The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread
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I read them! Most of them
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Obscure startup plans 10,000 TB cartridges with 'cheap' material used in restrooms
Updated: Ceramic may displace holographic, DNA and silica as the next big thing in exotic storage
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Google thinks Shorts-style videos in the Play Store will supercharge app discovery
Yeah that’s exactly what it needs. I was starting to worry I could still see the actual search results even with the ads, “limited time events”, more ads, “you might also like”, and “similar apps” sections crammed into the search results.
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So we will be bombarded with Tiktoks all day long? I am beginning to think Ted Kaczynski was right.
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@Gators1 “It will render dozens of coal fired power plants obsolete”
Otherwise said: It will render dozens of wind turbines obsolete…Now if they could only make batteries that thin and powerful.
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The tools used by real power users: Notepad, Paint and. … Calculator?
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Tigger would have never got his PhD without calculator! It’s like the ChatGPT for mathematicians.
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My work iPad uses C. It’s 3 years old. Maybe more. Pre COVID I think
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@Tazz said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Commie Apple is finally coming out if the 1900’s with USB C cords.
Apple could be about to make the biggest change to the iPhone in 11 years | CNN Business
Apple is set to unveil the iPhone 15 in just a few days, and it’s widely expected to come with a significant change.
They had made up their own cable to gouge their customers, but commie EU made them use USB C.
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France orders Apple to pull iPhone 12 off shelves for high radiation levels | CNN Business
Apple is fighting France’s claims that the iPhone 12 surpasses European radiation exposure limits after French regulators on Tuesday ordered a pause on sales and a fix to phones already sold to customers.
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TikTok has quietly been inserting Wikipedia snippets into search results
The company says the feature has been live for months.
I don’t know if I’m pleased that TikTok is doing this or horrified that the portal to the entire internet beyond TikTok for a lot of young people is TikTok search.
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LOLOLOLOL @ Gen Z
I will never look at a donut the same way.
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@Tazz said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
LOLOLOLOL @ Gen Z
I will never look at a donut the same way.
Is that really a new trend?
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@Gators1. That and three inch eye lashes. I’m sure TikTok will show how to do it at home.
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Kind of illuminating read on the forces that inevitably lead to enshittification.
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My favourite weather website just changed their already super functional interface to some disgusting steaming pile of shit instead.
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@Lob12 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
My favourite weather website just changed their already super functional interface to some disgusting steaming pile of shit instead.
Tell them to hire the expert UI programmers that did this award winning forum!
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@Blanks I think she botoxed her tits after she left Newsom for a Trump
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@Tazz said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Blanks I think she botoxed her tits after she left Newsom for a Trump
Last time I saw a clip of her she looked like a coked up blowfish.
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An open source, non-profit, search engine with beautifully minimalist search results that returned exactly the only 6 links that exist on the obscure topic I just tested it with.
When I saw it I almost wept (figuratively) after wrestling with Bing all day where it insists on shoe horning, massive and useless AI responses (and ads for the useless AI responses) into the first page results.
It’s a pity that “mwmbl” is going to die on the vine because its creator idioticly gave it a name you can’t pronounce and won’t remember how to spell.
The Tyranny of the Marginal User
Mwmbl - Search
