Suicide Hotlines Promise Anonymity. Dozens of Their Websites Send Sensitive Data to Facebook (themarkup.org)
Google Domains to shut down (blog.pragmaticengineer.com)
I’m still in disbelief having heard this for the first time today.
FediPact is an Organized Effort to Block Meta's ActivityPub Platform (wedistribute.org)
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…...
TikTok Keeps Removing Abortion Pill Content (www.wired.com)
Archive Link from archive.today...
Meta's upcoming AcitivityPub-enabled app Threads will only come with an "import from Mastodon" option. The new network won't federate on day one. (mastodon.social)
Full report is on The Verge.
Kev Quirk, one of the admins of Fosstodon (a Mastodon instance), destroys Meta in an email exchange. (fosstodon.org)
The exchange is about Meta's upcoming ActivityPub-enabled network Threads. Meta is calling for a meeting, his response is priceless!
How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) (ploum.net)
A warning and a perspective from an insider who has been through this before.
The Great Reddit Migration is Hammering Lemmy and Kbin Instances (wedistribute.org)
Lawyers have real bad day in court after citing fake cases made up by ChatGPT (arstechnica.com)
Meta and Mastodon: What’s really on people’s minds? (ianbetteridge.com)
A very detailed article about the whole Meta (Instagram/Threads) vs. Fediverse discussions. It’s a long read, but well-worth it if you’re interested in the subject.
Figma is now free for all US K-12 school students (www.engadget.com)
Windows 98 Icons are Great (alexmeub.com)
DuckDuckGo’s privacy-focused browser is available for Windows now (www.theverge.com)
1password implementing privacy-preserving telemetry system (blog.1password.com)
"We won’t be collecting your saved passwords, passkeys, usernames, and any URLs associated with your items. Your private information is just that – private....
Lawyers: Internal email proves Microsoft's Activision bid is designed to eliminate PlayStation (www.axios.com)
SS: Microsoft wants total control over console and PC gaming.
Zuckerberg/Musk Cage Match Incoming? (www.theverge.com)
My moneys on Zuck
How Your New Car Tracks You (12ft.io)
Discord is opening the monetization floodgates: get ready for microtransaction stores and paid 'exclusive memes' (www.pcgamer.com)
The developer of Sync for Reddit is working on a Lemmy app (www.reddit.com)
New subreddit talking about it here. I'm assuming it will eventually be a Lemmy community...
Introducing The Lemmy Overseer (overseer.dbzer0.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/95652...
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman is fighting a losing battle against the site's moderators (qz.com)
The company wants to charge for API access. Its volunteer moderators have other ideas
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....
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...
Withings Body Smart Review: A Connected Scale For the Masses that includes baby/pet weight (www.howtogeek.com)
I like devices that are not locked into an OS ecosystem (Apple, I’m looking at you!) and although I already have a Fitbit Aria scale, it gets thrown out when my wife stands on the scale with a pet, to get the pet’s weight (you weigh yourself, hold the pet, and then work out the difference). Having a built-in pet/baby mode is...
