Ethernet is Still Going Strong After 50 Years (spectrum.ieee.org)
Ethernet is Still Going Strong After 50 Years::The technology has become the standard LAN worldwide
Argentina elects 'shock therapy' libertarian Javier Milei as president (www.reuters.com)
YSK: Social media platforms attach trackers to the end of share URLs (which you can and should delete)
Why YSK: Trackers don’t do good for anyone except the platform, and they’re not necessary to view the content in the URL....
Google CEO Pichai advises Android users not to sideload apps (www.phonearena.com)
FYI (files.ohai.social)
Taco Bell's effort to 'liberate' Taco Tuesday nationwide comes to fruition (www.nrn.com)
Toyota nears mass production of solid-state batteries (archive.ph)
USPS warns of scam involving texts requesting information for package delivery (www.13abc.com)
The United States Postal Service is warning of a scam involving text messages that ask for information in order for a package to be delivered.
‘Cyberpunk 2077’ Used AI For A Dead Voice Actor’s Performance, With Permission (www.forbes.com)
There are uses of AI that are proving to be more than black and white. While voice actors, have protested their performances being fed into AI against their will, we are now seeing an example of this being done, with permission, in a very unique case.
West urges Israel to show restraint amid escalation fears (www.politico.eu)
HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA (cdn.discordapp.com)
MY SIDES!
I swear I didn’t change anything (thumbsnap.com)
Ebay Could Owe $1.9 Billion in Fines for Allowing Sale of 343,000 Emissions Defeat Devices (www.thedrive.com)
Ebay Could Owe $1.9 Billion in Fines for Allowing Sale of 343,000 Emissions Defeat Devices::The Department of Justice alleges that eBay illegally sold 343,011 emissions defeat devices, and could face billions in penalties.
fuuuuuuuuuuture (lemmy.world)
TIL GNU/linux has 2 clipboards
Pretty sure most of you already know this but for those who don’t: you have two clipboards in Linux. One is the traditional clipboard where you copy with control c and paste with control v. The other one is when you highlight text and use the mouse middle click to paste text....
Try not to use slave labor challenge (Impossible!) (lemmy.ml)
Wedding officiant accidentally shoots own grandson after trying to get guests’ attention (nypost.com)
A Texas grandfather who was about to officiate a wedding in Nebraska errantly shot and wounded his own 12-year-old grandson when he tried to fire a gun in the air to get the attention of guests Saturday, according to authorities....
Looking for game recommendations
I’m a casual gamer who’s been largely inactive for the past few decades, and so I’m looking for some some good game recommendations. I don’t mind if they’re old as long as they came out after 2003 (because that’s when graphics of many games really started improving), maybe between 2008-2019. I’m also quite a picky...
Making a button to do this is apparently far too difficult (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Credits to go fucking australian news site adelaidenow.com.au
Uber, Grubhub and DoorDash must pay NYC delivery workers an $18 minimum wage (www.engadget.com)
A first-of-its kind law requiring a minimum wage for app-based delivery workers will take effect after a judge rejected the companies’ bid to block it....
Online Ads Can Infect Your Device with Spyware (www.scientificamerican.com)
An investigative report reveals that new spyware can slip in unseen through online ads—and there is currently no defense against it. So not only that online ads are intrusive and can infect devices through malware, they can also be used for spying.
Why Do Companies Not Use Existing 2FA Standards?
This is something I am seeing more and more of. As companies start to either offer or require 2FA for accounts, they don’t follow the common standards or even offer any sort of options. One thing that drives me nuts is when they don’t offer TOTP as an option. It seems like many companies either use text messages to send a...
If you had access to a scifi-level artificial super intelligence that could simulate anything perfectly at unimaginable speeds, what experiments would you want to run that would be unethical otherwise
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"God works in mysterious ways" basically means "this doesn't make any sense to me, but I'm gonna ignore it"
Side note, does it count as a shower thought when it was conceived while sitting on the toilet? Do we have toilet-sitting-thoughts communities?