Trump 'tried to sell Truth Social to Musk' as SPAC deal stalled (www.theregister.com)
Rain World Jolly Co-op not working on Fedora Linux
cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/12450534...
Any service cheaper than Backblaze?
Do you know any service cheaper than Backblaze?
Free Group Cards (kbin.melroy.org)
free Group Cards on Sendwishonline.com offer a dynamic and collaborative platform for celebrating special occasions, milestones, or achievements within a group or community. These digital cards provide a modern and inclusive way for members to come together, contribute personalized messages, and create a unified expression of...
On DMA eve, Google whines, Apple sounds alarms, and TikTok wants out (arstechnica.com)
As a general rule, when trillion-dollar companies don’t like regulation, it simply means they’re admitting the rules are good for their customers.
Should Caddy and Traefik Replace Certbot? (www.eff.org)
The Anti-Ownership Ebook Economy (www.nyuengelberg.org)
this is a very lengthy piece but quite interesting. from the introduction:...
Apple will require notarization for apps from third party app stores, and will disable updates for apps installed via third party app stores if staying outside EU (support.apple.com)
As far as I can tell this basically means that all apps must be approved by Apple to follow their “platform policies for security and privacy” even if publishing on a third party app store. They will also disable updating apps from third party app stores if you stay outside the EU for too long (even if you are a citizen of...
Reddit has never turned a profit in nearly 20 years, but it just filed to go public anyway (edition.cnn.com)
Generative AI Tools Now Advanced Enough to Mislead Voters, Researchers Show (www.extremetech.com)
Not much to add here, given the opening dependent clause.
Once Again, Ron Wyden Had To Stop Bad “Protect The Children” Internet Bills From Moving Forward (www.techdirt.com)
Wyden has been spectacular on actually understanding tech issues for a very long time at this point. The gerontocracy needs to stop acting like they have any clue how the internet works....
Librem 5: A Practical Review (youtu.be)
Generative A.I - We Aren’t Ready. (www.youtube.com)
Hmmm 🤔 (jlai.lu)
Apple's Epic ban is questioned by EU regulators; more details (9to5mac.com)
Microsoft is ending support for the Windows Subsystem for Android (learn.microsoft.com)
cross-posted from !android...
Mr. Cook, tear down that wall (www.spacebar.news)
Yuzu is gone. (yuzu-emu.org)
They settled for $2.4M and shut everything down....
Superstars or Black Holes: Are Tech Clusters Causing Stagnation? - American Affairs Journal (americanaffairsjournal.org)
Firefox plan to show ads and shopping in the near future in the browser as an opt-out (bugzilla.mozilla.org)
First focusing on AI and now this, already cancelled my donations, do we have a good fork to move to?
AMD continues to lock down AMDGPU features (www.phoronix.com)
Well, apparently, after just a few years the ability to control GPU operation in Linux will slide down considerably.
How positive male role models are detoxifying the social media ‘manosphere’ (www.theguardian.com)
Such an interesting idea! (sembr.org)
Need, Want, and Agency: Mapping the Digital User Experience (theluddite.org)
Decentralized networks/ISPs, are they even possible? A talk and my idea
So I was thinking about what if we could make a network that the only thing you needed to connect to it is to directly connect ( through wires or directed wireless antennas ) to at least 1 computer that takes part in it, with no centralized node of any kind. For that we would need a whole new protocol and address system. THIS IS...