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  • HDD prices spike as AI infrastructure and China's PC push collide — hard drives record biggest price increase in eight quarters, suppliers warn pressure will continue

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  • As others, my basic home lab NAS plans are grounding to a stop because of worsening prices. Next up, phones are going to be even more expensive. Video game console price increases again

  • 2002: Last.fm and Audioscrobbler Herald the Social Web

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  • I loved last.fm. Used it for like a decade until I stopped caring about logging every time I listened to something. Was real good at finding music I liked. I used to view it as a reflection of me and then I got older and stopped caring about public reflections of myself

  • Why Are New Appliances So Bad? [41:02]

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  • From my memories, the price of appliances haven’t changed much in the last couple of decades. They maintain or increase margins with cheaper parts, less QA, looser performance tolerances while keeping the same sticker price. Whatever the quality sacrifice equivalent word for shrinkflation

  • Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out

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  • Most obvious thing to ever happen since ads being added to Instagram feeds. It's a search engine replacement. It was going to end up with basic advertisments eventually. Then targeted advertisements. Then sponsored results as sneaky as they can be in the case of suggesting the best solution/product. Free open source models and stuff like proton and duckduckgo if you really want to use AI search engines

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    I Work For an Evil [Tech] Company, but Outside Work, I’m Actually a Really Good Person

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  • Practically everyone I'm friends with hates imperialism and colonialism but loves the benefits of visiting poor countries that were victims of imperialism/colonialism and feeling special because of the money they bring and the lack of developed domestic entertainment/art industries so that theirs and their countries artist/entertainers are way more competitive there

    Everyone's pretty hypocritical. People that get mad at other people for working for Google are extra and easily ignored. Damn all those Boeing and Airbus employees for working for huge military contractors. When a company gets big enough, I wouldn't be surprised if they're lobbying for something terrible to benefit themselves.

    I'm continuously confused how these standards don't seem to apply to bank tellers, finance in general, large chain retail, fast food, large agriculture companies, fashion industry, film industry, music industry, alcohol, pharmaceutical, ... etc

    Some people fight the most inconsequential battles. If you work for JP Morgan Chase and someone gives you the cold shoulder or lectures you because so, ignore them. It's such a small crowd that's like that that it won't change your lifestyle. It's not like if you quit and struggled to find work and started to teeter on ruin that they'd be there for you. And someone like that probably fights so many small inconsequence battles that they'd be exhausting to be around anyways. And fighting such small inconsequential battles produces so little. Tagging, down with the oligarchy in a bathroom stall or sidewalk day to day. It's small bubble activism

  • Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell

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  • Besides myself being on Linux, I used to mix Linux and Windows since like 2010 but fully transitioned like 3 years ago, I'm still regularly using a laptop from 2016 as a zoom calls and internet browsing laptop. It gets too hot to have in my lap and the battery lasts like 30 minutes. That's a dual core integrated graphics chip from 2016. Anyone with a discrete graphics card easily has a solid workstation PC. If you're not gaming or your not doing something that really benefits from strong hardware, you're good. No need to upgrade. If you're not playing new AAA games at 4k maxed, you may be good. This is just same news as how people are holding onto their cell phones longer than before

  • Is Android really the next big desktop operating system?

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  • It'll be about as significant as chromeos so good for schools while professionaland enthusiast stuck working on them will do so by running regular Linux applications like you do on chromos. I'd say it's a stronger plus for Linux desktops than Android. Google really can't get out of their way with their NIH syndrome for desktops. Like 15 years of attempting to do desktop Linux but in a way users likely won't use the Linux desktop designed and often free software. I'd love to see this introduce people to Digikam, Darktable, Krita, GIMP, Kdenlive at the expense of Google Photos and adobe apps

  • Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin

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  • It's certainly just going to end up being used as an advertising tool. Like the recent hype of trying to get people let AI do holiday shopping for them. Like the AI saw you opened paint, have you considered a subscription for Adobe cloud. You searched for cake recipes on Google and clicked links, why not sub to copilot+. It'll have text to speech AI as well

  • Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions!

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  • It's still worse than before. Really need to break mobile away from Google and Apple. Preferably as close to standard Linux as possible

  • "It’s not about security, it’s about control" – How EU governments want to encrypt their own comms, but break our private chats

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  • Chat control is definitely going to pass eventually in my lifetime. Resiliency for secure and private communications will continue to develop. Anonymity will be needed too. Right now our governments instead of trying to inspire patriotism through improving living standards for the masses are focusing on information and communication control

  • Best Synology Replacement?

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  • You can buy the cheapest brand and run a different OS than the companies software. Like I have a TerraMaster NAS. Use what you want on it

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    Entry-Level NAS recommendations?

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  • I have a 2 drive TerraMaster. I'm no advanced user of NAS's. It was easy setup and use for me

  • Trump says TikTok should be tweaked to become “100% MAGA”

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  • Amazon's Vega OS coming to Fire TVs this year - what it means for your devices

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  • React Native applications may be nice if that in any way ever helps popular media streaming applications make their way to normal Linux even just make it as applications distributed in like Steam for SteamOS

  • Qualcomm unveil the Snapdragon X2 Elite and Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme, the fastest and most efficient processors for Windows PCs

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  • Qualcomm is too big and well established to be mediocre with day one Linux support

  • French lawmakers urged a social media ban for under-15s and "digital curfew" for older minors

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  • It's an entirely different level of learning from fairly dry school and footage of massacres, slave mines/plantations-housing, exploring granular data of fatalities (age, civilian or freedom fighter), volume of rape, changes in life expectancy, images of indentured farmers dealing with famine as food is exported. Not a single country tries hard to convey just how terrible life was for generations of people under colonial rule. Not a single colonial country is treating their past leaders in their schools history books as they would treat Hitler when they should be. I regularly hear the delusion that post-WW2 was a peaceful transition for post colonialism as if Algeria and Vietnam weren't millions of lives taken. That the decades after WW2 wasn't western backed coup after coup, assassination after assassination. Economic isolation for not accepting colonial rule. Colonialism only ended to a degree because colonial powers could no longer afford to keep their colonies in the face of improving domestic resistance and competition for influence with the Soviet Union. The US and Russia are post-WW2's most prominent imperialist. 3rd place would be France across southeast Asia to the present in Africa though that coercive power waning

    All the watered down education in the US, France, etc didn't stop the past 80 years of colonialism and it looks to me like countries in Europe want to be competitive imperial powers again now that the US isn't being as much of a team player anymore. Social media is making people less patriotic. Less likely to join the military. Less likely to stomach the slaughter of war. Restrict social media and the results of your countries actions can be better kept low velocity spread. France has even better marketing than the US even before Trump. France has been the third worst offenders of colonialism and imperialism both violent and economic post-WW2. It would take years and years of dedicated classes to try to actually convey how evil the French and every colonial power was and how banal their populaces were to that evil and generally still are to this day. It's not only the US with a sanatized history, uneducated population, subject to decades to centuries of propaganda and a warped view of how their country operates overseas

  • French lawmakers urged a social media ban for under-15s and "digital curfew" for older minors

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  • They don't want kids to know too well how their government operates domestically and internationally. Don't want kids to learn history much better than the watered down version they learn in school

  • The EU has never been closer to agreeing on Chat Control – here's how we got here and what’s at stake

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  • Everyone should probably just assume that even if this fails this go around, it will succeed eventually and keep building and adopting tools to circumvent these rules

  • The EU has never been closer to agreeing on Chat Control – here's how we got here and what’s at stake

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  • Fast forward to July 2025, Denmark reintroduced Chat Control as a top legislative priority on its first day of Presidency. While keeping the Belgian approach of limiting scanning to URLs and multimedia files, many experts feel that the text goes back to where it started – it reintroduces the indiscriminate scanning of unknown CSAM material, too.

    The Danish proposal introduces new obligations for all messaging services operating in Europe to scan users' chats – even if they're encrypted – in the search for both known and unknown CSAM material.

    Crucially, the mandatory scanning is expected to occur directly on the device before messages get encrypted, targeting shared URLs, pictures, and videos. Only governments and military accounts are excluded from the scope of the bill.

    First day and that's their most pressing concern, scanning everyones communications. This is EU, but after the Snowden leaks I knew it would all just be made legal since it was public knowledge then. Now trending towards making it all indiscriminate and mandatory. For a long time now I've come to always expect surveillance powers to eventually be abused. Damn near anyone paying attention knows this isn't about child porn