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Fedizen , to news in Uber and Lyft are quitting Minneapolis over a driver pay increase

“we don’t want to pay min wage” -billionaire run companies who cannot pay people competitively with taxi services 10 years ago.

i_am_not_a_robot , to technology in Google Search is losing its 'cached' web page feature
@i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk avatar

I find this very useful to read paywalled articles that Google has managed to index!

OK, I see why they might want to get rid of it.

Yewb , to news in FCC moves forward with its plan to restore Obama-era net neutrality protections

Ajit pai can go fuck himself

finkrat ,

Corporate traitor ass-clown, glad he’s out

mechoman444 ,

Twice.

In one day

notannpc ,

With a cactus.

BlackPenguins ,

And no lube.

NeoNachtwaechter , to technology in A food delivery robot's footage led to a criminal conviction in LA - Serve Robotics handed footage over to the LAPD after two people attempted to steal one of its bots

Isn’t it funny how they observe the streets with their cameras 100% continually and everything gets stored on their servers, and at the same time they celebrate their alledged policies of never doing exactly that.

OsrsNeedsF2P , to technology in Microsoft’s big Windows 11 update drops on September 26 with Copilot AI baked in

I actually spoke with one of the people on the team for this the other week.

They have significant money problems. Copilot is expensive as crap to run, and this is about to make the situation 10x worse.

(Also this feature was completely broken a few weeks ago, so I’d be surprised if it launches without a hitch)

prole ,

They have significant money problems.

Who is “they” here? Microsoft?

I think they’re doing just fine financially.

OsrsNeedsF2P ,

The particular team is burning money to run Copilot, and this new feature will burn money faster. Microsoft is mega profitable and happy to do this in the short-term, but they’re banking on a better solution in the long run.

I also specifically asked if Copilot was nerfed, and all the employee said was (paraphrasing): “Some people have run benchmarks and found it is worse than a year ago”

TheWildTangler ,

It’s GPT itself that’s shittier. All of these cloud AI platforms are very expensive to run. These are both well-known and you definitely didn’t have to talk to “Microsoft” to make that conclusion.

Dasnap , to technology in Unity will start charging developers each time their game is installed
@Dasnap@lemmy.world avatar

I brought this up in another thread:

They expect Game Pass titles to have their bill footed by Microsoft.

There’s kicking the nest, and then there’s kicking the fucking queen bee.

BolexForSoup ,
@BolexForSoup@kbin.social avatar

I mean what are they going to do with xcloud plays? Is it just 1 install on the remote Xbox or does it count per player, which means it’s an install every single time someone plays?

I imagine a lot of the doomsday stuff people are saying are not going to come to pass (and some will!). But it’s this kind of ambiguity that always leads to this kind of speculation.

redders , to technology in X is suing California over social media content moderation law

Why is anyone calling it X?

The sign still says Twitter, the domain still says Twitter, it’s still Twitter.

ram ,
@ram@lemmy.ca avatar

I call it X/Twitter/whatever just to add some frustration and negative sentiment to the branding in my own circles. A reminder that the platform’s been poisoned and it isn’t what people should be using.

CurlyMoustache ,
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I call it Nazi Island

0Xero0 ,
@0Xero0@lemmy.world avatar

naZisland

bob_wiley , to technology in YouTubers can take training courses to remove warnings from their permanent record
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  • falkerie71 ,
    @falkerie71@sh.itjust.works avatar

    How? What possible reason could the church give to give the strike?

    kevincox , to technology in Canadian judge rules the thumbs up emoji counts as a contract agreement
    @kevincox@lemmy.ml avatar

    A lot of people don’t understand that there is nothing magical about a written contract with a signature. If you agree to something you have a contract. It doesn’t matter if it is written, spoken, gestured or anything else. Written contracts with signatures are often preferred because it is very clear that there was an agreement and what was agreed to. But just about any method of agreeing is just as binding.

    Duamerthrax ,

    Like you said, written contracts lack vagueness. The interaction leading to the Thumbs Up was pretty damn vague. Validates my refusal to ever use emojis.

    kevincox ,
    @kevincox@lemmy.ml avatar

    Have you read the article? theguardian.com/…/canada-judge-thumbs-up-emoji-si…. I think that the thumbs up was actually pretty clear in this case. He had a history of accepting contracts which had already been discussed verbally with a short text like “Ok” or “Looks good”. It seems very likely that “👍” meant the same thing.

    Emoji doesn’t have anything to do with it. The fact is that he was responding to a legal agreement informally. There is really no difference between “Looks good” and “👍”. This is only a story because he tried to weasel out when the price shot up.

    Duamerthrax ,

    Yes. The fact that an emoji was ever an acceptable acknowledgement bothers me.

    Jikiya ,

    I will be sure to get off your lawn. 👍

    jonne , to technology in NASA and Boeing say Starliner astronauts ‘are not stranded,’ but will be on the ISS for a few more weeks

    Also, they totally know where their luggage is, it’ll just take a couple of days to show up.

    Chozo ,

    "Oh yeah, are you sure about that? Then why does my AirTag say it's already landed on Jupiter, hmm? I'd like to speak to your manager."

    Hominine ,
    @Hominine@lemmy.world avatar
    gravitas_deficiency ,

    I only want to retrieve my luggage, my child

    JackGreenEarth ,

    That would imply there’s an Apple device connected to the internet on Jupiter.

    Chozo ,

    You can't prove there isn't!

    Morphit ,
    @Morphit@feddit.uk avatar

    You could make a religion out of this.

    Thetimefarm ,

    Common mistake, AirTags don’t work in space because there is no air.

    abbiistabbii , to technology in Pornhub to leave five more states over age-verification laws
    @abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

    That’s basically the idea behind these laws.

    Conservatives want to make porn illegal, which isn’t easy under traditional means, so they’re taking the “Putin” approach as I put it, make viewing porn hard, unattractive or even dangerous and make delivering porn to people hard, unattractive and dangerous.

    Requiring an ID from the government to view porn means the government can tell who is watching what. If one of those people happens to run for office or get a little too campaigny, their porn history can be named and shamed.

    And porn providers know this, and know that will drive people away from their sites, and on top of this implementing this will likely be bureaucratic and likely expensive, so they’ll stop serving an area.

    And when this is applied to non porn sites that have porn like Reddit or twitter or Tumblr, well guess what’s going to happen, those sites will ban porn from their site.

    It’s basically banning porn by making it impossible to get porn in a way that doesn’t end up with you getting blackmailed. Children have nothing to do with it.

    Wahots ,
    @Wahots@pawb.social avatar

    *human porn.

    Google can’t even block yiff with safe search, lol. AI has incredible difficulty with evaluating furry porn. Which means that Mitch McConnell is going to live out his final days looking at anthropomorphic hyenas that could benchpress a fridge and have 11 inches of freedom, lmao.

    Generations of southerners and people in the central US are going to be looking at considerable amounts of yiff if conservatives have their way.

    abbiistabbii ,
    @abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

    I love the defiant cursed energy here.

    Wahots ,
    @Wahots@pawb.social avatar

    It is…inevitable. A shame, really. >:)

    Matriks404 , to news in X now treats the term cisgender as a slur

    I wasn’t aware of this term, but I just checked it in wiktionary. Looks like a perfect normal word to me.

    OldWoodFrame ,

    It is, and it’s a word we need there’s not a different term for it and it’s a useful concept. Close minded people just hate that it implies the existence of trans people.

    captainlezbian ,

    Much like all words for a privileged group it has some people who really don’t like it. Transphobes in particular dislike it because it is neutral and contains no value judgement. But also because it gives people the language to talk about trans experiences without misgendering or othering trans people

    Drinvictus , to technology in Google One is shutting down its VPN feature later this year

    TIL Google one had VPN

    MeatsOfRage ,

    I’ve got Google One for the storage but there was no way I wanted all my internet activity routed through the Google servers

    Asudox ,
    @Asudox@lemmy.world avatar

    You had your files in Google One storage though.

    MeatsOfRage ,

    Yes but I individually choose what goes in there it’s not the fire hose of data that is everything I browse

    criticon ,

    The only time I used it was when a hotel wifi was blocking access to my VPN but Google’s worked fine

    uienia ,

    TIL Google One

    Andromxda , to piracy in The Motion Picture Association will work with Congress to start blocking piracy sites in the US
    @Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    We will need to use hidden networks like !i2p

    K0W4LSK1 ,

    Maybe this will get i2p out of beta…

    pixel ,
    @pixel@pawb.social avatar

    wait can you explain what this is/how it works? I’ve never heard of it before

    golden_zealot , (edited )
    @golden_zealot@lemmy.ml avatar

    Sure, i2p or the invisible internet project is a FOSS project which acts as an anonymous network anyone can potentially access, and host on.

    It does this by creating end to end encrypted peer to peer tunnels between its users and then sending data through itself via a path between some of the 50,000+ volunteers that make up the project. The path data takes is random so a third party seeing any communication in full is highly unlikely, and even at that, its still encrypted.

    The software that implements this is the i2p router, and when using the i2p router you become a node on the network like everyone else using it, allowing pieces of anyone’s data to move through your router, just as your data moves through theirs.

    The UX/UI is very good for new users and makes it easy to access, or host. Particularly, to my understanding, i2p is also very popular for torrenting due to the nature of how it works (in comparison to similar projects such as tor, there is an entire built in solution for torrenting included with i2p).

    pixel ,
    @pixel@pawb.social avatar

    thank you! do you have any resources for someone new to using i2p?

    Garry ,

    Isn’t this similar to tor, and slow af??

    golden_zealot ,
    @golden_zealot@lemmy.ml avatar

    Similar in some ways different in others, actually surprisingly fast for what it does though and I find the user experience a lot nicer than tor.

    deforestgump , to piracy in The Motion Picture Association will work with Congress to start blocking piracy sites in the US
    @deforestgump@hexbear.net avatar

    Judging by the fact that most of congress doesn’t know how TikTok or WiFi work, I’m guessing it’s gonna be fine.

    CosmicTurtle0 ,

    They may not know how it works, which is why it’s fucking dangerous that they are getting “consulted” by the MPA.

    Best case scenario: it’s just a DNS level block.

    Worst case scenario: it’s a DNS level log capture so that the MPA can sue people who watch things on fmovies or similar sites, like the RIAA did in the 90s.

    pankuleczkapl ,

    DNS over HTTPS and use a DNS located in another country - problem solved

    CarbonScored ,
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    In Europe, these blocks are typically just IP bans, so secure DNS no helpy. You need a VPN or other proxy.

    Andromxda ,
    @Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    You can even bypass these blocks with a CDN like Cloudflare. They let you host a proxy for a website for free. Check out this guide champagne.pages.dev/…/proxy-websites/

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