Volunteer amateur systems administrator for Beehaw. Stay-at-home dad. Outdoor enthusiast.
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Volunteer amateur systems administrator for Beehaw. Stay-at-home dad. Outdoor enthusiast.
This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. View on remote instance
Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of May 19th
Whatcha all playing!...
Lights ( beehaw.org )
The Unbreakable Kryptos Code ( www.youtube.com )
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Camping ( beehaw.org )
Microsoft’s VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track ( arstechnica.com )
A personal argument for a benefit of gaming
I grew up hearing all the talking heads (media), religious groups and parents strongly criticizing video games. You've, probably, heard some of this. For example, video games involving any type of violence causing people to become more violent, etc. As far as I know, the academic community has failed to produce any negative...
Major U.S. newspapers sue OpenAI, Microsoft for copyright infringement ( www.axios.com )
We might be closer to changing course on climate change than we realized ( www.vox.com )
Target ( beehaw.org )
GoToSocial is a new ActivityPub social network server for the Fediverse ( github.com )
This service is still in Alpha release but is already deployable and usable, and federates with other Fediverse servers....
It’s the End of the Web as We Know It ( www.theatlantic.com )
‘The Lord of the Rings’ Trilogy Returning to Theaters, Remastered and Extended ( www.hollywoodreporter.com )
"Don't put garlic in your nose": The dangers of sinusitis misinformation on TikTok ( www.psypost.org )
Chill ( beehaw.org )
Airlines required to refund passengers for canceled, delayed flights ( abcnews.go.com )
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Biden signs TikTok “ban” bill into law, starting the clock for ByteDance to divest it ( www.theverge.com )
New Delhi chokes as trash mountain fire spreads hazardous fumes | CNN ( www.cnn.com )
Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of April 14th
Whatcha all been playing! I got the itch for outer wilds again, which I can’t really play anymore (😭)...
How Subscription Services are designed to BANKRUPT you ( piped.video )
Related: The ‘Enshittification’ of TikTok
Beeper is now available, no waitlist! ( blog.beeper.com )
Beeper Messaging App That Irked Apple Is Acquired by WordPress.com Owner ( www.bloomberg.com )
Automattic purchases Beeper in $125 million deal; CEO to join...
Russ Cook: The Hardest Geezer who ran the length of Africa ( www.bbc.com )
Allowance ( beehaw.org )
Feedback from all moderators
The Sublinks team has written up a little survey, which we feel is both thorough and inclusive. It covers a wide range of topics, such as user privacy, and community engagement, along with trying to gauge things that are difficult when moderating....
U.S. government blasts Microsoft for lax security measures in report on Chinese hacks ( www.dhs.gov )
In its report published this week, the Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB) says that the June 2023 online breach by Chinese threat actors who accessed U.S. government emails right before Secretary of State Anthony Blinken was to visit China, was “preventable”....
It’s time for a hard reset on notifications ( www.theverge.com )
Chatbot letdown: Hype hits rocky reality ( www.axios.com )
Flipboard is pivoting to ActivityPub and the fediverse ( www.theverge.com )
This Firefox for Android feature you've been begging for is finally here ( www.androidpolice.com )
Why the Internet Isn’t Fun Anymore ( www.newyorker.com )