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5 votes
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The downside of diagnosis by smartphone
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Varo Money receives FDIC approval, enabling it to become America's first standalone national digital bank
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App tracking alert in iOS 13 has dramatically cut location data flow to ad industry
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The battle to save America's undercover spies in the digital age
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Sweden's central bank has tapped Accenture to develop its e-krona digital currency pilot project
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Ads Inc. spent over $50M placing ads on Facebook with fake celebrity news and "subscription traps", scamming people out of millions
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Apple’s ad-targeting crackdown shakes up ad market
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The Internet Archive is digitising & preserving over 100,000 vinyl records: Hear 750 full albums now.
8 votes -
Better World Books and the Internet Archive unite to preserve millions of books
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Kik Messenger acquired by MediaLab, announces plan to introduce ads
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'The perfect combination of art and science': Mourning the end of paper maps
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Digitizing objects from Smithsonian's enormous collection
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Pacific Standard is shutting down, effective next Friday
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The internet is rotting – let’s embrace it
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Digital authoritarianism and the threat to global democracy
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Google Maps is filled with millions of false business addresses created by firms pretending to be nearby
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Plausible deniability and gaslighting in fighting ad blockers
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Web Request and Declarative Net Request: Explaining the impact on Extensions in Manifest V3
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Opera, Brave, Vivaldi to ignore Chrome's anti-ad-blocker changes, despite shared codebase
37 votes -
Chrome Extension Manifest V3 could end uBlock Origin for Chrome
55 votes -
How WhatsApp leaked my private information to advertisers
14 votes -
The first ever World Health Organisation physical activity guidelines for under-fives, recommend no screen time for one-year-olds and no more than an hour for two- to-four-year-olds
An article on a parenting website: Guidance recommends no screen time for under-twos An article in Time magazine: World Health Organization Issues First-Ever Screen Time Guidelines for Young Kids....
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An article on a parenting website: Guidance recommends no screen time for under-twos
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An article in Time magazine: World Health Organization Issues First-Ever Screen Time Guidelines for Young Kids. Here's What to Know
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The WHO's press release: To grow up healthy, children need to sit less and play more
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How to reduce digital distractions: advice from medieval monks
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The golden age of YouTube is over - The platform was built on the backs of independent creators, but now YouTube is abandoning them for more traditional content
37 votes -
Archivists race to digitize slavery records before the history is lost
9 votes -
Snowdrift Fight
8 votes -
Two devs automated the process of generating and publishing "garbage" mobile slot machine games on Google Play, and made over $50,000
28 votes -
Google fined $1.7 billion by EU for unfair advertising rules
14 votes -
YouTube and demonetization: The hammer and nail of content moderation
8 votes -
YouTube just demonetized anti-vaccination channels
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Facebook decided which users are interested in Nazis — and let advertisers target them directly
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One in ten people with a Medicare card have chosen to opt out of the new My Health Record digital health system, more than 2.5 million Australians in total
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Chromium team to make changes to Manifest V3 in response to ad-blocking extension developers’ outrage
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I'm downsizing my digital life. Do you listen to a lot of music? How do you archive it?
I'm downsizing my digital life. I deleted my account on reddit, on another phpbb forum and i don't have instagram/facebook apps anymore. This subject got me thinking about my music. I grab/buy...
I'm downsizing my digital life. I deleted my account on reddit, on another phpbb forum and i don't have instagram/facebook apps anymore.
This subject got me thinking about my music.
I grab/buy albums in mp3 and i have so many that it's impossible to listen to everything. I don't pay for any service like spotify because i don't like. I prefer to download and/or buy in places like bandcamp where i can download the album.
I started reading about other codecs like flac and opus. The availability of albums in flac are way less than mp3 and it's a lossless format. If i focus on it i will be forced to downsize my music library.
The problem is disk space in my smartphone. I'm not an audiophile so i'm not able to hear the difference between flac and 320kpbs mp3. This is where opus enters. This codec gives half the size with better quality than mp3. Soundcloud uses it. A 96kbps opus is the same quality as 320kbps mp3.
Now that Android can play opus i don't see a reason to keep using mp3. The downside is converting flac files every time i want to put on my phone.
I could just convert flac to opus and just live with opus everywhere, freeing a lot of space. But i think keeping flac files is better for archiving because it's lossless. If opus for some reason disappears, i'll have a lossy format and would have convert to another one losing more quality.
How do you deal with music?
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Adblockers Performance Study - A detailed analysis of the performance of some of the most popular content-blocker engines
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If Facebook wants to stop the spread of anti-vaxxers, it could start by not taking their ad dollars
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Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers
55 votes -
Fairfax to return with investigative news website
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Facebook moves to block ad transparency tools- including ours
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Media industry loses about 1,000 jobs as layoffs hit news organizations
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How cartographers for the US Military inadvertently created a house of horrors in South Africa
15 votes -
YouTube stars are pushing a shady Polish gambling site
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Open standards may finally give patients control of their data and care via Electronic Health Records
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Banner blindness revisited: Users dodge ads on mobile and desktop
7 votes -
How much of the internet is fake?
36 votes -
Redrawn Character 2012-2018
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Period-tracking apps are not for women
28 votes -
My Health Record: Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt bows to pressure and extends opt-out deadline as website hits issues
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The Art Institute of Chicago has put 50,000 (+) high-res images from their collection online
12 votes