technology

she identifies as a camera (www.youtube.com)

How are Tumblr and Discord re surveillance?

These and Instagram seem to be the main locii of conversation for a topic I’m interested in. Instagram is a no because Meta. Just trying to keep myself off of the big data mining sites and search results are a bit of a hot mess....

X Faces Potential FTC Scrutiny Over Missing Ad Labels, While Creators Complain of Ad Revenue Share Errors (www.socialmediatoday.com)

Microsoft to Drop Support for Third-Party Printer Drivers on Windows (petri.com)

“With the release of Windows 10 21H2, Windows offers inbox support for Mopria compliant printer devices over network and USB interfaces via the Microsoft IPP Class Driver. This removes the need for print device manufacturers to provide their own installers, drivers, utilities, and so on. Device experience customization is now...

Axon’s Ethics Board Resigned Over Taser-Armed Drones. Then the Company Bought a Military Drone Maker. (themarkup.org)

How to talk to an AI (wapo.st)

An ordinary human’s guide to getting extraordinary results from a chatbot like ChatGPT...

5th Circuit finds Biden White House, CDC violated First Amendment (wapo.st)

The Court upheld many restrictions on the White House and Surgeon General’s office’s contacts with tech companies, finding that they ‘coerced’ platforms’ content decisions...

Nvidia will stop price gouging you for their cards and features when you stop buying them.

Sorry if I’m not the first to bring this up. It seems like a simple enough solution.

Google’s new Topics API makes users vulnerable to fingerprinting attacks (www.theregister.com)

Google has stated it plans to address developers’ concerns by “making web publishers promise not to abuse the API”....

Essay | The Real Story of Musk’s Twitter Takeover (www.wsj.com)

ghostarchive.org...

Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome (arstechnica.com)

How to make an MP3 player work in 2023?

If I wanted an MP3 player again, in 2023, and wanted to rip cds to it and put digitally purchased albums on it, as actual owned files (not inside an proprietary ecosystem where I pay to only listen to that track within that service) could I still do that? What would I need? I don’t own, and can’t afford, a “real...

Introducing yet another AutoMod for Lemmy (github.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.basedcount.com/post/225838...

EU unveils ‘revolutionary’ laws to curb big tech firms’ power - The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

cross-posted from !android...

Pascal GPUs on Linux in 2023?

So… I used to run GTX 660, then moved to RX 560 as it released, because more comfy drivers, but…...

Microsoft to defend customers on AI copyright challenges | Reuters (www.reuters.com)

China's widening iPhone curbs roil US technology sector - Reuters (www.reuters.com)

cross-posted from !apple...

I Used a Game Boy Camera for FaceTime Video Calls in iPadOS 17 and It Was Glorious (www.macstories.net)

This is magnificent.

I Made My Own Computer | Let's See How It Works (www.youtube.com)

Pretty cool video to give you a bit of an understanding how computers work.

Adept Releases Persimmon-8B, Most Powerful Open Source AI Model Under 10B Parameters. (www.maginative.com)

YouTube is going to remove ad controls for creators (support.google.com)

It feels like we're on the cusp of the first reimagining of CPUs since multicore and a real shot at relegating towers to the extreme high end, but I've not seen any good coverage about it (beehaw.org)

Not quite there yet … from left on surface, 5G internet, WireGuard router, pihole on a Zero W and 4x4 N95 HTPC, plus 1080p projector. When a computer that size (actually smaller, since I don’t need a SATA bay) can outperform my tower, though …...

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