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Techlore gives an interesting short video on why he doesn’t recommend SimpleX right now....

In 2020, the EU members resisted pressure back then from the US for an outright ban on Chinese telcos and agreed instead on the implementation of a ‘toolbox’ of security measures. It enabled member states to either restrict or exclude high-risk 5G vendors such as Huawei from core parts of their telecoms network. By now,...

Looking to find more indie/small-web content to replace big tech sites. I enjoy Lemmy and Mastodon, but does anyone know any good Gemini and Gopher protocol sites that actively post content?

Hey all. So with reddit seemingly dying, I am trying to figure out a decent way to recreate the reddit widget I use to get gaming news on my home screen with rss feeds. I mainly see news links from r/games, r/nintendoswitch and r/ps5 on my widget right now...

Here’s a brief summary, although you miss something if you don’t read the study (trigger warning: stats):...

A George Washington University research team created a novel formula that demonstrates how, why, and when hate speech spreads throughout social media. They found that hate speech ripples through online communities in a pattern that non-hateful content typically does not follow. Researchers hope the formula can serve as a tool...

The doctor, and their steno-bot, will see you now.

and as always, the culprit is ChatGPT. Stack Overflow Inc. won’t let their mods take down AI-generated content

Curious what you’ve got installed on it. What do you use a lot but took awhile to find? What do you recommend?

What is a BBS?...

The Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice will require Amazon to overhaul its deletion practices and implement stringent privacy safeguards to settle charges the company violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act Rule (COPPA Rule).

Yes, there is quite a debate raging across different networks about what protocol to support. Obviously, those who know only one well, are going to root for that one, irrespective of whether it may be the best one....

Seems like foldable phones are taking over (e.g. Motorola Razr making waves) and only Apple is missing an entry in this form factor now. Almost everyone who can afford one swears by it with the exception of weak build quality....

Good technical write up on how this could be exploited

Everyone (and their mother) have been trying to convince me that I should use one of my less loaded servers to be a Fediverse node. However, all Fediverse software packages I checked only support being installed on complicated systemd + Docker machines. My servers don’t have either of those, because neither systemd nor Docker...

Because I only use web, on mobile and desktop. I can’t live without adblock.

The court dismissed the claim and used the word “bogus” to describe the quotes and citations the US attorney provided, which were sourced from ChatGPT. “Six of the submitted cases appear to be bogus judicial decisions with bogus quotes and bogus internal citations.” The judge further claimed that certain cases referenced...