What's currently the best Lemmy app for Android?
With all these new options springing up, I'm a little outdated. What's the best app to use right now?
Lemmy (the wider community) privacy *does* stink (and how to change that)
Sensationalist title yes, but this is something that is partially true....
Users Have Had It With Reddit...But Are Powerless (www.youtube.com)
A video about the effectiveness of the Reddit protest
Google has a hidden browser inside the settings (matan-h.com)
A dev recently discovered a browser built into the settings (for any google app that lets you edit settings). From there you can bypass parental controls or enterprise restrictions....
BookWyrm is the Federated GoodReads Replacement I Didn’t Know I Needed (wedistribute.org)
Old, but just in case folks don’t know about this…...
AI models feeding on AI data will lead to 'model collapse', researchers say (web.archive.org)
Using model-generated content in training causes irreversible defects, a team of researchers says. “The tails of the original content distribution disappears,” writes co-author Ross Anderson from the University of Cambridge in a blog post. “Within a few generations, text becomes garbage, as Gaussian distributions converge...
The Internet Is Failing The Website Preservation Test (archive.ph)
This is something that keeps me worried at night. Unlike other historical artefacts like pottery, vellum writing, or stone tablets, information on the Internet can just blink into nonexistence when the server hosting it goes offline. This makes it difficult for future anthropologists who want to study our history and document...
Usernames are Evolving - Revolt (revolt.chat)
Online Commentator's take on the ongoing enshittification of the internet (Discord's next) (circumstances.run)
Twitter, Reddit and Discord are simultaneously going to shit - because enshittification is what happens when suddenly money isn’t free any more and borrowing carries an interest rate...
Stack Overflow mods go on strike (openletter.mousetail.nl)
and as always, the culprit is ChatGPT. Stack Overflow Inc. won’t let their mods take down AI-generated content
Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported (spectrum.ieee.org)
Watch out for sharks: The bizarre history of internet outages (www.bbc.com)
Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe says the auto industry needs to move beyond Tesla (www.theverge.com)
Am I the only one that thinks Scaringe looks like Steve-O?
“Morality and ethics should play no part”: Leaks reveal how Russia's foreign intelligence agency runs disinformation campaigns in the West (theins.press)
Archived version...
Concurrency models of Rust and Golang (kerkour.com)
Tuta Mail's Google Ranking Mysteriously Restored After Announcement to Take Legal Actions -- [Tuta blog] (tuta.com)
On March 7, 2024, Google inexplicably downranked the website of Tuta Mail in its search results. While Tuta Mail is a prominent provider of encrypted email services, focusing on security and privacy, our website was deranked for terms like “secure email” and “encrypted email” completely. The search results for our...
Opinion | Surgeon General: Why I’m Calling for a Warning Label on Social Media Platforms (www.nytimes.com)
I dislike linking to the NYT, but it seems to be the original source....
Talking Tiananmen with a Chinese chatbot: Chinese developers hope to build the AI of the future. What, if anything, will it have to say about the past? (chinamediaproject.org)
As China strives to surpass the United States with cutting-edge generative artificial intelligence, the leadership is keen to ensure technologies reach the public with the right political blind spots pre-engineered. Can Chinese AI hold its tongue on the issues most sensitive to the Chinese Communist Party?...
Phanpy: probably the best mastodon minimal webclient (phanpy.social)
Readme of the project:...
Chinese man arrested for allegedly running ‘largest ever’ malware network (www.aljazeera.com)
US officials say army of 19 million infected computers enabled fraud, identity theft and child exploitation....
Multi-day DDoS storm batters Internet Archive. Think this is bad? See what Big Media wants to do to us, warns founder (www.theregister.com)
Archived link...
Censored: Last week, a writer on China's WeChat bemouned that a large part of information from the country's domestic internet had disappeared. Within hours, the writer's post had vanished too. (chinamediaproject.org)
Archived link...
Minimum ! (jlai.lu)
The coordination network toolkit: a framework for detecting and analysing coordinated behaviour on social media (link.springer.com)
The authors introduce and evaluate an open-source software package and methodological framework for detecting and analysing coordinated behaviour on social media, namely the Coordination Network Toolkit, utilising weighted, directed multigraphs to capture intricate coordination dynamics....
The Disinformation Machine: How Susceptible Are We to AI Propaganda? (hai.stanford.edu)
