Here's a non-paywalled link to an article published in the Washington Post a few days ago. It's great to see this kind of thing getting some mainstream attention. Young children have not made an informed decision about whether they want their photos posted online.
It’s not, it’s just that with enough mainstream media coverage about scary internet stories normies are slowly waking up to what the internet is and how you should conduct yourself on it. Of course any terminally online person could have told you that 20 years ago but those are not most people. Hell even if you do know better good luck convincing your family, I know I tried for years with negligible results other than one of them now using a password manager.
Yeah fun fact I actually looked this up a few days ago in the wayback machine because I own a beta account. Back then it was just Notch selling the game and the “agreement” if you can call it that on the site basically just said “you own the game forever, no drm”.
I’m not a lawyer or anything but I suspect that unless they somehow tricked users of old mojang account to agree to Microsoft TOS after the purchase of Mojang what Microsoft did may be very legally questionable. But the main issue is who is gonna sue them over 20 bucks. They know they can get away with it
It’s not always that simple and I also don’t want to do the testing and support that requires. I’m not gonna set up a windows vm and 5 different Linux vms and get a Mac to build and test for every platform. If you want to use my software you’re welcome to do so but unless you’re paying me I don’t see why I should provide a service that is just a pain in the ass for me. Open sourcing the code alone is already a commitment that not everyone is willing to do as that requires documentation, issue tracking, community support and much more. I build stuff that I want to use and am interested in and as a thank you to the OSS community also share that work but that does not include end user support
One of Google Search’s oldest and best-known features, cache links, are being retired. Best known by the “Cached” button, those are a snapshot of a web page the last time Google indexed it. However, according to Google, they’re no longer required....
PARIS, Nov 27 (Reuters) - Six teenagers go on trial behind closed doors on Monday, accused of involvement in the beheading of French history teacher Samuel Paty by a suspected Islamist in 2020 in an attack that struck at the heart of the country’s secular values....
A current state of the art ai model from Microsoft can achieve acceptable quality with about 3 seconds of audio. Commercially available stuff like eleven labs about 30 minutes. But quality will obviously vary heavily but then again they’re using a low quality phone call so maybe not that important
Will there be a premium app in the store? I recall the reddit version with IAP periodically having issues with purchases not being recognized. I’d rather spend my money on that then.
If cloning something by rewriting it would be an issue the GNU utils would have the same problem since they’re also just clones of proprietary Unix commands that the GNU project doesn’t own
As the Internet Gets Scarier, More Parents Keep Their Kids’ Photos Offline (getpocket.com)
Here's a non-paywalled link to an article published in the Washington Post a few days ago. It's great to see this kind of thing getting some mainstream attention. Young children have not made an informed decision about whether they want their photos posted online.
LibreOffice 24.2.2 Is Now Available for Download with More Than 70 Bug Fixes - 9to5Linux (9to5linux.com)
To buy no longer means anything :( (youtu.be)
I’ve just watched the video. I find it pretty outrageous. The word about it should spread.
Script kiddies (ukfli.uk)
Google Search is losing its 'cached' web page feature (www.engadget.com)
One of Google Search’s oldest and best-known features, cache links, are being retired. Best known by the “Cached” button, those are a snapshot of a web page the last time Google indexed it. However, according to Google, they’re no longer required....
Six teenagers in court over beheading of French teacher (www.reuters.com)
PARIS, Nov 27 (Reuters) - Six teenagers go on trial behind closed doors on Monday, accused of involvement in the beheading of French history teacher Samuel Paty by a suspected Islamist in 2020 in an attack that struck at the heart of the country’s secular values....
AI scam calls imitating familiar voices are a growing problem – here's how they work (theconversation.com)
Ferry County deputies shoot tires of stolen backhoe, arrest man attempting to knock down animal shelter (www.spokesman.com)
Happy birthday #29374 (lemmy.ml)
One-time payment for ad-free is live in Beta 25. It's $19.99 USD. Update your app if you don't see it.
Tap the account switcher in the top left corner and you should see the option....
I think something sinister is happening with oxidizing all GNU projects (reddit crosspost) (www.reddit.com)
I posted this over /r/StallmanWasRight and I am not sure it would be taken well at /r/Rust so here we are....