Saving Vivaldi Social from doom: A Sysadmin adventure (vivaldi.com)
[Corp Blog] Facial recognition tech lands innocent woman with bogus carjacking charge (www.malwarebytes.com)
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ARM64 for the masses
Hey! Does anybody have any information about if and when a company might offer ARM64 for general desktop use? I would like to build my own in the same way that I might build a desktop PC out of an Intel or AMD processor.
A jargon-free explanation of how AI large language models work (arstechnica.com)
How exactly do Matrix bridges work? Are they secure?
What I’m looking for ultimately is a universal chat type app like Beeper that can handle Signal and SMS, however, reading this about it gives me pause. It would be nice if I could get all my peeps on matrix, but since it was so hard to get them on to Signal, I think the best I can hope for is something than can handle matrix,...
Critical Vulnerability Exploits Several Lemmy Instances (wedistribute.org)
Taliban Endorses Twitter Over Threads (www.vice.com)
Anas Haqqani, a Taliban thinker with family ties to the leadership, has endorsed Twitter over the Facebook-owned Threads. He said Twitter has more freedom of speech and credibility than other platforms. The Taliban likes Twitter’s lax moderation policies which allow them to spread their message. Facebook and TikTok ban the...
Fairphone 3 gets seven years of updates, besting every other Android OEM (arstechnica.com)
I have to admire a company following through on the e-waste reduction by doing it’s own updates of the Android OS for an EOL chip. I just wish the fairphone 3 was actually more usable....
What Did People Do Before Smartphones? (www.theatlantic.com)
Mastodon thinks Lemmy’s privacy stinks. What say you? (raddle.me)
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....
Other Fediverse projects (en.wikipedia.org)
I had no idea of the size and variety of the Fediverse! It has me feeling a bit overwhelmed. I’m enjoying BookWyrm very much; it’s the GoodReads/LibraryThing replacement I’ve been looking for for years....
Sam Altman urges formation of US-led AI freedom coalition • The Register (www.theregister.com)
This guy! 😮💨
Shooting conspiracies trend on X as Musk endorses Trump (www.theverge.com)
[Gamers Nexus] Intel's CPUs Are Failing, ft. Wendell of Level1 Techs (www.youtube.com)
Google Chrome ships a default, hidden extension that allows code on *.google.com access to private APIs, including your current CPU usage (fedi.simonwillison.net)
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Russia launches "social rating" platform to determine a person’s comparative “social status” (www.themoscowtimes.com)
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Figma Disables AI App Design Tool After It Copied Apple’s Weather App (www.404media.co)
Electric Aviation is already better than you think - Volts with David Roberts (www.volts.wtf)
Electric vehicles that can take off and land vertically, but then fly like a plane, are already being sold and used by hospitals and shipping companies. These vehicles have 5 batteries that give it a range of over 350 miles using current battery technology, though the batteries are intended to be swapped over the life of the...
Maven Imported 1.12 Million Fediverse Posts (wedistribute.org)
Hackers Target AI Users With Malicious Stable Diffusion Tool on Github to Protest 'Art Theft' (www.404media.co)
Flexible Display (www.youtube.com)
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?
OpenAI Quietly Scrapped a Promise to Disclose Key Documents to the Public (www.wired.com)
Facebook degrading Firefox user experience now?
Recently, most images on Facebook have stopped loading for me. Sometimes it’s just a few images. Other times it’s almost all images. The longer I scroll, the worse it gets. Today, I couldn’t even see my own pictures. Are any other Firefox users having this problem, or maybe it’s a server issue on Facebook’s end?
The Perfect Webpage: How the internet reshaped itself around Google’s search algorithms — and into a world where websites look the same. (www.theverge.com)
