Technology

Gizmodo and Kotaku Staff Furious After Owner Announces Move to AI Content (futurism.com)

G/O Media, a major online media company that runs publications including Gizmodo, Kotaku, Quartz, Jezebel, and Deadspin, has announced that it will begin a "modest test" of AI content on its sites....

What are you self-hosting? (beehaw.org)

Thinking of self-hosting some basic tools; SearxNG, Bitwarden, Lemmy....

What search engine do you use?

Data on search engine market share is available, but I wonder what that looks like for Lemmy users in particular, who I would assume lean more technical than the average user, so probably use DuckDuckGo and alternates more than Google....

Users Have Had It With Reddit...But Are Powerless (www.youtube.com)

A video about the effectiveness of the Reddit protest

Technology Connections talks about a red fridge from Walmart for an hour (youtu.be)

In a video by @Techconnectify, Alec goes into a deep dive into the simplicity of his particular model, its shortcomings and variety of data logging tests in an attempt to fix them....

Unclassified FBI Document: Ability to legally access Secure Messaging App Content and Metadata (January 2021) (beehaw.org)

An official FBI document dated January 2021, obtained by the American association "Property of People" through the Freedom of Information Act....

Introducing Lemmy.link

Hey Fediverse,...

All programs should tell you where they store config files (utcc.utoronto.ca)

I wholeheartedly agree with this blog post. I believe someone on here yesterday was asking about config file locations and setting them manually. This is in the same vein. I can't tell you how many times a command line method for discovering the location of a config file would have saved me 30 minutes of googling.

Suicide Hotlines Promise Anonymity. Dozens of Their Websites Send Sensitive Data to Facebook (themarkup.org)

BookWyrm is the Federated GoodReads Replacement I Didn’t Know I Needed (wedistribute.org)

Old, but just in case folks don't know about this......

FediPact is an Organized Effort to Block Meta's ActivityPub Platform (wedistribute.org)

Kev Quirk, one of the admins of Fosstodon (a Mastodon instance), destroys Meta in an email exchange. (fosstodon.org)

The exchange is about Meta's upcoming ActivityPub-enabled network Threads. Meta is calling for a meeting, his response is priceless!

1password implementing privacy-preserving telemetry system (blog.1password.com)

"We won’t be collecting your saved passwords, passkeys, usernames, and any URLs associated with your items. Your private information is just that – private....

Do You Think There Would Have Been a Large Protest if Steve Huffman Just Said We're Charging to Use the API to Increase Revenue?

I've been a long time Redditor and an Apollo user for about a year. I even paid for it. The main draw for me was the lack of advertising. In the back of my head I kept thinking that it couldn't last. Reddit is losing revenue from the lack of advertising views. It didn't...

/r/blind community migrates to Lemmy (lemmy.one)

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The developer of Sync for Reddit is working on a Lemmy app (www.reddit.com)

New subreddit talking about it here. I'm assuming it will eventually be a Lemmy community...

Mastodon thinks Lemmy’s privacy stinks. What say you? (raddle.me)

Federated services have always had privacy issues but I expected Lemmy would have the fewest, but it's visibly worse for privacy than even Reddit....

Jellyfin, we are moving away from Reddit and we are pleased to announce our new forum! (jellyfin.org)

official twitter announcement...

Reddit communities adopt alternative forms of protest as the company threats action on moderators (techcrunch.com)

Excellent work

Federation, Defederation, and You - FAQ and Megathread

Regarding Beehaw defederating from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works, this post goes into detail on the why and the philosophy behind that decision. Additionally, there is an update specific to sh.itjust.works here....

Majority of Americans Would Like to Return to Time Before Cell Phones, Internet, According to New Poll (www.thewrap.com)

Seventy-seven percent of middle-age Americans (35-54 years old) say they want to return to a time before society was “plugged in,” meaning a time before there was widespread internet and cell phone usage. As told by a new Harris Poll (via Fast Company), 63% of younger folks (18-34 years old) were also keen on returning to a...

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