No Instagram Threads app in the EU (for now) (www.independent.ie)
Irish DPC says Meta’s new Twitter rival won’t be launched here – But that’s just because it hasn’t been approved for GDPR. It’ll come here of course, just not now.
Batteries in electric vehicles have more mileage in city driving rather than highway driving (techxplore.com)
World's 1st 'tooth regrowth' medicine moves toward clinical trials in Japan (mainichi.jp)
Reddit And Twitter: The New Giants Of Anti-Social Media (www.forbes.com)
This pretty much sums up the last couple days. Thankfully we have Beehaw and Mastodon.
Chinese Researchers Used AI to Design RISC-V CPU in Under 5 Hours (www.tomshardware.com)
The chip ran Linux benchmarks at about i486 speeds.
Op-ed: Why the great #TwitterMigration didn’t quite pan out (arstechnica.com)
Don't like this article 😠 posting it in search of rebuttals. The word "moderation" is not to be found anywhere in it.
Megathread for Reddit Blackouts and News - Day 2
hey everyone. if you want to post links or discuss the Reddit blackout today, please localize it to this thread in order to keep things tidy! Thanks!
Rss feed suggestions?
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...
Digital war: Social media data reveal how hate speech is used to dehumanise, call for violence against, and celebrate the death of Ukrainians (www.info-res.org)
Data collected from Twitter and Telegram shows that there is increased use of slurs against Ukrainians, calling for violence and celebrating the death of Ukrainians, despite platform policies that are meant to stop, or at least mitigate this activity, the Centre for Information Resilience says. The dataset collected and analysed...
Has anyone used Viva Designer? (viva.systems)
And if so, do you like it? How does it compare to InDesign?
Using Reflections to Compress LLM Context Data (danielmiessler.com)
PCI Express To Hell (www.youtube.com)
FOMO Has Never Been Worse on the Internet (archive.ph)
Threads, Meta’s new social app, reached 100 million users in under a week, setting a new record for fastest growth. However, its quick growth may not guarantee lasting success. While the app benefits from Meta’s large user base and aggressive marketing, early data shows engagement dropping off sharply after the first day....
Cloud Radio Access Network Market Demand, Size, Share, Scope & Forecast To 2032 (lemm.ee)
The Cloud Radio Access Network market industry is projected to grow from USD 1.76 Billion in 2023 to USD 20.15 Billion by 2032...
Mastodon fixes critical “TootRoot” vulnerability allowing node hijacking (arstechnica.com)
Meta launches Twitter rival Threads but faces delays in Europe over privacy concerns (www.france24.com)
Deleting your Threads profile will also kill your Instagram account (www.androidauthority.com)
Lemmy doesn't need much in the way of scripting (lemmy.nz)
It is really nice to see that there are not a massive amount of ad-servers and google / meta / twitter crap in my script blocker....
Does anyone use Shortcuts on your Apple device? If so, what are you using?
For me, I have shortcuts on my Mac to change the wallpaper based on time of day (light or dark), but that’s it. I’d maybe be interested in using more if I could think of a good use case, so share yours, if you have one
Twitter's new CEO told staffers they need to use 'hand-to-hand combat' to convince advertisers to come back, report says (www.businessinsider.com)
Linda Yaccarino said staff must deploy "hand-to-hand combat’ to win back advertisers, per the FT....
Reddit is telling protesting mods their communities ‘will not’ stay private (www.theverge.com)
Technology Connections talks about a red fridge from Walmart for an hour (youtu.be)
In a video by @Techconnectify, Alec goes into a deep dive into the simplicity of his particular model, its shortcomings and variety of data logging tests in an attempt to fix them....
Reddit communities with millions of followers plan to extend the blackout indefinitely (www.theverge.com)
Can you code? We need your help to improve lemmy
About two days ago we found a bug with the registration system on lemmy. Because of this we have updated our registration process a few times, and cannot deny any applications as the person registering does not receive any message and cannot re-apply....
bbSes, Door Games and retro software like its 1989?! (beehaw.org)
What is a BBS?...