Tools for collaboration (kbin.social)
So I have two coworkers who I want to help out with a problem. They have to collaborate on upgrades in a old factory, and they both use the same excel spreadsheet to keep track of the to-do list....
Microsoft in $29bn back taxes dispute in US (www.bbc.com)
DEF CON 31 - An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet's Enshittification - Cory Doctorow (www.youtube.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/5431344...
Google extends Chromebook lifespan to ten years (www.zdnet.com)
Starting next year, Google will provide Chromebook security patches and software upgrades for up to a decade. This will effectively guarantee that no existing Chromebook will expire within the next two years....
Looking for a privacy friendly chromecast alternative
Title says it all, I’m looking for something as user-friendly as a chromecast but not made by a company like google. I’m familiar with linux and if some open source software exists that can do this I would love it....
Google turns 25: From garage startup to global giant (www.zdnet.com)
what do you guys think ? (www.youtube.com)
Robots Are Already Killing People (www.theatlantic.com)
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Need to scan a lot of book barcodes very quickly. Any suggestions?
Liberté, égalité, Fraternité: France Loses Its Marbles On Internet Censorship (hackaday.com)
cross-posted from: prime8s.xyz/post/17896...
Google Tests an A.I. Assistant That Offers Life Advice (web.archive.org)
The tech giant is evaluating tools that would use artificial intelligence to perform tasks that some of its researchers have said should be avoided....
StreetPass is a browser extension that helps you find your people on Mastodon (streetpass.social)
Researchers claim to have detected vulnerabilities in VPN clients that went unnoticed -at least publicly- since 1996 (tunnelcrack.mathyvanhoef.com)
Tests indicate that every VPN product is vulnerable on at least one device, the researchers say. VPNs for iPhones, iPads, MacBooks, and macOS are extremely likely to be vulnerable, that a majority of VPNs on Windows and Linux are vulnerable, and that Android is the most secure with roughly one-quarter of VPN apps being...
Hydrogen-powered planes almost ready for takeoff (arstechnica.com)
Wikipedia Fighting Overseas SLAPP Suit Because Someone Didn’t Like The Factual Info Posted About Them (www.techdirt.com)
The case started in August 2021 with a complaint that de Paço was upset about the Portuguese and English language versions of the articles about him. The first judicial pass went well. But that’s where the good news ends. The next level of Portugal’s court system decided the lower court was wrong about everything, which...
Putin Outlaws Anonymity: Identity Verification For Online Services, VPN Bypass Advice a Crime * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)
Meta to end news access in Canada over publisher payment law (The Guardian) (archive.is)
Move comes in response to Canadian legislation requiring internet giants to pay news publishers...
I Gazed Into Worldcoin’s Orb and Saw a Boring Dystopia Staring Back (gizmodo.com)
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GitHub - expo/expo: An open-source platform for making universal native apps with React. Expo runs on Android, iOS, and the web. (github.com)
Need recommendations for a reliable mobile phone (UK)
This might not be the best place to ask this as you’ll all be asking far more of your phones than I ever will, but I need to buy a mobile phone so friends can get a hold of me when we meet up in a different city next month. The battery on the mobile I bought when I moved two years ago won’t take a charge now....
Instead of visiting r/place to drive traffic to Reddit, try out HumanShader! (humanshader.com)
This website is pretty cool. It’s a shader algorithm with the goal of rendering an image pixel by pixel, but it relies entirely on human calculation, with no computers and no calculators. Claim a pixel, and follow the instructions to calculate the Red Green and Blue values of the pixel you have claimed....
Meta tells news publishers to talk to the hand (arstechnica.com)
“Now that we’ve killed your industry, it’s time to move on.”...
[SOLVED] New Lemmy Admin
EDIT: With thanks to u/[email protected], I have a solution for cleaning up the one table that is growing ridiculously in size and that is the activity table. A TRUNCATE activity; command cleaned that right up. A word of caution is in order because the Lemmy instance must be shutdown completely and only the postgres container...
‘What seemed like science fiction is already here’: why it’s important to talk (seriously) about neurorights (english.elpais.com)
The risk, explains Yuste, is that the same tools which – in medicine – can help improve people’s lives, can also end up violating the information stored in the brain. “Although the roadmap is beneficial, these technologies are neutral and can be used for better or worse,” he notes. This isn’t only about securing...
Tedd.it is Shutting Down (tedd.it)
Tedd.it, a website that aggregates content from Reddit, is shutting down permanently on August 1st, 2023 due to restrictions on the Reddit API. The site has been experiencing “429 Too Many Requests” errors as Reddit has severely limited its access to content in an effort to cut costs. The site owner cannot afford the high...
