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21 votes
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Sometimes, developers find it hard to work with content creators, so here are some tips to help the collaboration along
4 votes -
Masnick's Impossibility Theorem: Content moderation at scale is impossible to do well
22 votes -
Android 11 starts rolling out today with improvements to notifications, privacy, 5G, and more
9 votes -
Is there a Google-free future for Firefox?
27 votes -
Windows 10 Ameliorated review
13 votes -
Vid2Player: Controllable video sprites that behave and appear like professional tennis players
8 votes -
My startup (Buderflys) has made it to the semi-finals of Denver Startup week. Any chance you would vote for us?
8 votes -
Amazon Alexa for Residential will let the voice assistant power apartment complexes
15 votes -
Does Google know me better than I know myself?
5 votes -
Auto industry TV ads claim right-to-repair laws would benefit "sexual predators"
18 votes -
Digital pregnancy tests just contain a regular paper strip test and the battery, microcontroller, LEDs, photodiodes, screen, etc. are all to read whether it shows one line or two
16 votes -
Unstaffed, digital supermarkets transform rural Sweden – Lifvs start-up has opened nineteen stores across the country, choosing remote places that have lost their local shops
15 votes -
Inside Amazon’s secret program to spy on workers’ private Facebook groups
7 votes -
RIP Jack Rickard, founder of Boardwatch magazine
6 votes -
Online voting is much more difficult to do securely, and a fundamental problem with the concept is that most voters won't be able to understand whether it's secure or not
21 votes -
The use of Snap packages in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS is hurting usability and user-friendliness
9 votes -
Amazon deletes 20,000 product reviews written by seven of its top ten UK reviewers after a Financial Times investigation found they were written for profit
18 votes -
ThinkPad X1 Carbon with Fedora preloaded available for purchase
22 votes -
A secure operating system
11 votes -
Malware in the wild using DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) to pull payload
8 votes -
Winamp in 2020 (Webamp Electron App)
13 votes -
Apple delays "asking permission to track" privacy feature in iOS 14, releases more information about upcoming privacy updates
12 votes -
Telegrass and the next generation of digital black markets - Telegram-based services are facilitating much of the drug sales in Ukraine, Israel, and other countries
13 votes -
US indictments and raids of piracy group members in "The Scene" throw top-tier piracy world into chaos
28 votes -
The pandemic is no excuse to surveil students
9 votes -
Community contributions such as user made subtitles will be deactivated
11 votes -
4K screen on 15" laptop - worth it?
Pricing up my next Thinkpad (I'm a lifer for Thinkpads I think now) and I keep hovering over the 4K screen option. I'm looking at a 15.6" screen. The FHD 14" screen I currently have is lovely and...
Pricing up my next Thinkpad (I'm a lifer for Thinkpads I think now) and I keep hovering over the 4K screen option. I'm looking at a 15.6" screen. The FHD 14" screen I currently have is lovely and sharp with a decent colour gamut, and I don't think I can see pixels, even now when the machine is literally on my lap. I'd guess the screen is maybe 35cm from my eyes at the moment.
I don't really game, I do edit photos, video (HD, not 4K) and do a little 3D work with Blender/FreeCAD/etc. I usually run Debian/Gnome, occasionally dropping into Windows because my 3D printer's preferred slicing software is Windows only (grrrr).
The other bonus to 4K is HDR400 and twice as many nits of brightness but again, I'm not sure that's worth an extra £250. I'd probably turn the brightness down anyway. The HDR is potentially interesting but as I don't watch TV/movies on this machine and my camera doesn't output HDR, that's likely not very useful despite sounding good. I could buy quite a lot more compute power and ram with that money instead..
I would go and look at one in person but I have no idea where the nearest 4K Thinkpad is, in person, and even if I did, I don't really want to go into shops right now.
Any thoughts, experiences, advice, etc would be much appreciated.
9 votes -
Japanese convenience store chain begins testing remote controlled robot staff in Tokyo
6 votes -
Apple showing signs it may soon launch a search engine to compete against Google Search
26 votes -
Ceasefire, the site started last year by /r/ChangeMyView moderators, will shut down in a few months unless it reaches at least $1500/month on Patreon
22 votes -
Technology has been promising the dream of a cocooned future, and our pandemic isolation is giving us the rare opportunity to see where this road leads
12 votes -
India bans PUBG, Baidu, WeChat, Alipay, and 114 Chinese apps in the third ban wave
20 votes -
NVIDIA announces Ampere-based RTX 30 series GPUs
19 votes -
Content moderation best practices for startups
3 votes -
Leaked salary spreadsheet reveals Microsoft employee earnings for a second year
10 votes -
Google proposes new village next to Mountain View tech hubs
5 votes -
Facebook announces that if Australia's proposed News Media Bargaining Code becomes law, they will no longer allow Australians to share any news on Facebook or Instagram
21 votes -
ASU researchers are developing artificial intelligence that can communicate with humans within Minecraft
4 votes -
Patreon raises another $90 million in Series E funding at a valuation of $1.2 billion
12 votes -
Solar energy and mechanical triggers power the Engage, a console at the cutting edge of computer engineering
4 votes -
How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism - A new, short book by Cory Doctorow that looks at big tech as a monopoly problem
18 votes -
Reddit announces "power-ups", their plan to have individual subreddits unlock features through members paying for a monthly subscription
40 votes -
Amazon drivers are hanging smartphones in trees to get more work
6 votes -
Geofence warrants - Smartphone location data is giving US law enforcement new surveillance tools
6 votes -
The Nokia 3310 is twenty years old today
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Hive mind: In the early 2000s, there was a website that tracked and reviewed open source applications. What was it?
You could look up, say, CMSes, get some basic info about each one (to make useful decision), and learn who its active committers were. The site closed, I know. Do you remember its name? Or people...
You could look up, say, CMSes, get some basic info about each one (to make useful decision), and learn who its active committers were. The site closed, I know. Do you remember its name? Or people who were part of it?
I asked someone to write an article for me about "review sites for open source" -- think Yelp for Software -- and neither of us can remember its name. But if you have others that you think should be included (for positive or negative reasons), please let me know.
10 votes -
Silicon Valley has deep pockets for African startups – if you’re not African
10 votes -
Apple app review process updates
6 votes -
Amazon moves closer to drone delivery with US FAA approval
4 votes