Slack Is Basically Facebook Now ( www.theatlantic.com )
The article's title covers everything. Slack simply serves as a form of social media for the office that reduces employee productivity.
Unity deleted these terms, don't let them get out ( lemmy.today )
From The Internet Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20201111183311/https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/TermsOfService/blob/master/Unity%20Software%20Additional%20Terms.md
California Just Became the Third State to Pass Electronics Right to Repair ( www.ifixit.com )
California Just Became the Third State to Pass Electronics Right to Repair::Right to Repair just won in Big Tech’s backyard: California’s Right to Repair Act, Senate Bill 244, has passed the state legislature on a 50–0 vote.
FTC judge rules Intuit broke law, must stop advertising TurboTax as “free” ( arstechnica.com )
It’s about time that Intuit was called out for their scam. Hopefully, the attempt to stop the federal tax filing will get dismissed as well.
Mozilla review of 25 car brands finds they're "a privacy nightmare" ( foundation.mozilla.org )
Google Chrome pushes ahead with targeted ads based on your browser history ( www.theregister.com )
Google enables advertisers a look into your browsing history...
It's real. Twitter Shadowbanning is back. ( blog.twitter.com )
“Freedom of Speech, not Freedom of Reach - our enforcement philosophy which means, where appropriate, restricting the reach of Tweets that violate our policies by making the content less discoverable.”...
How do people find good information on the internet these days?
It used to be that you would do a search on a relevant subject and get blog posts, forums posts, and maybe a couple of relevant companies offering the product or service. (And if you wanted more information on said company you could give them a call and actually talk to a real person about said service) You could even trust...
I asked leonardo.ai to generate an image of itself. This is what it gave me. ( lemmy.ml )
Reddit is a Dying Mall ( www.staygrounded.online )
Inside the AI Porn Marketplace Where Everything and Everyone Is for Sale ( www.404media.co )
Each of these reads like an extremely horny and angry man yelling their basest desires at Pornhub’s search function.
Tech's broken promises: Streaming is now just as expensive and confusing as cable. Ubers cost as much as taxis. And the cloud is no longer cheap. ( www.businessinsider.com )
Sooner or later, everything old is new again....
John Deere brags about sabotaging competitors & customers on hot mic - they're PROUD of it! ( www.youtube.com )
John Deere brags about sabotaging competitors & customers on hot mic - they're PROUD of it!
Twitter/X removing the block feature ( lemm.ee )
Twitter/X new ID Verification - First Look ( lemmy.world )
Thanks to Popcrave...
Screen width and web dev
Okay, so what's with Gitlab and ServiceNow getting so fat on whitespace that they no longer fit in half a 1920x1200 screen properly?...
College professors are going back to paper exams and handwritten essays to fight students using ChatGPT ( www.businessinsider.com )
College professors are going back to paper exams and handwritten essays to fight students using ChatGPT::The growing number of students using the AI program ChatGPT as a shortcut in their coursework has led some college professors to reconsider their lesson plans for the upcoming fall semester.
Microsoft now has implemented "compare with Bing chat" button when you visit Google Bard in Edge ( reddthat.com )
When you visit the Google's chatbot bard's website in Microsoft Bing. A New Button pops up besides the search bar which lets you compare bard results with Bing chat's....
Google's Bard Urges Google to Drop Web Environment Integrity ( archive.is )
I asked Google Bard whether it thought Web Environment Integrity was a good or bad idea. Surprisingly, not only did it respond that it was a bad idea, it even went on to urge Google to drop the proposal.
An Asian MIT student asked AI to turn an image of her into a professional headshot. It made her white with lighter skin and blue eyes. ( www.businessinsider.com )
An Asian MIT student asked AI to turn an image of her into a professional headshot. It made her white with lighter skin and blue eyes.::Rona Wang, a 24-year-old MIT student, was experimenting with the AI image creator Playground AI to create a professional LinkedIn photo.
X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, has threatened to sue a group of independent researchers whose research documented an increase in hate speech on the site since it was purchased ( apnews.com )
Twitter is threatening legal action against the Center for Countering Digital Hate, a nonprofit that researches hate speech and content moderation on social media platforms....
Letters from the lawyers: Musk threatens CCDH with brazen attempt to silence honest criticism. — Center for Countering Digital Hate | CCDH ( counterhate.com )
"Last week we got a letter from Elon Musk’s X. Corp threatening CCDH with legal action over our work, exposing the proliferation of hate and lies on Twitter since he became the owner. Elon Musk’s actions represent a brazen attempt to silence honest criticism and independent research in the desperate hope that he can stem the...
BBC starts experimenting with the Fediverse, running its own Mastodon instance ( social.bbc )
Google tries to defend its Web Environment Integrity ( techreport.com )
I'm happy to see this being noticed more and more. Google wants to destroy the open web, so it's a lot at stake....
OceanGate's cofounder wants to send 1,000 people to a floating colony on Venus by 2050, and says we shouldn't stop pushing the limits of innovation ( www.businessinsider.com )
OceanGate's cofounder wants to send 1,000 people to a floating colony on Venus by 2050, and says we shouldn't stop pushing the limits of innovation::Guillermo Söhnleinm told Insider he has wanted to make humanity a multi-planet species since he was 11 years old, and that OceanGate was part of that ambition.
