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  • Google is now rolling out Android 17 Beta 1 for Pixel

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  • Times have changed. I used to be excited 10 years ago when new android versions came out with cool new features, often better performance, and a lot of gimmicks that sometimes were useful.

    Now it is: "Oh I wonder what feature they are taking away this time, what freedom they are stepping on now, what they have enshittified now, and how they are adding additional surveillance to sell to Palantir..."

    And what they advertise is literally "Location Indicator is slightly darker". "Settings menu had very slight spacing change" and "brightness icon is mirrored"

    Somebody is getting a promotion for those extremely minor changes

  • New nickel-iron battery charges in seconds, survives 12,000 cycles

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  • This is theoretically something sodium batteries would be good at right?

    Aren't they not as sensitive to storage voltages? They are almost a perfect lead-acid replacement. Plus a UPS is a great usecase because it doesn't matter if it is 33% bigger to achieve the same capacity.

  • Open-sourcing CORE One CAD Files Under the New Open Community License (OCL)

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  • Even the creator of the open source initiative has said that open source has failed and we need more restrictive licensing because open source simply is too permissive and has been aggressively exploited at the expense of the people, who it was meant to empower.

    For me, source available licenses that are open source except specifically restricting for profit hungry, exploitative companies and corpos are with something like non-commercial clauses are fine for an end product. I use CERN OHL S v2, but I can't fault people for going noncommercial like the entirety of the art and 3D printing world pretty much already are to protect themselves.

  • Bitwarden 2026 Data Privacy Week survey results

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  • Probably because it is all portable and in markdown, the devs are widely available and it is open enough that community, open source plugins can be easily made which allow you to make custom workflows that simply aren't available in any alternatives.

    Linking is significantly easier and better than any alternative I have tried which significantly lowers the effort of documentation which is the largest hurdle for most people. As all social media shit apps have taught us, ultra low-effort beginning of a habit is the key to consistent use.

    And if the dev enshittifies, all of your notes are safe in plaintext markdown and not a proprietary format and can be imported and cleaned up in your choice of new editor and fix the linking.

  • Ring calls off partnership with police surveillance provider Flock Safety

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  • I think Frigate also works well with standard video cards nowadays?

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  • I have made laundry lists in the past of things that either you can't do with windows, or you need to regedit and hack around it. Literally basic as fuck things.

    Hell, until a year or two ago, you couldn't open the location of a file from a file search, and it obscured (and still does) the full path of the file in the search pane. Not to mention how bad the search is in general.

    Don't get me started on the "modern sleep" bullshit lol

  • Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras?

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  • In Belgium, it is legally required to put a sign up if you have cameras, you can't point them at a place including public properties IIRC, and you can force them via the local government to move the camera if they are pointing at your property (at least in theory).

    Lasers. Blue lasers are what you can do. https://www.reddit.com/r/Ring/comments/wqxkdq/what_is_this_person_doing_to_my_camera/ (hate to link to reddit but it is a good demo)

  • GUIs

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  • OpenSCAD would like a word lol

  • WiFi Could Become an Invisible Mass Surveillance System

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  • Clickbait title in the OP, but they mean the methods coming out for tracking people without any electronic device on them at all via heavy filtering and pattern recognition to make 3D space snapshots due to the distortion in the WiFi transmission reflections.

    What you are talking about are all surveillance devices based on compromising a specific device and using it to surveil an electronic device. The closest one of those device comes is the TAWDRYYARD which just communicates a position with light.

    Though there is 0 doubt that this tech has been discovered and used by the NSA/mossad and other government intelligences already.

  • I want a phone I can actually fix, and Fairphone’s record growth shows the world does too

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  • I think it is because 90% of company sustainability is simply greenwashing.

    Fairphone also had the whole "fairbuds" thing where they released tws earbuds (and then removed the headphone jack) and supported them for under 2 years before throwing them away and they are completely non-repairable, then acted like they didn't exist.

    The new fairbuds are 10x better though, but I have heard the sound on both of their headphones is mediocre at best.

  • Statistics for Strava, a self-hosted, open-source dashboard for your Strava data.

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  • 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives

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  • Also not very searchable on engines, especially due to fediverse server name differences, you can't !lemmy because many of the communities don't have Lemmy in their domain or titles or however that works. At least I have only gotten Lemmy results for like 25% of my searches.

  • I was quite out of the loop, but it sems like TeamSpeak 6 is now a full fledged self-hostable Discord alternative? TeamSpeak 6 Is Back: New Design, Screen Sharing, and More

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  • I have heard from tons of people, especially here on Lemmy who have tried to move people and communities over that it is often abandoned due to a huge amount of fundamental and UX problems that make it a huge pain to deal with and admin for and keep updated without a bunch of things breaking.

  • Start-up idea

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  • Yes but they hide that as much as possible.

    • No longer warranty
    • No specs that indicate longevity
    • also has bullshit WiFi/touchscreens because it is so cheap to integrate for them

    If you are extremely lucky, there is a review for that model somewhere that isn't just paid advertising, but outside of the US with less-used models, that is pretty much a fantasy.

    For example, even on the most expensive 1400€ Series 8 models Bosch (traditionally one of the best quality washers in the EU) now instead of a drum with bolts and a gasket, plastic welds their drum covers so it doesn't last as long, breaks at the seam, and is almost impossible to repair correctly.

    And their specs say the size, capacity, programs, and a few useless features like automatic dosing, lighting inside, and "led display" , and that is it.

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  • Generally export to the grid. Farms don't use 500kW-1MW of energy usually.

    Since industrial farms and oil company corruption have killed produce profits for human consumption, selling the energy is often more viable financially than the crops that grow under it, especially as far as upkeep with the absolute proprietary planned obselescense shit show that is the Agri equipment industry. Not to mention the insane Monsanto seed corruption and abuse. Many farmers are operating on a loss which has lead to regional monopolies as megacorps buy up bankrupt farms.

    Going the agri-solar route could be the saving grace for many many farms. (Where it is viable at least and transmission is doable)

  • Do you like working from home? Yes or no, gimme some reasons.

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  • As an engineer, hybrid works best for many of us.

    Design phase can be wfh with some in-person idea sessions or important meetings because I have yet to be at an online idea session that was as productive as in-person being able to draw things out and visualize better, and people tend to not speak up or just check out and agree at the end in online meetings.

    Testing phase has to be mostly in person for lab tool access and collaboration on physical things.

    I have worked with a contractor that did everything from home and had a whole home lab, but it was a big time sink and cost shipping parts back and forth 5 times and you couldn't physically probe behaviors together which leads to slightly different setups and sometimes different results.

    Socially I moved to a place where I had no friends so I like getting social contact at work since in Belgium, it is extremely difficult to make new friends after you are done with school because of a culture of not talking to anyone else unless people are obnoxiously drunk lol. I like wfh on overwhelming days and in-person on days where I want more social contact.

    That being said, I work 100% in office now because I live a 12 minute bike ride from work, so very easy.

  • European alternatives to Visa and Mastercard ‘urgently’ needed, says banking chief

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  • We use Belgian Bancontact, not visa/MasterCard here

  • BASED?

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  • This is also why people should seriously think about if they are ready to have a kid or want to have a kid.

    Millions or tens/hundreds of millions of kids have parents that never really wanted them and just gave in to the biological clock and/or social pressures and the kids have a shitty childhood. It sucks to be unwanted, and kids can really feel it.

  • Start-up idea

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  • And there were tons of ones back in the day that didn't cost that much either.

    Surprise, cheap stuff existed then too, it just didn't survive like the expensive appliances.

    The difference is now the expensive stuff ALSO barely lasts at all.

  • Are people really just now realizing Japan is functionally a one-party state?

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  • They also have a batshit judicial culture and women apparently never get justice and most courts are a kind of semi-scripted kangaroo court.

    Ace Attorney was specifically made as a parody of Japan's courts IIRC.

  • Programming @programming.dev
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    Can someone sanity check my NOR memory structure for me?

  • Buy European @feddit.uk
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    Where to buy Canning Jars?

  • networking @sh.itjust.works
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    It is so confusing in europe having a Cca required rating vs CCA cable makeup.

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Should I or should I not use a VLAN? I have trouble understanding the benefits for home use

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    What is the "proper" way to navigate migration from another service (all photos are already on the server)

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Headless server hardware transcoding without X or Wayland?