50 Years of Text Games parses the rich history of a foundational genre (arstechnica.com)
Zork and MUD? Sure. But also Universal Paperclips, AI Dungeon, and Lifeline.
An old CBS story that includes a look at the missing submersible (www.youtube.com)
FCC chair to investigate exactly how much everyone hates data caps (arstechnica.com)
Electric vehicle maker Rivian to join Tesla charging network as automakers consider company's plug (apnews.com)
Mercedes-Benz brings ChatGPT voice control to its cars (www.digitaltrends.com)
[video] Introduction to Fediverse Reddit alternatives: Lemmy, /kbin (tube.jeena.net)
cross-posted from: jemmy.jeena.net/post/3996...
How do you find RSS feeds that you're interested in?
I’d like to take my RSS feeds from an aggregator of news to a curated selection of interesting things. Interesting newsletters and blogs are where I think RSS shines, but I struggle to find this content....
MoonRay – DreamWorks’ open-source MCRT renderer (openmoonray.org)
Invidious | YouTube legal team contacted us (github.com)
Youtube’s lawyers are going after Invidious, the alternative open source front end to YouTube. Enshittification never stops huh?
Microsoft on major Outlook and OneDrive outages: We were hacked (fortune.com)
Would digital signatures be a useful feature in lemmy?
One of the things I’m cautious about when it comes to lemmy (and mastodon) is how easy it can be to lose control of your account....
EU votes to mandate removable batteries in smartphones in a landslide; no more glued together junk! (yewtu.be)
BlackCat claims they hacked Reddit and will leak the data (www.databreaches.net)
Update from Lemmy after the Reddit blackout (join-lemmy.org)
iOS Lemmy Apps
I’ve been using Mlem and Memmy App. I have to say, both have their merit but I have been LOVING a the Memmy app. Thoughts?
Twitter’s Lawyers Admit They’re Overwhelmed As Nearly 2000 Laid Off Employees File Arbitration Claims (www.techdirt.com)
Fediverse but as a game/server?
I’m highly curious if there’s a way to use ActivityPub for a game, so servers could all see each other in a novel game? Hmm. Maybe mix in ReadyPlayer.Me or similar for avatars? 🤔
RIF developer counters Reddit CEO’s claims that he didn’t want to work with Reddit (www.theverge.com)
Here’s the note Reddit sent to moderators threatening them if they don’t reopen (www.theverge.com)
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman: 'It's time we grow up and behave like an adult company' (www.npr.org)
“Huffman characterized the Reddit protesters as a small but vocal cadre of angry users who are not in touch with the greater Reddit community.”
Reddit made the mistake of ignoring its core users (www.bloomberg.com)
Reddit's CEO really wants you to know that he doesn't care about your feedback (9to5mac.com)
Intel drops ‘i’ processor branding after 15 years, introduces ‘Ultra’ for higher-end chips | Engadget (www.engadget.com)
Twitch’s new Partner Plus tier outlines what it takes to get a 70 / 30 revenue sharing split (www.theverge.com)
Twitch is introducing a new “Partner Plus” program that will give streamers an increased 70 percent of the share of their subscription revenues — up to the first $100,000 brought in each year — with Twitch taking the other 30 percent....