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Best printer 2024: a humorous critique of the Google search engine, LLMs and printer enshittification (www.theverge.com)
life pro tip!! (mander.xyz)
What’s the worst car you’ve ever driven?
I threatened to steal my friends identity to legally change his name to something funny. What name would you use?
My current favorite is “Phillip Mypants”
7-Eleven plans to sell hot dog-flavored sparkling water (www.kptv.com)
The retailer has teamed up with beverage brand Miracle Seltzer to create a lineup of sparkling waters in four different flavors: lemon lime, green apple, sweet orange and hot dog....
Google was ordered to identify people who watched certain YouTube videos. Privacy experts say the orders are unconstitutional. (www.forbes.com)
If the linked article has a paywall, you can access this archived version instead: archive.ph/zyhax...
United States v. Apple is pure nerd rage (www.theverge.com)
YSK: Lemmy has 53k monthly active users but only 1172 have ever donated
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/16660104...
US sues Apple for illegal monopoly over smartphones (www.theverge.com)
The US Department of Justice and 16 state and district attorneys general accused Apple of operating an illegal monopoly in the smartphone market in a new antitrust lawsuit. The DOJ and states are accusing Apple of driving up prices for consumers and developers at the expense of making users more reliant on its iPhones.
It's Not Safe to Click Links on X (lifehacker.com)
As noted by security researcher Will Dormann, some posts on X purport to lead to a legitimate website, but actually redirect somewhere else. In Dormann’s example, an advertisement posted by a verified X user claims to lead to forbes.com. When Dormann clicks the link, however, it takes him to a different link to open a Telegram...
"I wish you well in your future endeavors" (lemmy.world)
POV: you are a Chinese balloon about to pop (media.kbin.social)
uncanny resemblance (lemmy.world)
Judge rules YouTube, Facebook and Reddit must face lawsuits claiming they helped radicalize a mass shooter | CNN Business (www.cnn.com)
Lemmy.world seems to have banned the largest piracy community on Lemmy. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
This has happened once before and they reversed it. But they said this last time too:...
Scientific Journals Are Publishing Papers With AI-Generated Text (www.404media.co)
The ChatGPT phrase “As of my last knowledge update” appears in several papers published by academic journals.
USB hubs, printers, Java, and more seemingly broken by macOS 14.4 update (arstechnica.com)
Liking an OS isn't a personality trait ❌ (lemm.ee)
Modern web bloat means some pages load 21MB of data - entry-level phones can't run some simple web pages, and some sites are harder to render than PUBG (www.tomshardware.com)
Tim Berners-Lee: Marking the Web’s 35th Birthday: An Open Letter (medium.com)
Pornhub shuts down in Texas... and predictably, VPNs benefit (mashable.com)
From the article: “Unsurprisingly, this skyrocketed searches for the best VPNs. According to a SlashGear report sent to Mashable, searches for “Texas VPN” jumped by 1,750 percent in the past day. It also spotted a 1,600 percent increase for the phrase “How to access Pornhub.””
Reddit's new paid ads look exactly like user posts (www.zdnet.com)
Calling them “free-form ads,” Reddit said the new advertisements are its most native format ever, designed to look and feel like community content shared by real people....
TIL: A man rejected for police job due to scoring too high on intelligence test. (abcnews.go.com)
Sept. 8, 2000 – A man whose bid to become a police officer was rejected after he scored too high on an intelligence test has lost an appeal in his federal lawsuit against the city....
it's happening (sh.itjust.works)
After default password disclosed online, 1200 inmates have prison issued laptops seized by guards, threatening their ability to make class deadlines (www.opencampusmedia.org)
Zhang, an electrical engineer in Boston, decided to post about trying to unlock his Justice Tech Solutions Securebook 5 on the social platform X. The thread went viral — also catching the attention of Washington corrections officials, who have used the device for college programming since 2020....
Linux market share passes 4% for first time (arstechnica.com)
We see the nearly 33-year-old OS’s market share growing 31.3 percent from June 2023, when we last reported on Linux market share, to February. Since June, Linux usage has mostly increased gradually. Overall, there’s been a big leap in usage compared to five years ago. In February 2019, Linux was reportedly on 1.58 percent of...
POV: You are russian navy (sh.itjust.works)
(source)
Pager Lives Again Thanks To Python And Mastodon (hackaday.com)
Facebook and Instagram are currently down.
Generative A.I - We Aren’t Ready. (www.youtube.com)
User got a $104K bill from hosting provider(Netlify): “I thought it was a joke” (cybernews.com)
Google is silently blocking RCS messages on rooted Android phones and custom ROMs (www.androidauthority.com)
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