House Dems Slam 'Racist Tropes' in New Florida K-12 History Curriculum (www.commondreams.org)
Four Black Democratic members of Congress criticized Florida’s new K-12 history curriculum, calling it racist and inaccurate. They objected to parts that claim slavery benefited slaves and downplay the horrors of slavery by comparing it to serfdom and indentured servitude. The lawmakers demanded the Florida Board of Education...
CalcKey Officially Rebrands as Firefish (wedistribute.org)
Enough with the Mark Zuckerberg Love (jogblog.substack.com)
The article criticizes recent media coverage portraying Mark Zuckerberg as “cool” again based on his success with Threads and a shirtless photo he posted. The author argues that Zuckerberg’s photo looks like that of a middle-aged man cheating on his wife, and that Threads’ success is questionable given it is mostly used...
Instead of visiting r/place to drive traffic to Reddit, try out HumanShader! (humanshader.com)
This website is pretty cool. It’s a shader algorithm with the goal of rendering an image pixel by pixel, but it relies entirely on human calculation, with no computers and no calculators. Claim a pixel, and follow the instructions to calculate the Red Green and Blue values of the pixel you have claimed....
CA insurance company drops customer after 'drone' took aerial images of yard (abc7.com)
Netflix kills Basic plan, making its cheapest ad-free tier $15.49 (arstechnica.com)
I’ve been putting off having a local copy of the series and movies I watch because I still can access them quickly and cheaply enough in some streaming service, I think it’s time to plan ramping up my selfhosted setup.
The Coming War on General Computation [2011] (en.wikisource.org)
Transcription of a talk given by Cory Doctrow in 2011
Apple threatens to kill FaceTime and iMessage in the U.K (www.macworld.com)
Kevin Mitnick, Hacker Who Once Eluded Authorities, Is Dead at 59 (archive.is)
All programs should tell you where they store config files (utcc.utoronto.ca)
I wholeheartedly agree with this blog post. I believe someone on here yesterday was asking about config file locations and setting them manually. This is in the same vein. I can't tell you how many times a command line method for discovering the location of a config file would have saved me 30 minutes of googling.
Reddit invites mods to “feedback” conversations with the admins (www.theverge.com)
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Meta tells news publishers to talk to the hand (arstechnica.com)
“Now that we’ve killed your industry, it’s time to move on.”...
Twitter, Threads, and the misunderstood nature of engineering (beehaw.org)
Complex internet services fail in interesting ways as they grow in size and complexity. Twitter’s recent issues show how failures emerge slowly over time as relationships between components degrade. Meta’s quick launch of Threads demonstrates how platform investments can compound over time, allowing them to quickly build on...
Google’s new security pilot program will ban employee Internet access (arstechnica.com)
ASUS Signs Agreement to Continue Development and Support of Intel's NUC Business (www.anandtech.com)
Ten years ago, this would have been far more exciting news. However, given the quality issues Asus has been having for several years, this is not the company that should be picking up the baton. I’d have preferred to see ASRock, given their portfolio of NUC-alikes.
It's Twilight of the Mods for Bluesky and Reddit (www.wired.com)
Kevin Mitnick has died after a battle with pancreatic cancer. (www.dignitymemorial.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/2241073...
There’s a handy new label to tell you if your gadget is easy to hack or not (www.vox.com)
Sarah Silverman and other authors are suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement, alleging that they're training their LLMs on books via Library Genesis and Z-Library (www.thedailybeast.com)
Help the EFF protect our digital privacy (www.eff.org)
Weawow is a free and ad-free weather service with 4.9 ratings, choice of weather service, and highly customisable widgets (beehaw.org)
I rediscovered this weather app again (for Android and iOS) and am quite amazed that it now has a 4.9 out of 5 rating on the Google app store, and 5m+ downloads just on Android....
Stop Trying to Make Social Networks Succeed [Opinion] (web.archive.org)
Reddit on iOS has an ugly new icon – and you have to pay to change it (9to5mac.com)
2023 Layoff Tracker: Microsoft Cuts More Staff, Report Says (www.forbes.com)
cross-posted from: lemdro.id/post/126296...