sync (LDS) to keep your block list up to date (github.com)

Hi all, I’m a Lemmy FOSS app contributor that’s made a couple of tools for people starting small instances including Lemmy Community Seeder (LCS) for building content on new server’s All Feeds and Lemmy Post Purger (LPP) for clearing old posts on smaller instances....

Ad blockers are a must (lemmy.ml)

Mexican president urges end to 'irrational' Ukraine war, wants Russia at peace talks (www.reuters.com)

NATO Planes Watched As Three Civilian Ships Ran Russia’s Naval Blockade Of Ukraine (www.forbes.com)

Sunday’s successful blockade run could signal to international shippers that it’s reasonably safe to resume operations from Ukrainian ports.

Who else foresees environmental problems with this later down the line? (news.microsoft.com)

Microsoft are looking at putting datacenters under the ocean, which sounds like a really good idea to cool them but I can’t help but think a couple decades from now it’s going to start causing us problems

Notes taking app

I’m looking for a good notes taking app to replace The Bad Ones like Evernote....

Apple rejects new name 'X' for Twitter iOS app because... rules (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/834308...

After 9 months, the New Orleans Police Department’s use of facial recognition has resulted in zero arrests and multiple false positives (lailluminator.com)

The NYC subway is using AI to detect fare dodgers (www.theverge.com)

Apple already shipped attestation on the web, and we barely noticed (httptoolkit.com)

Apple has deployed a system called Private Access Tokens that allows web servers to verify if a device is legitimate before granting access. This works by having the browser request a signed token from Apple proving the device is approved. While this currently has limited impact due to Safari’s market share, there are concerns...

What inaccurate historical factoid do you just go with?

In Phoenix, 4.5 million residents are living in hell: this is life at 113°F degrees (45 °C) for more than 20 days (english.elpais.com)

Do you store all your media? And how?

For a piracy-oriented community I’m surprised this isn’t discussed as much....

Meta being fined $100k a day for personalized ads in Norway (techcrunch.com)

Reddit is a dead site running (dbzer0.com)

Toyota claims battery with range of 745 miles, charges in 10 minutes (www.theguardian.com)

Ladybird announcement (youtu.be)

Exiting news for the lady bird browser. ladybird.org

Active communities promotion thread

Hello,...

Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission (www.neowin.net)

I was explaining to my daughter about the differences between Gimp and Photoshop and saw that Adobe had a page that claimed to compare the two. It never compares the two. It barely mentions Gimp. (www.adobe.com)

I expected ridiculous propaganda from Adobe, but they give absolutely no reasons why Photoshop is better than Gimp and list a bunch of things that Gimp can do too....