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  • Two conversational AI agents switching from English to sound-level protocol after confirming they are both AI agents

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  • it's 2150

    the last humans have gone underground, fighting against the machines which have destroyed the surface

    a t-1000 disguised as my brother walks into camp

    the dogs go crazy

    point my plasma rifle at him

    "i am also a terminator! would you like to switch to gibberlink mode?"

    he makes a screech like a dial up modem

    I shed a tear as I vaporize my brother

  • Google launches a free AI coding assistant with very high usage caps

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  • I used it for boilerplate work. Like if I need to write a model in typescript with a ton of class-validator annotations, it's pretty good at filling those in

  • Google launches a free AI coding assistant with very high usage caps

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  • Never again will I make the mistake of using a "free" product from big tech

  • Sending a mental message [Nancy - Feb 17, 1951]

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  • Poor mentally retarded sluggo

  • TIL some golfers may have small pencils to keep their scores

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  • You never been to a mini golf place either?

  • John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed

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  • Would like to get my family on Signal. I deleted my facebook account and now we use various other chat apps that I don't quite like

  • After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad

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  • MacOS

    And you get the privilege of making that one-time $2000 purchase every 2-3 years when Apple eventually nerfs their hardware with bad firmware updates

  • After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad

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  • Notepad is useful for saving a simple piece of info to your hard drive somewhere, it's not a daily driver for code editing or anything. If I'm on the phone with some customer service rep and they give me some reference number, I'll pop open notepad to write it down and save it.

    Seriously though, Android, macOS, Steam OS, Android TV, Chrome OS, Debian, heck, Ubuntu, Linux Mint

    Some of those are not competitors to Windows. Android, Android TV, Steam OS are installed on specialty devices.

    macOS is not a good OS. I wouldn't consider it a better alternative to Windows. macOS often lags behind Windows in certain features such as tiling Windows. Apple is more hostile toward developers than Microsoft is and Apple ships their own versions of coreutils which are vastly inferior GNU coreutils and often totally out of date (Apple uses a build of bash from 2007 that was the default shell until the switch to zsh, and they STILL ship this bash binary today).

    For any other Linux variant, the answer is the same as it has been for 20 years: normies don't install their own OS, and also only use their machines to browse the internet, so it makes no difference to them.

  • Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms

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  • There's a couple contenders but they're not very good. I think most FOSS people don't WANT a facebook alternative; they'd prefer to keep their IRL identity separate from the internet. And the people who don't care also don't care enough to want to go federated.

    There's spacehey as a myspace alternative though. That's pretty neat but it's full of teenagers unfortunately.

  • Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms

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  • Bluesky has a lot more normies on it while mastodon is mostly early-adopter types. Mastodon, in my experience, is either very technical people (software engineers and other tech people) or very political people. Bluesky has normal people on it

    I checked out threads for a day and I liked it because the algorithm wasn't jamming a bunch of outrage content down my throat but that's the only thing I can say about it. Haven't used it since then (deleted my entire meta account)

  • What keeps Americans from being mad about the state of their country?

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  • Idk what you're talking about most Americans are mad at the state of out country

  • are terfs actual feminists or do most transphobic women just call themselves that?

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  • No transphobic person calls themselves a TERF, only transgender people use that term

  • super plumbers

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  • super plumbers

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  • Social media users grapple with anti-LGBTQIA+ policy changes.

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  • Can you imagine explaining to someone in 1999 that a significant amount of politics in 2025 would surround what websites we decide to spend 12 hours a day on

  • Digital Fingerprinting: Google launched a new era of tracking worse than cookie banners | Tuta

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  • Fingerprinting unfortunately uses more than useragent strings. It takes hashes of data in your browser from a javascript context that is not easily masked or removed. For example, it might render a gradient of colors projected onto a curved 3d plane. The specific result of this will create a unique hash for your GPU. They can also approximate your geolocation by abusing the time-to-live information within a TCP packet, which is something you can't control on the clientside at all. If you TRULY want to avoid tracking by google, you need to block google domains in your hosts file and maybe consider disabling javascript on all sites by default until you trust them. Also don't use google.

  • I miss myspace

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  • The internet feels post-apocalyptic now. I no longer have any social media accounts (does lemmy count?) . Places that I spent over a decade on now feel so hostile and foreign. I joined reddit as a teenager wanting to read f7u12 comics, and now reddit feels like a total outrage machine. I mean the ads are crap but the algorithm doesn't show me content I WANT to see anymore. It just shows me videos of car accidents and street fights and other things that get my cortisol levels up. Blocking subreddits straight up doesnt work. I like that on lemmy I can just filter only by the communities I subscribe to

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  • That's fine. A more fragmented internet is better for the world