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
Fewer people are using Elon Musk’s X as the platform struggles to attract and keep users, according to analysts ( www.nbcnews.com )
U.S. Sues Apple, Accusing It of Maintaining an iPhone Monopoly ( www.nytimes.com )
The department joined 16 states and the District of Columbia to file a significant challenge to the reach and influence of Apple, arguing in an 88-page lawsuit that the company had violated antitrust laws with practices that were intended to keep customers reliant on their iPhones and less likely to switch to a competing device....
Diablo 4 Season 4 Campfire Chat Summary ( www.youtube.com )
Big changes/improvements coming to season 4 which has been delayed until May 14.
Beeper couldn’t bring iMessage to Android — but it can still make a great chat app ( www.theverge.com )
House likely to pass a bill that could ban TikTok, sending it to the Senate ( www.nbcnews.com )
Reddit gets ready for IPO, setting a top valuation of $6.4 billion ( www.axios.com )
Activision Blizzard’s ex-CEO Bobby Kotick reportedly wants to buy TikTok ( archive.is )
zoom alternatives
are there any alternatives to zoom that have alot of features out of the box like live streaming to youtube support plus doesnt make you pay money to get extra features?
Gen Z is bringing back landline phones because they think they look ‘cool’: ‘I love to twirl the cord’ ( nypost.com )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/10105454...
is there any foss discord client for mobile?
Ransomware gangs collected record $1.1 billion from attacks in 2023 ( www.axios.com )
The fediverse, explained ( www.theverge.com )
Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of February 4th
Hey y'all, what have you been playing!...
A new internet is forming (& Meta wants to control it) [21:30] ( youtu.be )
23andMe’s Fall From $6 Billion to Nearly $0 ( archive.fo )
Microsoft stole my Chrome tabs, and it wants yours, too ( www.theverge.com )
Last week, I turned on my PC, installed a Windows update, and rebooted to find Microsoft Edge automatically open with the Chrome tabs I was working on before the update. I don’t use Microsoft Edge regularly, and I have Google Chrome set as my default browser. Bleary-eyed at 9AM, it took me a moment to realize that Microsoft...
Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of January 28th
What are you all playing! I've been playing a lot of lies of p and have been dipping my toes back into binding of Isaac!
Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees ( www.theverge.com )
The cuts work out to roughly 8 percent of the overall Microsoft Gaming division that stands at around 22,000 employees in total.
The Day Before studio say the game's downfall was thanks to "a hate campaign" ( www.rockpapershotgun.com )
Tetris Just Got Beaten Again ( www.youtube.com )
The fall of Firefox: Mozilla's once-popular web browser slides into irrelevance ( www.zdnet.com )
Article seems pretty flawed. Relevance is a vague metric, and the author relies pretty heavily on data related to government site visitation, which seems subject to bias toward certain types of users....
Get ready to hear more about "pre-internet" times ( www.axios.com )
13-Year-Old Becomes First Person to Beat Tetris on NES ( gizmodo.com )
Value of X has fallen 71% since purchase by Musk and name change from Twitter ( www.theguardian.com )
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Apple is now banned from selling its latest Apple Watches in the US ( www.theverge.com )
Windows 10 end of life could prompt torrent of e-waste as 240 million devices set for scrapheap | ITPro ( www.itpro.com )
Analysts have warned Windows 10 end of life plans could spark a global torrent of e-waste, with millions of devices expected to be scrapped in the coming years....
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 )
YouTube screwing itself with adblockers again
I use Firefox and uBlock Origin. Not sure what kind of experience anyone else is having with YouTube, but recently my home page has been empty because I “don’t have watch history turned on”. Okay, fine. I won’t be able to browse suggested videos, and I’ll spend less time on their platform....