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UK Version of "Online Harms Bill" wants to prefilter content without due process (easydns.com)

UFO hearings: whistleblower David Grusch says ‘non-human biologics’ found at alleged crash sites – as it happened (www.theguardian.com)

Tuning and Testing Llama 2, FLAN-T5, and GPT-J with LoRA, Sematic, and Gradio (www.sematic.dev)

Meta, Microsoft, hundreds more own trademarks to new Twitter name (www.reuters.com)

Twitter To Rebrand As X (www.theverge.com)

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Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible (stackdiary.com)

Apple already shipped attestation on the web(DRM), and we barely noticed (httptoolkit.com)

VPN and port forwarding

cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/969323...

Overture Maps Foundation Releases Its First World-Wide Open Map Dataset – Overture Maps Foundation (overturemaps.org)

cross-posted from: lemdro.id/post/190707...

Alexandrite is a Beautiful Web Frontend for Lemmy (wedistribute.org)

Threads is rolling out its Following feed (www.theverge.com)

Threads, Instagram’s messaging app, has added a new Following feed that shows posts only from accounts that a user follows. This was a highly requested feature from users. To access the Following feed, users tap the home icon or Threads logo at the top of the app. However, when reopening the app, it reverts back to the default...

This Website Will Self Destruct (www.thiswebsitewillselfdestruct.com)

ironically, as of writing it has not self-destructed for… 37 months, 7 days, 9 hours, and 32 minutes, but this is a cool project. like most of the people who have heard of this, i heard about it at the peak of COVID. it seems it found quite a niche.