The hyperloop is dead for real this time (www.theverge.com)
Apple wants AI to run directly on its hardware instead of in the cloud (arstechnica.com)
Sam Altman’s Knack for Dodging Bullets—With a Little Help From Bigshot Friends (www.wsj.com)
Archive Options Failing, Text Follows:...
Firefox with arkenfox.js: Are these extensions still useful?
After a long while, I checked back on the arkenfox.js github page, and they no longer mention two extensions I still use: (1) CanvasBlocker (because if Resist Fingerprinting is enabled in about:config, the per page zoom levels get changed and that drives me crazy), and (2) Smart Referer (because, well, it was recommended). I...
YouTube can't stop showing me AI deepfake ads (www.spacebar.news)
How are these wires not shorting? (lemmy.zip)
They dont look or feel isolated, like ones inside a headphone cable
YouTube screwing itself with adblockers again
I use Firefox and uBlock Origin. Not sure what kind of experience anyone else is having with YouTube, but recently my home page has been empty because I “don’t have watch history turned on”. Okay, fine. I won’t be able to browse suggested videos, and I’ll spend less time on their platform....
The Vergecast USB-C Holiday Spec-tacular (www.theverge.com)
This was deeply silly and sort of made my day. Much more entertaining and funny that I expected from two hours of usb talk. Game show! This is a downer time of year for a lot of us so i hereby offer this little low stakes bright spot.
Stackoverflow Mod proposes prohibiting questions from being closed as duplicates to catch-all questions (meta.stackoverflow.com)
The original post uses "roll-up" instead of "catch-all" for some reason....
GM Says It's Dropping Apple CarPlay And Android Auto Because They're Unsafe (jalopnik.com)
Polycentric is an Open-source distributed social network - Similar in some ways to Nostr (beehaw.org)
I’ve not done an in-depth look at this network but reading through their documentation shows it has a lot of similarity to the basics of the Nostr protocol and network. There is just not as much information available on the Polycentric site as there is already for Nostr. Nostr is also censorship resistant, with distributed...
Microsoft is discontinuing Windows Mixed Reality (www.theverge.com)
Electric scooter company Bird files for bankruptcy (techcrunch.com)
Twitch allowing more nudity after disproportionately banning female streamers (arstechnica.com)
If AI is making the Turing test obsolete, what might be better? (arstechnica.com)
I want to leave the Dynamic Island (www.spacebar.news)
Twitter’s Former Head of Trust and Safety Finally Breaks Her Silence (www.wired.com)
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Providing HTML Content Using Htmx (postgrest.org)
Google Chrome will limit ad blockers starting June 2024 (arstechnica.com)
The “Manifest V3” rollout is back after letting tensions cool for a year.
Tech Billionaires Launch Fund to Create New Libertarian Societies (www.vice.com)
More efforts from tech bros to build Rapture....
Flipboard is pivoting to ActivityPub and the fediverse (www.theverge.com)
Largest Dataset Powering AI Images Removed After Discovery of ‘Suspected’ Child Sexual Abuse Material (www.404media.co)
Human brain-like supercomputer with 228 trillion links coming in 2024 (interestingengineering.com)
Japanese Unicorn SmartNews failing in the US because the CEO went down the QAnon Rabbit Hole (restofworld.org)
The investors might want a refund after seeing what the money were used for....