Commented - technology

Streaming TV costs now higher than cable, as 'crash' finally hits (9to5mac.com)

Samsung joins Google in RCS shaming Apple (www.theverge.com)

Samsung has released a new video in support of Google’s #GetTheMessage campaign which calls for Apple to adopt RCS or “Rich Communication Services,” the cross-platform protocol pitched as a successor to SMS that adopts many of the features found in modern messaging apps… like Apple’s own iMessage.

Youtube's Anti-adblock is illegal in the EU (eupolicy.social)

Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT (www.tomshardware.com)

It’s time for Americans to embrace small cars (arstechnica.com)

Substack says it will not remove or demonetize Nazi content (www.theverge.com)

More than 200 Substack authors asked the platform to explain why it’s “platforming and monetizing Nazis,” and now they have an answer straight from co-founder Hamish McKenzie:...

Elon Musk Offers to Also Ruin Wikipedia (www.rollingstone.com)

Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone (www.theverge.com)

Microsoft is starting to enable ads inside the Start menu on Windows 11 for all users. After testing these briefly with Windows Insiders earlier this month, Microsoft has started to distribute update KB5036980 to Windows 11 users this week, which includes “recommendations” for apps from the Microsoft Store in the Start menu....

Welp that answers a lot of why all .ml are down (i.imgur.com)

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Microsoft Needs So Much Power to Train AI That It's Considering Small Nuclear Reactors (futurism.com)

'It hasn't delivered': The spectacular failure of self-checkout technology (www.bbc.com)

It’s Surprisingly Easy to Live Without an Amazon Prime Subscription (slate.com)

The author canceled their Amazon Prime subscription on a whim and realized they didn’t really need it....

Ifixit gives fairphone 5 a 10/10 on repairability and maintanence (www.ifixit.com)

While they were happy with what the fairphone 4 brought to the table, they seem to like what was changed for the fairphone 5....

X Races to Contain Damage After Elon Musk Endorses Antisemitic Post (www.nytimes.com)

IBM, a major advertiser on X, has pulled its spending from the social media platform, whose employees are grappling with what to tell its other advertisers, according to internal messages....

It is essential to stop using Chrome. Under the pretense of saving users from third-party spyware, Google is creating an ecosystem in which Chrome itself is the spyware. (mastodon.world)

Elon Musk on X antisemitism controversy: “Don’t advertise. Go f*** yourself” (arstechnica.com)

Not even the ghost of obsolescence can coerce users onto Windows 11 (www.theregister.com)

Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining (www.neowin.net)

Statcounter reports that Windows 11 continues to lose its market share for the second month in a row. Windows 10, meanwhile, is gaining more users and is now back above the 70% mark.

Twitter/X removing the block feature (lemm.ee)

Advertising revenue in Twitter crashes by 50% (lemmy.world)

nuff said

Phones should have FM radio again (www.spacebar.news)

YouTube Says New 5-Second Video Load Delay Is Supposed to Punish Ad Blockers, Not Firefox Users (www.404media.co)

Firefox users are reporting an 'artificial' load time on YouTube videos. YouTube says it's part of a plan to make people who use adblockers "experience suboptimal viewing, regardless of the browser they are using."