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10 votes
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My hot take on internet "Privacy"
Internet privacy it is a farce and companies are using the fear for profit. In reality the only thing you can do is decide in which company do you trust. First thing you choose is the ISP, we all...
Internet privacy it is a farce and companies are using the fear for profit. In reality the only thing you can do is decide in which company do you trust.
First thing you choose is the ISP, we all know that they are all scummy and get caught every year selling information, throttling services, lying, etc.
Then, if you want to be safe from your ISP you have to get a VPN and it is the same old story again. Even if you manage to never send or receive a bit outside the VPN you have to trust they are not loging everything and selling it.
It is a never ending story, because after that you have to trust the OS, the hardware manufacturers of each piece of your phone/pc, the modem, the router, the apps, and if you are talking with someone make it double because you have to trust all the same things from the one receiving the message.
People talks about huawei spying for the CPP like if things like PRISM doesn't exist. Every country has some kind of mass surveillance program and there is nothing we can do about it. If I were american I would prefer being spy by the Chinese that can't get me extradited.13 votes -
Their Tube - Experience how the YouTube home page would look for six different personas
22 votes -
The many meanings of artificial intelligence
6 votes -
Zulip 3.0 released: Open source, self-hostable, threaded team chat
12 votes -
Cloudflare outage and the risk of today's Internet
8 votes -
Seven "zero logging" VPN providers leak 1.2TB of user logs unprotected and facing the public internet
20 votes -
Giving GPT-3 a Turing Test
11 votes -
GitHub Archive Program: The journey of the world’s open source code to the Arctic
6 votes -
Hackable/moddable electronics?
I recently came across a cool video on youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxj8JwdQ7Lk&feature=youtu.be - The guy added a 4g connector to his rc plane and I think some extra batteries and...
I recently came across a cool video on youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxj8JwdQ7Lk&feature=youtu.be - The guy added a 4g connector to his rc plane and I think some extra batteries and managed to fly to the next island over.
I love stuff like this. Do you guys know any other current electronics that can be modded like this? Sadly it seems like most new consumer electronics come with their own small walled garden and often enough stuff just stops working once the seller goes bankrupt.
Other things that come to mind are:
Raspberry Pi
Arduino
ESP
But do you guys know whole systems that are moddable like this?
The Ryze Tello is a programmable drone, which is pretty cool as well.
I also saw some people modding 3d printers to laser cutters7 votes -
The massive Twitter hack could be a global security crisis
20 votes -
How do people run their personal blog?
As a sort of follow-up to my last post, I wonder how you run your blog(s)? Are you using write.as, a Static Site Generator, Ghost, Wordpress or something slightly different like ox-hugo?
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Apple, Elon Musk, Kanye West, and other accounts are tweeting a bitcoin scam in giant Twitter hack
49 votes -
Twitter is removing images of an internal tool sources say enables account takeover
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Substack Defender - A legal support program for independent writers publishing newsletters on Substack
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Flagship Matrix client, Riot, and developer, New Vector, rebrand as Element
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After ten years in tech isolation, I’m now outsider to things I once had mastered
33 votes -
Fedora approves of making Nano the default terminal text editor
14 votes -
The phone bill security hole in HIPAA
5 votes -
United Kingdom to ban Huawei equipment in 2021 and remove it from 5G networks by 2027
6 votes -
The 👁👄👁 debacle sums up tech's race issues
19 votes -
The TikTok war - How TikTok exposed Facebook's blindspot, and why its Chinese roots make TikTok a genuine concern
8 votes -
Slate Star Codex and Silicon Valley’s war against the media
16 votes -
Hello Robot's Stretch wants to reinvent how mobile manipulators perform tasks in home environments
4 votes -
The rise and fall of Adobe Flash
10 votes -
Friction, snake oil, and weird countries: Cybersecurity systems could deepen global inequality through regional blocking
5 votes -
A personal account of a fake Amazon reviewer
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Why accessibility is the future of tech
9 votes -
Text-only social network
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Dear user
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Why is a tech executive installing security cameras around San Francisco?
10 votes -
Soup.io, a tumblr-like blogging platform running since 2007, will shut down and delete all data on July 20, 2020
8 votes -
Bad faith is the condition of the modern internet, and shitposting is the lingua franca of the online world
35 votes -
Letterheads: Social media and the end of discourse
7 votes -
This is why Indian teens kept spamming Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Instagram with thirsty comments
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Amazon orders employees to remove TikTok from phones, then backtracks
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Got any new electronics? Tell me about them!
Time for a casual show and tell! What new toys didya get? :) Last year's thread.
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LibreOffice: the next five years
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Is anyone here involved with Stack Exchange/Stack Overflow? How do you feel about the new moderator agreement?
First post on Tildes (though I've commented some before). I'm a mod on one of the "beta" sites, and have been for almost four years now. I don't follow any of the other sites really, and certainly...
First post on Tildes (though I've commented some before). I'm a mod on one of the "beta" sites, and have been for almost four years now.
I don't follow any of the other sites really, and certainly not Meta, so the whole Monica scandal kinda happened without me noticing. After the fallout (or amidst, I guess), Shog9 and several other community managers that I liked were fired, with seemingly no notice or cause.
Then after that, there seemed to be a push to create a "mod council" to create standards for behavior and for removal and reinstatement of moderators.
But the whole thing has seemed so needless, everything could have been cleared up with a few heartfelt announcements (and/or apologies), and the executive team at SE has just been so damn opaque about everything.
Then, to top things off for me personally, the community leaders were explicit in stating that the votes for members of the mod council would not be treated as binding, so what's the point? They can just be a rubber stamp at that point if they're not freely elected. The new moderator rules are "abide by the council-approved rules and whatever the community managers say." The new moderator rules also say "moderators will be removed and reinstated per the council-approved procedure for doing so, except when SE doesn't want to use that policy."
The mod council vote was non-binding, and then SE is making it a point to clearly state that the rules approved by the council don't matter.
It's this last bit that is coming as too much of an insult for me. I've told my fellow moderators that I'm not planning on signing the agreement. I don't understand why there has to be such an adversarial relationship here when I'm volunteering my time.
I don't want to leave, but everything is just rubbing me the wrong way. Please someone help me understand how I'm wrong. I just can't understand the way things have been publicly announced.
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What is hyper-automation? Demystifying a new buzzword
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TikTok is getting caught up in the geopolitical conflict between China and the US
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Email isn’t broken, email clients are
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Google offers free fabbing for 130nm open-source chips
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Can our electronic ballots be both secret and secure? A mathematician's quest to make American elections more trustworthy
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Canonical enables Linux desktop app support with Flutter
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Seeking truth in a time of misinformation
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[SOLVED] Tech support request: Possible screen-tearing issue while gaming on TV
EDIT: This is now solved thanks to @Amarok! Solution is here. Changing the refresh rate from 60 Hz to 120 Hz fixed it. My husband and I recently upgraded our TV to a Samsung Q70, and I have...
EDIT: This is now solved thanks to @Amarok! Solution is here. Changing the refresh rate from 60 Hz to 120 Hz fixed it.
My husband and I recently upgraded our TV to a Samsung Q70, and I have started experiencing an odd issue, visible in this video here.
The Issue
There's a horizontal section across the entire bottom of the screen that seems to be refreshing later than the rest of the TV. The game is running on a PC hooked up to the TV via HDMI, and the TV is running on game mode. This issue did not happen on our last TV (a 10-year-old Visio that I don't remember the model number of).
The Oddness
- It doesn't happen on the desktop or in video inputs.
We've been watching YouTube and Hulu through a Shield TV that we also have hooked up, and this issue isn't present in any of those, nor is it visible when I'm using desktop applications on the TV through the PC.
- It only happens in certain games.
The video is from Trackmania 2: Lagoon, where it is always present. Meanwhile, it is not present at all in Trackmania (2020). Likewise, I've been playing 428 Shibuya Scramble where it shows up in the exact same way in the exact same area, but it does not exist in Distance or Rogue Legacy, for example.
- It does not respond to v-sync.
I've tried toggling v-sync on and off, both through the game itself and forcing it through my video card. Neither alleviated the issue. The display looked the same whether or not v-sync was turned on or off.
I'm looking for any guidance anyone can give me, especially if this is a hardware issue with the TV itself, since I'm still in the return window.
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Xerox PARC is fifty
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Full employment
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Trump, Twitter, Facebook, and the future of online speech - The debate over censorship and Section 230 is thorny, contentious, and, above all, outdated
8 votes