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- on GTA 6 Is Getting a $400 Collector's Set Filled With Tons of Merch, But No Game in c/games@lemmy.world · 2h ago
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on French prosecutors probe secret filming of women with smart glasses in c/technology@lemmy.world · 3h ago
well, you can, but there are restrictions. ones that ‘smart glasses’ and their users are not following.
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on It's Donald Trump Versus MAGA on Data Centers | The president has doubled down on data centers and AI. His base is running in the opposite direction. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1d ago
soon as someone whispers ‘did you know black people hate data centers?’, they’ll be 'zomg gimme a data center! no, wait!! TWO data centers!!!"
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on AI might be making women sound bad at work in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2d ago
if you have to be that verbose when prompting ‘ai’ to write an email, just dictate the damn message using speech-to-text.
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on Winamp will be reborn in 2027 to take on streaming in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2d ago
it appears to be just an added optional feature, a winamp-branded deezer subscription and client, with the traditional local play and customization and what-not still part of the ‘free’ program (presumably… details are scarce).
but… i left winamp years ago. i won’t go back. i have playlists sorted and can just use vlc these days. idc about customizing or visualizations and that shit. i just want a player to sit in the background and do its thing. there’s dozens of acceptable programs without a subscription sales pitch built in.
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on Winamp will be reborn in 2027 to take on streaming in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2d ago
they also released code with it that wasn’t even theirs to release in the first place…
the whole repo and its history were wiped off github a few months later.
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on Xiaomi Has a Luxury SUV for $31,000 That All Western Brands Should Fear in c/technology@lemmy.world · 5d ago
sell cheap to kill competition around the world. leverage new global monopoly for fun and profits later.
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on Republican bill would order ISPs, DNS providers, and VPNs to block piracy sites in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6d ago
they’ll try to pass it anyway. if republicants lose majority, it’ll be a horrific couple of months as they try to ram and cram every piece of shit legislation they can think of through before the new session starts.
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on Open Source Printer coming before 2027 in c/opensource@lemmy.ml · 6d ago
it also takes normal sheet paper. but it has an integrated cutter so the rolls enable A4 or A3 (us letter or 11x17), or any other length, or continuous from the same source.
permanent printheads are not really any better from a longevity standpoint. they still do degrade and need replacement. more often than not, that replacement either doesn’t exist, hasn’t been manufactured since the printer was a new model, or is prohibitively expensive and/or only available from random third-parties.
the last ink tank + separate printhead setup that you could very easily get tanks and printheads for was some old canon printers from 25+ years ago. the printheads were in a removable caddy, and that caddy was sold in stores with and alongside ink tanks.
printheads also need to be used, regularly. once you go a few weeks without printing, every day that you don’t increases your chance those printheads will never print again. when the printhead is in the consumable, it gets replaced far easier and automatically on a cartridge swap. yes, that is at the expense of higher cost new consumables.
we’ve had to bin three brothers, two hp, an epson, and a canon over the twenty years because of bad and unreplaceable printheads. coincidentally we’re currently using two salvaged hp printers that use the same cartridges as this ‘open’ printer, use refilled consumables, and the printers are old enough they don’t scream and refuse to print if the color is empty–we can use and print black only.
the problem here with this project is they don’t have their own printheads and cartridges, which means some of their code was either lifted from hp printers or reverse engineered; and they rely on hp as the only source for new consumables and printheads. hp would be very hostile to this project, so i hope they fully documented their entire process of development and are ready for the inevitable lawsuit.
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on [US] House passes bill requiring AM radio in all new cars sold nationwide in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6d ago
cars already have them. they’re taking them out so they can make more money, not to save you $20.
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on [US] House passes bill requiring AM radio in all new cars sold nationwide in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6d ago
if mom knew how often i stayed awake listening to baseball and hockey on the radio when i was a kid, i’d still be grounded with an early bedtime today.
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on Mistral and Mozilla are bringing open, private and multilingual AI to your web browser: a partnership to bring privacy, control and choice to people using AI to browse online. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 17 Sep 2026
first thing i did when deved updated to the ‘new’ look (157)…
search for ‘nova’ in about:config
turn off the new rounded gradient shit.
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on Mistral and Mozilla are bringing open, private and multilingual AI to your web browser: a partnership to bring privacy, control and choice to people using AI to browse online. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 17 Sep 2026
and you can go back and re-enable just a bit you actually do want… like the on-device translations, while keeping the main switch ‘off’ so there’s no new surprises.
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on Mistral and Mozilla are bringing open, private and multilingual AI to your web browser: a partnership to bring privacy, control and choice to people using AI to browse online. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 17 Sep 2026
i love the on-device translate. sometimes it can be a little off-the-mark, but overall it works pretty well. it’s a great addition to firefox.
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on Bernie Sanders says if AI is coming for workers, it should bring a four-day workweek with it in c/technology@lemmy.world · 16 Sep 2026
would you rather work 5x8 and fight traffic both ways instead of one?
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on Bernie Sanders says if AI is coming for workers, it should bring a four-day workweek with it in c/technology@lemmy.world · 16 Sep 2026
And, at least in my state, if you take on a second job, wages from the second job are taxed at a higher rate.
that doesn’t sound right…
the suggested withholding on second (or third) jobs is higher to make up for the fact that your first job’s withholding is usually based on it being your only income source. in the end, you’re taxed on your combined income, one job or three, it doesn’t matter.
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on Your Printer is Snitching On YOU! in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 13 Sep 2026
if you don’t wanna watch a vid… eff has posted several articles over the years on the ‘tracking dots’ of printers: www.eff.org/issues/printers
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on I spent $4,000 on a robot dog from China in c/technology@lemmy.world · 13 Sep 2026
almost too realistic.
My robot dog after it collapsed steps from my home. The light on its “face” was blinking red, and the lidar sensor on its “nose” was still spinning.
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on Backflip: Apple now wants to train AI models with user data after all in c/technology@lemmy.world · 13 Sep 2026
golden gate, out tomorrow iirc, the first macos that’s apple silicon only, and the last to support intel applications via compatibility layer.
tahoe, the previous version and last to support intel cpu, will get two more years of updates. the last intel cpu mac wasn’t discontinued until 2023.
there is no further upgrade path from apple for anything that cannot run golden gate. it’s e-waste to most, a linux goldmine for a few. just like every pre-8th gen era windows pc, but at least with windows you can trick the current version to run on the relics that don’t ‘officially’ support it.
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on Wait, there's books and classes on linux? in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 13 Sep 2026
fake it 'til you makebreak it.
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on Stop Doing Swap Partitions in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 13 Sep 2026
that’s what trixie’s netinst defaults to when i set up new desktops using encrypted lvm… root and swap volumes inside that, unlocking together at boot. my use doesn’t hit swap much, so it’s nbd. i just leave it like it is. only where an installer doesn’t support encrypted swap partitions do i use a file or ram-based swap instead.
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on Dating Apps Are Dying in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Sep 2026
Back when I used them, they were about meeting people,
back then they didn’t suck (as much) because they were still in the ‘acquire users at any cost’ phase.
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on There’s a new “Google Jail” for independent wikis in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026
it didn’t take long for search engines, including google, to pick up wiki.warframe.com though, as it was just a sub off an existing and long-standing domain… the hard part was getting pages on the new address to rank higher than the old one that fandom won’t delete.
what you should do for any wiki is add the wiki’s search as a search engine in your browser. firefox makes it easy to do. just go to the wiki (i.e. wiki.warframe.com), right-click in the search box on that page, choose ‘add search engine’. add a ‘keyword’ to make searching it easy (e.g. wf), so now all you have to do to search the warframe wiki is type in firefox’s address box, example: wf void trader
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on Microsoft announces Project Zenith, a clutter-free Windows experience meant to entice developers - Engadget in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6 Sep 2026
it’s 64gb so you can run local ai models to ‘re-clutter’ your windows experience.
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on White House Launches Arcade.Gov, a Minigame Site Where You Catch Immigrants, Build a Tetris Border Wall, and 'Fill Your Kids' Trump Accounts' With Bitcoin in c/games@lemmy.world · 5 Sep 2026
E.T. the dipshit is et, and because the fucking game is bugged, we can’t get rid of him.
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on Accents Rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 Sep 2026
…Electric Boogaloo
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on Flour Rules in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 Sep 2026
fabrics. with designs.
with the way things are headed, flour sack dresses are gonna make a comeback.
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on Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026
a multi-million dollar development budget. about 4000 contributors every year working on and maintaining over 40 million lines of code. ~ 15 percent is part of the ‘core’ kernel. ~ 60 percent is drivers that would need to be tracked, maintained and worked on.
might need more than a few ‘agents’ to keep up.
good luck.
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on Google Has Removed Manifest V2 Extensions From the Chrome Web Store, Including uBlock Origin in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026
ublock origin lite, the natural replacement but not automatically enabled by google or microsoft. you have to go get it. github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home
an alternative is adguard’s browser extension. it is free to use and open source (gpl). github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardBrowserExtension#in…
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on Google Has Removed Manifest V2 Extensions From the Chrome Web Store, Including uBlock Origin in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026
it seems to function ok. there are some additional filters that can be enabled in its settings, not much control though–just a setting for how ‘aggressive’ you want it to be. you cannot add your own, either.
because filters are now bundled with the extension itself, updates to them are slower as they must be blessed by the addon store (chrome’s, edge’s) as part of an extension update, before being made available. and this does give google and microsoft absolute ‘veto power’ over a filter update.
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on Google Has Removed Manifest V2 Extensions From the Chrome Web Store, Including uBlock Origin in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026
i am surprised it took this long, but i know that getting everybody using chromium, or at least webextensions, was part of the plan that had to exist first. and the path down mv3 started not long after both mozilla and microsoft were both roped-in.
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on German LibreOffice has a message for me in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 30 Aug 2026
oh, my. that third line is horrendous. that’s what happens when the software (in this case, lemmy’s md to html engine) tries to do the rendering instead of the browser. trying to underline using unicode… and failing, instead of just using css.
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on Apple One and Apple TV subscription prices increase by up to 20 percent in c/technology@lemmy.world · 29 Aug 2026
i used to do the one-month binge on one service. then awhile later, do a different one.
prices kept going up. i don’t even do that any more.
it’s been over two years now without anything but what i already have in my library, or the occasional free streamer through pihole or a ubo-backed browser.
i just don’t care about new ‘tv’ or movies anymore.
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on Skip today's Windows 11 update: it breaks cursor styling, resets wallpaper, and more in c/technology@lemmy.world · 29 Aug 2026
never install optional preview updates for windows.
that’s what this one is. if you install what is essentially a beta update, expect the worst. that your computer will not boot back up. that your data went ‘poof’. that kind of ‘worst’. a lost wallpaper and goofed up cursor is nothing compared to what could happen.
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on Microsoft's latest move to pay people to use Edge looks desperate — and an odd new Bing app is worrying too in c/technology@lemmy.world · 26 Aug 2026
i just set up a new laptop for someone–well just the account bullshit they couldn’t get past. none of the tricks to bypass the microsoft account requirement worked, even the “WinJS” method that was the only known way to do that on s-mode.
i think from here on when someone brings me a new windows POS, i’m gonna just be nuking the oem load and putting a rufus’d one on instead if they want windows (and unfortunately, most do).
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on The fact that you can’t run through Windows setup w/o internet and an online account is absolute bullshit in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 25 Aug 2026
they used to sell them, but it was all shit-tier hardware and didn’t sell.
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on YouTube Premium is getting yet another price hike for users across the globe in c/technology@lemmy.world · 25 Aug 2026
Now it’s $30 but it’s still like buying a cd a month.
it’s about twice as much as a mainstream cd at a brick-and-mortar or a random sampling of physical disc offerings at bandcamp.
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on The FTC is cracking down on companies that charge you a personalized price; Proposed enforcement policy would force companies to tell consumers how their personal data is being used to set a price in c/technology@lemmy.world · 22 Aug 2026
the criminal-in-chief wants more ‘donations’ from major retailers.
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on Omaha Public Schools requests SROs to not carry shock gloves, effective immediately. Omaha Public Schools is fighting back after parents and students spoke out against the use of shock gloves in scho… in c/technology@lemmy.world · 20 Aug 2026
we had no cop or ‘resource officer’ at all, in any of the schools i attended (70s-80s minnesota, rural and the cities). the only times we even saw cops at school was when they were conning parents into letting them have our fingerprints, or for what became the annual ‘DARE scare’.
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on Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months, up to 10x the lowest ever tracked prices — 128GB of DDR5 now $3,399 in c/technology@lemmy.world · 20 Aug 2026
already have a media ‘server’ and several things to watch ‘tv’ on or from.
this is what we were doing with it… trying out winpodx, but it’s not quite ‘usable’ like this (updated after this, does same). so it (and it’s hp cousin with similar specs) sit waiting for their next call-to-arms.
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on Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months, up to 10x the lowest ever tracked prices — 128GB of DDR5 now $3,399 in c/technology@lemmy.world · 20 Aug 2026
i’m using an optiplex sff with 32gb ddr4 as a monitor stand right now. i just don’t know what the hell to do with it… so it sits, probably until the dietpi running on a jaguar soc keels over.
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on Best Buy 'repairs' customer's gaming laptop by simply removing half the RAM— claims unit in question only accepts 32 GB of RAM despite listing a 64GB configuration in c/technology@lemmy.world · 20 Aug 2026
the sku and item description indicates a third-party sold the item via bestbuy’s web site. it was upgraded by that third party before final sale. the extra ram would be covered by that entity, not bestbuy.
but we do not know if bestbuy actually returned the modules that were originally in the laptop, nor do we know if it was the oem one or the added one that was ‘bad’. we also don’t know if the third-party seller simply added one so-dimm to the original configuration or pulled the original to install a matched pair instead.
if it was the oem one, it should have been covered by lenovo’s warranty, i.e. replaced by bestbuy as a warranty repair–the laptop having been upgraded is irrelevant to that remedy.
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on Why is no one using Quad9 instead of Cloudfare? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 19 Aug 2026
same. but i also use mullvad because it adds to encrypted dns (doh or dot only), several levels of filtering to choose from. this allows you to have some basic (can’t edit filter lists yourself) ‘pi-hole’ functionality without having to have a pi-hole available.
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on Amid RAM price hikes, Microsoft reportedly raises Windows license cost, forcing OEMs to hike prices even further on hardware in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Aug 2026
this is the next logical step. raise the ‘price’ of ‘regular’ windows and systems with windows…
so the subscription looks like a ‘good’ deal.
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on Amid RAM price hikes, Microsoft reportedly raises Windows license cost, forcing OEMs to hike prices even further on hardware in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Aug 2026
they actually make money on many of those windows preinstalls due to all the bullshit they get paid to put on.
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on America’s largest newspaper chain, USA Today Co., partners with Palantir to analyze audience data as search traffic falls in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7 Aug 2026
they don’t need ai to tell them ai is part of the reason. nor do they to know the other is because the company has turned to shit under vulture fund ownership, a trend that probably started even a little earlier than that—when they split print and broadcast into separate companies.
image the reaction if a $400us collector bundle was the only way to get a physical disc.