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Blake (he/him)
Blake (he/him) @ bl4kers @beehaw.org
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You're Not Imagining It: Google Search Results Are Getting Worse, Study Finds

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    • AirDrop cracked by China, revealing phone number and email

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    • Clicks is a BlackBerry-style iPhone keyboard case designed for creators

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  • I recommend watching the video linked in the article. They mention live streaming, working in a spreadsheet, and long text messages where you have to scroll to read everything

    Plus this isn't just a hardware product, the keyboard shortcuts would be pretty handy for any power user. Sounds like they'll be rolling out more software for it and have more products in the works

    • Clicks is a BlackBerry-style iPhone keyboard case designed for creators

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  • More screen real estate compared to a virtual keyboard taking up ~30% of it

    • Starbucks accused of manipulating app payments for $900 million profit

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  • The source is Android Authority and it appears to be referencing dark patterns in mobile apps

    • Has anyone tried to mark a game private in Steam? Does it work as intended?

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  • It was announced a couple weeks ago and is still in beta (see: The Verge)

    • Has anyone tried to mark a game private in Steam? Does it work as intended?

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  • Whatever ProtonDB uses to query your owned games.

    I tried this and it properly hid my game, both logged into ProtonDB as well as logged out. Also showed back up when I unmarked it as private.

    • Carmen Osorio, expert in technology addiction: ‘It’s not a good idea to give children a smartphone; in any case, you let them borrow yours’

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  • What's a bad idea?

    • Nintendo starts shutting down online play for Wii U and 3DS, months ahead of schedule

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  • Don't buy from Nintendo

    • Twitter’s Former Head of Trust and Safety Finally Breaks Her Silence

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  • This is one month old fyi

    • Microsoft is discontinuing Windows Mixed Reality

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  • But but but how am I supposed to play minecraft irl now

    • Google wants to use your photos and searches to build an AI storyteller

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  • Proton Drive is pretty different from Google Photos, no?

    • twitter is so broken ... it returns a 404 when you share links

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  • I presume this is on purpose considering they're moving towards tweets not being public (account required to view). Showing the tweet in the preview would be an easy way to get way around this

    • Chrome’s next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower extension updates

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  • Which browser do you use though?

    • Inside the 'arms race' between YouTube and ad blockers

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  • Nebula is a walled garden though. They don't even have a formal process for applying to be on it. I hear it's invite only basically

    • Amazon Prime Gaming titles released for Dec 2023

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  • No thanks

    • "Bot resistant" voting systems?

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  • Is there a rating/voting system that exists that is resitant to internet vote tampering?

    No, there is not. If there was, it would be well-known and widely used.

    Even the U.S. government abandoned e-voting attempts due to strong opposition from cyber security experts. I learned about this on the Reveal podcast

    • Evernote is about to seriously limit its plan for free users

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  • If you're talking about Notion's mobile app, I believe it was rewritten last year

    • New “Stable Video Diffusion” AI model can animate any still image

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  • More accurately: it can attempt to animate any still image

    • US telecom regulator wants to bar cable TV early-termination fees

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  • Hope gym fees get addressed at some point