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BrightCandle

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  • Exposed: The Alleged Crypto Entrepreneur Who Owns The Popular Forum LeakedBB Where ‘Leaked’ Nudes of Women are being posted and traded

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  • Once you have enough money to buy anything you want it looses value, now its the things that you can't buy that are worth having, those are the things you can show off to your other ridiculously wealthy friends.

  • According to the USA Gov, Linux usage is at 5.8%

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  • Of the desktop presumably. Of the server and other devices market its a lot more that.

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    Most slopcode projects are abandoned and deleted within months of release

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  • At some point the project also just gets hard to maintain with AI, you burn ever increasing tokens the bigger a project gets and AI produces awful code for the purpose of maintenance by hand. Once the bugs start rolling in they realise the AI can't fix them, they certainly can't afford to have it constantly load the entire project as context and they don't know how to fix it themselves and the tech debt produced is immense. So the projects get shut down.

  • Gamers push back: 71% say they’re not ready to let physical games die as PlayStation and Xbox move toward a digital-only future”

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  • They will like PC gamers swallow all the DRM and digital downloads as we see everytime there is complaints about Denovo or the latest game has been withdrawn on Steam gamers keep going back and buying more. It will end the same way on Playstation.

  • Gamers push back: 71% say they’re not ready to let physical games die as PlayStation and Xbox move toward a digital-only future”

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  • PC gamers accepted the inability to sell and loan games and to have extensive DRM on a large number of games. The console players are the last holds against this anti consumer practice. Just because PCs has multiple stores it doesn't change the fact Steam is a near monopoly and while its relatively consumer friendly we still don't own games on it, they can not be passed to others in any way legally. People have a weird love for Steam but the basic facts are the same, it uses DRM, you can't sell or loan games and you have a licence and don't own them, you can't pass them to someone else in a will. Steam is pretty anti consumer on the big items here compared to disks on the consoles.

  • Poll finds 90% in favour of social media age ban, while advocates urge action for online harms

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  • When you ask people if they want to hand over government ID to every website they access as an adult to prove they aren't a teenager however support is going to drop really rapidly. Most adults on the internet have had basic details stolen on the internet, but having your passport and other biometrics routinely stolen alongside your bank details is going to open people up to a lot of identity theft attacks. They aren't likely to support the actual implementation.

  • Majority of Americans support banning social media for kids under 16

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  • "But the leopards wont eat my face"

    Hate to break it to you but in the countries where they are restricting it they are doing so to Youtube and Reddit and many other places. Anywhere the plebs can talk to each other.

  • Bring Back Crappy Forums: Web forums were rough around the edges and faded in relevance as seemingly better options emerged. But what if we had stuck with them?

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  • What I miss in the transition from forums to Reddit and Lemmy is the longer forum discussions that could go on for years. They had their issues, they regularly went off topic and resulted in insults being traded and trolling but they also got to a depth that we don't see anymore. They were much better for getting to the detail of a thing and with Reddit/Lemmy being so focussed on today the entire discussion is gone tomorrow. The tree format is better for the branching discussion but its also got a real depth limit.

    We lost something important when most of the forums shuttered. I really miss usenet for that as well, it alas didn't evolve with the increase in spam but it could have been something still in use if it had.

  • Google must pay €4.1bn fine for using Android to 'block' rivals

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  • Need another one now for all the removal of side loading, that is another big antitrust issue. Best make the fine actually worth something this time.

  • Employers who laid off workers citing AI are already starting to regret it

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  • Its a really great market for picking up talent if your company isn't currently suffering AI psychosis. You don't have to use talent scouts or anything else expensive, your competitors are just laying off their top engineers who previously you had no chance of getting and they aren't even doing it out of necessity.

  • Canada wants to join the age verification bandwagon and censor the internet with Bill C-34

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  • Its unlikely that we will, too many people want this and the elites have created a system that has disempowered people completely. You work around it, with VPNs and use other sites.

  • Canada wants to join the age verification bandwagon and censor the internet with Bill C-34

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  • They have been finding that pretty annoying too, they are banning as much of that as they can currently get away with even if its completely ineffective.

  • Opensource AI Must Win

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  • I feel like there is a future of more targeted AI. At the moment something that does spreadsheets has to carry knowledge of programming and chemistry and lots of languages and this seems very heavy for what ultimately we need. A programming language focussed AT dedicated to Rust or Go or Java could potentially be quite a bit smaller especially if they focussed on algorithm snippet and auto complete smarts. There is definitely a market for smaller more targeted uses than these all encompassing chat bots where the goal is to move the state of the art on for existing algorithms.

  • Setting up dokuwiki as flat files and folders

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  • I have just let it grow organically. The front page is an index of various topics from personal things and particular games to household information. Then below that there might be just a page or an index to a bunch of pages often starting just as a list of links. I am often refactoring once a page has a bunch of sub headings of related topics but ultimately now needing multiple pages and replacing the original with the index to those pages. I don't think I could have designed an index system from the start without the content because I wouldn't have known what I was going to store.

  • Microsoft's GitHub bans security researcher who posted zero-day Windows exploits because company 'ruined their life' — expert claims action is vindictive and promises further retaliation

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  • Puts a lot of evidence towards his claims that Microsoft was behaving badly from the outset and the reason why he started doing this. They keep escalating. Its a war they started.

  • Google is cannibalizing the web to feed AI

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  • The death of Stackoverflow is one of these events where the site has been completely killed by AI and yet its contents is completely necessary for AI to know about solving programming problems. Its death will mark the end of AIs ability to learn how to solve programming issues. Its cannibalizing itself in the process, as it destroys its sources it destroys its own ability to learn.

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    What are my options for expanding server storage?

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  • Standard USB 3.0 is 5gbps, which is quite a bit faster than a hard disk drive so if you get a basic USB adapter it will perform about as you would expect a hard drive to perform just a bit worse. Direct Attach Storage will be many drives connected over USB and then you might run into limitations as the number of drives increases as USB tends to top out about 350MB/s with drives.

  • GitHub faces a fight for its survival at Microsoft

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  • One possibility is to leave the Github available but just have it as a project page that points them to where the development is really happening and then host it where ever you want. In the near term this seems like a solution that at the very least makes the project visible and findable for those that go looking just on github.

  • Mayor Zohran Mamdani is going live on Twitch in new streaming series 'Talk with the People'

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  • They aren't yet putting up barriers since their sole purpose is people connecting to each other. There is every chance they do move to restricting access but I think it would be the death of Twitch and certainly Twitter if they started doing so. Social media doesn't require us to trust some group of people to choose our content for us and as such is a lot less prone to that bias and billionaire control. That isn't to say the billionaires don't have an effect, on Twitter what people are exposed to by the algorithm is very intentional and controlled as is the front page roll on Twitch, but unlike mainstream media its still possiblr to see and connect with the unfavoured content and grass roots movements can still form. I would prefer this was all on the fediverse but its not where the people are yet.

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