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Apple Keynote now showing ads in its UI(mastodon.social)

103 points by jervant 12 days ago | 66 comments

A Mastodon post by Mario Guzmán showing a screenshot of an advertisement appearing in Apple Keynote's inspector sidebar.

Two ARM64-specific compiler optimization bugs, in GCC 15/16 and Rust, hit curl(mastodon.social)

44 points by torutofu 20 days ago | 5 comments

Mastodon post by Daniel Stenberg noting curl hit two arm64-specific compiler optimization bugs in GCC 15/16 and Rust, linking a GitHub issue.

OpenAI have no mathematicians capable of understanding what they put out(mastodon.social)

27 points by doener 1 month ago | 4 comments

Mullvad founder gave millions to extremist far right party(mastodon.social)

23 points by vrganj 4 months ago | 6 comments

10 years ago, someone wrote a test for Servo that included an expiry in 2026(mastodon.social)

210 points by luu 6 months ago | 117 comments

Internet outage in Iran reaches 1,008 hours(mastodon.social)

122 points by miadabdi 6 months ago | 80 comments

Iran Govt Fakes Traffic to Mimic Internet Restoration(mastodon.social)

30 points by us321 9 months ago | 2 comments

If you put Apple icons in reverse it looks like someone getting good at design(mastodon.social)

684 points by lateforwork 9 months ago | 260 comments

A social media post showing Apple's Pages app icons in reverse chronological order, joking it resembles a designer's improving portfolio, with replies.

Iran's complete Internet shutdown reaches 24 hours(mastodon.social)

29 points by walrus01 9 months ago | 4 comments

US sanctions EU government officials behind the DSA(mastodon.social)

62 points by pojntfx 10 months ago | 30 comments

Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features(mastodon.social)

500 points by twapi 10 months ago | 465 comments

A Mastodon post from Firefox web developers saying Firefox will add an option to disable all AI features.

Potential issues in curl found using AI assisted tools(mastodon.social)

505 points by robhlam 1 year ago | 145 comments

Mastodon post by curl maintainer Daniel Stenberg reporting that Joshua Rogers' AI-assisted tools found many potential curl bugs, with 22 fixes already landed.

Self-hosting email in 2025 is easy actually (apart from M365)(mastodon.social)

39 points by prettymuchnoone 1 year ago | 31 comments

EU Chat Control: Germany's position has been reverted to undecided(mastodon.social)

350 points by doener 1 year ago | 254 comments

Mastodon post from Fight Chat Control reporting Germany reverted to undecided on the EU Chat Control proposal at the September 12 LEWP meeting.

Denmark's Justice Minister calls encrypted messaging a false civil liberty(mastodon.social)

360 points by belter 1 year ago | 226 comments

Mastodon post by Fight Chat Control quoting Danish Justice Minister Peter Hummelgaard saying private encrypted messaging is not a civil liberty.

Ok now this is just ridiculous(mastodon.social)

16 points by Bluestein 1 year ago | 1 comments

Access to the United States' President for Sale via Meme Coin(mastodon.social)

12 points by doener 1 year ago | 4 comments

Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft(mastodon.social)

76 points by mraniki 1 year ago | 19 comments

European-alternatives.eu Experiencing Massive Traffic Increase Since January(mastodon.social)

15 points by pentacent_hq 1 year ago | 1 comments

Words flagged in search of current NSF awards(mastodon.social)

110 points by croes 1 year ago | 119 comments

Siri mixes up baby kangaroo with Friends sitcom actor(mastodon.social)

13 points by latexr 1 year ago | 0 comments

"Hetzner decided to cancel our account and terminate all servers"(mastodon.social)

289 points by unbelauscht 1 year ago | 202 comments

X's algorithm was changed in mid-July 2024 to boost right-leaning accounts(mastodon.social)

9 points by hn1986 1 year ago | 1 comments

NIST to forbid requirement of specific passwords character composition(mastodon.social)

185 points by riffraff 2 years ago | 95 comments

Mozilla has fired their Chief Product Officer after cancer diagnosis(mastodon.social)

111 points by indrora 2 years ago | 33 comments

Amazon's $1,600 Astro robot has FOUR CPUs running Linux?(mastodon.social)

11 points by luu 2 years ago | 3 comments

"Firefox added [ad tracking] and has already turned it on without asking you"(mastodon.social)

155 points by notamy 2 years ago | 104 comments

EPA releases report on Apple's hazardous waste violations in urban silicon fab(mastodon.social)

91 points by httptoolkit 2 years ago | 25 comments

My employer was dumping toxic waste into the apartment windows from their fab(mastodon.social)

11 points by luu 2 years ago | 1 comments

Apple pumped hazardous chemicals into the air at their fab in Santa Clara, CA(mastodon.social)

4 points by smlavine 2 years ago | 1 comments

Mozilla's Original Sin(mastodon.social)

13 points by MzHN 2 years ago | 11 comments

I've compared nearly all Rust crates.io crates to contents of their Git repos(mastodon.social)

115 points by robin_reala 2 years ago | 46 comments

Google AI: People should eat at least one small rock a day(mastodon.social)

23 points by cdme 2 years ago | 2 comments

Can I use gasoline to cook spaghetti faster?(mastodon.social)

62 points by DeathArrow 2 years ago | 24 comments

M4 always was horrible, and I say that as the original author of GNU M4(mastodon.social)

41 points by luu 2 years ago | 3 comments

Two hundred reasons to not use Azure(mastodon.social)

80 points by empuxr 2 years ago | 24 comments

Someone made a device that's just a mechanical finger connected to Zigbee(mastodon.social)

9 points by luu 2 years ago | 3 comments

Major medical provider drops patient for not having a Android or iOS device(mastodon.social)

24 points by leotravis10 2 years ago | 4 comments

Adding "before:2023" improves Google web searches(mastodon.social)

7 points by ajdude 2 years ago | 2 comments

"The issue was detected by our new AI-powered vulnerability scanner"(mastodon.social)

23 points by jviide 2 years ago | 2 comments

"no reasonable user would expect that their actions (…) be private from Apple"(mastodon.social)

28 points by Timothee 2 years ago | 12 comments

Threads Is Testing ActivityPup Integration(mastodon.social)

17 points by camjohnson26 2 years ago | 12 comments

How the first gen iPod was reverse engineered to run Rockbox(mastodon.social)

117 points by Wowfunhappy 2 years ago | 38 comments

Some might not see how much work it was to maintain xorg server(mastodon.social)

52 points by luu 2 years ago | 40 comments

"We pulled off an SEO heist with AI and stole 3.6M impressions."(mastodon.social)

23 points by phreeza 2 years ago | 15 comments

BBC Outage(mastodon.social)

17 points by shakna 2 years ago | 2 comments

It's true – your devices are listening to you(mastodon.social)

22 points by gvurrdon 2 years ago | 14 comments

Hallucineted CVE against Curl: someone asked Bard to find a vulnerability(mastodon.social)

140 points by TotempaaltJ 3 years ago | 84 comments

It appears that Dropbox is sharing all content ouside the EU with OpenAI(mastodon.social)

14 points by donutshop 3 years ago | 3 comments

The only planet where 100% of Linux systems have working audio is Mars(mastodon.social)

49 points by rcarmo 3 years ago | 35 comments

Things that didn't age well(mastodon.social)

37 points by rapnie 3 years ago | 1 comments

Google Maps is a critical dependency for nutrition facts on mcdonalds.com(mastodon.social)

101 points by zagrebian 3 years ago | 67 comments

I only lost 10 minutes of data, thanks to ZFS(mastodon.social)

370 points by chromakode 3 years ago | 224 comments

A Mastodon thread by Max Goodhart describing how ZFS snapshots replicated with zrepl let him restore his laptop after an SSD died, losing only about 10 minutes of data.

Downloading a video should be “fair use” as recording a song from the radio(mastodon.social)

613 points by luu 3 years ago | 195 comments

A Mastodon post by Halvar Flake arguing that downloading YouTube videos should be fair use, linking a TorrentFreak article about the youtube-dl site going offline.

A list of recent hostile moves by Google's Chrome team(mastodon.social)

841 points by luu 3 years ago | 491 comments

A Mastodon post listing recent controversial moves by Google's Chrome team, such as Manifest v3, JPEG XL removal, and Web Environment Integrity, urging users to switch browsers.

One thing that has changed in the professional game industry is that(mastodon.social)

26 points by luu 3 years ago | 38 comments

Removal of Google from W3C over the Implementation of Web Environment Integrity(mastodon.social)

62 points by janandonly 3 years ago | 14 comments

Astronomy Picture of the Day is is 28 years old today(mastodon.social)

44 points by sohkamyung 3 years ago | 7 comments

Earth's rotation, with the camera locked to the sky instead of the ground(mastodon.social)

309 points by behnamoh 3 years ago | 43 comments

The rise of ChatGPT-enabled GitHub spam(mastodon.social)

96 points by luu 3 years ago | 64 comments

Example of why you should not use FaceID to unlock your phone(mastodon.social)

42 points by donutshop 3 years ago | 35 comments

Check if your IKEA chair is compatible with your screen(mastodon.social)

579 points by ruph123 3 years ago | 195 comments

A Mastodon thread by Felix Häcker describing how his new monitor kept going black for seconds at a time, traced to his IKEA chair.

In 1930, the 22M-pound Indiana Bell building was rotated 90 degrees(mastodon.social)

162 points by rwmj 3 years ago | 70 comments

Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey(mastodon.social)

277 points by luu 3 years ago | 282 comments

Bloomberg sponsors curl with 10K USD(mastodon.social)

175 points by distcs 3 years ago | 49 comments