Google unexpectedly sells its domain-hosting business to Squarespace | Engadget (www.engadget.com)
Imho a decision that doesn’t make sense, Google already has paid for all the infrastructure so running the service to them is pure profit, not to mention the lost possibility to upsell Google workspace (paid gmail with a custom domain) or Google cloud services to all their customers....
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A storefront for robots: The SEO arms race has left Google and the web drowning in garbage text, with customers and businesses flailing to find each other. (www.theverge.com)
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Reddit CEO praises Elon Musk’s cost-cutting as protests rock platform (www.nbcnews.com)
Twitter owner Elon Musk may have had an influence on Reddit’s CEO ahead of changes to the website that have resulted in a user-led rebellion on the platform....
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Windows 11 beta fixes major taskbar gripe, removes old File Explorer settings (arstechnica.com)
Finally after so many years the “never combine labels” setting is back and i can uninstall explorerpatcher
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European Union votes to bring back replaceable phone batteries (www.techspot.com)
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Mechanical Turk workers are using AI to automate being human (techcrunch-com.cdn.ampproject.org)
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Lemmy and Kbin shoutout from Techdirt: Reddit Blackout Crashes The Site As Reddit Users Realize They’re In The Power Position (www.techdirt.com)
From the article:...
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This Website Will Self Destruct (www.thiswebsitewillselfdestruct.com)
ironically, as of writing it has not self-destructed for… 37 months, 7 days, 9 hours, and 32 minutes, but this is a cool project. like most of the people who have heard of this, i heard about it at the peak of COVID. it seems it found quite a niche.
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EU Commission bans "high-risk suppliers" Huawei, ZTE, urges countries to do the same (web.archive.org)
The Commission also intends to “reflect this decision in all relevant EU funding programmes and instruments”. A report finds that the current situation would create a clear risk of persisting dependency on high-risk suppliers in the internal market with potentially serious negative impacts on security for users and companies...
Automakers can’t quit manual transmissions so they’re cramming fake stuff into EVs (www.theverge.com)
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I don't see how Lemmy will fill the gap of Reddit - it's resulting in fragmentation
Perhaps I’ve misunderstood how Lemmy works, but from what I can tell Lemmy is resulting in fragmentation between communities. If I’ve got this wrong, or browsing Lemmy wrong, please correct me!...
As the Reddit war rages on, community trust is the casualty (arstechnica.com)
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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.”
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Amouranth made a chatbot clone to outsource flirting — and protect herself (www.polygon.com)
there is… a lot going on here–and it’s part of a broader trend which is probably not for the better and speaks to some deeper-seated issues we currently have in society. a choice moment from the article here on another influencer doing a similar thing earlier this year, and how that went:...
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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 Threatens to Remove Moderators From Subreddits Continuing Apollo-Related Blackouts (www.macrumors.com)
As some subreddits continue blackouts to protest Reddit's plans to charge high prices for its API, Reddit has informed the moderators of those subreddits that it has plans to replace resistant moderation teams to keep spaces "open and accessible to users."...
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Megathread for Reddit Blackouts and News - Rest of the Week(?)
hey everyone. if you want to post links or discuss the Reddit blackout, its aftermath, and what’s happening going forward, please localize it to this thread in order to keep things tidy! thanks! we’ll see if we need to cycle the thread again before the end of this week, but i don’t know that we’ll need to
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...
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What are your favorite browser extensions?
Ublock Origin is an obvious one, but I also can't stand not having Foxy Gestures anymore. It adds customizable mouse gestures, so you can set it up to have easy swipes to go back a page, reload a page, close a tab, etc, and it feels wonderful and smooth to use compared to just using the traditional buttons to do everything....
My father's work laptop. Needless to say it will be replaced 😅 (beehaw.org)
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With the decline of twitter and reddit, it's time to take a look at RSS again if you haven't already. (voidfiles.github.io)
It’s always good to be in control of your own content sources.
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?...
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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.
Twitter is being evicted from its Boulder office over unpaid rent (techcrunch.com)
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