It’s almost suspiciously convenient that politicians are being lobbied into demanding “killswitches” for the one thing that already has a killswitch built in, but not for the things that actually need them

I remember when GPT2 was “too dangerous to release” back in 2019. Funny how Sam Altman released it anyway.

Safari has uBlock Origin Lite.

iOS also has Brave, which apparently [created the adblock engine](It’s FOSS itsfoss.com › news › firefox-ships-brave-adblock-engine Firefox Has Quietly Integrated Brave’s Adblock Engine) Mozilla borrowed (and weakened)

iOS also has an independently developed browser with true uBlock Origin support. It doesn’t have official App Store support, but Mozilla could lobby for it.

This is a very funny graphic to have in the middle of the article

Thanks, this is the information I was looking for.

Putting it behind a paywall while insisting they’re “Essential journalism for historic times” is a punchline and a punch in the face

May I have some context? Too far outside of Linux to recognize who these people are (and usually assume “libre” usually means “good”)

Regardless of what people think about AI, must be a real slap in the face to go to that homepage and see AI-generated copy, go to the “pay $40 for early access” page, and see AI-generated logos for the various paid tiers.

Looks like let another cynical attempt to cash in on old IP. The last one was Digg, which was just as disappointing, but it’s actually operational and you can see it suck (read: repost Twitter tweets) in real time.

Yet another article written by Mike Masnick, tech reporter with a huge conflict of interest (he’s a Director at Bluesky, a social network).

The classic case with Meta is that many of its efforts to study how to make its platforms safer were used against the company as proof that “they knew!” their platforms were unsafe!

The lesson for the rest of the tech industry is grim and unambiguous: never study whether your own platform is causing harm. The mere existence of the research will be turned into Exhibit A that “they knew,” both in the court of public opinion and in actual courts.

What strange framing.

Meta wasn’t learning about safety out of the kindness of their hearts. They were identifying harmful features and keeping them. They were identifying addictive features and focusing on building them.

We don’t know this because Meta wanted us to know. It’s whistleblowers who testified about it.

there are some oddly specific requirements:

Meta SMPs will disable Teen Users from applying Cosmetic Procedure Filters to their content.

The agreement clarifies that this means:

… any digital filter or augmented reality (AR) effect that distorts, sculpts, redefines, or idealizes a user’s face in a way that cannot be achieved without cosmetic surgery or extreme makeup techniques.

And, sure, I can understand why such content might be unhealthy for teens. But it is, in fact, Constitutionally-protected speech.

This is such a reach. The best argument Mike can give in favor of face filters is that they’re free speech, apparently, which is dubious (we’ve already decided that under-13s don’t get any social media “speech” at all). Maybe Mike is in favor of removing that caveat too.

Ironically, according to the article, the underpaid workers had actually started using it. Seems like Amazon got a taste of the future they advertised, and decided they didn’t want it themselves.

Among many other issues (like two wrongs not making a right): This is very misleading.

The article discusses the emissions of cars on the road i.e. actively polluting , not cars in existence.

Edit: I see you are a big AI fan, so due to this conflict of interest I doubt there will be the chance of fruitful discussion of the real harm it causes.

Anthropic already shifting from monthly annualized revenue announcements, to speculative revenue announcements… That’s a good sign, right?

There are so many downsides to this method compared to a password manager too. There’s no encryption, email itself is a minefield when it comes to decent security practices, and I’ve often been stuck waiting for a login link to arrive before I can actually use whatever I was trying to manage.

€13.99 to €15.99 is $16.33 to $18.66. Is Google providing either of those numbers in value?

From the same URL:

The Big Apple has a new claim to fame. According to a recent report, New York City has overtaken Silicon Valley to become North America’s top market for tech jobs. The report, by commercial real estate firm CBRE, found that the New York metro area had 394,000 techies at the end of last year, while the San Francisco Bay area’s total dipped to roughly 375,000.

Congratulations to New York, the better Apple

Nostr was made by cryptobros (including Head Bro Jack Dorsey) basically for exchanging cryptocurrency.

Everything @Sxan@piefed.zip said about it, I agree with

Globally, the size of the industry could reach $153.4 billion this year…

For reference this is the “Second-hand Electronic Products Market”; I’ve never heard it referred to as an industry but I guess it is. And good. It’s deserved. Phone manufactures certainly don’t deserve credit for mediocre devices.

as Nabila Popal, a senior director at the International Data Corporation, reminded me, prices reflect demand: If people keep buying up the used gadgets, those prices are bound to shoot up, too.

Hopefully it’ll be less extreme than with desktops/RAM, though. Phones are at least single units that aren’t so easy to be hoarded or cannibalized for the most expensive parts in them. Most people who want a good phone won’t go out and buy 4-8 mediocre ones. Most people who want a good phone can settle for a popular flagship across several years manufacture, which might have been leased out previously.

Facebook users are the parents, aunts, uncles, and technologically illiterate friends of uBO users :)

Website seems kinda sus (via Reddit)

My experience with StackSocial is mixed. Yes, I did buy MS Office Professional 2021 from them, and successfully downloaded the software, and the product key worked for me. The software functions as expected. However, I started getting massive amounts of spam, mostly from east European countries, in my inbox. I had to block the spam country codes on my email provider’s webpage (Yahoo) and route the email from Stack Social, which they send out multiple times per day, to my Junk folder automatically. It took a while to get rid of most of the spam. I still get an odd one here and there after 2 years.

I’d take the deal if I knew it was basically a donation towards whoever’s maintaining the filters, I’m just not sure about where that cash is going.

And in a case like this I’d want to use a disposable email address and disposable card for the actual purchase. Which I have (hooray) but most people may not

I disagree with this thought process for all the reasons I listed above. I don’t like Facebook, but I have friends who either appreciate it or need it for things like work.

But even if you consider all Facebook users to be an acceptable casualty, this blocking won’t stop on Facebook. If it works, why would anti-adblock developers confine a lucrative success to one site?

Edit: dialed down my opinion of Facebook because Beehaw