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- on DigitalOcean contributes 3 million and joins the Omacom (Omarchy) Foundation in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026
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on DigitalOcean contributes 3 million and joins the Omacom (Omarchy) Foundation in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026
I mean, something is fishy when Michael Dell et al dump millions into a particular distro. Could be the AI-forward identity, could be the development of tools with permissive licenses, could be DHH is just rich and good at schmoozing. Hard to say.
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on DigitalOcean contributes 3 million and joins the Omacom (Omarchy) Foundation in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026
Okay I’m seeing further chicanery. Their GitHub repo gives the license as MIT but many of the components are not Omarchy originals but derivatives of other products under different licences. Quickshell is LGPL 3, for example, and of course the Linux kernel is GPL 2.
But then there’s a guy working on the “Omarchy Kernel”, which I guess is a derivative like Ubuntu does…
Personalities aside this is still weird, and I wish people would focus on that.
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on DigitalOcean contributes 3 million and joins the Omacom (Omarchy) Foundation in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026
I like the positivity!
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on DigitalOcean contributes 3 million and joins the Omacom (Omarchy) Foundation in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026
Not that I can tell.
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on DigitalOcean contributes 3 million and joins the Omacom (Omarchy) Foundation in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026
I am not an Omarchy or DHH hater but…why? It’s Arch with Hyperland, why are people fawning over it? Is it just because he keeps saying “agentic”?
I’m agentic too, how about throwing me a million bucks?
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on Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6 Sep 2026
Let’s just put the stochastic hacking programs online and let them run, see what they do.
Oh, more venture capital money? Don’t mind if I do!
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on Documents reveal plans for $6 utility rate hike to help fund Google’s data center project in Memphis in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6 Sep 2026
Funny how every major innovation that’s sweeping the world and gonna make all the money ever still needs public subsidies.
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on Google’s AI Mode Is Ripping Shoppers Off With Vastly Higher Prices, Study Claims: Prices were 21.6 percent more expensive on average in Google AI Mode compared to a traditional search. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6 Sep 2026
Oh are they finally finding a wage approach profitability? I got to say, literally just scamming shoppers was…not at the bottom of my list.
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on PlayStation Wants To Prove In Court That You Don't Own Your Digital Games in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6 Sep 2026
I do happen to agree that one should not buy a Kindle. There are alternatives, and good ones.
But also a Kindle, a locked down computer that is illegal to make work properly, shouldn’t exist.
The problem is that in so many of these specialized computers, every major device available is rights violating, or under powered. It is damn hard too “choose” your way out of an economy as an individual.
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on Sony Implements New Customer Harassment Policy Following Backlash Toward Its Plans to Stop Making Physical Game Discs in c/technology@lemmy.world · 5 Sep 2026
“Talk things out?” What, like with a person?
That’s why Americans lean on chargebacks.
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on PlayStation Wants To Prove In Court That You Don't Own Your Digital Games in c/technology@lemmy.world · 5 Sep 2026
In the past it didn’t matter, because you had the whole file structure for the application when you purchased it. You either downloaded it in whole as an install file or archive, or you had it on the physical media that you purchased it on. Maybe there was a license you had to input or some other rudimentary DRM system, but you had that too. No remote access from the company, no forced additional downloads or internet connectivity, no phone home. So they could say whatever they wanted, but you actually had the product.
Now with media files that only play with proprietary tools that phone home, or applications that phone home, your computers are backdoored. And if you have a system that’s backdoored, it’s not really yours, it’s just something you can access for now. That’s what your Kindle is: a backdoored computer with an e-ink screen and proprietary software that can open proprietary files that other software isn’t supposed to be able to open. Which is why no one should buy one.
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on US judge ruled AI-generated child sexual abuse material is protected by First Amendment. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026
What were the 4 horsmen of suppression of online speach? Child Safety, Trrsm, Hate, and Porn? These are the pretexts for everything else. Maybe copyright is supposed to be in there too. Five horsemen then.
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on PlayStation Wants To Prove In Court That You Don't Own Your Digital Games in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026
Imagine how well digital games would sell if they showed up in your cart like: 1 x Revokable License for God of War $69 See Terms and Conditions* [Confirm Payment]
- Terms: we will do whatever the fuck we want. Conditions: whenever we want.
There’s a reason they say “Buy” instead of “Pay”.
It’s been going on for generations, but it’s no less dishonest for all that. Software sellers write complex EULAs for which the only valid answer is “Agree” because the store won’t take an open box back and the software won’t install unless we pretend to agree, so even us legitimate software enjoyers are pirates in our hearts. Meanwhile normies don’t even think about it that much. Fuck this whole system, but double fuck an online service that says “purchase” but will steal it back later. Fuck that.
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on Flock CEO Garrett Langley targeted as address shared online in c/technology@lemmy.world · 29 Aug 2026
Lots of information about people is online.
…Does he have something to hide?
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on Sony Reminds PS Users They Don't Own Digital Games in c/technology@lemmy.world · 24 Aug 2026
By the plain text reading, yes. Would be nice to see PS streams fall to 0, but people ignore the terms and Sony doesn’t enforce them until they want to. Doesn’t matter what any of this BS says until they drag you in front of a judge… I mean private arbitrator… and say “look, plain as day, subsection 18.XXVI.xix D(13a) on page 47 where it clearly says we get to move our VP into his spare bedroom and shoot his dog”
We seriously are overdue for putting limits on so-called consumer contracts.
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on ‘They’re thinking about the likes’: deadly TikTok motorway trend horrifies Ireland in c/technology@lemmy.world · 23 Aug 2026
They are recording and publicly publishing their unsympathetic crimes. Arrest them.
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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 · 23 Aug 2026
I mean, okay.
Step 0: Company secretly abuses you. Step 1: New regulation requires that the abuse be disclosed.
More than I expected out of this administration. Honestly thought they’d say “Do it more! Abuse of customers is innovation or something!”
Obviously the solution is actually to make this practice illegal and aggressively persue violators like they’re Ecuadorian fishermen and a new batch of Epstein emails dropped with incomplete redactions, but the bar for this administration is so low it’s somewhere at the bottom of the river Styx, so gg I guess.
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on Meta glasses are a workplace menace in c/technology@lemmy.world · 23 Aug 2026
What if we punished crimes instead of monetizing them? We’ve had a multimedia Internet for a generation now, we could do this.
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on Teen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Terrorize Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools in c/technology@lemmy.world · 23 Aug 2026
Teen Boys Terrorize Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools in Very Public and Easily Tracable Ways and Still No One is Stopping Them
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on Whistleblower Says Mark Zuckerberg Is Only Pretending to Care About Child Safety in c/technology@lemmy.world · 23 Aug 2026
I mean, you often need people with direct knowledge of obvious things to say them in court under oath.
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on Error by AI scribe during medical appointment leaves patient devastated in c/technology@lemmy.world · 22 Aug 2026
I mean, they should, but they won’t. I’ll take human typos over LLM “hallucinations” most days.
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on Error by AI scribe during medical appointment leaves patient devastated in c/technology@lemmy.world · 22 Aug 2026
Please just bring back traditional voice to text, with its dumb but decipherable errors instead of these plausible left field LLM “hallucinations”.
I’d rather the computer write that I’m coming in for a “score throat and fever” than the sort of random ass shit LLMs can throw in there.
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on The physical media selection at Sony's Crunchyroll is even worse than fans feared after store update: all books removed and Blu-ray lineup gutted in c/technology@lemmy.world · 20 Aug 2026
I don’t need physical media, a DRM-free download that I can save on my own will do.
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on Kansas Schools Now Collect Phones at the Door – Spends $180K On Smartphone Lockers in c/technology@lemmy.world · 19 Aug 2026
All government agencies get gouged. It’s absurd.
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on Kansas Schools Now Collect Phones at the Door – Spends $180K On Smartphone Lockers in c/technology@lemmy.world · 19 Aug 2026
Man, you can’t even teach adults that.
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on Amazon's New AI Data Center Is So Enormous That It Appears It Will Become the Largest Single Source of Pollution in the United States in c/technology@lemmy.world · 19 Aug 2026
Maybe, but Amazon in particular will also bag/box every solitary thing. Not sure if it balances, but it’s an interesting question when you put it that way.
Still, I expect they prioritize meeting service levels over fuel economy.
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on Amazon's New AI Data Center Is So Enormous That It Appears It Will Become the Largest Single Source of Pollution in the United States in c/technology@lemmy.world · 16 Aug 2026
The same company that will same day deliver a single tube of toothpaste to my door doesn’t care about carbon emissions? What?
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on Amazon's New AI Data Center Is So Enormous That It Appears It Will Become the Largest Single Source of Pollution in the United States in c/technology@lemmy.world · 16 Aug 2026
The company benefits by convincing investors that it’s still growing and innovating. If investors think they are still growing their stock prices go up. If their stock prices go up then they can use their stock as an asset to borrow against or as a form of payment in lieu of cash. Stock is particularly useful to a company as a medium of exchange because they can just make more. But they can only do that without tanking the value if people are buying, and they can only keep people buying if they think the price will go up, and the only thing the price will go up if they think the company is going to become more profitable in the future.
This is basically Cory Doctrow’s argument in his latest book.
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on Pet owners say smart pet feeder outage led to furry ones going unfed in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Aug 2026
That’s a a public education problem.
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on YouTube now requires creators to have twice as many watch hours to start earning money in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Aug 2026
It’s also a matter of audience. Part of what lets Nebula work at all is the built-in audience for the creators that are there. Same with droput.tv and c5.now and even means.tv.
Peertube will work better as more and bigger creators cross-post to it. Another challenge it faces though is scaling and yes, monetization since there’s no subscription system through the platform by default.
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on Pet owners say smart pet feeder outage led to furry ones going unfed in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Aug 2026
Aquara C1. Use Home Assistant and your own Zigbee antenna.
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on Pet owners say smart pet feeder outage led to furry ones going unfed in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Aug 2026
It’s actually pretty handy, and can be useful for portion control too.
There is no reason it should require a cloud connection.
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on Pet owners say smart pet feeder outage led to furry ones going unfed in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Aug 2026
Repeat after me: Local control. Local control. Local control.
“The Cloud” is just other people’s computers.
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on YouTube now requires creators to have twice as many watch hours to start earning money in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Aug 2026
Sure but how do you get on Nebula?
As far as I know it comes from having an established YouTube presence first.
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on AI agents aren’t legally responsible for any harm that they cause, experts say. So who is? in c/technology@lemmy.world · 14 Aug 2026
The person who inputs it is responsible for the outputs.
The nix package(?) system, sure, but the eponymous OS of course has parts under a diversity of licenses, including a GPL kernel.
What I don’t get/trust if how Omarchy just slaps an MIT label on its GitHub even when I can see software in there that I know use different licenses.