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• Post #4291716

  Remember when Obama was going to be the Most Transparent White House Ever? … and then he won a Nobel Peace Prize for killing people with drones. Anyway, in case you missed it, Trump is working hard at being the Most Corrupt White House Ever. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9iZ10yIRwM story from John Oliver You can just pay Trump for whatever legal trouble you need to get out of. As CoffeeZilla puts it, "crime is legal now."

• Post #4291715

  Economically speaking, was Pokémon Go a fair trade? CIA gets: you crawled public spaces and 3D scanned the spaces for them. You get: a fun game that integrates physical exercise.

• Post #4291714

  Enshittification is EVERYWHERE, even when the product managers might not have meant to make it worse. Vivaldi (Chromium) automatically starts OCRing a PDF with a missing text layer. It's eating my CPU time. How do I turn off the OCR? https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/119135/can-t-disable-automatic-text-extraction-from-pdf-s You don't turn it off.

• Post #4291713

  @siina since you're asking for real alternatives to NextCloud I'll namedrop https://alternativeto.net/software/xwiki/about/ . I have not seriously tried it but I've considered it a few times. It's a free software "enterprise" wiki like Notion or Confluence. Rich text and tables go in pages, preferably, instead of attachments. Might be worth checking out.

• Post #4291712

  Well, I gave GNOME a "serious try" for 5 minutes, after being handed a remote desktop VM in which to do a work task. Can cross that off my todo list. How is GNOME a thing, that people use? I want to see the All Applications list. I had to click THREE UI elements to get there, and nothing afforded me a keyboard shortcut hint along the way. No Dark Mode. No "reduce motion" mode. Basically, you don't configure GNOME.

• Post #4291711

  Sam Tucker: > Welcome to "What's Windows broken this time?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n5FbKldvUs

• Post #2329553

  https://slashdot.org/story/26/05/09/052205/social-media-sites-got-information-from-ad-trackers-on-us-state-health-insurance-sites > Social Media Sites Got Information from Ad Trackers on US State Health Insurance Sites And no one will be punished.

• Post #2188581

  A certain person or two in my life are like the last panel here. https://pizzacakecomic.com/post/814880509222076416

• Post #2188580

  No, Defender! No! A certificate is not malware. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-defender-wrongly-flags-digicert-certs-as-trojan-win32-cerdigentadha/

• Post #2188579

  https://m.slashdot.org/story/454582 The Audio Industry Is Grappling With the Rise of 'Podslop' > Figuring out exactly which ones fall into that growing category is becoming more difficult What about Google's old PageRank idea of analyzing links in and out? Shouldn't a podcast get a boost in notability if other notable podcasts mention it? If it worked that way I guess you'd have an arms race with the sloppers.

• Post #2188578

  https://slashdot.org/story/26/05/05/1823200/coinbase-lays-off-nearly-700-workers-in-ai-native-restructuring Coinbase decimates workforce, forces remaining 86% to take on extra responsibility, and annouces they are vibe coding the next Mt.Gox event.

• Post #2188577

  It takes a special kind of asshole to block the crosswalk and bike lane while parking.

• Post #2188576

  https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/05/07/046259/major-homebuilder-to-test-placing-mini-data-centers-in-suburban-backyards Hiding the water and power externalities of AI data centers in suburban backyards. Town and county governments: make sure you tax the residents who are hosting data centers accordingly.

• Post #2188575

  I need a @ryan hot take on this… https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/05/06/2014204/microsoft-edge-stores-passwords-in-plaintext-in-ram > Microsoft Edge Stores Passwords In Plaintext In RAM Once you have access to a particular system user account, and its memory, isn't it pretty much game over? I'm fine with Edge holding "SAVED" web site passwords in process memory forever. I don't want to be prompted for a fingerprint or eye scan every time I open...

• Post #1670921

  @magicalthinking is that your story?

• Post #1670920

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MYxtL0AW2g Oh boy! It's Ubuntu Release Day! Who's still using Ubuntu? I think I'm going to stay on Kubuntu 24.04 long enough to pick and learn how to use an immutable distro which is not based on Debian or Ubuntu. This will probably require me to migrate project VMs from VirtualBox to VirtManager.

• Post #1551662

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_DPxE4YPc8 Arch Linux deletes Arch Wiki page about XLibre, citing "code of conduct". I suppose the CoC violation is that Lunduke loves XLibre, and therefore it must be cancelled.

• Post #1551661

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIIWyoy4aF8 'Member when Paramount sold Star Trek NFTs and Sesame Street sold NFTs, long after it became clear that everything related to NFTs was a scam?

• Post #1460729

  @MummaBear is there any hard evidence that this is a true photo?

• Post #1460728

  @greenzeta do they have anyone for whom the other side would vote?

• Post #1460727

  Thinking about buying a MacBook Neo, but you're worried about whether or not you can run an old 16-bit x86 Windows program under Windows 11 for ARM under MacOS, on the MacBook Neo? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptipTE0Gxws Fear not. It actually works. (You just have to install winevdm < https://github.com/otya128/winevdm >, first.)

• Post #1460726

  Failing upward. https://slashdot.org/story/26/04/12/0447236/ai-that-bankrupted-a-vending-machine-is-now-running-a-store-in-san-francisco > AI That Bankrupted a Vending Machine is Now Running a Store in San Francisco

• Post #1460725

  Mark Zuckerberg has become a caricature of himself. https://meta.slashdot.org/story/26/04/13/1642228/mark-zuckerberg-is-reportedly-building-an-ai-clone-to-replace-him-in-meetings > Mark Zuckerberg Is Reportedly Building an AI Clone To Replace Him In Meetings… so that employees might feel more connected to the founder through interactions with it. If you talk to your company founder and they're unaware of the conversation, how have you connected with them? Would this behavior h...

• Post #1460719

  If you bet on events online, you have already lost, the moment you pay. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0nsou-1Q2k The winners are quantitative algorithms that know vastly more than you do and don't get emotional.

• Post #298471

  Periodic reminder: When you "delete" your data from the cloud, all you know for sure is YOU can't see it anymore. https://arstechnica.com/google/2026/02/google-recovers-deleted-nest-video-in-high-profile-abduction-case/ Don't connect your security cameras to the Internet. Don't do your work in The Cloud.