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6 votes
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Upcycle Windows 7
25 votes -
Tildes users on the fediverse
It's been a while since we've had a thread like this and our active users have cycled around a bit (plus there's a lot of dead links in the old threads), so who here is on the fediverse?...
It's been a while since we've had a thread like this and our active users have cycled around a bit (plus there's a lot of dead links in the old threads), so who here is on the fediverse?
Connecting with some more people from here sounds nice :)
13 votes -
Mastodon, my saviour: Why the left should ditch ad-verse social media
13 votes -
Diary of an Engine Diversity Absolutist
7 votes -
YouTube moderators are being required to sign a statement acknowledging the job could give them PTSD
26 votes -
You can track your assets, including everything from ROVs to containers anywhere in the world with Iridium’s new IoT tracking capability
5 votes -
How IoT betrays us: Today, Sonos speakers. Tomorrow, Alexa and electric cars?
19 votes -
The English Wikipedia has reached 6,000,000 articles
21 votes -
Banning facial recognition misses the point: The whole point of modern surveillance is to treat people differently, and facial recognition technologies are only a small part of that
5 votes -
Clearview AI claims its facial recognition software identified a terrorism suspect in New York City last year, but the NYPD says they played no role in the case
10 votes -
The Yang Gang and its bots
14 votes -
With great tech comes great responsibility - A student guide for navigating ethical issues in the tech industry
9 votes -
Google researchers find serious privacy risks in Safari’s anti-tracking protections
9 votes -
I've been thinking of retiring
25 votes -
Microsoft to forcibly install Bing search extension in Chrome for Office 365 ProPlus users
29 votes -
Every Google result now looks like an ad
@craigmod: There's something strange about the recent design change to google search results, favicons and extra header text: they all look like ads, which is perhaps the point?
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Smartphones have blurred the distinction between different spaces by turning anywhere into a place you can work, watch TV/videos, talk with friends, and more
10 votes -
Wine 5.0 has been released
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Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained
21 votes -
The internet of beefs
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A software engineer's advice for saving social media: keep it small
29 votes -
The secretive company that might end privacy as we know it
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There is such a thing as too much technology
Today I went to my favorite bakery/cafeteria/restaurant/grocery store (yeah it's one place, but not large enough to be considered a supermarket - IDK the correct terminology in English but you get...
Today I went to my favorite bakery/cafeteria/restaurant/grocery store (yeah it's one place, but not large enough to be considered a supermarket - IDK the correct terminology in English but you get the gist). It's a nice place if a little pricey. About a month ago, they installed a gate. Next to the gate, there's a huge metal thing with a single red button. When you press the button, it tosses an electronic ticket (that stores every purchase you make in the system) and the gate lets you go through. These are not synchronous, sometimes the gate is unlocked a lot sooner than the ticket is tossed. So today, after I got into the store, an employee had to run towards me to give me my electronic ticket. Okay.
I noticed that, despite the machine having only one very big button, lots of people still need to be instructed by the employee in order to enter, and he's constantly manually handing out the tickets. There is also a gate to leave that slows things down.
In this last month, I went a lot less to this place. That's because, whenever passing by, I used to enter just to check things up, see if there was something new or appetizing. You know, impulse buys. The need to check myself in and out (even when I don't purchase anything) made me quit that habit. I think other people are the same. Besides, what's the good of automation if it requires a human being to make it work correctly? AFAIK, the analog system worked. And we're not in a dangerous part of town where one needs to worry about people putting products in their pockets.
That's why I say: sometimes, there is such a thing as too much technology.
23 votes -
Smart homes will turn dumb overnight as Charter kills security service
17 votes -
The Silicon Valley economy is here. And it’s a nightmare
10 votes -
What tech companies need to do before ‘solving’ urban problems
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Leica’s new Monochrom camera has a purpose-built black-and-white sensor
10 votes -
AirPods Pro owners complain of worse noise cancellation after firmware updates—some people are convinced Apple’s latest earbuds worked better at launch
7 votes -
DigitalOcean is laying off staff, sources say thirty to fifty affected
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DWeb SF Meet Up-- January
4 votes -
Which tech company is really the most evil?
8 votes -
Biden wants to get rid of law that shields companies like Facebook from liability for what their users post
17 votes -
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 -
The smallest Discman ever made - was smaller than a CD
8 votes -
Five reasons why software testing needs humans
6 votes -
"Github Based Jobs Listings": a GitHub repo where IT jobs (mostly US and Canada-based) may be posted for a bounty
8 votes -
Anyone here running a Pleroma instance?
11 votes -
Critical Windows 10 exploit discovered which allows arbitrary software to be installed under the guise of Windows updates
20 votes -
Close your open tabs - Sometimes, information overload has its limits
14 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
27 votes -
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
7 votes -
The new Chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser is out of preview and available for download
19 votes -
How to create events to help girls prepare for STEM careers
13 votes -
Raspberry Pi 4 CRT-based VR Headset
15 votes -
Gadgets for life on a miserable planet: At the Consumer Electronics Show, the only solution for technology-induced stress is more technology
13 votes -
CVE-2020-0601 - Windows CryptoAPI spoofing vulnerability
16 votes -
Cut undersea cable plunges Yemen into days-long internet outage
6 votes -
Meet the mad scientist who wrote the book on how to hunt hackers
8 votes