Signal offers workarounds for Iranian users blocked from using the app 📦
5 1 comment 07 Feb 2021 01:29 u/Line_Weights (..) in g/technology
Australia: Labor tells Facebook to censor rival lawmaker Craig Kelly's "harmful" content 📦
6 0 comments 05 Feb 2021 00:27 u/Line_Weights (..) in g/technology
TikTok to prompt users when videos are "misleading" 📦
15 4 comments 05 Feb 2021 00:26 u/Line_Weights (..) in g/technology
Fact checkers worry Twitter's new Birdwatch feature could undermine their "authority" 📦
12 2 comments 04 Feb 2021 17:28 u/Line_Weights (..) in g/technology
Parler CEO John Matze has been fired 📦
37 12 comments 04 Feb 2021 02:29 u/Line_Weights (self.technology) in g/technology
Comment on: Government demands for Amazon user data increased by 800% in 2020
A good buddy of mine has an Alexa. It's the most frivolous thing I've ever seen in my life and I doubt he uses the thing at all when no one's around to be impressed by it.
1 03 Feb 2021 17:38 u/Line_Weights in g/technology
Comment on: Wikipedia launches new code of conduct that bans "false" info and "trolling," encourages preferred pronoun use
According to this (https://www.howtogeek.com/260023/how-to-download-wikipedia-for-offline-at-your-fingertips-reading/) it's only 150GB for the entire thing, pictures and all. The best time to download this would have been some time in the months before they memoryholed Ellen Page being a woman, the second best time would be now; despite its faults, a still shot of it frozen in time will remain an exceptional resource on a wide variety of subjects long into the future, and hopefully some enterprising individual will create an alternative someday.
3 03 Feb 2021 17:35 u/Line_Weights in g/technology
Comment on: Wikipedia launches new code of conduct that bans "false" info and "trolling," encourages preferred pronoun use
I'm a regular donator myself but I'm done starting now that they're (more) ideologically compromised. Luckily you can download the entire website as-is and it's surprisingly light on the HDD. Someone should make a clone of the site as-is and allow for more open discussion.
5 03 Feb 2021 03:16 u/Line_Weights in g/technology
Government demands for Amazon user data increased by 800% in 2020 📦
34 9 comments 03 Feb 2021 02:41 u/Line_Weights (..) in g/technology
Wikipedia launches new code of conduct that bans "false" info and "trolling," encourages preferred pronoun use 📦
11 10 comments 03 Feb 2021 02:33 u/Line_Weights (..) in g/technology
Steven Crowder to sue Facebook, alleging violations of antitrust and false advertising laws 📦
8 2 comments 02 Feb 2021 04:41 u/Line_Weights (..) in g/technology
Google reinstates decentralized chat app Element after sudden ban 📦
24 2 comments 31 Jan 2021 21:30 u/Line_Weights (..) in g/technology
Spotify granted patent that allows it to listen to your room, monitor your emotions 📦
28 3 comments 30 Jan 2021 19:09 u/Line_Weights (..) in g/technology
Comment on: It’s Not Section 230 You Hate, It’s Oligopolies
Section 230 is good, the problem is these sites aren't acting as service providers in good faith and instead are acting as publishers by picking and choosing which otherwise completely legal content they will "allow", selectively enforcing their terms of service etc.
1 28 Jan 2021 13:19 u/Line_Weights in g/technology
Tesla unveils redesigned Model S with new interior and 520-mile range option - The Verge 📦
4 0 comments 28 Jan 2021 00:46 u/Line_Weights (..) in g/technology
Apple surpasses $100 billion in quarterly revenue for first time in its history - The Verge 📦
5 1 comment 28 Jan 2021 00:42 u/Line_Weights (..) in g/technology
Gabe Newell believes that brain interfaces will make games 'superior' to reality quite quickly - Compsmag 📦
4 1 comment 26 Jan 2021 04:40 u/Line_Weights (..) in g/technology
Elon Musk offers $100M prize for best carbon capture technology - Business Insider 📦
17 4 comments 22 Jan 2021 03:08 u/Line_Weights (..) in g/technology
Janet Yellen suggests 'curtailing' cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, saying they are mainly used for illegal financing | Currency News | Financial and Business News | Markets Insider 📦
8 2 comments 20 Jan 2021 21:11 u/Line_Weights (..) in g/technology
Comment on: Brave Browser Integrates IPFS
If you're using a mobile device apparently Apple made it so that BAT accumulation was against their TOS at some point; I'm not sure if the same rings true for Android. On desktop though it works just fine for me, I have about $50 worth despite donating over 15 BAT a month. I do kind of wonder if I get more because I actively donate but I'm not sure it works like that at all.
3 19 Jan 2021 19:08 u/Line_Weights in g/technology
Comment on: Brave Browser Integrates IPFS
Not sure why people have such a negative opinion of BAT. It's opt-in, and with many people arbitrarily losing their access to conventional revenue streams it's a nice alternative, imperfect though it may be.
13 19 Jan 2021 18:08 u/Line_Weights in g/technology
Comment on: DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries
I've been using DuckDuckGo for many years and it's great. Google wouldn't have gotten to where it is without providing a good service but there are quite a few very capable alternatives out there, I like the idea of helping the smaller guys mature because competition is good for everybody. Apart from Youtube I've been Google-free for quite a while and thanks to alternatives like DuckDuckGo I've hardly noticed.
1 17 Jan 2021 20:40 u/Line_Weights in g/technology
Comment on: Pirate Bay Founder Thinks Parler’s Inability to Stay Online Is ‘Embarrassing’
I'm not a fan of Parler at all personally, but what does the Pirate Bay host other than 1kb torrent files? Few pictures, no audio or video as far as I recall. It hasn't changed functionally or aesthetically much-if at all-since its inception. What a stunning achievement. It's not like they've never gone down for a protracted period of time either, in fact they did just a few months ago: "The Pirate Bay Is Down" https://www.techworm.net/2020/03/the-pirate-bay-proxy-sites-alternatives.html Wow. Must have been pretty embarrassing for them. It's like this entire article was written so that he could get that "viral" soundbite out.
2 17 Jan 2021 20:34 u/Line_Weights in g/technology