As I recall, the guy who makes Pixelfed (dansup?) is also working on a vine clone called loops. It looks like the site is https://loops.video/ Doesn't appear to be operational yet.
And in the early days of the telephone, switchboard operators would listen in on conversations and cut off anyone they didn't like. Then in civilized countries, they required phone companies to be common carriers and required police to get warrants if there was anything illegal suspected, to listen in on someone.
It is part of the SSSCA / CBDTPA / "Trusted" computing initiative. The large corporations want to control what you are allowed to do with your computer. This is where the phrase "digital rights management" comes from.
I have a Sceptre tv. I use it as a TV and computer monitor. I don't remember exactly when I bought it, but it has been at least several years-maybe a decade, and it works great.
The only issue is I think I damaged the screen slightly a year or two ago while cleaning. Most of the time the damage isn't visible and is very small, so I don't worry about it. Well...and I had to replace the remote once as some buttons stopped working properly. Otherwise I have been using it without problem.
I fucked with the title a bit. What i linked to was actually a mastodon post linking to an actual thing. but in my defense, i found it because cory doctorow boosted it, so, in a way, i am providing the original source here....
I am no lawyer, but I suspect what will be considered either fair use or infringing will probably depend on how the programmed AI model is used.
For example, if you train it on a book of poetry, asking it questions about the poetry will probably be considered fair use. If you ask the AI to write poetry in the style of the book's poems and you publish the AI's poetry, I suspect it might be considered laundering copyright and infringing. Especially if it is substantially similar to specific poems in the book.
There are many Android based OS for phones. Graphene is a privacy focused Open Source OS which already fills the niche Apostrophy supposedly does. https://grapheneos.org/
I think they may be talking about the "discount" tracker cards. The ones which you fill out an application to get, so you can get the special "discount" (really what the price used to be).
A second USB port or headphone jack adds $1(US) to the manufacturing cost, if even that. Can't cut into the corporation's massive profits by even a little. Nope, can't have that.
Not all ads are created equally sleazy. The privacy harms from surveillance ads, though real, are often hard to pin down. But there's another kind of ad – or "ad" that picks your pocket every time you use an ecommerce site....
This seems to be the reason why I don't use Amazon very much anymore. Almost every time I search for something, most, if not all, of the results have nothing to do with what I wanted. I can't be the only one who has stopped using them because of this.
Anyone have better recommendations for online shopping?
Java isn't an interpreted language any more than C. Java gets compiled into its own machine code developed by Sun. That machine code can be converted to native code or just run "interpreted." (which is more like emulation.)
Maybe you should learn more about something before you criticize it.
This was started over two decades ago, but never came about because the copyright cartel destroyed it. It was called peer to peer (p2p) tech.
The cartel even tried to pass laws which would allow them to control what media you could have on your computer. (The SSSCA and later CBDTPA) This is where the term Digital Rights Management came from.
Open source and decentralized social network Mastodon has more users than it thought. The service, which competes with X (formerly Twitter) and other newcomers like Threads, Bluesky, Pebble, and Spill, had been undercounting its users due to a network connectivity error.
180 users/server seems high to me, but it is probably the huge instances (such as mastodon.social) driving up the average. There are countless small instances, but users on the big servers mostly don't notice them.
In a well-intentioned yet dangerous move to fight online fraud, France is on the verge of forcing browsers to create a dystopian technical capability. Article 6 (para II and III) of the SREN Bill would force browser providers to create the means to mandatorily block websites present on a government provided list. Such a move...
One possibility is an instance shutting down. Many instance admins are good about giving lots of notice, but sometimes that doesn't happen.
In fact there has been at least one instance on the fediverse which the admin disappeared from the internet, and their instance just slowly degenerated until it stopped working. Were they hit bt a bus? Who knows.
Christian fundamentalists want to keep everyone from viewing porn. Keeping it from kids is just a smokescreen for them. One of the big reasons there aren't sensible things in place to reduce kids seeing such things, is because the Christian fundamentalists will take over that effort and try to force it on everyone.
Google Kneecaps Loads Of Very Big Websites After SEO Change (aftermath.site)
ByteDance won't sell TikTok, would rather pull it from the US (www.androidauthority.com)
Sex-ed content creators discuss shadowbanning and censorship on Meta platforms (www.storyboard18.com)
Researchers unlock fiber optic connection 1.2 million times faster than broadband (www.popsci.com)
Microsoft waited 6 months to patch actively exploited admin-to-kernel vulnerability (www.theregister.com)
Roku disables TVs and streaming devices until users consent to new terms (techcrunch.com)
Neuralink implants brain chip in first human, Musk says (finance.yahoo.com)
Training Generative AI Models on Copyrighted Works Is Fair Use - Change My Mind (mastodon.lawprofs.org)
I fucked with the title a bit. What i linked to was actually a mastodon post linking to an actual thing. but in my defense, i found it because cory doctorow boosted it, so, in a way, i am providing the original source here....
I used a new type of smartphone that could replace Android | Digital Trends (www.digitaltrends.com)
Apostrophy OS is a new smartphone operating system aiming to be a third choice between Android and iOS....
'It hasn't delivered': The spectacular failure of self-checkout technology (www.bbc.com)
What Amazon Kindle? Here's an Open Source eBook Reader (itsfoss.com)
Android app maker Simple Mobile Tools acquired by ZipoApps (liliputing.com)
New BLUFFS attack lets attackers hijack Bluetooth connections (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Sponsored listings are a ripoff…for sellers (pluralistic.net)
Not all ads are created equally sleazy. The privacy harms from surveillance ads, though real, are often hard to pin down. But there's another kind of ad – or "ad" that picks your pocket every time you use an ecommerce site....
Huawei's HarmonyOS Will No Longer Support Android Apps - Pandaily (pandaily.com)
In a U.S. First, a Commercial Plant Starts Pulling Carbon From the Air (www.nytimes.com)
Google has sent internet into ‘spiral of decline’, claims DeepMind co-founder (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Google has plunged the internet into a “spiral of decline”, the co-founder of the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) lab has claimed....
Mastodon actually has 407K+ more monthly users than it thought | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Open source and decentralized social network Mastodon has more users than it thought. The service, which competes with X (formerly Twitter) and other newcomers like Threads, Bluesky, Pebble, and Spill, had been undercounting its users due to a network connectivity error.
France’s browser-based website blocking proposal sets a disastrous precedent for the open internet (blog.mozilla.org)
In a well-intentioned yet dangerous move to fight online fraud, France is on the verge of forcing browsers to create a dystopian technical capability. Article 6 (para II and III) of the SREN Bill would force browser providers to create the means to mandatorily block websites present on a government provided list. Such a move...
Trying out Lemmy and kbin… And the #fediverse interoperability has lost me 😥 please #help !
Hey All,...
Lemmy reached a user base of 150,000 (discuss.tchncs.de)
The Lemmy user base passed 150,000 in total users....
Pornhub attacks states for passing “unsafe” age-verification laws (arstechnica.com)
What are we listening to today?
Thought I'd see who's about and whether we could get a thread going on music recommendations from what we're jamming today....