Consumer first; Citizen second (hertig.blog)
From housing, to media, to printers, to everything else. Get ready to own nothing; pay rent on everything....
Activision Blizzard’s ex-CEO Bobby Kotick reportedly wants to buy TikTok (archive.is)
Should Caddy and Traefik Replace Certbot? (www.eff.org)
Once Again, Ron Wyden Had To Stop Bad “Protect The Children” Internet Bills From Moving Forward (www.techdirt.com)
Wyden has been spectacular on actually understanding tech issues for a very long time at this point. The gerontocracy needs to stop acting like they have any clue how the internet works....
Apple's Epic ban is questioned by EU regulators; more details (9to5mac.com)
The Anti-Ownership Ebook Economy (www.nyuengelberg.org)
this is a very lengthy piece but quite interesting. from the introduction:...
To comply with DMA, WhatsApp and Messenger will become interoperable via Signal protocol (techcrunch.com)
On DMA eve, Google whines, Apple sounds alarms, and TikTok wants out (arstechnica.com)
As a general rule, when trillion-dollar companies don’t like regulation, it simply means they’re admitting the rules are good for their customers.
Generative AI Tools Now Advanced Enough to Mislead Voters, Researchers Show (www.extremetech.com)
Not much to add here, given the opening dependent clause.
Apple will require notarization for apps from third party app stores, and will disable updates for apps installed via third party app stores if staying outside EU (support.apple.com)
As far as I can tell this basically means that all apps must be approved by Apple to follow their “platform policies for security and privacy” even if publishing on a third party app store. They will also disable updating apps from third party app stores if you stay outside the EU for too long (even if you are a citizen of...
Microsoft is ending support for the Windows Subsystem for Android (learn.microsoft.com)
cross-posted from !android...
AMD continues to lock down AMDGPU features (www.phoronix.com)
Well, apparently, after just a few years the ability to control GPU operation in Linux will slide down considerably.
Brailliance - a new game by the makers of Wordvoyance (www.themisgames.com)
I was making a braille learning app when I came up with this game idea. You count the braille dots to guess the word. www.themisgames.com/brailliance/menu...
Yuzu is gone. (yuzu-emu.org)
They settled for $2.4M and shut everything down....
How positive male role models are detoxifying the social media ‘manosphere’ (www.theguardian.com)
Need, Want, and Agency: Mapping the Digital User Experience (theluddite.org)
Firefox plan to show ads and shopping in the near future in the browser as an opt-out (bugzilla.mozilla.org)
First focusing on AI and now this, already cancelled my donations, do we have a good fork to move to?
Mr. Cook, tear down that wall (www.spacebar.news)
Such an interesting idea! (sembr.org)
Superstars or Black Holes: Are Tech Clusters Causing Stagnation? - American Affairs Journal (americanaffairsjournal.org)
Streaming video changed the internet forever (archive.is)
YARH.IO THEBRICK Cyberdeck (yarh.io)
Honda built a powered chair to zoom around theme parks while wearing an AR headset. (www.engadget.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/16368424...
Hallucination is Inevitable: An Innate Limitation of Large Language Models (arxiv preprint) (arxiv.org)
Abstract:...
Tumblr and Wordpress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools (www.404media.co)
this could not be timed worse for Tumblr which is in huge hot water with its userbase already for its CEO breaking his sabbatical to ban a prominent trans user for allegedly threatening him (in a cartoonish manner), and then spending a week personally justifying it increasingly wildly across several platforms. the rumors had...
