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If you use firefox, check out these 55 single-function addons to improve life (all same dev; not me)

Recently I found this developer who has published dozens of small, useful extensions for firefox. Nothing groundbreaking that I know of but everything looks to have been made with care to efficiency and minimal permissions to do one thing well. Each has its own github repo where the developer responds to issues....

Are lots of websites really going downhill and/or closing or does it just seem like it to me?

Like many people I'm here because of reddit going to shit. Twitter has increasingly been shit. gycat is shutting down in September. To me it seems like lots of bastions of social media are crumpling, but as a previous active reddit user, I've been personally effected. Is this just a frequency illusion or has something changed...

Twitter content now behind login wall?

What's going on?

OC The AI genie is here. What we're deciding now is whether we all have access to it, or whether it's a privilege afforded only to rich people, corporations, and governments.

I know a lot of people want to interpret copyright law so that allowing a machine to learn concepts from a copyrighted work is copyright infringement, but I think what people will need to consider is that all that's going to do is keep AI out of the hands of regular people and place it specifically in the hands of people and...

Which futuristic technology would you accept in or on your body and why?

I would definitely not use any technologies that use internet or can be hacked remotely. But I would accept some that would help my life significantly.

New Mods Please

Like seriously, where are the current ones at? There's too much trash and clutter posts here.

Threads Fediverse Road-Map

Adam Mosseri shared Threads roadmap for the near future. It's not entirely surprising, but looks like they're working towards "full" federation support with profile portability.

FAA approves first VTOL flying car

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/03/tech/flying-car-faa/index.html

An older article that is taking on new significance considering current events...

https://medium.com/@max.p.schlienger/the-cargo-cult-of-the-ennui-engine-890c541cebcb

Scientists Made An Artificial "Cloud" That Pulls Electricity From Air

Taking a hint from the magician’s playbook, scientists have devised a way to pull electricity from thin air....

Personal Justifications for different phone life cycles

Yesterday, I was reading a thread that asked what's the point of buying a new phone as often as as people do. In the comments there were a variety of answers, but what interested me is that there were a wide variety of answers for how long each person liked to go before upgrading. So I've attempted to come up with justifications...

Bridges on Matrix

I recently discovered that bridges exist on Matrix allowing you to communicate with others on different platforms....

What are your favorite smaller tech-related groups on kbin/lemmy?

Like most who’ve joined kbin or lemmy, I’m actively looking for more communities to subscribe to. We don’t have a way to do a centralized search for these across instances yet, so I’m sure there’s some I’ve overlooked. What smaller technology related groups have you discovered that could use more publicity?...