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- on A Campus More Colorful Than Reality: Beware That College Brochure (2013) in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1d ago
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on Putin casts online vote using unlicensed Windows on an American Dell PC in c/technology@lemmy.world · 3d ago
Voting doesn’t need to be secure in Russia because voting doesn’t actually matter in Russia.
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on LG Denies Its TVs Are Spying on You (Unless You Opted In) in c/technology@lemmy.world · 14 Sep 2026
“We own your TV screen, and the contents of your TV screen.”
By their license agreement, whether you watch normie content, use the screen to display proprietary business presentations, use it to show family photos from a USB stick, or screen that private adult video you made with your wife, LG can technically analyze all that stuff, serve you ads based off it, or sell it (or provide it) to third parties including the authorities.
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on “This is the AI men actually use”: Meta ads pushed apps nudifying real teens in c/technology@lemmy.world · 9 Sep 2026
Avoiding all meta apps is a good decision.
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on GrapheneOS not supporting Pixel 11s? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 29 Aug 2026
The other big thing for me is carrier unlocked and also still supporting physical SIM.
Hoping the Motorola flagship meets those criteria.
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on [Episode] Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You • Super no Ura de Yani Suu Futari - Episode 7 discussion in c/anime@ani.social · 20 Aug 2026
These character designs look like Temu versions of Roger and Dorothy from Big O.
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on A Finnish town is heating itself with 2,000 tonnes of crushed rock: its giant “sand battery” can cover almost a month of heating demand and has cut district heating emissions by 70% in c/technology@beehaw.org · 19 Aug 2026
I personally think these types of non-conventional batteries are going to be the future of storing energy for use at offset peak usage times.
It would be great if every city could construct multi thousand megawatts of grid scale battery capacity but that probably isn’t feasible with traditional chemistry batteries. But, in some areas the same effect could be accomplished with something like “potential energy batteries”, for example, using massive solar arrays to pump water into an elevated reservoir during the day at peak solar generation, then releasing that water to drive turbines and generate on-demand electricity at other times.
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on The best Spotify alternatives to ease your conscience in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Aug 2026
Something free/open that basically just hit-n-runs YouTube and doesn’t serve any ads.
Examples: Kreate (or a similar fork), Metrolist, etc.
Downside is that YT will push deliberate updates that break these types of apps occasionally and you may have to wait a few days for them to be fixed. It is a cat and mouse game.
Use these apps for music discovery. If you like a particular artist, buy the album directly from them and cache it digitally on your intended listening devices. Or go see a show or buy merch directly from the artists website. The artist makes more margin on those than they will make for thousands of Spotify streams.
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on Why Is Everyone In Tech So Sad? in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Aug 2026
It is really nice to have something to show for your work besides just a paycheck. This is something many don’t consider when evaluating career paths. CS or IT related careers damn near require you to do something tangible as a side hustle or at least a hobby, because the outputs of “commits” and “ticket closure metrics” just aren’t a edifying use of our creative spark as humans.
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on Why Is Everyone In Tech So Sad? in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Aug 2026
I relate to this strongly. Many of us in this field feel catfished by our jobs. We took the role to get access to exciting emerging tech, or to fulfill some useful purpose and apply strategic thinking. Instead the reality of the day to day is business-led bullshit, drudgery of ticket work for issues affecting one user (and its probably a problem they caused), or having to report progress and “green” status to some talentless PM who doesn’t give a shit about you or your career. That and meetings. And fires and escalations and technical bridges.
University marketing was bullshit in 2000, and when the article was written, and still is now.
They will stage pictures depicting groups of people who don’t know eachother, and situations that never happened, just to make a nice brochure or website picture.
If a target percentage of certain demographics is important to you, look at their published numbers and also do a campus tour to make your own subjective assessment.