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Pluralistic: “If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing” (pluralistic.net)

Chat GPT Did NOT Like My Memory Test (beehaw.org)

I was trying to do a memory test to see how far back 3.5 could recall information from previous prompts, but it really doesn’t seem to like making pseudorandom seeds. 😆

What is this camera like thing on electronic shop price tags? (And how does it work) (lemmy.zip)

I first thought it was a camera but there was no point, After some searching I found that these things could communicate optical, so that might be it, if so how do they work?

YouTube Premium says the price party is over for grandfathered accounts (www.androidauthority.com)

After Radio Silence, Kbin App Artemis Shuts Down (wedistribute.org)

Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access after launch of service that brought iMessage to Android (techcrunch.com)

Why Wikipedia’s Highway Editors Took the Exit Ramp (slate.com)

DNS Resolver Quad9 Wins Pirate Site Blocking Appeal Against Sony (torrentfreak.com)

HP misreads room, awkwardly brags about its “less hated” printers (arstechnica.com)

Spoutible Introduces Cross-Posting to Mastodon and Bluesky (wedistribute.org)

US senator claims Google and Apple reveal push notification data to foreign govs (www.theregister.com)

The Inside Story of Microsoft’s Partnership with OpenAI (www.newyorker.com)

Grab your favourite beverage; this is a long piece, but it provides a fair amount of insight on the pre-Thanksgiving imbroglio.

Quad9 Turns the Sony Case Around in Dresden (quad9.net)

Amazon slams Microsoft’s business practices in UK cloud industry probe (www.theverge.com)

Windows 10 gets three more years of security updates, if you can afford them (arstechnica.com)

Nuclear Reactor Simulator (dalton-nrs.manchester.ac.uk)

French government recommends against using foreign chat apps (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

There’s a new iMessage for Android app — and it actually works (www.theverge.com)

HP executive boasts that its controversial ink subscription model is "locking" in customers (www.techspot.com)

IBM claims quantum computing research milestone (www.ft.com)

The papers presented on Monday are the work of IBM and partners including the Los Alamos National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Tokyo. They focus mainly on areas such as simulating quantum physics and solving problems in chemistry and materials science....

Last Week in the Fediverse: Episode 46 (wedistribute.org)

“Lemmy gives their developer update on the work they have been doing in the last 2 weeks. Lemmy is preparing for their new release, v0.19, and the lemmy.ml server is already running the update. One of the changes is a new sorting algorithm, scaled sorting, that gives more visibility to smaller communities on Lemmy.”

IBM releases 1,000+ qubit processor, roadmap to error correction (arstechnica.com)

twitter is so broken ... it returns a 404 when you share links (beehaw.org)

If you share a link from twitter to other platforms you used to see a preview… but not for a while now. Doesn’t matter if it’s Facebook or Lemmy, twitter.com replies with a 404 on links that work fine even without being logged in....

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