technology - kbin.life

As the Reddit war rages on, community trust is the casualty (arstechnica.com)

The Lemmy User Experience is Better When Centralized into Fewer Instances

Most people access the Fediverse through one of the large instances: lemmy.world, kbin, or beehaw. New or small instances of Lemmy have no content by default, and can most easily get content by linking to larger Lemmy instances. This is done manually one “Community” at a time (I spent 15 minutes doing this yesterday)....

Reddit CEO slams protesters as "landed gentry," says he'll change site rules (www.nbcnews.com)

Huffman said in an interview that he plans to institute rules changes that would allow Reddit users to vote out moderators who have overseen the protest, comparing them to a “landed gentry.”

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...

My father's work laptop. Needless to say it will be replaced 😅 (beehaw.org)

https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/aa743a8c-7c93-4403-ad96-6048955402bb.jpeg...

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....

Onyx Boox Tab Ultra C Review: Delightful Heavyweight (www.yankodesign.com)

I am curious - has anyone tried out these color e-ink Android tablets with some popular drawing/painting apps?...

Twitter is being evicted from its Boulder office over unpaid rent (techcrunch.com)

Briar releases 'Mailbox' that lets you receive encrypted messages from your contacts while Briar is offline (briarproject.org)

Likewise, you can send encrypted messages to contacts who are offline, and the messages will be delivered automatically when your contacts come online.

How to Download Your Reddit Data and have full text search of it offline (www.wired.com)

Reddit has a form where you can request a copy of your data. The process can take up to 30 days, after which you will get a private message on your Reddit account with a download link. The data comes in the form of CSV files that you can open using Microsoft Excel or any text editor....

New Lemmy Browser I was working on last night (browse.toast.ooo)

US mother gets call from ‘kidnapped daughter’ – but it’s really an AI scam (web.archive.org)

After being scammed into thinking her daughter was kidnapped, an Arizona woman testified in the US Senate about the dangers side of artificial intelligence technology when in the hands of criminals.

Sketchy DJI Android App

Got a DJI drone as a birthday present and instead of having me install from the Play store they want me to install an apk directly from their website....

REvil, Anonymous Sudan, and Killnet claim they are going to take down the European banking system in 48 hours (read.whatever.social)

Topor Live, a large Telegram-based news outlet based out of Russia, with over 3.9M followers, reported that REvil, Anonymous Sudan, and Killnet are going to take down the European banking system in 48 hours.