technology

Honestly quite shocking news given their success, but I guess it’s what happens when you chase tech company profits.

Twitter, Reddit and Discord are simultaneously going to shit - because enshittification is what happens when suddenly money isn’t free any more and borrowing carries an interest rate...

It is interesting how easy this has got with a popular service like Prime Voice AI, and when you realise that many use voice recognition for authenticated access to systems, we can see where the risks come in. Like most technology, there are lots of positive upsides, but it always opens up the negatives as well. As Steve points...

When you’re on the hunt for a new USB power adaptor, you may come across a few options with gallium nitride (GaN) technology. These charging bricks tend to be a bit expensive. But due to their reduced size and increased charging ability, a GaN charger may be your ideal purchase. It could even help you save money in the long...

https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/5c7e6d80-2483-478c-bcec-906345913c3b.jpeg...

Are we just stuck with browsers for the time being? I mean it works but fuck I miss Apollo already.

Bionic Reading is a new way of reading text that uses a patented algorithm to highlight the most important parts of words, making it easier and faster to read. The method was developed by a German software developer named Renato Cukar, who was inspired by the way the human eye reads text....

As much as there is plenty of new people joining the threadiverse, the real wave starts today, with thousands of subreddits going dark....

Heyo, what little things with Reddit and RES have you been missing with the Lemmy UI?...

It’s not even June 12 for me, yet I suspect many subreddits went dark based on UTC....

cross-posted from: sopuli.xyz/post/667480...

Nostr is unique in that it has a global public key ID that replicates posts (notes) via relays, so it is scalable, resistant to censorship, and the user fully owns their identity profile. There are only two parts to the network, namely relays and clients, with the Nostr protocol linking them. Every post is signed, and every...

The ArchiveTeam has the ArchiveTeamWarrior project which is a small virtual machine or Docker instance that will help index and archive various sites based on need. For instance a big focus is on Reddit right now before the API access gets pulled or too many sites go dark permanently. This tool uses spare bandwidth from multiple...

I was struggling to wrap my head around how federated social media works until I realized that email has basically been doing the same thing for 30 years. Different email servers are like instances of a federated network. You can send emails to people from within a single server or you can send emails to people on any other mail...

After Apollo, RIF is also going to shut down.

whelp, there it is

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?

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

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

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).