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JohnEdwa

@ JohnEdwa @sopuli.xyz

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  • Zelenskyy says US has agreed to offer Ukraine ‘strong’ 15-year security guarantees

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  • Why You Should Never Use Pixelation To Hide Sensitive Text

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  • Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped and is available via torrents

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  • IIRC there's still like 700TB of low popularity music missing, but it is only something like 0.4% of listens.And they need a more storage overall because they have to set up datecenters around the world - doesn't make sense to stream tens of millions of connections across the ocean. But that also gives all the backups one would need for "free".

  • Leaker Who Apple Is Suing Says 'Screw It,' Here's the Foldable iPhone Early

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  • No no is clearly the thinnest iPhone ever, just look at it, can't see anything wrong calling it that. So thin. Amazing, how can apple do such a marvel of engineering.

  • The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices

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  • Just use Intel CPUs and you'll understand, as they seem to invent a new incompatible socket every five minutes requiring a new mobo.

  • How AI broke the smart home in 2025

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  • Mumbling "Hey google, turn the lights off" from bed and the entire house going dark is pretty nice though.

  • How AI broke the smart home in 2025

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  • Few of them also could be open, but just don't advertise it.IKEA stuff was all ZigBee, now upgrading to add matter support, so you could mix and match them with Philips Hue, Agara, Nedis and quite a few others. Main issue is always software support on the hub or app - Ikea has no smart thermostats, so even though it can connect to them, they don't show up properly. That's where Home Assistant shines, as it supports basically everything imaginable.

    But you are right, most are proprietary because they want to lock you to their ecosystems. Exactly like cordless power tools and their batteries.

  • How AI broke the smart home in 2025

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  • HomeAssistant is the answer.

    Or if you want a simple & cheap off the shelf solution, IKEA stuff has being online as an option, not a requirement, and all the devices are ZigBee or matter compatible and not locked to some proprietary WiFi cloud bullshit.

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    What is a Passkey? - Computerphile

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  • It's called OpenID and has been a thing for almost two decades.

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    No, I will not identify all the pictures with bicycles in them.

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  • All bicycles are velocipedes, but not all velocipedes are bicycles.

  • Honey Targeted Minors & Exploited Small Businesses

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  • Maybe? I do kinda doubt that as the original addon was benign and did exactly what it said on the tin to fix a problem one of the founders had themselves - finding and applying coupons automatically, and there isn't an obvious way or need to monetise that.But they gained a massive userbase very quickly, which attracted investors like vultures ready to tear profits from those users. So even if they originally didn't plan to do much more than scan for coupons, after a few years of venture capital greed and tens of millions of investor money, they definitely were chasing profits by any means necessary. Money corrupts, after all.

    And by the time Paypal was willing to pay $4 billion for them in 2020, it was blatantly obvious they were doing a lot of shady shit because there just isn't a way to monetise free users that well while staying above the board.

    All of which is a damn shame, because the idea of an addon that scans and tries coupons for you is really simple and very useful :/

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    No, I will not identify all the pictures with bicycles in them.

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  • But are you sure it means two wheels, and not every other wheel? Maybe we should call them twicecyles to avoid the confusion.

  • Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux

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  • Honey Targeted Minors & Exploited Small Businesses

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  • Honey is a great example of corporate greed and enshittification turned to 11. It started as a simple free extension for collecting and trying discount coupons, and turned to a massive greedy scam with enough financial backing to start blackmailing webshops for profit.

  • The Official Startup Video For The Steam Machine Has Been Leaked - Steam Deck HQ

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  • As if having a visa or even being a citizen would somehow guarantee they won't kidnap and send you to El Salvador anyway.

  • TikTok allegedly monitoring users’ Grindr activity, digital rights group claims

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  • Latest Steam Deck update will warn you if an Xbox controller needs upgrading

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  • Agreed :)

    And no matter how they do it, it's clear they need to make changes; "everything is an Xbox controller and now just works" actually was pretty nice solution 20 years ago to fix the complicated mess that was PC gamepads with DirectInput, but it is very much outdated idea today.

    Thankfully it appears changes are happening that might solve the issue in the near future, and all we can really do is wait and see.

  • If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?

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  • Should companies using computers in general pay a tax for it, a computer used to mean a human that calculated - computed - things by hand, after all?But alarm clocks replaced knockeruppers, light bulbs replaced lamplighters, cars replaced coachmen, industrial robots replaced blacksmiths, we have no elevator operators, phone switch boards, traffic conductors, pin boys, link boys, ice cutters, scribes - the list of jobs made obsolete by technology during human history is massive.

    Generative AI, while widespread and disruptive, is just one more to the long list.

  • Steam Hardware @sopuli.xyz
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    OLED is nice and all, but the upgrade I really want is this.