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

Favorite chart/website for CAT5, 5e, 6, etc differences?

I always forget the speed differences (and other specs) for ethernet cables. I can find what I need from various sources, but I haven’t been able to find a good chart with the info I want to print out at work. Most likely I’ll create my own, but I’m curious what’s already out there....

what do you guys think ? (www.youtube.com)

Would it be possible (at some point) cool aur by pulling heatenergy from it?

I recently had a discussion about ACs and how they heat up cities....

Super Apps Are Terrible for People—and Great for Companies (www.wired.com)

Apps that offer to “do it all” will subject users to even more exploitation and surveillance, while large tech companies profit.

Twitter (X) loses over 30% of users in two months! (en.shiftdelete.net)

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...

How to talk to an AI (wapo.st)

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

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

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”....

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…...

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...

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