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ts moment (lemmy.ml)
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.
Dutch government says it may stop using Facebook over privacy concerns (www.cnbc.com)
The Dutch government said Friday that it may be forced to stop using Facebook after a warning from the Netherlands’ privacy regulator about the Meta owned social media platform’s privacy risks....
Aesthetics rule (pawb.social)
Reddit Is Taking Over Google (tech.slashdot.org)
Reddit, Quora, and other internet forums that have climbed up through the traditional set of Google links. Data analysis from Semrush, which predicts traffic based on search ranking, shows that traffic to Reddit has climbed at an impressive clip since August 2023. Semrush estimated that Reddit had over 132 million visitors in...
‘Meta is out of options’: EU regulators reject its privacy fee for Facebook and Instagram (finance.yahoo.com)
Why don't banks like root on Android? (lemmy.world)
Indie developer has a plan to keep parts of his game secret, even from data-miners (www.gamefile.news)
Discord to start showing ads in the coming week after resisting for almost a decade (www.neowin.net)
I don't think people on this sub use it, but it's great news for us. The worse it gets the likelier people move on.
Reddit started blocking VPN users on old.reddit.com (lemm.ee)
At this point, I'm not even going to bother trying to go on there anymore.
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
Improve Your Privacy Setup
Hello, Lemmy!...
supermarket club cards
Hey I'm sure you all know how sketchy club cards are for collecting your data. But I do begrudge paying slightly higher prices just for valuing my privacy. I was wondering if there was any way to sign up to these things whilst limiting the data they have access to. Would it be enough to sign up with fake details and never use...
Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. (programming.dev)
Switch to Linux!...
Over 5,300 GitLab servers exposed to zero-click account takeover attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Mozilla says Apple’s new browser rules are “as painful as possible” for Firefox (www.theverge.com)
Unity owned ECS patent uses techniques described in 2013 Stack Exchange post (github.com)
The 2013 StackExchange post [^1] describes what is now commonly called an "archetype" based ECS architecture that was implemented as compile time archetypes in the author's open source project in Feb 2018 ^3. A similar ECS model was described later in the June 2018 patent filed by Unity ^2 and active since 2020....
Former CEO of Google has been quietly working on a military startup for “suicide” attack drones. (www.forbes.com)
Former CEO of Google has been quietly working on a military startup for “suicide” attack drones.::The former Google CEO has been quietly working on a military startup called White Stork with plans to design “kamikaze” attack drones.
Brave to end 'Strict' fingerprinting protection as it breaks websites (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
A reminder on the difference between demonstrations and protests (slrpnk.net)
I think teaching people how protests work is pretty important praxis and is not talked about nearly enough....
Gen Z falls for online scams more than their boomer grandparents do. The generation that grew up with the internet isn’t invulnerable to becoming the victim of online hackers and scammers. (www.vox.com)
Gen Z falls for online scams more than their boomer grandparents do. The generation that grew up with the internet isn’t invulnerable to becoming the victim of online hackers and scammers.::undefined
EDIT: Fake screenshot about some facts from the Palworld development, very loosely based on a really interesting blog post from the dev that's linked in the post body. (programming.dev)
UPDATE: So, apparently it's mostly fake, taken from this article [translation] (where they even mention some kind of VCS)....
This is how I KNOW it works as intended (i.imgur.com)