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The Pixel Tablet is actually just a few spare parts in a half-empty body [article headline] (arstechnica.com)

I am not sure where I land on this issue, I am not entirely sold that it should have been filled to the brim and packed tightly but it does seem like they could have done better either for repairability or at least having things like a headphone jack and maybe better speakers (I have read that speakers can do better with more...

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Kind of annoying, they could have used that space for a bigger battery, bigger heatsink, memory card reader, more ports, etc.

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Does nobody make backups any more?

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As someone who mostly likes those things, that does seem to be a big problem here.

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Beehaw is looking to shut down and or completely defederate.

They already de-federated 447 instances, I doubt that will make much difference.

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Make each user function as an instance, to solve the mess of netsplits/defederation.

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I can’t help, but I love that recycling thin clients is become more popular.

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Possibly they just reverse engineered the machines and made more?

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It’s like people are taking the ideologies of the instance owners and labeling anyone in it to have the same ideologies. Where did this come from?

I generally agree, but hexbear exists mostly as a place where r/chapoTrapHouse users went after it got banned from reddit, so it tends to have a specific type of user. (not that I agree with de-federating them, despite not being exactly aligned with them politically)

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lemmy.basedcount.com and lemmy.dbzer0.com are both interesting.

What are your go-to brands for any electronic, networking, computing accessories or peripherals?

Hi all, since ya’ll are self hosters, I’m sure you all deal with all sorts of different pieces of hardware, accessories, peripherals, and what not; just wondering if you could please share your favorite, solid, “go to” brands for overall things you need for your setup such as cables (all types), adapters, dongles, power...

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Whatever’s cheapest lol

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Journalists are generally clueless about tech.

Tech people are generally clueless about journalism.

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There’s some great irony in how the communists didn’t even have to seize the means of production, it was handed to them on a platter by western capitalists in pursuit of short term profit.

New communities and flooding the feed

What I mean is someone sets up a new community, blasts it with a bunch of content to get things started, or sets up a new community bot that makes 20 posts and every other post in my feed is that community. Usually with 1 or 2 votes each and no comments. No matter what way I sort I see this....

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Set your default view to subscribed in user options to show only the sublemmys you are subscribed to.

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You can change it in user settings.

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That’s, like, over 9000 bees.

Is Mastodon’s strictly chronological news feed based on a wrong assumption?

The assumption is that centrally managed social media is bad because their algorithm is bad. But actually, they are bad because they are centrally managed and force one algorithm onto you. I’m not even advocating algorithm-by-choice. Even instance-specific algorithms would already work and would make the whole experience much...

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No idea why you’re getting downvoted when lemmy uses an algorithm by default.

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I guess I can understand how some may be concerned about the latter happening, but given mastodon is open source a hidden algorithm isn’t really possible (barring some esoteric technique like code obfuscation)

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    they spend an awfully small amount of time discussing the real and tangible harm that KF has brought to this world.

    As callous as it may sound, it isn’t their job to talk about that. I’m sure there’s plenty of charities who’s job it is to do that you can support, not to mention the police who should investigating if they caused real harm.

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    The biggest, most significant reveal at this stage of development is that Pixelfed’s groups feature will be launching with compatibility for both Lemmy and Kbin

    Awesome!

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    Narrator: It was, in fact, clickbait

    Meta announced the removal of thousands of fake accounts from Facebook that were operated as part of “the largest known cross-platform covert influence operation in the world” (therecord.media)

    Meta announced the removal of thousands of fake accounts from Facebook that were operated as part of “the largest known cross-platform covert influence operation in the world”::undefined

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    All the CIA/NSA ones will be mysteriously not picked up.

    ‘Life or Death:’ AI-Generated Mushroom Foraging Books Are All Over Amazon (www.404media.co)

    Many mushroom identification and foraging books being sold on Amazon are likely generated by AI with no human authorship. These books could provide dangerous misinformation and potentially lead to deaths if people eat poisonous mushrooms based on the AI’s inaccurate descriptions. Two New York mushroom societies have warned...

    RobotToaster ,

    digital stuff is great!

    Until they pull a 1984 and delete your copy of 1984

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    If you go to a bank and attempt to steal money, but you were unsuccessful in doing so, there wouldn’t be any loss, but you’d still go to jail and it’s widely accepted as wrong.

    Theft is taking property with the intention to permanently deprive the owner of it, which you were attempting to do

    getting a service, e.g going to the barbers and running out of the store before paying

    Technically fraud not theft.

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    I use brave search from firefox, seems the least shitty search engine so far.

    Nothing against brave the browser, I’ve just been using firefox for about 10 years so have a lot of inertia.

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    Isn’t this like the fourth time this has been posted? the conversation always goes around in circles with nobody changing their mind.

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    Windows mobile and palm had existed for years before iphone.

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    The handspring visor phone launched in 2000 was arguably the first smartphone.

    How do people find good information on the internet these days?

    It used to be that you would do a search on a relevant subject and get blog posts, forums posts, and maybe a couple of relevant companies offering the product or service. (And if you wanted more information on said company you could give them a call and actually talk to a real person about said service) You could even trust...

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    Brave search seems marginally better than others.

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    Aren’t those ads personalised to your browsing history?

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    Maybe a hot take, but allowing capitalist corporations to decide what is “the truth” was always a terrible idea.

    RobotToaster ,

    You think the other arm of the US capitalist party doesn’t do exactly the same?

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    Isn’t gitlab one of those shitty “open” core projects?

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    netsplits/defederation.

    You can’t just tell someone to register for any server, and they will be able to see everything. So they then have to choose a server, which takes effort, and can cause analysis paralysis.

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    The study only used images and the image recognition system, so this will only be accurate for self driving systems that operate purely on image recognition. The only one that does that currently is Tesla AFAIK.

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    Cameras and image recognition are cheaper than LIDAR/RADAR, so Tesla uses it exclusively.

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    It’s 10 times the number of instances that lemmy.ml blocks, if that helps.

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    I’m guessing it doesn’t stop them putting DRM in parts and making parts cost more than a new phone.

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    For some reason there seems to be minimal overlap between the two communities and that blows my mind.

    There seems to be completely different cultures IMO

    • Quote replies are normal on lemmy, but controversial on mastodon
    • Full text search is normal on lemmy, but, again, controversial on mastodon.
    • A significant proportion of lemmy users seem to dislike defederation, or at least view it as a last resort, while it seems to happen at the drop of a hat on mastodon.

    At least that’s the impression I’ve got from my limited attempts to use mastodon.

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    I seem to remember needing several special tools for changing my bottom bracket, not sure how common that is though.

    RobotToaster ,

    I just sub to them all, there’s no limit like on reddit.

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    Instead Apple and hardware manufacturers in general should prevent their products from allowing any software company from invading the people’s privacy in such intense ways.

    lol, every intel processor has a backdoor called the intel management engine, it’s literally a second processor running minix.

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    Given that the genocidal regime has engaged in illegal harassment, assault, and espionage

    Yes, but enough about the US regime.

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    I normally hate the whole de-federation thing, but the radlib chapocels there are annoying af.

    RobotToaster ,

    Isn’t Germany’s antifa infested with antideutsch crazies?

    RobotToaster ,

    Someone who claims to be a socialist, but who has a pathological obsession with identity politics and dividing the working class, and gives little regard to class consciousness or worker solidarity. Usually has an extreme hatred of patriotism despite patriotic socialism being the official ideology of the Soviet Union. Often defends lumpen behaviour to a bizarre extent.

    Did I miss anything?

    RobotToaster ,

    You gave me like five hours to reply lmao.

    RobotToaster ,

    Guess I overdid the hyperbole, it probably came across stronger than intended, sorry.

    Police in England installed an AI camera system along a major road. It caught almost 300 drivers in its first 3 days. (www.businessinsider.in)

    Police in England installed an AI camera system along a major road. It caught almost 300 drivers in its first 3 days.::An AI camera system installed along a major road in England caught 300 offenses in its first 3 days.There were 180 seat belt offenses and 117 mobile phone

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    I mean yeah, fuck the police

    But love police cameras and the police enforcing them?

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