Volunteer amateur systems administrator for Beehaw. Stay-at-home dad. Outdoor enthusiast.
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Volunteer amateur systems administrator for Beehaw. Stay-at-home dad. Outdoor enthusiast.
This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.
Hundreds of OpenAI staff tell board to resign or they'll quit (www.axios.com)
Sweden’s Tesla Blockade Is Spreading. Swedish ports will refuse to offload Teslas, cleaning crews will no longer clean showrooms, and mechanics won’t fix charging points. (www.wired.co.uk)
Reddit appears to be blocking VPNs (unverified) (beehaw.org)
I’m on iOS 17.1.1 using Safari. I also have Proton VPN enabled in the states but if I try to visit any page on the website I see this:...
YouTube once again ahead of uBO on Firefox; fiddling with the extension settings not working this time and DDG search is useless ... anyone got ideas?
Pretty much the subject line. uBO has successfully blocked the nag screen enough times that I can’t play anything at this point. No preview loads, and the play button serves no function. I’d really prefer not to have to find content on YT, copy the URL and use Piped/Invidious, but this ongoing escalation is steeling my...
What can you tell me about Bluesky?
I just received my invite code today and took a quick look around the app. Like Mastodon I do not prefer microblogging platforms. And that’s all I know about Bluesky....
Scarlett Johansson hits AI app with legal action for cloning her voice in an ad (www.theverge.com)
YouTube is now fully blocking ad blockers around the world (9to5google.com)
cross-posted from: lemdro.id/post/2787773 (!google)
Let the community work it out: A throwback to early internet days could fix social media’s crisis of legitimacy (www.niemanlab.org)
[…]why should a few companies — or a few billionaire owners — have the power to decide everything about online spaces that billions of people use? This unaccountable model of governance has led stakeholders of all stripes to criticize platforms’ decisions as arbitrary, corrupt or irresponsible. In the early, pre-web days...
Scientists close the cycle on recycling mixed plastics (phys-org.cdn.ampproject.org)
10 Year Old Son Clears The Second Capstone Dungeon In Diablo 4...
NOT the first capstone dungeon…The second capstone dungeon that gets you into the nightmare level…With a level 58 ball lightning sorcerer! See the following video to find out how. It’s fairly simple....
Why the Internet Isn’t Fun Anymore (www.newyorker.com)
Gmail is also getting emoji reactions (www.engadget.com)
Because sometimes, emoji make the best responses....
Nobel Prize goes to scientists behind mRNA Covid vaccines (www.bbc.com)
Last Epoch could be new home for Diablo 4 players after content drought - Dexerto (www.dexerto.com)
Gen Z falls for online scams more than their boomer grandparents do (www.vox.com)
Students with higher social class backgrounds might be healthier because they sleep better (www.psypost.org)
‘Diablo 4’ Has Hotfixed In Huge Changes For Make Leveling To 100 Less Of A Slog (www.forbes.com)
I haven’t played D4 in over a month. There’s a lot of work to be done before I play more than the upcoming seasonal content.
A disturbing number of TikTok videos about autism include claims that are “patently false,” study finds (www.psypost.org)
[Unconfirmed] Season 29 of Diablo 3 should begin on September 15.
Was just watching Raxx’s video where I first heard this.
I watched 2 hours of starfield gameplay and an hour of review
and I am really not impressed. I don’t want to know more about the story, don’t want to build a spaceship that I can fast travel with, don’t want to explore the universe....
A decentralized, blockchain-based messaging network for safer communications (techxplore.com)
Researchers from several institutes worldwide recently developed Quarks, a new, decentralized messaging network based on blockchain technology. Their proposed system could overcome the limitations of most commonly used messaging platforms, allowing users to retain control over their personal data and other information they share...
Stop using Brave Browser (www.spacebar.news)
first major patch for Baldur’s Gate 3, addressing over 1000 bugs, balancing, flow issues and much, much more. (baldursgate3.game)
Exposed: Facebook's Corrupt Spyware is Tracking you OFF the platform (monero.town)
From internal leaks within the company as well as external analysis, the tip of the iceberg behind Facebook’s spyware empire is exposed. Take a look to better protect yourself when you’re not even on the platform: simplifiedprivacy.com/facebooks-corrupt-off-platf…
Diablo IV | Season of Blood | Announce Trailer (www.youtube.com)
Ashes Of Creation Is Getting Closer... (www.youtube.com)
Statc Stealer: Windows malware stealing information from web browsers and apps, including login data, cookies, web data, and preferences, stealing cryptocurrency wallets, credentials, passwords, etc. (www.zscaler.com)
Summary...
Hackers Rig Casino Card-Shuffling Machines for ‘Full Control’ Cheating (www.wired.com)
They knew when to hold em. Knew when to fold 'em. Just not when to walk away and when to run.
Google says AI systems should be able to mine publishers’ work unless companies opt out, turning copyright law on its head (www.theguardian.com)
In its submission to the Australian government’s review of the regulatory framework around AI, Google said that copyright law should be altered to allow for generative AI systems to scrape the internet.
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Universal Chat Application, Beeper, Will Be Available To Everyone (For Free) In A Matter Of Weeks. (blog.beeper.com)
I was on the beta testing team and have been using Beeper for a little over two years now....