Riding the Eschaton
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Riding the Eschaton
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Recognizing fake news now a required subject in California schools (www.pleasantonweekly.com)
Recognizing fake news now a required subject in California schools::undefined
YouTube Says New 5-Second Video Load Delay Is Supposed to Punish Ad Blockers, Not Firefox Users (www.404media.co)
Firefox users are reporting an 'artificial' load time on YouTube videos. YouTube says it's part of a plan to make people who use adblockers "experience suboptimal viewing, regardless of the browser they are using."
Google's Manifest V3 changes will soon disable uBlock Origin on Chrome (www.androidauthority.com)
Barack Obama: “For elevator music, AI is going to work fine. Music like Bob Dylan or Stevie Wonder, that's different” (musictech.com)
Barack Obama: “For elevator music, AI is going to work fine. Music like Bob Dylan or Stevie Wonder, that’s different”::Barack Obama has weighed in on AI’s impact on music creation in a new interview, saying, “For elevator music, AI is going to work fine”.
The death of ownership: Companies are taking away your ability to actually own the stuff you buy (www.businessinsider.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/8400180...
Tesla will sue you for $50,000 if you try to resell your Cybertruck in the first year (www.businessinsider.com)
Tesla will sue you for $50,000 if you try to resell your Cybertruck in the first year::Tesla may agree to buy the truck back at the original price minus “$0.25/mile driven” and any damages and repairs.
Microsoft Can't Stop Being Annoying About OneDrive | They make you take a survey every time you close OneDrive on your device. (gizmodo.com)
Microsoft Can’t Stop Being Annoying About OneDrive | They make you take a survey every time you close OneDrive on your device.::They make you take a survey every time you close OneDrive on your device.
Monero Project admits thieves stole 6-figure sum from a wallet in mystery breach (www.theregister.com)
Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates. Behind Every Self-Made Millionaire is a Father with Money (mohaboelez.medium.com)
It shouldn't matter if people work multiple jobs. The former VP of HR at Microsoft shares how to react to double dippers — 'get over it.' (money.yahoo.com)
Looks like Facebook is following youtube with anti-adblock measures. (infosec.pub)
I don’t really use facebook anymore so couldn’t care less; but so happened to log in today to change my password and saw this on my front page.
Firefox starting to remove tracking parameters from shared URLs (blog.nightly.mozilla.org)
Currently still in Nightly and only on ‘Copy Link’. Still nice progress though.
YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers (www.androidauthority.com)
cross-posted from: lemdro.id/post/2883134 (!android)
One year after being bought for $44 billion, X is worth $19 billion (arstechnica.com)
Martin Goetz, Who Received the First Software Patent, Dies at 93 (www.nytimes.com)
See also ESP Wiki’s entry on Martin Goetz.
Pfizer says it will price Covid treatment Paxlovid at nearly $1,400 for a five-day course, which researchers estimate only costs Pfizer $13 to produce. That's a 10,000%+ markup. Shameful. (mastodon.world)
UBlock not working anymore for Youtube. Anyone else have the same problem? [SOLVED!]
Title says it all. Got the message of three remaining videos and then it locked....
Disney is gouging customers with a near doubling of subscription costs. (sh.itjust.works)
Disney is raking its customers over the coals with a 75% price hike for their annual subscription (originally $80.) People wonder why piracy is on the rise.Multiple commenters are saying I’m off base about the 75% price increase. My payment less than a year ago was $79.99. Here’s the proof.
Reddit is removing ability to opt out of ad personalization based on your activity on the platform (techcrunch.com)
Lemmy is losing users (programming.dev)
How can we make it more popular?
It Took 23 Days for Lemmy Posts to Double from 1 Million to 2 Million (lemmy.world)
Source: lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=90
Update: Pushing back against the wave of bot accounts on Lemmy (sh.itjust.works)
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/1823812...
YSK: Google is deleting some old Hangouts photos this week (arstechnica.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/1639498...
Google will be deleting inactive google accounts together with all data on them starting December 1, 2023 (support.google.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.fmhy.ml/post/545702...