Six months in, journalist-owned tech publication 404 Media is profitable (www.niemanlab.org)
of note:...
All you need to know about the Digital Services Act (blog.cloudflare.com)
February 17, 2024 marks the entry into force of a landmark piece of European Union (EU) legislation, affecting European users who create and disseminate online content as well as tech companies who act as “intermediaries” on the Internet.
Twitter front-end Nitter dies as Musk wins war against third-party services (arstechnica.com)
Apple’s iMessage is not a “core platform” in EU, so it can stay walled off (arstechnica.com)
Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox (arstechnica.com)
Frequent/Long-Term use of the Apple Vision Pro may rewire our brains in unexpected ways (www.businessinsider.com)
Enshittification is coming for absolutely everything (archive.is)
The Puzzling Testimony of Craig Wright, Self-Styled Inventor of Bitcoin (www.wired.com)
Taliban Shuts Down 'queer.af' Domain, Breaking Mastodon Instance (www.404media.co)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/11820406...
Nature's Folly: A Response to Nature's "Google AI has better bedside manner than human doctors — and makes better diagnoses" (theluddite.org)
Penn to become first Ivy League school to offer undergraduate degree in artificial intelligence (www.thedp.com)
“Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement (www.anildash.com)
Free to be Weird: Lowering barriers to Open Source contributions (blog.mkhoury.org)
Public code repositories like Github are currently being beset by a flood of LLM-generated contributions. It’s becoming a bit of a problem and is one of the facets of the Great Flood the web is currently experiencing....
A terminal window periodically flashes on my screen every few minutes. It goes away in one second. I have no idea what it is, nor how to stop it.
I’m running Windows 10....
Skiff is joining Notion (skiff.com)
Landing page:...
The US government makes a $42 million bet on open cell networks (www.theverge.com)
Open RAN gets a boost to fight Huawei’s global cellular lead.
Microsoft: Introducing Sudo for Windows! (devblogs.microsoft.com)
Shipped in Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26052. https://www.tiraniddo.dev/2024/02/sudo-on-windows-quick-rundown.html claims it has a big security problem that makes the program accept calls to elevate from anywhere once first run...
Paying everyone the same salary, no matter where they work from (oxide.computer)
Found via yorickpeterse.com/…/what-it-was-like-working-for-…...
I’m curious about building a laptop but am getting hung up on motherboards
I’m aware of things like framework and they’re a cool system, but they’re limited in what chipsets can be used by the mother boards they offer....
This Guy Has Built an Open Source Search Engine as an Alternative to Google in His Spare Time (www.404media.co)
“I found it very weird that there essentially is no way to browse the web in an open manner. So that’s what I am trying to build,” the founder of Stract said.
Why Everyone Should Still Use an RSS Reader in 2024 (lifehacker.com)
RSS is still the best way to track the news on the web, and these RSS readers can keep you right up to date.
What do you think about privacy services like Incogni?
I’d like to purge some of my info from the interwebs, and was considering trying one of these services. Does anyone have any experience with them?