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15 votes
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Lawyers demand US Military stop violating free speech on Twitch
10 votes -
ARM is for sale and Nvidia’s interested, Apple isn’t
7 votes -
The war between alt.tasteless and rec.pets.cats
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What single-purpose, minimalistic web or mobile apps do you like?
I'm a big fan of simple, well-designed, single-purpose apps and would love to find more! A few to start: Pomofocus - pomodoro timer Tube - bare-bones Youtube search Typehut - simple publishing
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Brazilian General Data Protection Law – Overview and implications
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How important is protecting our data from companies like Google?
I was a supporter of Andrew Yang while he was running for president. His policies appealed to me a lot. One I supported because it made sense to me; personal data as a property right. I’ve thought...
I was a supporter of Andrew Yang while he was running for president. His policies appealed to me a lot. One I supported because it made sense to me; personal data as a property right. I’ve thought about it more and I don’t see how a company like Google using my data negatively affects me. What are the negative repercussions I experience when a company uses my information like that? Are there alternatives that would protect my data more that are actually decent? I’d love to receive some explanation for this!
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Facebook has an internal simulation of the site populated entirely by bots that they're using to test the effects of possible changes
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Facebook’s employees reckon with the social network they’ve built
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mpv drops GNOME support
20 votes -
A timeline of Wednesday's epic Twitter hack, and some clues about who may have been behind it
19 votes -
Hands-on: The $300 Kano PC, a “build-it-yourself” Chromebook competitor
7 votes -
Slack files competition complaint against Microsoft before the European Commission, alleging that tying Teams into Office is anti-competitive and illegal
10 votes -
A website that randomly displays YouTube videos with zero views
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US phone carriers may soon be able to block all calls from robocallers' carriers
16 votes -
A month-and-a-half of self-hosted email
10 votes -
MIT researchers created a deepfake of Nixon delivering the 'In Event Of Moon Disaster' speech
8 votes -
My 2017 iPhone X died: I got a 2016 iPhone SE for $70, upgraded the battery and added wireless charging — it's great
23 votes -
Twitter bans 7,000 QAnon accounts, limits 150,000 others as part of broad crackdown
@Twitter Safety: We've been clear that we will take strong enforcement action on behavior that has the potential to lead to offline harm. In line with this approach, this week we are taking further action on so-called 'QAnon' activity across the service.
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What’s the difference between a good QA director and a great one? A comparison
4 votes -
Using a VPN may make you less secure
17 votes -
Reddit releases their new content policy along with banning hundreds of subreddits, including /r/The_Donald and /r/ChapoTrapHouse
85 votes -
Turning Lambda@Edge into a software platform
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I have cancer and now my Facebook feed is full of "alternative care" ads
36 votes -
Hosting email server
6 votes -
Against hackerism
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UK, US, and Canada accuse Russia of trying to steal information from coronavirus vaccine researchers
15 votes -
Twitter disables video in Trump retweet after Linkin Park files copyright complaint
10 votes -
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
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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
11 votes -
Substack Defender - A legal support program for independent writers publishing newsletters on Substack
2 votes -
Flagship Matrix client, Riot, and developer, New Vector, rebrand as Element
18 votes -
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