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9 votes
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Burial at sea: The fall of Maddox, the internet’s first “outsider” celebrity
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Hitting The Wall: watch together website rabb.it is shutting down
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UK ISP group names Mozilla 'Internet Villain' for supporting 'DNS-over-HTTPS'
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How a childhood of loneliness and anger led the founder of 8chan to create one of the darkest corners of the internet
35 votes -
Can Racist Algorithms Be Fixed?
10 votes -
iOS 13 redraws your eyes using ARKit so that you're looking at the camera instead of the screen
@schukin: How iOS 13 FaceTime Attention Correction works: it simply uses ARKit to grab a depth map/position of your face, and adjusts the eyes accordingly. Notice the warping of the line across both the eyes and nose. https://t.co/U7PMa4oNGN
23 votes -
YouTube now bans instructional hacking and phishing
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Kuo: Apple will include new scissor switch keyboard in 2019 MacBook Air and 2020 MacBook Pro
10 votes -
Absence of certain features in IRC considered a feature
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Mozilla CEO: Paid, premium features for Firefox coming this fall
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Reinventing Firefox for Android: a Preview
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Eleven great mechanical keyboards for coders — updated for 2019
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User Inyerface - A worst-practice UI experiment
29 votes -
The culture war has finally come for Wikipedia
35 votes -
The global Cloudflare outage today was caused by a bad regex in a firewall rule that spiked CPU usage to 100% on all machines
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China's border guards are installing malware onto the phones of travellers crossing its border
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Can the left win YouTube?
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Hey anybody here want to be on a panel about labor rights and tech contracting?
I'm putting together a panel for Tech Worker's Coalition for SXSW 2020 and the focus of my panel is on tech contracting. Specifically we're looking to speak on the issues of labor rights and how...
I'm putting together a panel for Tech Worker's Coalition for SXSW 2020 and the focus of my panel is on tech contracting.
Specifically we're looking to speak on the issues of labor rights and how they are effected by contracting.
Anybody interested or have experience with the subject?
In case I forget to check Tildes (I joined and then I always forget to check it) my email is aslan@jackalope.tech
We've also got a couple of other panels brewing on the subject of unionization in tech and another on the recent controversies between tech workers and their companies over social issues (such as google walkout over sexual harassment, wayfair's walkout over selling beds to ICE etc)
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Sony and Microsoft to explore strategic partnership, collaborate on new cloud-based solutions for gaming experiences and AI solutions
9 votes -
Becoming a data scientist: The career path for job changers
8 votes -
Creator of DeepNude, app that undresses photos of women, takes it offline
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Mobilizon reaches its funding goal with 10 days left
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Having issues setting goals and sticking with them? I’m working on a solution
I am working on an app called Percent Done that is a combination of goal setting, time tracking and habit tracking. I like setting time-based goals for myself every day, such as “write for an...
I am working on an app called Percent Done that is a combination of goal setting, time tracking and habit tracking.
I like setting time-based goals for myself every day, such as “write for an hour” or “work on Percent Done for four hours.”
I also like Seinfeld’s “don’t break the chain” method. For example, Apple Watch shows you how many days you have completed your exercise circle and tells you that you have been keeping at it for x days.
Percent Done is a marriage of these two concepts. It allows you to set goals and track the time you spend on them, as well as how many days in a row you have consistently completed them. For example, you can add a goal that says “write for an hour every day,” and Percent Done will notify you every day to write for an hour. You will be able to tap on this goal and Percent Done will start counting back from one hour. You will also be able to see how many days in a row you have written for an hour.
You can also add one-time goals to Percent Done with or without time tracking, so it is a task management tool as well.
You can play with the design prototype here: Percent Done design prototype
I would really love to get your feedback on this. If you are interested in being a beta tester, feel free to reply to this topic or e-mail me at "hi at evrim dot io."
By the way, this is almost completely a self-promotion post. If it is against the rules, I'd be happy to remove this.
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Has Wine begun to remove the need for linux software?
I started using wine in about 2013 and I remember back then it was quite patchy and only worked on some programs/games. I used to have a rule that I stuck hard to that I would not buy any games...
I started using wine in about 2013 and I remember back then it was quite patchy and only worked on some programs/games. I used to have a rule that I stuck hard to that I would not buy any games that did not have a linux version. But now in 2019 I have found that everything I have tried to run in wine has been so seamless and close to flawless that I hardly know its running in wine. I semi regularly buy games that only have windows version because I am mostly sure it will work and can get a refund if it doesn't.
What does everyone else think about this?
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G-20 leaders resolve to prevent exploitation of Internet for terrorism
G-20 leaders resolve to prevent exploitation of Internet for terrorism This statement was reportedly an initiative of the Australian Prime Minister.
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How to speak Silicon Valley: Fifty-three essential tech-bro terms explained
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Twitter announces a plan to apply click-through "notices" to future tweets from politicians that violate Twitter rules but are "in the public interest"
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Reddit has quarantined /r/The_Donald
Just happened minutes ago, so not much information yet. I think it's likely that this article from Monday might have finally pushed it over the edge (since it's usually media attention that does...
Just happened minutes ago, so not much information yet.
I think it's likely that this article from Monday might have finally pushed it over the edge (since it's usually media attention that does it): You can’t offer to murder cops on Reddit unless you’re on r/TheDonald
The quarantine message says:
It is restricted due to significant issues with reporting and addressing violations of the Reddit Content Policy. Most recently the violations have included threats of violence against police and public officials.
As a visitor or member, you can help moderators maintain the community by reporting and downvoting rule-breaking content.
Here's the message the admins sent them:
Dear Mods,
We want to let you know that your community has been quarantined, as outlined in Reddit’s Content Policy.
The reason for the quarantine is that over the last few months we have observed repeated rule-breaking behavior in your community and an over-reliance on Reddit admins to manage users and remove posts that violate our content policy, including content that encourages or incites violence. Most recently, we have observed this behavior in the form of encouragement of violence towards police officers and public officials in Oregon. This is not only in violation of our site-wide policies, but also your own community rules (rule #9). You can find violating content that we removed in your mod logs.
As we have discussed in the past, and as detailed in our content policy and moderator guidelines, we expect you to enforce against rule-breaking content. You’ve made progress over the last year, but we continue to observe and take action on a disproportionate amount of rule-breaking behavior in this community. We recognize that you do remove posts that are reported, but we are troubled that violent content more often goes unreported, and worse, is upvoted.
User reports and downvotes are an essential way that Reddit functions to moderate content. Limiting or prohibiting them prevents you from moderating your community effectively. Because of this, we are disabling your custom styling in order to restore these essential functions.
As stated in our Moderator Guidelines, our goal is to keep the platform alive and vibrant, as well as to ensure your community can reach people interested in it. Accordingly, here are the specific terms of the quarantine and the next steps we are asking from you as a mod team to resolve this situation.
Quarantine terms:
Visitors to this community will see a warning that requires users to explicitly opt-in to viewing it. This messaging reminds users of the importance of reporting rule-breaking content.
Custom styling has been disabled to restore the report and downvote buttons.
We hope both these changes will help improve the signal around rule-breaking content and improve your ability to effectively address it.
Next steps:
You unambiguously communicate to your subscribers that violent content is unacceptable.
You communicate to your users that reporting is a core function of Reddit and is essential to maintaining the health and viability of the community.
Following that, we will continue to monitor your community, specifically looking at report rate and for patterns of rule-violating content.
Undertake any other actions you determine to reduce the amount of rule-violating content.
Following these changes, we will consider an appeal to lift the quarantine, in line with the process outlined here.
We hope that this process provides a viable way forward to restore the health of the community. However, if this situation continues to escalate, we will explore further actions, including the possible banning of your community.
Please confirm that you have received and understand this message.
109 votes -
Apple cancels plans for second data center in Denmark
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On the road to Fedora Workstation 31
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YouTube announces upcoming changes to give you more control over what videos appear on your homepage and in Up Next suggestions
15 votes -
Oracle taps blockchain to introduce new revenue streams for startups
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Apple hires key chip designer from ARM as own efforts ramp up
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Imgur has raised $20M from Coil, a micropayment tool for creators that Imgur has agreed to build into its service
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USB inventor regrets making them so difficult to plug in correctly
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Detecting deepfakes by looking closely reveals a way to protect against them
14 votes -
Icelanders tire of disrespectful Instagram influencers
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Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now from $35 | USB3, Gigabit Ethernet, 1.5GHz Quad Core, Upto 4GB RAM
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New Silex malware is bricking IoT devices, has scary plans
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In response to mass shootings, some schools and hospitals are installing microphones equipped with algorithms
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Apple acquires self-driving startup Drive.ai, hires dozens of Drive.ai engineers
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The internet is increasingly a low-trust society—one where an assumption of pervasive fraud is simply built into the way many things function
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Reddit is testing a paid monthly membership on a per subreddit basis for core features.
95 votes -
What Happens After Amazon’s Domination Is Complete? Its Bookstore Offers Clues
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Android aftermarket development and its boring state
So many ROMs. So many features. But they all look the same. I mean, I love that there are many options, but aren't you bored of going to XDA and finding only ROMs that follow the [9.0] EDGY NAME...
So many ROMs.
So many features.
But they all look the same.
I mean, I love that there are many options, but aren't you bored of going to XDA and finding only ROMs that follow the [9.0] EDGY NAME IN CAPS formula?
They all look stock. Android is supposed to be about personalization. Where are the highly customized UIs? Why are all fanboys so scared of breaking the scheme that Material has inforced upon us, and then whine about how Android is inconsistent? I wish that something like MIUI would appear again, like, a ROM made by a no name that ended up making a gigantic empire.
I wish to see someday another developer, making its own thing.
Breaking the AOSP UI mold.
[NOTE] This is reposted from reddit (it was made by me tho) because I wanted to discuss it here.
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#IAmHere – The people trying to make Facebook a nicer place
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Small change, big effects: An overview of payment systems
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Bill Gates on making “one of the greatest mistakes of all time”
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When Myspace was king, employees abused a tool called ‘overlord’ to spy on users
8 votes