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8 votes
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Some Amazon reviews are too good to be believed. They're paid for.
21 votes -
The rise of the downloadable gun in America could have dark implications for Australia
4 votes -
Apple Reports Third Quarter Results
8 votes -
Facebook has released information about accounts/pages they banned today due to involvement in a coordinated inauthentic political influence campaign
15 votes -
Does anybody actually revisit url/page that bookmarked?
I myself is a pinboard user since 2011 and have since bookmarked 4 274 links. But I find it funny that I never visit those URL or page ever again. When I bookmark something I thought it was useful...
I myself is a pinboard user since 2011 and have since bookmarked 4 274 links. But I find it funny that I never visit those URL or page ever again.
When I bookmark something I thought it was useful or important. But often it turns out not the case.
Am I the only one? What do you guys do with thousands of stuff you bookmarked?
17 votes -
Teknik.io registration is open for a few more hours!
EDIT: signups are now closed. relevant blog post teknik.io is a website that provides services like email, [encrypted] file uploads, Git repos, blogs, URL shortening, and more. I've used them for...
EDIT: signups are now closed.
teknik.io is a website that provides services like email, [encrypted] file uploads, Git repos, blogs, URL shortening, and more. I've used them for a few years and they're wonderful. It's all open-source and privacy conscious, maybe some Tildes users would like it?
Registration is usually invite-only, but it's open for a few hours.
Thanks @duckoverflow for mentioning this.
Edit: also their privacy policy is short, simple, and easy-to-read if anyone is interested in that. I'd consider it a great example of what a privacy policy should be.
24 votes -
Microsoft's got a new plan for managing Windows 10 devices for a monthly fee - "Microsoft Managed Desktop"
19 votes -
Besides some of the good things like game compatibility and enterprise, what are some things you like about Windows 10?
There are a lot of complaints such as the preinstalled bloatware and lackluster window management, but what are some genuinely good features you enjoy? Edit: Sorry about the extreme title gore.
11 votes -
On social media what filters do you have to block content? Any motivation beyond "not interested"?
On Tildes I don't have any filtered tags yet but I did unsubscribe from ~anime, ~books, ~food, ~games, ~movies, ~sports, and ~tv. Wow I just made that list and realized I cut out most of the fun...
On Tildes I don't have any filtered tags yet but I did unsubscribe from ~anime, ~books, ~food, ~games, ~movies, ~sports, and ~tv. Wow I just made that list and realized I cut out most of the fun groups... I'm not sure what that says about me haha. I unsubscribed from all of those because I either don't enjoy those things or if I do, I know what I like and don't have any inclination to discuss them.
Reddit is where I have the most things filtered out. Mostly entire subs from r/all but I have some users blocked too. Like poem_for_your_sprog. Don't get me wrong I like poems in the right context but it throws me off too much when I'm reading an askreddit thread and suddenly find myself reading a poem. A dumb pet peeve.
Facebook it's just random people blocked from showing on the newsfeed.
I have said "not interested" to videos on youtube more times than I would ever care to count. I'm not sure why but they have a really hard time giving me content I want to see. There's usually like 3 videos in the feed I'm down with and the rest is just garbage. They're good about not showing me things I said I'm not interested in but they can't seem to pinpoint what I actually want.
15 votes -
Twitter turns to academics to improve conversational health on the platform
8 votes -
A withering verdict: MPs report on Zuckerberg, Russia and Cambridge Analytica
14 votes -
India looking to compel e-commerce, social media firms to store data locally
5 votes -
Just an observation, Google Search is ready for replacement.
We're obviously being denied the benefits of so called advances in algorithmic search, as evidenced by the poor showing of Google Itself in unusual searches. For example, if you search images for...
We're obviously being denied the benefits of so called advances in algorithmic search, as evidenced by the poor showing of Google Itself in unusual searches. For example, if you search images for "runners wearing green hats -shamrock -st. -patrick" Guess how many runners wearing green hats you get?
So search is hard? I think it's more likely that Google and everyone else is more interested in selling you a hat than helping you find a picture of a runner in a green hat.
16 votes -
Any good alternatives to imgur?
It's gotten pretty bad and bloated lately. What's a good no-nonsense image host? Preferably with a command line upload option.
21 votes -
Refresh: A Browser Concept
6 votes -
How Facebook is undermining democracy - Prof. Siva Vaidhyanathan
5 votes -
Slack is acquiring (and discontinuing) HipChat and Stride from Atlassian
28 votes -
A spectre is haunting Unicode
18 votes -
A web app to test connected gamepads and controllers in your browser [OC]
5 votes -
It’s Rubens vs. Facebook in fight over artistic nudity
5 votes -
Ten years left to redesign lithium-ion batteries
9 votes -
US Congress demands Jeff Bezos explain Amazon’s face recognition software
15 votes -
'The discourse is unhinged': how the media gets AI alarmingly wrong
6 votes -
New York moves to kick Charter Spectrum cable out of the state
11 votes -
Project Code Rush - The beginnings of Netscape/Mozilla
6 votes -
Facebook suspends US conspiracy theorist Alex Jones
7 votes -
Google said to deliberately make YouTube slower on Microsoft Edge, Firefox
35 votes -
Amazon's face recognition falsely matched twenty-eight members of Congress with mugshots
15 votes -
Juul & its House of Smoke & Horrors
2 votes -
Tildoes with Android, what are your essential apps?
Here's a couple of mine: Flamingo for Twitter Pocket Casts JuiceSSH RealVNC Viewer DigiCal EDIT: I forgot my most important one, Sesame Shortcuts
28 votes -
The world economy runs on GPS. It needs a backup plan
16 votes -
Asus ROG phone impressions
6 votes -
Police facial recognition system faces legal challenge
3 votes -
Facebook's quarterly earnings show user growth hit record lows in Q2
19 votes -
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Extreme may be a premium 15.6 inch thin and light laptop
2 votes -
Big tech warns of "Japan's millennium bug" ahead of Akihito's abdication
5 votes -
On the engineer's responsibility in protecting privacy (Paul Baran, RAND, 1968)
10 votes -
Departing Facebook security officer's memo: "We need to be willing to pick sides"
6 votes -
Is Hacker News suppressing leftist articles? Or just a conspiracy of poor point scoring?
There was a story posted to Hacker News, The Return of the Super-Elite from Jacobin magazine. It was on the front page for a little bit of time. I refreshed and it was on the 2nd page. 5 hours...
There was a story posted to Hacker News, The Return of the Super-Elite from Jacobin magazine. It was on the front page for a little bit of time. I refreshed and it was on the 2nd page.
5 hours later and it's down to #113, page 4. It has 88 points. The second youngest submission on page 4 is 16 hours old. On page 3, the youngest item is 6 hours old, and has only 7 points. So this article is newer, has a respectable amount of points but within 5 hours has been relegated to page 4, whereas an item that has fewer points and is 1 hour older is sitting on page 3.
edit: the rank keeps dropping, when I first wrote this post it was at #111, then #112, and when I submitted it was at #113, I just refreshed and it's at #114. Other submissions near the range of points and hours are ranking on page 1. On page 5 all items are from 1, 2 or 3 days ago.
I've noticed that any pro-unionization talk seems to disappear much more quickly than other stories.
So let's get our tinfoil hats on and ask is Hacker News suppressing leftist articles or suppressing articles of a certain type altogether?
Or maybe it's just a conspiracy of a bad algorithm for determining where submissions rank?
26 votes -
Has anyone here backed the Librem 5?
For those unaware the Librem 5 is an upcoming Linux smartphone developped by Purism that seems to be doing everything right. Frankly I think this might be humanity's last chance to have a Libre...
For those unaware the Librem 5 is an upcoming Linux smartphone developped by Purism that seems to be doing everything right. Frankly I think this might be humanity's last chance to have a Libre mobile option before the Google/Apple duopoly gets too far ahead.
I really, really want to back the thing but after going through the exchange rate, duties and customs I think it works out to nearly 900CAD which I just can't afford right now, though I might end up pulling the trigger anyway. Call it 400$ for a phone and 400$ to support a worthy cause, eh?
12 votes -
Leaked videos appear to depict Apple’s internal iPhone and Mac repair processes
10 votes -
How tech's richest plan to save themselves after the apocalypse
3 votes -
How to block ads like a pro
34 votes -
GOP to Silicon Valley: Promote the far right or else
3 votes -
We're underestimating the mind-warping potential of fake video
21 votes -
Internal documents show how Amazon scrambled to fix Prime Day glitches
8 votes -
The tragedy of the data commons
3 votes -
In order to cultivate an environment where the truth wins out in the end, you have to be biased against falsehoods
8 votes -
The machine fired me
30 votes