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jayandp , 2 days ago to Technology in Apple bows to Kremlin pressure to remove leading VPNs from Russian AppStore — Novaya Gazeta Europe

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jayandp , 7 days ago to Comic Strips in push it real good

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jayandp , 19 days ago to Technology in YouTube is experimenting with Notes, a crowdsourced feature that lets users add context to videos

I mean, if this is basically Twitter's Community Notes feature, but for YouTube, I'm all for it. Bit of a balancing act, but it's the last thing that hasn't been completely wrecked now that Twitter became Xitter.

jayandp , 20 days ago to Technology in Google, Cloudflare & Cisco Will Poison DNS to Stop Piracy Block Circumvention * TorrentFreak

Let's Play Wack-A-Mole! Select Game:

1. Sue Hosters -> Found New Hosts
2. Sue Domains -> Found New Domains
3. Sue DNS -> Found New DNS
4. ????

jayandp , 1 month ago to Technology in Internet Archive is continuing to face DDoS attacks after several days, says “this attack has been sustained, impactful, targeted, adaptive, and importantly, mean”

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jayandp , 1 month ago to Technology in Microsoft word update messes up exams in Denmark

In the past yeah. I still had formatting break in some cases.

jayandp , 1 month ago to Technology in Microsoft word update messes up exams in Denmark

I just wish compatibility was better. Even if I save in ODT format in either Word or Writer, opening the file in the other program almost always results in formatting errors. Not to mention using DOC/DOCX.

jayandp , 1 month ago to Technology in RIP Twitter Dot Com: Elon Musk Moves Social Network to X Web Address

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jayandp , 1 month ago to Technology in Apple introduces M4 chip

The BOOX Tab Ultra C Pro is probably closest to what you're looking for. It's basically a full fledged Android Tablet, just with an eInk screen. It even has a camera you can use for document scanning and such, and a pressure sensitive stylus powered by WACOM tech. Of course, this hinges on if you can find the apps you need on Android. I love Android, but Apple definitely has a leg up when it comes to proprietary productivity and creative apps.

I personally have a BOOX Nova Air C which is a 7.8in model from a couple years ago, which has a color eInk screen, Bluetooth, Mic, Speakers, Stylus, Android 11, and the full Google Play Store. I personally use it mostly for reading, but the stylus works really well for taking notes, and I've even played games on it (GameBoy Tetris for the win).

jayandp , 2 months ago to Comic Strips in true horror

But I thought tomatoes support cannibalism?

jayandp , 2 months ago to Technology in @pixelfed: Loops is a new platform for sharing short videos, and it's open source + federated Using #ActivityPub

As far as I can tell, it's always used ActivityPub for instances to communicate with each other, with video streaming mainly facilitated using WebTorrent on the backend to keep use of the host low.

jayandp , 2 months ago to Technology in @pixelfed: Loops is a new platform for sharing short videos, and it's open source + federated Using #ActivityPub

You mean Peertube?

jayandp , 2 months ago to Mildly Infuriating in Live Nation/Ticket Master won't give you your tickets unless you install their app

It's really sad because the artists have little to no control over this. It is the venues who are contracted through Ticketmaster.

Yeah, it's like if every movie theater only used Fandango. It would be ridiculous if that was the case, yet that's what's happened to live events.

jayandp , 2 months ago to Technology in VPN by Google One is shutting down for good

Yeah, but that's still an extra expense. Most people using Google VPN were using it because they were already paying for Google One.

jayandp , 2 months ago to Technology in VPN by Google One is shutting down for good

The only plus in this situation is that switching VPNs is far easier than other services since it's just a pipe you're swapping out.

Still annoying though, since Google VPN was nice if you were already paying for Google One. Now people will have to pay extra for something else.