The music industry is waging war upon an AI server on Discord (qz.com)
This is just one action in a coming conflict. It will be interesting to see how this shakes out. Does the record industry win and digital likenesses become outlawed, even taboo? Or does voice, appearance etc just become another sets of rights that musicians will have to negotiate during a record deal?
Decentralized Twitter alternative Bluesky has published a moderation manifesto. - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
A Friday blog post details the Bluesky team's moderation proposals for “a shared public commons,” using things like lists, hashtags, and even “per-thread” tools that would give moderation power to each poster. The latter treats threads like a mini-forum: if you don’t like a reply, you can yeet that skeet (or just hide...
Reddit says accessibility upgrades for moderators are coming to its mobile apps soon (www.theverge.com)
Many still seem unhappy with the company’s plan.
An upcoming 5G deadline could cause airline delays starting July 1st (www.theverge.com)
Airlines are confident the delays will be minimal.
Google Pixel devices finally have a real default weather app (www.theverge.com)
Clear skies for Pixel-owning weather app lovers
FediPact is an Organized Effort to Block Meta's ActivityPub Platform (wedistribute.org)
Google has a hidden browser inside the settings (matan-h.com)
A dev recently discovered a browser built into the settings (for any google app that lets you edit settings). From there you can bypass parental controls or enterprise restrictions....
New Lemmy app "Connect for Lemmy" (beehaw.org)
Does anyone else use the android app Connect for Lemmy? It reminds me of Infinity for Reddit. If you use it, do you like it better than Jerboa? I also found another new Lemmy app called Liftoff....
Mastodon's Eugen Rochko in talks with Meta?!😱 (news.ycombinator.com)
Introducing Lemmy.link
Hey Fediverse,...
Introducing Connect for Lemmy (i.imgur.com)
Hi lemmings, I switched over from Reddit 10 days ago now but I couldn’t find a mobile client that I was happy with with an experience similar to the Reddit experience I was used to. So I decided to build my own and I hope you will like it as well!...
Google Perspectives Search (blog.google)
Meta's upcoming AcitivityPub-enabled app Threads will only come with an "import from Mastodon" option. The new network won't federate on day one. (mastodon.social)
Full report is on The Verge.
Just found the Emoji/GIF keyboard in Windows....🤦♂️ (beehaw.org)
I am posting this because I am ashamed I just found out it existed, and I thought I would subject the rest of my Beehaw friends to the same experience! 😁...
Kinda strange that people are so crazy about ChatGPT's abilities for bad
There are lots of articles about bad use cases of ChatGPT that Google already provided for decades....
Suicide Hotlines Promise Anonymity. Dozens of Their Websites Send Sensitive Data to Facebook (themarkup.org)
Will Reddit Kill RSS Feeds
I just set up all the subreddits I still want to following in Reeder, an RSS app. I’m able scroll through the posts ad free. It the occurred to me that this is a loss of revenue to Reddit. Could RSS be the new target for onerous fees?...
Google Domains to shut down (blog.pragmaticengineer.com)
I’m still in disbelief having heard this for the first time today.
First release of my Hive Theme for Beehaw! (beehaw.org)
Not sure if it’s more relavant to Creative or Technology, so cross-posting here from: beehaw.org/post/743965...
TikTok Keeps Removing Abortion Pill Content (www.wired.com)
Archive Link from archive.today...
Kev Quirk, one of the admins of Fosstodon (a Mastodon instance), destroys Meta in an email exchange. (fosstodon.org)
The exchange is about Meta's upcoming ActivityPub-enabled network Threads. Meta is calling for a meeting, his response is priceless!
The Great Reddit Migration is Hammering Lemmy and Kbin Instances (wedistribute.org)
BookWyrm is the Federated GoodReads Replacement I Didn’t Know I Needed (wedistribute.org)
Old, but just in case folks don’t know about this…...
I see your iOS 17 dev beta running on your primary iPhone and raise you Mac OS System 7 on a PocketChip. - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
ThisDoesNotCompute has a fun video on running Mac OS System 7 on a PocketChip, a handheld computer from 2016 that was powered by a board similar to a Raspberry Pi. Bonus: the video includes a bit of history about the PocketChip and the board inside of it, including the downfall of the company that made it.