TikTok Deal Done And It’s Somehow The Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse
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There were rumblings about this for a while, but it looks like the Trump TikTok deal is done, and it’s somehow the worst of all possible outcomes, amazingly making all of the biggest criticis…Techdirt
@adguard I knew I liked you guys for a reason. So cool, thank you! AdGuard VPN for Windows v2.8: Now with accessibility support
December 18, 2025
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Just wait until these guys learn about how companies like Apple buy future years worth of hardware and fab time for stuff that hasn't been sold yet or doesn't even exist
Or I don't know, the entire concept of futures contracts. Did you know they've even proposed the idea of organ futures for human organs ?
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To spell this out clearly, the reason RAM has quadrupled in price is that a huge quantity of RAM that hasn't been produced yet has been bought with money that doesn't exist to populate GPUs that also haven't been produced to go in datacenters that haven't been built powered by infrastructure that may never exist to meet a demand that doesn't exist at all to make profit margins that mathematically can't exist while economists talk about this thing they call the "rational markets hypothesis".
What’s really amazing about vibe-coding is how people are replacing programming languages which are strictly deterministic with human speech which is highly ambiguous and expect programming to be faster and better.
“Well only use it when you’re already an expert!”
None of the people starting their careers using this technology are experts yet, nor will the ever be.
And within some finite amount of time nether will you, the expert, be an expert anymore.
Törmäsin Linkkarissa uuteen, kotimaiseen äänikirjapalveluun, josta voi ostaa kirjoja yksittäiskappaleina. He lisäksi lupaavat reilumpaa korvausta tekijöille. Toistaiseksi vain Aviadorin ja Aula & co teoksia tarjolla, mutta mielenkiinnolla seuraan, miten tämä lähtee kehittymään. 🤔
#kirjamastodon #kirjailijanelämää #äänikirja
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Lukuaikapalvelut ovat pienentäneet kirjailijoiden tuloja, joten Kuulokuva tarjoaa vastavoiman: äänikirjojen kappalemyynnin. Kuulokuvassa äänikirjat tuottavat yhtä hyvin kuin paperikirjat. Kuulokuva laajentuu kustantamosta äänikirjakaupaksi.Sami Kuusela (Kuulokuva)
When we first learned about Mixxx, it almost seemed too good to be true.Ben Lepper (Magnetic Magazine)
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Short and succinct, @neil lays down the incredible danger of the UK's current political talk about "banning under 16y olds" from using online services.
UK's "age assurance" is similar to #chatcontrol 's "age verification" plans: the end of privacy when using online services. Basically policing everywhere demanding "show me your passport!" before you can cross the street to a web shop or forum.
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Earlier this week, I wrote about a proposed legislative amendment to attempt to compel VPN services providers to prevent anyone under 18 in the UK from using their VPNs.decoded.legal
I have a genuine question: What is then the solution to preventing minors from being exposed to digital content that is deeply harmful to their brain and overall development?
Saying this because quite clearly clicking "Yes, I am 18" is a pseudo-check that doesn't actually do anything.
Hegseth disappointed Sexual Assault Training only covers prevention
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Defense Secretary allegedly confused training for a ‘how-to’ seminar.Red Friday (Duffel Blog)
HN elitists: omg FreeBSD is so retarded I can't believe this exploit existed what kind of idiot still uses shell scripts for stuff this important
Oh I don't know, like everybody??
Yeah FreeBSD manages resolv.conf changes using shell scripts from a BSD licensed project called openresolv
But Debian does the same goddamn thing with their version of it called resolvconf: salsa.debian.org/debian/resolv…
Planespotting is wildlife photography of the common man. 📷 🛬
#Photography #Planespotting #Spotting #Aircraft #AircraftSpotting #CGN
There were rumblings about this for a while, but it looks like the Trump TikTok deal is done, and it’s somehow the worst of all possible outcomes, amazingly making all of the biggest criticis…Techdirt
RE: mastodon.social/@glynmoody/115…
Should've used the access to flood the accounts with a notice that they were AI-generated/fake.
What a stupid future we've created.
Hack Reveals the #a16z-Backed Phone Farm Flooding #TikTok With #AI Influencers - https://www.404media.Glyn Moody (Mastodon)
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Would you believe there’s a new installment of the Taming the Terminal podcast out today? 5 years ago, @bart had taught us everything he’d planned, so we set the show aside until he had new material. If you’ve always wanted to know how to use the Terminal but thought it was too intimidating, or if you just want to be better with it, this is the show for you. Head over to the link below or subscribe in your podcatcher of choice!
"why do you hate capitalism?"
"you are just a communist!"
"Canada post suck"
These are the few answers.
A Texas district in which Black students were allegedly taunted with monkey noises.
An Arizona school where students admitted saying “slavery is good.”
These are some of the incidents Trump’s Education Department has ignored.
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#News #Education #Trump #Racism #CivilRights #School #Family #BlackMastodon
Since Trump returned to office, the Education Department’s civil rights office has not resolved a single racial harassment investigation. It sends a message that “people impacted by racial discrimination ... don’t matter,” one attorney said.cengiz.yar@propublica.org (ProPublica)
Grocery delivery service Instacart will refund $60 million to settle FTC claims that it misled customers with false advertising and unlawfully enrolled them in paid subscriptions.
It hands them blueprints for exploitation, legitimacy and controlchrisyoong.com
The Thunderbird team is off to rest and recharge, and come back strong on January 5! Until then:
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Okay, I'm loving this gitlab CLI. I'm so glad that I know about it now. Of course, I need to figure out how to do things with it, but, for instance, I can just go into my at-spi2-core directory from the console and type
glab mr update 220 --draft
Otherwise, I'd need to open gitlab.gnome.org in a browser, click the button to sign in, type in my username and password, get my phone out for the two-factor authentication, then find the control on the web page to do what I want.
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🎉 arcanechat.me server upgraded! 🎉
some of you might have noticed arcanechat.me was down for a few minutes, that was because I was migrating to the new more powerful server as announced some days ago!
besides having a faster more powerful server, now every user have 2GB of temporary storage! useful if you receive a lot of media!
🎁 this is my Christmas gift for the #ArcaneChat users, if you feel like showing back your love, you can support my work here:
arcanechat.me/#contribute
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Quick PSA : yes, #Mozilla has been disappointing, but so far, they’re the only organization preventing Google to have a full control over web standards. Blink/WebKit-based browsers (Chromium, Vivaldi…) do NOT help at all in that regard.
So please use #Firefox or a #Gecko-based alternative (#ZenBrowser, #LibreWolf…). Ride the nightly release train and report bugs if you can. #Servo is getting ready, but for the next ~5 years, Gecko is our only suitable option.
Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what GenAI is.GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, because you don't have evil in your heart.
But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, and anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.
Not just that but Tolkien also said: "Evil cannot create anything new, it can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made.".
Sound familiar ?
Here's to me rebuilding curl in Debian without LDAP support because that uses Elder Ciphers Not Meant For Current OpenSSL Releases and subsequently breaking.... the ruby libvirt bindings.
Libraries and dependencies, man.
Important Acronyms in IT Technology
IPv4: Internet Problem, Version 4
IPv6: same, but 6 times more Problems
DHCP: Desktop Hardware Cleaning Protocol
DNS: Destroying Network Protocol
VPN: Very Problematic Network
EthO: Eternity, low Level
Eth1: same, but stoned
SDA: Software Defined Anger
CPU: Core Problem Unit
RAM: Random Access Mismatch
HD: Historical Device
SDD: Self Destroying Device
TCP: Total Complex Protocol
UDP: Undefined User Paranoia
USB: United Shit Bracket
GW: Genuine Witchcraft
ROM: Rusty Old Malware
GPU: Great Picture Utensil
C#: Chaos
C++: same, but much more
CAT0...n: Number of Cats lying on keyboard, what else?
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I just wrote up some docs on how to hide images in public rooms on Matrix in several clients.
matrix.org/docs/chat_basics/pu…
If anyone was able to add info for more clients that would be awesome. Here's my change for reference: github.com/matrix-org/matrix.o…
As discussed within the Trust and Safety Research and Documentation Working Group. ✔️ Checklist Check for common mistakes: Wrap plain URLs in <> to linkify them (learn more). Use the ri...GitHub
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I blew my stack today. Here's the result:
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"But that’s just the Economics 101 reason not to do this. The other one is this: I’m pretty sure people actually hate this? You have the data, you know."
Oh yeah, they do, but their goal isn't making features people don't hate. Their goal is making profitable features which people hate, but not to the extend they would leave the service. And because they have data, they have learned that the threshold is really high for most people.
So we have a market with a handful of dominant services which are hated by their users, but it isn't going to change until people stop complaining about it and actually start leaving them.
I take your point. People apparently don't hate this enough to leave right now. But the thing about losing goodwill is that things happen gradually, and then suddenly. I think that a good business leader should be sensitive to this. The fact that the data doesn't show enough outflow to worry about _today_ doesn't mean you're not going to see something much worse in the future.
We all know the rationale of shoving AI on people. I just thing 2 massive buttons around every email is stupd
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