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39 votes
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We can't fix the internet (because we conflate social media with the entire internet)
13 votes -
Mozilla: Changing our approach to anti-tracking
34 votes -
How to design for the modern web
41 votes -
The "Chatty" messaging app for Librem 5 (Linux phone) with SMS and XMPP support
16 votes -
FCC can define markets with only one ISP as “competitive,” court rules
20 votes -
Trump accuses Google of rigging search results to show mostly negative stories about him
32 votes -
Using insects as templates, researchers are buildings robots that are very small, very mobile—and very useful
10 votes -
Facebook has removed all cross-posted tweets
15 votes -
Here's why your static website needs HTTPS
30 votes -
A small group of American Amazon employees is being paid to defend and promote the company on Twitter
16 votes -
Facebook is being eclipsed by its youthful rival Snapchat
17 votes -
What happens when your bomb-defusing robot becomes a weapon
12 votes -
Magic Leap is a tragic heap - Palmer Luckey's review of the Magic Leap ML1
9 votes -
The tech industry is lobbying for federal data & privacy regulation that is friendly to the tech industry, but hostile to users' interests
11 votes -
Instagram is testing virtual communities for college students
13 votes -
Github Joins the fight against the Mandatory Webfilters on the EU Copyright Reform
7 votes -
Venmo's public API exposes millions of transactions, startling users
10 votes -
Cards Agains Humanity for Infosec Dorks - Malicious Content
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Even before electricity, robots freaked people out
5 votes -
Huawei banned from 5G mobile infrastructure rollout in Australia
10 votes -
Phone Numbers Were Never Meant as ID. Now We’re All At Risk
22 votes -
Verizon throttled fire department’s “unlimited” data during California wildfire
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Reddit releases more details about the upcoming changes to Reddit Gold
If you missed it, Reddit recently announced some major planned changes to Reddit Gold. It's pretty vague and confusing, but my summary was: The current gold system is basically: When you have...
If you missed it, Reddit recently announced some major planned changes to Reddit Gold. It's pretty vague and confusing, but my summary was:
The current gold system is basically:
- When you have reddit gold, you can disable ads and have access to a few extra features.
- You can buy gold for $4/month or $30 if you buy 12 months at the same time. You can also buy "creddits" for the same prices, which are basically stored months of gold and can either be used on yourself or to give gold to other users.
- Giving gold to other users is called "gilding". You can gild individual posts on the site, which puts a gold icon on that post and gives the author a month of gold.
Now, from what I can understand, this is the new system:
- Reddit gold is now called "Reddit Premium". You can buy it for yourself for $6/month. There are no bulk discounts any more, so a year of Premium will cost $72. Existing subscribers can keep their current pricing as long as they're subscribed before the change.
- When you have Reddit Premium, at the beginning of each month you will be given some amount of "Gold Coins". These Coins can be used to give "awards" to other users' posts.
- You can give 3 different types of awards to a post, which each cost a different number of Coins:
- Silver Award - costs the fewest number of Coins; adds a silver icon on the post; the author receives no further benefits
- Gold Award - costs more Coins; adds a gold icon on the post (same as current icon); the author receives some small number of Coins (not Premium)
- Super Gold Award - costs the most Coins; adds a "spectacular" icon on the post; the author receives a month of Reddit Premium
- Gold Coins will be purchasable in bundles separately from Premium, pricing not announced.
Today they released more info in /r/lounge (here's the post if you have reddit gold to be able to view it). The summary of the new post is:
- "Super Gold" has been renamed "Platinum"
- If you have any creddits, you have the choice to convert them to months of Premium membership before Sept. 10. If you don't, they'll be converted to 2000 Coins per creddit.
- You get 700 coins per month for having Premium.
- The awards that you can give to posts have these coin costs/benefits:
Award Coin Cost Benefits Silver 100 Coins Silver icon next to comment or post; a lingering sense of disappointment that you didn’t get Gold Gold 500 Coins Gold icon next to comment or post; additionally, recipient receives 100 Coins Platinum 1,800 Coins Platinum icon next to comment or post; recipient receives one month of Premium membership (which includes 700 Coins) And there will be the following "Coin Packs" available for purchase:
Price Point Coin Package Discount % What You Can Buy $1.99 500 Coins N/A 5 Silver Awards or 1 Gold Award $3.99 1,100 Coins 10% 11 Silver Awards or 2 Gold Awards $5.99 1,800 Coins 20% 18 Silver Awards, 3 Gold Awards, or 1 Platinum Award $19.99 7,200 Coins 43% 72 Silver Awards, 14 Gold Awards, or 4 Platinum Awards $99.99 40,000 Coins 59% 400 Silver Awards, 80 Gold Awards, or 22 Platinum Awards 52 votes -
Epic's first Fortnite Installer allowed hackers to download and install anything on your Android phone silently
26 votes -
Happy birthday, Windows 95
14 votes -
The impossible job: Inside Facebook’s struggle to moderate two billion people
14 votes -
How does the internet work?
9 votes -
How the US is preparing to match Chinese and Russian technology development
6 votes -
There should be ‘consequences’ for platforms that don’t remove people like Alex Jones, US Senator Ron Wyden says
12 votes -
How an international hacker network turned stolen press releases into $100 million
12 votes -
Over 1400 Western Australian government officials used 'Password123' as their password
27 votes -
California wildfires: Verizon throttled data during crisis
24 votes -
Intel reverses controversial update license
19 votes -
This is what filter bubbles actually look like
13 votes -
Kalashnikov takes on Tesla with retro-look electric 'supercar'
12 votes -
Danah Boyd - The messy fourth estate
5 votes -
An ISP based in Texas has complained to a judge that the music industry to trying to turn internet providers into the "copyright police"
16 votes -
Suspected Iranian influence operation leverages network of inauthentic news sites and social media targeting audiences in US, UK, Latin America, Middle East
12 votes -
The untold story of NotPetya, the most devastating cyberattack in history
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The CIA’s secret public email address
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Lets talk about audio connectors (TRRS 4-Pole, OMTP, CTIA)
To summarize, I am annoyed that there are two different standard for 4-pole audio connectors. For those curious I mean this. You have OMTP and CTIA, the difference is they swap the mic and ground...
To summarize, I am annoyed that there are two different standard for 4-pole audio connectors. For those curious I mean this.
You have OMTP and CTIA, the difference is they swap the mic and ground pins. This is irritating because Apple vs Android use them differently. This becomes especially annoying when you want a feature like an inline mic mute switch (one designed for CTIA for example will disconnect the ground pin on OMTP instead of mic)
This has been an ongoing frustration for me for a while. I really enjoy a good pair of headphones because I use Discord and I work from home which necessitates using headphones for extended periods of time to listen to music, take calls, chat on discord.
I just want there to be a device that does OMTP/CTIA swapping AND include the ability to physically mute the mic. Like this but with something that will break the mic pin. Im currently designing something in fritzing that will allow both direction switching as well as selective muting.
/rant
Has anyone else had any similar experience or frustration with this problem?
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Los Angeles County gets state approval of new vote-counting system using open source software
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Facebook will pull its data-collecting VPN app from the App Store over privacy concerns
7 votes -
China’s new frontiers in dystopian tech
12 votes -
Facebook is rating the trustworthiness of its users on a scale from zero to 1
25 votes -
Can the manufacturer of Tasers provide the answer to police abuse of force?
10 votes -
Ghost 2.0 released
8 votes -
Reddit experiencing a site outage
10 votes -
Ten virtualization mistakes everyone makes
10 votes