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8 votes
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Chrome to start throttling resource-heavy ads in August
10 votes -
The confessions of Marcus "MalwareTech" Hutchins, the hacker who stopped WannaCry and was arrested by the FBI in 2017
33 votes -
A hacker is trying to break Ohio’s tool for reporting workers who quit during the pandemic
23 votes -
Twitter will allow employees to work at home forever
16 votes -
Zoom acquires Keybase and announces goal of developing the most broadly used enterprise end-to-end encryption offering
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Uber-Grubhub: How the pandemic is launching the era of online platform regulation
6 votes -
The Beaker "new web" project
10 votes -
Has DuckDuckGo recently started giving you significantly worse results?
Over the last week or so, I have been noticing that the majority of my searches in DuckDuckGo have been completely failing. For example, I was searching for a specific Firefox extension api and it...
Over the last week or so, I have been noticing that the majority of my searches in DuckDuckGo have been completely failing. For example, I was searching for a specific Firefox extension api and it only brings up a list of Firefox extension. If I put the exact same query into Google, the second result is exactly what I wanted. Before this last week, I have being using DDG almost exclusively, but know I am need to add the Google bang before nearly every query. Am I the only person that is having this experience? I really prefer using DDG to Google, but I can't if the results stay this way.
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CISSP qualification given cert status equivalent to Master’s degree level in Europe
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Anatomy of an internet shutdown
7 votes -
1998: Apple's iMac is full of flash, dash, but has a few big holes
6 votes -
A high-level overview of the background of the ".org" top-level domain and what happened with its recent attempted sale to a private equity firm
12 votes -
Facebook is helping to set up a new pro-tech advocacy group
6 votes -
If one of your teammates falls ill, is someone prepared to step up? How to minimize the “bus factor.”
6 votes -
Adobe patches sixteen critical flaws in Acrobat and Reader, Digital Negative SDK
5 votes -
Political consultant suggests rallying dems with giant, 'Fortnite-style' holographic Biden
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Paul L. Vasquez, creator of ten-year old 'double rainbow' viral meme video has died at age 57
15 votes -
Microsoft and Intel project converts malware into images before analyzing it
10 votes -
Welcome to the age of privacy nihilism
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What are your internet time sinks?
Where do you all waste away most of your time on the internet? I hate to sound like a hipster, but I've come to avoid and/or dislike most main stream content aggregators. Reddit, Twitter,...
Where do you all waste away most of your time on the internet? I hate to sound like a hipster, but I've come to avoid and/or dislike most main stream content aggregators. Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, etc. are all platforms I no longer participate in because of privacy and quality reasons. I like Tildes and all, but the community is small (and I like it this way) and that means the content isn't always fresh. So where else do you all hang out?
31 votes -
Hey, what's that?
11 votes -
Jukebox - Neural net that generates music
14 votes -
MacBook Pro 13-inch (2020) first look from Dieter Bohn at The Verge
6 votes -
Internet giants to staff: Plan to work from home for the year
9 votes -
Wink smart home users have one week to subscribe or be shut off
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What’s new with Pop!_OS 20.04 LTS
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Leaving Amazon - Tim Bray (former VP) on whistleblowers, climate strikes, sexism, and racism at Amazon
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Firefox Private Relay - Generate unique, random, anonymous email addresses
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Playing devil's advocate: Is there any possible reason Apple is gluing parts in instead of using screws in newer devices other than "greed"?
Inspired by the news of the new 13" MacBook Pro and Surface Book 3, I was thinking about just how much I hate not being able to replace the RAM, SSD or even battery in newer MacBook models. It...
Inspired by the news of the new 13" MacBook Pro and Surface Book 3, I was thinking about just how much I hate not being able to replace the RAM, SSD or even battery in newer MacBook models. It seems like such an extreme decision and I wonder why.
The obvious answer is to make the devices less repairable thus forcing people to upgrade sooner.
But Apple isn't really dependent on devices breaking. Hardware is vastly improving every year and their customer base happily upgrades just for that. Also it could be argued that their most profitable product line – iPhones – have, despite all of that, some of the healthiest life cycles in the smartphone marketed with people happily using 5+ year old devices which still are supported in the latest releases of iOS. Few other devices hold their value in resale like Apple products, their sturdiness is quite remarkable and clearly factored into pricing and consumer decisions. They pride themselves with a reliable repair program and I have to imagine their repair geniuses (their term, not my sarcasm) don't like messing with glue.
So, all things considered, is there an argument for fucking gluing in batteries other than petty greed? Like, is it cheaper? That doesn't seem a motivation behind any other major design decision on their part. Is it it lighter? Easier to cool? Does it make for a slimmer chassis?
I tried searching the question but couldn't find anything (in fact, I wouldn't even know what terms to search for). Is there any good analysis or reasoned speculation? It somehow makes less sense the more I think of it and it would give me some head peace to at least know of some arguments for it other than Apple being assholes.
17 votes -
A state-of-the-art open source chatbot
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Reddit removes new chat room feature after one day in the wake of moderator protests and bugs
33 votes -
The pathetic state of Youtube advertising
15 votes -
Microsoft's GitHub account allegedly hacked, 500GB stolen
11 votes -
This video has 16,905 likes (that's 689,333 fewer than Tom's!)
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SCOPETREX vector gaming on your oscilloscope!
@tubetimeus: announcing the SCOPETREX -- the vector gaming console for your oscilloscope or XY monitor! ever wanted to buy a Vectrex, but can't afford the high prices on auction sites? well now you can build your own! full design files at https://t.co/hHAbFwwePE
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The people who are keeping the internet running during COVID and how they're doing it
11 votes -
Costs/funding in open-source languages
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Riot Web 1.6, RiotX Android 0.19 & Riot iOS 0.11 — E2E Encryption by Default & Cross-signing is here
9 votes -
How Apple reinvented the cursor for iPad
6 votes -
Microsoft launches Surface Book 3
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The saga of Apple’s bad butterfly MacBook keyboards is finally over
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Apple updates 13-inch MacBook Pro with Magic Keyboard, double the storage, and faster performance
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Home network support: Setting up a network switch
I moved into a new apartment and was surprised to see that all my rooms have CAT 5 Ethernet ports in the wall. However, cue my disappoint when I try to naively plug my router and machine in two...
I moved into a new apartment and was surprised to see that all my rooms have CAT 5 Ethernet ports in the wall. However, cue my disappoint when I try to naively plug my router and machine in two separate ports to find that the ports don't actually work. After searching various forums, I found that I have to:
- Locate the panel where all the ethernet ports connect
- Wire them to an ethernet switch.
I found the panel but all the wires look like this:
https://i.imgur.com/Qzm72g0.jpg
I'm not sure what I need to do from here to plugging into my network switch. Any guides or advice would be extremely helpful. I don't need every port connected to the switch, only one or two. None of these look labelled so I might have a difficult time isolating which cable runs where.
And about the network switch... Any qualms about using an old router that has the AP turned off?
10 votes -
Inkscape 1.0 has been released - Free and open source vector graphics editor for GNU/Linux, Windows and MacOS X
21 votes -
Face ID doesn’t work when you’re wearing a mask—Apple’s about to address that
12 votes -
Polish sound postcards (pocztówka dźwiękowa)
9 votes -
Twitch steamer Dr Disrespect's shtick takes a dangerous turn into spreading coronavirus conspiracy theories
8 votes -
Love Bug's creator tracked down to repair shop in Manila
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Why do I pay Adobe $10K a year? Reviewing video production software alternatives
14 votes