TechLinked [Jun 17, 2023] (youtu.be)
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Twitch Star XQC Signs $100 Million Deal With Rival Platform (www.nytimes.com)
After dealing with lots of bad PR from terrible decisions, Twitch now has to deal with one of its biggest streamers moving to another platform, Kick, with a deal larger than those of most athletes
BBS-like RSS feed reader?
Hi everyone! Can you suggest an RSS feed reader with a BBS-like interface (terminal-like)? I'm looking for something similar to the NeoModem project (which is lovely and you can find HERE)....
Reddit CEO praises Elon Musk’s cost-cutting as protests rock platform (www.nbcnews.com)
Twitter owner Elon Musk may have had an influence on Reddit’s CEO ahead of changes to the website that have resulted in a user-led rebellion on the platform....
How to Delete All Reddit Posts and Comments on Web Browser (www.guidingtech.com)
It's about using Reddit Enhancement Suite to delete data
Waveform Podcast: Reddit is Destroying Itself (www.youtube.com)
Twitter to focus on video, commerce in business revamp (www.reuters.com)
Twitter plans to focus on video, creator and commerce partnerships to revitalize the social media company's business beyond digital advertising, according to an investor presentation by owner Elon Musk and new Chief Executive Linda Yaccarino that was reviewed by Reuters....
AI Chatbot Arena Leaderboard & Elo Rankings (June 2023)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/228673...
Windows 11 beta fixes major taskbar gripe, removes old File Explorer settings (arstechnica.com)
Finally after so many years the "never combine labels" setting is back and i can uninstall explorerpatcher
In a first, FTC charges genetic testing firm over failure to protect data (archive.ph)
European Union votes to bring back replaceable phone batteries (www.techspot.com)
Reddit might be deleting threads about Lemmy now? (lemmy.world)
EDIT: Maybe a false alert after all, my thread is now visible to all. Still weird that it stayed "deleted" for hours though....
Marginalia, a search engine for non-commercial websites you might not have seen before (search.marginalia.nu)
DevOps is Bullshit (blog.massdriver.cloud)
Knowledge silos and expertise are two sides of the same coin. From full stack engineering to DevOps practitioner, our industry loves to pretend everyone can do everything. We’re an industry of hobbyists. We love to tinker. I don’t know if we are fooling ourselves or if the industry has been exploiting our hobby-driven...
NIX OS: the BEST package manager on the MOST SOLID Linux distribution (tilvids.com)
A new video from Nick at The Linux Experiment. I'm also sharing the PeerTube version for the sake of trying to expand my use of PeerTube and try to expand my video platform use beyond just YouTube.
Fediverse and Round-Robins
https://spreadmastodon.org/utilities/round-robin...
What do you consider a "power user" in the context of online communities?
Pretty much every news story about the Reddit situation that also touches on migration to other services throws out "power user" as distinct from "mods" as though it's an established term with a clear definition....
Here’s the note Reddit sent to moderators threatening them if they don’t reopen (www.theverge.com)
Mechanical Turk workers are using AI to automate being human (techcrunch-com.cdn.ampproject.org)
Lemmy and Kbin shoutout from Techdirt: Reddit Blackout Crashes The Site As Reddit Users Realize They’re In The Power Position (www.techdirt.com)
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Intel plans €4.6B microchips factory in Poland (www.politico.eu)
The factory will start running in 2027 and will be placed near Wrocław. New plant will assemble and test chips before shippment.
Not even wrong: predicting tech (www.ben-evans.com)
There is no predictive value in saying ‘that doesn’t work’ or ‘that looks like a toy’, and there is no predictive value in saying ‘people always say that’. As Pauli put it, statements like this are ‘not even wrong’ - they give no insight into what will happen....
This Website Will Self Destruct (www.thiswebsitewillselfdestruct.com)
ironically, as of writing it has not self-destructed for... 37 months, 7 days, 9 hours, and 32 minutes, but this is a cool project. like most of the people who have heard of this, i heard about it at the peak of COVID. it seems it found quite a niche.
