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8 votes
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The smallest Discman ever made - was smaller than a CD
8 votes -
The new Chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser is out of preview and available for download
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Close your open tabs - Sometimes, information overload has its limits
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Hugo- and Nebula-winning science fiction author David Gerrold was spot-on in his 1999 predictions about smartphones. Here's his next prediction, from 2018
6 votes -
Critical Windows 10 exploit discovered which allows arbitrary software to be installed under the guise of Windows updates
20 votes -
Five reasons why software testing needs humans
6 votes -
Anyone here running a Pleroma instance?
11 votes -
Raspberry Pi 4 CRT-based VR Headset
15 votes -
How to create events to help girls prepare for STEM careers
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"Github Based Jobs Listings": a GitHub repo where IT jobs (mostly US and Canada-based) may be posted for a bounty
8 votes -
The Fediverse in 2019
15 votes -
Election security at the chip level – or, why your electronic voting options might not get better any time soon
5 votes -
Mozilla lays off seventy as it waits for new products to generate revenue
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Facebook's Ad Library, one of its main tools for election transparency, is riddled with issues and lost 74,000 ads just before the UK election
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Gadgets for life on a miserable planet: At the Consumer Electronics Show, the only solution for technology-induced stress is more technology
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App tracking alert in iOS 13 has dramatically cut location data flow to ad industry
21 votes -
Meet the mad scientist who wrote the book on how to hunt hackers
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CVE-2020-0601 - Windows CryptoAPI spoofing vulnerability
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Cut undersea cable plunges Yemen into days-long internet outage
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Emotional baggage—Away’s founders sold a vision of travel and inclusion, but former employees say it masked a toxic work environment
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Fifty countries ranked by how they’re collecting biometric data and what they’re doing with it
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Special Services Group is marketing spying capabilities to local police departments, including cameras that are hidden inside a tombstone, a baby car seat, and a vacuum cleaner
7 votes -
What are you using these days as an alternative to YouTube?
Hi, What platforms are you using in alternative to youtube (kinda like what tildes it to reddit)? Peertube seems amazing and all, but the lack of a centralized index of videos kills it for me
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Sinkholed
12 votes -
My prediction about autonomous cars: Answers with Joe
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Hackers are breaking directly into telecom companies to take over customer phone numbers
10 votes -
How to render 3D fractals using ray marching
5 votes -
Stable lithium-sulfur battery could see smartphones run for five days
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Farmers are buying forty-year-old tractors because they're actually repairable
21 votes -
CES 2020 summary: Pork, driverless cars, new wearable sensors, folding computers, integrated tech
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OldTimeyComputerShow: 24/7 of retro computer and gaming tv programs
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Wearable sleep trackers - recommendations?
Is there a good smartwatch/simile that monitors sleep and has excellent battery life (measured in weeks not hours)? I use the Withings (ex-Nokia) Steel HR, but it … kinda sucks. The bluetooth...
Is there a good smartwatch/simile that monitors sleep and has excellent battery life (measured in weeks not hours)?
I use the Withings (ex-Nokia) Steel HR, but it … kinda sucks. The bluetooth pairings very often lose sleep data, it's very inaccurate, the reporting sucks for non-24s, and the leather bracelet is of very poor quality, keeps breaking.
I really don't care for the fitness/step tracking which, as someone else here put it, thinks typing on a keyboard or eating is a step.
I also briefly tried an Oura (https://ouraring.com/), but I never got it to work and had to send it back.
I also don't care much for any of those "sleep quality" trackers that try to detect if I snore and what not. I can do sleep studies in my own time, I just want to have accurate stats on whether and when I am asleep.
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Apparently Samsung just put a removable battery in one of it's new phones
6 votes -
CES2020: Cyrcle Phone is round and has two headphone jacks
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Are there any personalized recommendation engines/sites that you trust?
In the 2000s I used to use a service called last.fm (originally called Audioscrobbler) that would track the music I listened to and give me recommendations based on that. It was able to give me...
In the 2000s I used to use a service called last.fm (originally called Audioscrobbler) that would track the music I listened to and give me recommendations based on that. It was able to give me some really great personalized suggestions, but that came at the expense of me handing over significant amounts of personal data.
In prioritizing privacy, I feel like I've stepped away from a lot of the big recommendation engines because they're tied to data-hungry companies I am in the process of disengaging with (e.g. Goodreads is owned by Amazon). I can still find stuff I like, but it's often the result of manual searching that turns up popular recommendations that work for me, rather than less well-known or acutely relevant things. last.fm was good at giving me less "obvious" recommendations and would find music I was unlikely to find on my own. I want that, but for all of my media: books, movies, etc.
There's a second concern in that I also feel like I can't trust platforms like Netflix, who seem to prioritize their content over that of other studios. Their recommendations feel weighted in their favor, not mine.
What I want is an impartial recommendation engine that gives me high quality personalized suggestions without a huge privacy cost.1 Is this a pipe dream, or are there examples of this kind of thing out there?
1. I don't mind handing over some of my specific interest data in order to get good recommendations for myself and help a site's algorithms cater to others, as I get that's how these things work. I just don't like the idea of my interests being even more data for a company that already has thousands of intimate data points on me.
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The AnitaB.org Pass It On Awards Program - Applications are open
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Bots are destroying political discourse as we know it
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"The Ego of Metrics" - Ben Grosser - Podcast - Twitter Demetricator
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Information, photos, and demo of Intel's first discrete graphics card: the DG1, based on Xe graphics architecture
9 votes -
Style your Google Docs to look like WordStar
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Looking for drive backup/image program recommendations
Just want to back up my Win 10 drive to another local drive. Free options preferred. Thanks in advance.
5 votes -
Tricky phish angles for persistence, not passwords
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Twitter will put options to limit replies directly on the compose screen
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Australia's bushfire emergency is being exploited on social media, as misinformation is spread through cyberspace via hundreds of thousands of posts.
News article: Fires misinformation being spread through social media This includes a prominent local billionaire, Andrew Forrest, who has pledged $70 million for bushfire relief: "I think there's...
News article: Fires misinformation being spread through social media
This includes a prominent local billionaire, Andrew Forrest, who has pledged $70 million for bushfire relief: "I think there's a multitude of reasons why the fire extent has bene so devastating. I think a warming planet would be part of that — [but] the biggest part of that is arsonists," he said.
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The bot scare
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UrbanFootprint: A SimCity-like tool that lets urban planners see the potential impact of their ideas
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Sonos, squeezed by the tech giants, sues Google
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reCAPTCHA: Is there method in monotony?
What started out as a little facetious in my own head leads me now to a serious question. Is there some meaningful reason why Google has to use a subsection of images for reCAPTCHA? I really...
What started out as a little facetious in my own head leads me now to a serious question. Is there some meaningful reason why Google has to use a subsection of images for reCAPTCHA? I really dislike having to do this and at the very least would appreciate some variation.
- Traffic Lights
- Buses
- Bicycles
- Cars
- Crosswalks
Is there something special about these things in this context? Is the visual noise they're usually associated with what makes them good candidates? Are Google just really into urban planning? Who knows...I'm hoping some Tilder smarter than I can help me out.
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Firefox 72.0 release notes
13 votes