Apparently the Reddit AMA with Steve Huffman went about as well as it could go off the rails. (techcrunch.com)
Welcome to the technology community!
This is the first post! I am looking forward to all your awesome posts, comments, images and of course upboats. Goodbye corporate Reddit, and hello Lemmy.world.
New community or sub to discuss VPN related
Hi, I create a sub/community to discuss all VPN related without affiliated to specific brands. https://lemmy.world/c/vpn
'Conspiracy theories have become normalised in Britain', says BBC disinformation correspondent (inews.co.uk)
It’s not just Apollo: other Reddit apps are shutting down, too (from The Verge) (www.theverge.com)
[Meta] Since Lemmy allows linking URLs and text together, we should make it a common etiquette to write the tldr or main point of the article in the post
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/post/11661...
RedReader, Reddit client for Android, granted non-commercial accessibility exemption (www.reddit.com)
Via QuantumBadger:...
Hundreds of Protestants attended a sermon in Nuremberg given by ChatGPT, which told them not to fear death (www.businessinsider.com)
Apple M2 Ultra Geekbench Results (browser.geekbench.com)
r/StallmanWasRight Subreddit Shutdown
Is there a subreddit like this on fedi?
An eating disorders chatbot offered dieting advice, raising fears about AI in health (www.npr.org)
The National Eating Disorders Association took down a controversial chatbot, after users showed how the newest version could dispense potentially harmful advice about dieting and calorie counting.
Can AI make older adults feel less lonely? (techcrunch.com)
The UK’s secretive web surveillance program is ramping up and could be capable of logging and storing the web histories of millions of people (web.archive.org)
Official reports and spending documents on on a controversial surveillance technology show that in the past year, UK police have deemed the testing of a system that can collect people’s “internet connection records” a success, and have started work to potentially introduce the system nationally. Critics say the system is...
CryptPad: end-to-end encrypted collaboration suite (cryptpad.fr)
Pretty sweet google docs alternative
Twitch Once Again Trips Over Its Own Tongue Messaging Ad Policy Change To Creators (web.archive.org)
How does simple communication and the rollout of new polices remain so very, very difficult for Amazon’s Twitch platform? Over the past several years, we have written up many posts of all the ways that Twitch has sucked out loud when it comes to communicating with its creators, particularly when it comes to policy changes the...
Google is threating privacy-friendly YouTube frontend Invidious - gHacks Tech News (www.ghacks.net)
Intel Open Sources New 'One Mono' Font for Programmers (m.slashdot.org)
17 fatalities, 736 crashes: The shocking toll of Tesla’s Autopilot (archive.ph)
3rd party reddit app redreader avoids the purge (for now)
The RedReader app has been given accessibility status by the graciousness of reddit and will not have to shut down. The dev is not particularly happy about how fellow devs were treated though and still plans on adding lemmy in future. Read the announcement here
Musk on path to turn Twitter into the next MySpace or Yahoo, co-founder suggests (arstechnica.com)
Twitter co-founder Evan "Ev" Williams has broken his silence and joined other co-founders in expressing his dismay at how Elon Musk is running the platform.