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)
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I’m still in disbelief having heard this for the first time today.
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The exchange is about Meta's upcoming ActivityPub-enabled network Threads. Meta is calling for a meeting, his response is priceless!
Old, but just in case folks don’t know about this…...
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.
NFC might soon take the ‘tap’ out of tap-to-pay.
Don’t leave yourself exposed with connections you don’t need.
“Alexa, what’s the weather?” now comes with a video response.
The next version of the prompt-based AI image generator, Stable Diffusion, will produce more photorealistic images and be better at making hands.
It’s one of the built-in apps with visionOS. Looking at this image, apparently you’ll be able to print things from the Vision Pro, too! Perfect gadget!
Plus Kinect-style gaming.
"We won’t be collecting your saved passwords, passkeys, usernames, and any URLs associated with your items. Your private information is just that – private....
cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/95652...
SS: Microsoft wants total control over console and PC gaming.
My moneys on Zuck
Federated services have always had privacy issues but I expected Lemmy would have the fewest, but it’s visibly worse for privacy than even Reddit....
Using model-generated content in training causes irreversible defects, a team of researchers says. “The tails of the original content distribution disappears,” writes co-author Ross Anderson from the University of Cambridge in a blog post. “Within a few generations, text becomes garbage, as Gaussian distributions converge...