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The #StopDeletingUs campaign is resisting a mass wave of deletions of sex positive accounts and arguing for fairer moderation of sexual content online.

Hello this is my first post on Lemmy, I have been disgruntled with Xiaomi’s stock gallery app and wish to switch to an alternative that will not steal my data.

A high level but interesting write up of how Figma (a browser-based collaborative design tool) behaves like a file editor (their term), and how it overcomes the natural affinity of web apps to RDBMS-backed CRUD persistence patterns.

I recently listened to a “tech” podcast host drone on for 45 minutes about the “Elon vs Zuck” cage match and this piece perfectly captures the frothing, screaming stream-of-conciousness in my brain at the thought of seeing another discussion about Twitter vs Threads/Insta/Face/burning-sh*itpile. I felt some small amount...

I wanted to share this thing I found because it is great....

Washington Post: Americans waste $10 billion each year on name-brand ink. So we tested low-cost options including remanufactured cartridges, ink injection kits — and even making our own....

Signs of an escalating chip trade war were evident already in October last year. Now, a set of new strategic measures have further ignited the conflict, raising fears over the stability of the global supply chain, and even threatening to derail the EU’s green transition.

There’s been a lot of buzz here about the Fairphone here lately, especially with it coming to the US....

Claude 2 is a new AI model released by Anthropic that improves upon Claude 1.3 with better performance, longer responses, and larger input and output capabilities. Claude 2 scored higher on various tests and evaluations compared to Claude 1.3, indicating improved coding, math, and reasoning skills. Anthropic has worked to make...

nice update for canary today. tl;dr:...

cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/1418762...

Welcome to my ongoing saga of trying to use linux on an x86 tablet. Shouldn’t be too hard, you say? One does not simply ride into Mordor....

Curious what you’ve got installed on it. What do you use a lot but took awhile to find? What do you recommend?

I…didn’t think windows 12 was actually a thing but here we are?

I have to admire a company following through on the e-waste reduction by doing it’s own updates of the Android OS for an EOL chip. I just wish the fairphone 3 was actually more usable....

“Twitter owner calls Facebook founder a ‘cuck’ as rancour grows over launch of Threads, a competitor to Musk’s network”...

I just read Cory Doctorow’s article “Let the Platform Burn”. It reminded me of something I’ve been thinking about for some time. Instead of joining yet another social network and recreating yourself, why not create your personal social network object and link it to others via a federation of the personal social network...

That mom-and-pop Seattle operation just can’t catch a break.

A long form response to the concerns and comments and general principles many people had in the post about authors suing companies creating LLMs.

Bear 2 is a major update to the popular note-taking app Bear, which was an immediate hit when it launched in 2016. The new version has taken a long time to build, over 5 years, as the developers decided to completely rewrite the underlying text editor to enable features like tables, GIFs, and footnotes. The developer says...

Meta’s new text-based social app Threads has quickly gained 100 million users since launching last week, which appears to be negatively impacting traffic on Twitter. According to web analytics, Twitter traffic declined 5-11% over the first two days Threads was available compared to the previous week. Threads was able to grow...

We’re happy to announce the release of BusKill v0.7.0!...

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