Internet / Digital Culture (2024-08)

The pot farm next door: Black market weed operations inundate California suburb, cops say (cnn.com)

~ 18 pts 17 comments by unknown Aug 31, 2024 ~news Internet / Digital Culture thread

Postiz - open-source social media scheduling tool (github.com)

L 2 pts 0 comments by nevodavid Aug 30, 2024 javascriptnodejs Web Development Programming (General)Internet / Digital Culture thread

Hi all, I am one of the builders of Postiz. Happy to get feedback and also some contributors :) https://github.com/gitroomhq/postiz-app This social media scheduling tool is similar to traditional ones: Buffer, Hootsuite, SproutSocial, etc. Key features: - Schedule for 9 social media p...

Bypassing airport security via SQL injection (ian.sh)

~ 54 pts 6 comments by unknown Aug 30, 2024 ~tech Data / Databases / Infrastructure Security / Privacy Internet / Digital Culture thread

End of the road: An AnandTech farewell (anandtech.com)

~ 53 pts 10 comments by unknown Aug 30, 2024 ~tech Internet / Digital Culture thread

US judge rules $400 million algorithmic system illegally denied thousands of people’s Medicaid benefits (gizmodo.com)

~ 27 pts 0 comments by unknown Aug 30, 2024 ~tech Science / Math / Physics Internet / Digital Culture thread

Rearchiving 2 million hours of digital radio, a comprehensive process (digitalpreservation-blog.nb.no)

L 6 pts 0 comments by r2gf Aug 30, 2024 practices Maker / DIY / Hardware Productivity / Career / Business Internet / Digital Culture thread

The Balkanized Internet: Role of Big Cloud Providers (consulting.m3047.net)

L 5 pts 0 comments by knl Aug 30, 2024 networkingrant Data / Databases / Infrastructure Internet / Digital Culture thread

Offbeat Fridays – The thread where offbeat headlines become front page news

~ 7 pts 2 comments by unknown Aug 30, 2024 ~news Internet / Digital Culture thread

Is Google training AI on YouTube videos? (youtube.com)

~ 17 pts 4 comments by unknown Aug 30, 2024 ~tech AI / Machine Learning Internet / Digital Culture thread

Dawn of a new era in Search: Balancing innovation, competition, and public good (blog.kagi.com)

~ 23 pts 3 comments by unknown Aug 29, 2024 ~tech Internet / Digital Culture thread

The Minimal Phone (minimalcompany.com)

~ 40 pts 34 comments by unknown Aug 29, 2024 ~tech Internet / Digital Culture thread

Brazil's top court threatens to suspend X (formerly Twitter) by Thursday night if Elon Musk does not comply with regulations (reuters.com)

~ 23 pts 5 comments by unknown Aug 29, 2024 ~tech Internet / Digital Culture thread

CrowdStrike estimates the tech meltdown caused by its bungling left a $60 million dent in its sales (apnews.com)

~ 37 pts 20 comments by unknown Aug 29, 2024 ~tech Internet / Digital Culture thread

US National Security Agency releases footage of Rear Admiral Grace Hopper speech from the 1980s (nsa.gov)

~ 32 pts 2 comments by unknown Aug 29, 2024 ~tech Security / Privacy Internet / Digital Culture thread

Air Con: $1697 for an on/off switch (blog.hopefullyuseful.com)

~ 40 pts 19 comments by unknown Aug 29, 2024 ~tech Internet / Digital Culture thread

US Court: Section 230 doesn’t shield TikTok from blackout challenge death suit (arstechnica.com)

~ 25 pts 4 comments by unknown Aug 29, 2024 ~tech Internet / Digital Culture thread

AI makes racist judgement calls when asked to evaluate speakers of African American vernacular English (science.org)

~ 23 pts 14 comments by unknown Aug 29, 2024 ~tech AI / Machine Learning Internet / Digital Culture thread

This behavior is by design (blog.gingerbeardman.com)

~ 12 pts 5 comments by unknown Aug 28, 2024 ~tech Internet / Digital Culture thread

Folder corruption in Thunderbird 122+ (bugzilla.mozilla.org)

L 3 pts 0 comments by gioele Aug 27, 2024 email Internet / Digital Culture thread

Chinese government hackers penetrate US internet providers to spy (washingtonpost.com)

~ 17 pts 3 comments by unknown Aug 27, 2024 ~tech Internet / Digital Culture thread

IKEA is trialling its own second-hand online marketplace so that customers can sell to each other, rather than relying on buy-and-sell websites like eBay or Gumtree (bbc.com)

~ 42 pts 26 comments by unknown Aug 27, 2024 ~tech Internet / Digital Culture thread

The Open Source Hardware Association needs your help (oshwa.org)

~ 15 pts 4 comments by unknown Aug 27, 2024 ~tech Programming (General)Maker / DIY / Hardware Internet / Digital Culture thread

Elon Musk’s lawyers quietly subpoena public interest groups (motherjones.com)

~ 38 pts 10 comments by unknown Aug 26, 2024 ~tech Internet / Digital Culture thread

A symbol for the fediverse ⁂ (symbol.fediverse.info)

~ 27 pts 38 comments by unknown Aug 26, 2024 ~design Design / UX / Visualization Internet / Digital Culture thread

Weekly Israel-Hamas war megathread - week of August 26

~ 5 pts 0 comments by unknown Aug 26, 2024 ~news Internet / Digital Culture thread

Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of August 26

~ 13 pts 15 comments by unknown Aug 26, 2024 ~news Internet / Digital Culture thread

Android launchers

~ 33 pts 47 comments by unknown Aug 25, 2024 ~tech Internet / Digital Culture thread

Military decoys in Ukraine - Fake equipment, inflatables and lessons in deception for foreign forces (youtube.com)

~ 19 pts 3 comments by unknown Aug 25, 2024 ~news Internet / Digital Culture thread

French authorities arrest Telegram’s CEO (theverge.com)

~ 13 pts 1 comments by unknown Aug 25, 2024 ~tech Internet / Digital Culture thread

San Leandro tech startup to sell drones the size of several cars, flying 600 miles at a time (mercurynews.com)

~ 21 pts 22 comments by unknown Aug 25, 2024 ~tech Productivity / Career / Business Internet / Digital Culture thread