So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post (arstechnica.com)
It seems like all packaged foods do this now (lemmy.world)
I bought 175 g pack of salami which had 162 g of salami as well.
Majority of Americans now use ad blockers (www.theregister.com)
how can something be so courageous and yet so true (slrpnk.net)
Edit: Jesus Christ, people. If you buy a $150 Thinkpad made by slave labor instead of a $1,200 MacBook made by slave labor, you're still supporting a capitalist economy based on slave labor. We all do. We have no choice. The number of smug liberals in the comments saying "well I buy a cheap used laptop" or "well I buy coffee...
Nightshade, the free tool that ‘poisons’ AI models, is now available for artists to use (venturebeat.com)
Lots of times the restaurants won't even have milk (lemmy.world)
YouTube (file.coffee)
The DMA already having an impact. Brave Browser installs surge after introduction of browser choice splash screen on iOS. (lemmy.world)
https://www.macrumors.com/2024/03/13/brave-browser-rise-installs-ios-14-7-eu/
Apple Vision Pro Owners Are Struggling to Figure Out What They Just Bought (nymag.com)
2x2 lumber at Home Depot is now 1.28x1.28. Actual size is supposed to be 1.5 (kbin.run)
I dont know why they have to lie about it. At $5/8ft board you'd think I paid for the full 1.5. Edit: I mixed up nominal with actual.
Sealioning (lemmy.world)
‘Sealioning’ is the word that sums up why Twitter discussion is so unbearable...
shopping rule theory (lemmy.cafe)
US sues Apple for illegal monopoly over smartphones (www.theverge.com)
The US Department of Justice and 16 state and district attorneys general accused Apple of operating an illegal monopoly in the smartphone market in a new antitrust lawsuit. The DOJ and states are accusing Apple of driving up prices for consumers and developers at the expense of making users more reliant on its iPhones.
Life goals (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Own a Roku TV or streaming device? You're about to see a lot more ads on your home screen (www.techradar.com)
Ugh. Roku was one of the platforms with fewer ads....
Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths (www.theverge.com)
Who was your first? (lemmy.world)
Asking a Linux user to recommend a printer (tesseract.dubvee.org)
BTW, I've had my Brother laser MFP for 11 years and still on the original toner.
Microsoft is blocking Windows Customization Tools (www.neowin.net)
TLDR: StartAllBack, ExplorerPatcher and some other projects are being blocked on 24H2....
Redditors Vent and Complain When People Mock Their "AI Art" (futurism.com)
Setting aside the usual arguments on the anti- and pro-AI art debate and the nature of creativity itself, perhaps the negative reaction that the Redditor encountered is part of a sea change in opinion among many people that think corporate AI platforms are exploitive and extractive in nature because their datasets rely on...
That gourmet luxury blend... (infosec.pub)
I was permanently banned from the Reddit sub without recourse for posting this despite not breaking any rules. I'm slowly making the migration over thanks to such encouragement.
PSA: You can't delete photos uploaded to Lemmy. So don't (accidentally) upload a nude (tech.michaelaltfield.net)
Windows 11 24H2 goes from “unsupported” to “unbootable” on some older PCs (arstechnica.com)
The White House wants to 'cryptographically verify' videos of Joe Biden so viewers don't mistake them for AI deepfakes (www.businessinsider.com)
The White House wants to 'cryptographically verify' videos of Joe Biden so viewers don't mistake them for AI deepfakes::Biden's AI advisor Ben Buchanan said a method of clearly verifying White House releases is "in the works."
Threads is automatically hiding comments that mention Pixelfed (mastodon.social)
For anyone wondering if Threads and Facebook at large will be a fine neighbor in the space and compatible with other apps/services in the fediverse: they’re already automatically hiding comments that mention Pixelfed https://mastodon.social/@dansup/112126250737482807
