Your Computer Isn't Yours: Apple stores every program Mac users run, and when and where they ran it (sneak.berlin)
Edit: Guys I didn't write the headline; the subtitle that I added, I've now fixed tho...
How to make an MP3 player work in 2023?
If I wanted an MP3 player again, in 2023, and wanted to rip cds to it and put digitally purchased albums on it, as actual owned files (not inside an proprietary ecosystem where I pay to only listen to that track within that service) could I still do that? What would I need? I don’t own, and can’t afford, a “real...
DisplayPort: A Better Video Interface (hackaday.com)
‘Life or Death:’ AI-Generated Mushroom Foraging Books Are All Over Amazon (www.404media.co)
Many mushroom identification and foraging books being sold on Amazon are likely generated by AI with no human authorship. These books could provide dangerous misinformation and potentially lead to deaths if people eat poisonous mushrooms based on the AI’s inaccurate descriptions. Two New York mushroom societies have warned...
Apple now endorses Right to Repair legislation (www.404media.co)
I believe this is genuine support of the bill from Apple. Between Right to Repair winning in Massachusetts and the EU demanding compliance, I think Apple decided to flip the script. They would want to continue the illusion of customer friendly tech.
ULTRARAM will allow you to close your laptop, come back a thousand years later and pick up where you left off (www.techradar.com)
Firefox Money: Investigating the bizarre finances of Mozilla (lunduke.locals.com)
The author may be a right-wing fellow. Nonetheless, the data he exposes are taken from official Mozilla docs.
He has cancer — so he made an AI version of himself for his wife after he dies (www.npr.org)
Company he works at eternos.life
"We're nowhere near the point where an AI can do your job, but we're well past the point where your boss can be suckered into firing you and replacing you with a bot that fails at doing your job." (Pluralistic) (pluralistic.net)
Twitter's short link service, t.co, is adding a five-second delay to some domains. Like threads.net (news.ycombinator.com)
How much of your life have you degoogled? (beehaw.org)
We're reaching the end of an era wherein billions of dollars of investor money was shovelled into tech startups to build large user-bases, and now those companies (now monoliths) are beginning to constrict their user-bases and squeeze for every single penny they can possibly extract. Fair or not....
Get ready to hear more about "pre-internet" times (www.axios.com)
Sam Altman to return as CEO of OpenAI (www.theverge.com)
See also twitter:...
What’s next for Mozilla? (techcrunch.com)
one passage of note:...
If AI is making the Turing test obsolete, what might be better? (arstechnica.com)
Threads' New Terms & Conditions Affects the Fediverse (wedistribute.org)
Are you smarter than a scammer? Take this quiz. (wapo.st)
Take this quiz to find out if you can spot what’s real and what’s fake...
Court ordered penalties for 15 teens who created naked AI images of classmates (arstechnica.com)
Microsoft’s VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track (arstechnica.com)
AI Lie: Machines Don’t Learn Like Humans (And Don’t Have the Right To) (www.tomshardware.com)
Avram Piltch is the editor in chief of Tom’s Hardware, and he’s written a thoroughly researched article breaking down the promises and failures of LLM AIs.
AWS: IPv4 addresses cost too much, so you’re going to pay (www.theregister.com)
Cloud giant AWS will start charging customers for public IPv4 addresses from next year, claiming it is forced to do this because of the increasing scarcity of these and to encourage the use of IPv6 instead....
Facebook turns over mother and daughter’s chat history to police resulting in abortion charges (www.theverge.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/1874605...
4chan Is Using TikTok Owner ByteDance's Hidden AI App to Generate Porn (www.404media.co)
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....