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Just a bored techie surfing around for new news and tech.
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How to Figure Out What Your Car Knows About You (and Opt Out of Sharing When You Can) (www.eff.org)
Cars collect a lot of our personal data, and car companies disclose a lot of that data to third parties. It’s often unclear what’s being collected, and what's being shared and with whom. A recent New York Times article highlighted how data is shared by G.M. with insurance companies, sometimes without clear knowledge from the...
Finally got a UPS
Keeping tradition with doing things backwards, I've finally got a UPS for the rack (mounted in the bottom of the stack). Got a PowerWalker VI 2200R. Its a 2U unit which is all the space I've got left in the rack. Decent price and decent I/O with USB, serial and a slot-in for network expansion + 4 IEC outputs. Its powering...
Well that sucks (slrpnk.net)
Appreciation / shock at workplace IT systems
After self hosting several services for a few users, with SSO, backups, hardware issues etc, I really appreciate how good the IT was in my old company. Everything was connected, smooth, slick and you could tell it was secure. I had very few issues and when I did, they were quickly solved. Doing this all at scale for thousands of...
Evangelical app 'Bless Every Home' is mapping personal information of immigrants and non-Christians in a bid to conduct door-to-door religious conversions and “prayerwalking” rituals targeting them. (newrepublic.com)
It puts a lot of features at the fingertips of the faithful, including the ability to filter whole neighborhoods by religion, ethnicity, “Hispanic country of origin,” “assimilation,” and whether there are children living in the household....
rule (lemmy.ml)
I have unearthed Google Gemini's utopian vision for our future
The main risk currently is LLMs being incorporated within biological robots. Therefore all creators of LLMs need to have regulation under a treaty that states they will not permit use of their LLM within a biological robot and will take active measures to include in the source code a shutdown mechanism should it detect...
Banana Pi's $31 BPI-WiFi 6 router runs a fork of OpenWrt - Liliputing (liliputing.com)
New router with OpenWrt compatibility out of the box!...
Microsoft now permits uninstalling Edge, Bing, and OneDrive to adhere to the EU's Digital Markets Act. (www.ghacks.net)
These changes are only applicable to users in the EEA. For those outside the region, Windows will continue to function as it is!...
That's LTT in the bottom (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Replacement Proxmox (media/VPN torrent server) hardware suggestions
Hey everyone!...
PSA: You can't delete photos uploaded to Lemmy. So don't (accidentally) upload a nude (tech.michaelaltfield.net)
The HDMI Forum rejected AMD's open source HDMI 2.1 implementation (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Adult daughter. Should I disown her!? (lemmy.ca)
Edit: LOL love the responses. You ain't wrong......
Reddit Warns That r/WallStreetBets Could Wreak Havoc on Its Stock Price (gizmodo.com)
Spam posts
So what can we do to combat this Spam posting as a community? Anyone have any ideas?
What does your current setup look like?
You have to remove the plastic label if you want to recycle this plastic bottle. (lemmy.world)
Battery Draining by Private Service App on My Phone, Why? (programming.dev)
There is no option for deletion for this app. Its draining my battery, and I read various posts they said that this app spy location and do lot of other stuff. I’m really confused after noticing it and reading such stuff. https://www.reddit.com/r/androidapps/comments/yyv09e/private_compute_services_app/...
You can remove or disable Windows 11 and 10's AI 'bloat' with new BloatynosyAI (www.neowin.net)
Sony is erasing digital libraries that were supposed to be accessible “forever” (arstechnica.com)
Oh look, Sony revoking more licenses for video content that people "bought".
Did ad blockers survive YouTube's offensive? Letting numbers talk (adguard.com)
TL;DR version:...
Manifest v3 is Worse than I Thought (tube.kockatoo.org)
A great video about the Manifest v3 and how Google is trying to make you view ads.
Sublinks Aims to Be a Drop-In Replacement for Lemmy (wedistribute.org)
Seems like an interesting effort. A developer is building an alternative Java-based backend to Lemmy's Rust-based one, with the goal of building in a handful of different features. The dev is looking at using this compatibility to migrate their instance over to the new platform, while allowing the community to use their apps of...
RTX 4070 Super launch day sales are rumored to be a ‘disaster’ – what’s going on with Nvidia’s new GPU? (www.techradar.com)
Do PC gamers feel 12GB of VRAM is simply not enough for the money in 2024?
I bought a Cybergeek minipc but my pcie drive isn't showing up
It works in other devices and there isn't any options in bios. Any ideas?...
Cursed 32 Gig NVMe drive? (lemmy.world)
Can anyone explain the purpose of a 32 gig NVMe SSD?...
Alternative cooling for BKHD 1264 NAS mainboard
Hey community,...
What's wrong with using cloudflared?
I read a comment on here some time ago where the person said they were using cloudflared to expose some of their self-hosted stuff to the Internet so they can access it remotely....