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    • Gators1G
      Gators1 @Guest
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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.

      Samantha Murphy Kelly  /  Sep 8, 2023  /  business,tech

      Apple could be about to make the biggest change to the iPhone in 11 years | CNN Business

      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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      • TazzT
        Tazz
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        Martin Goillandeau,Chris Liakos,Jennifer Korn  /  Sep 13, 2023  /  business,tech

        France orders Apple to pull iPhone 12 off shelves for high radiation levels | CNN Business

        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.

        GTFO

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        • ?
          A Former User
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          Mia Sato  /  Sep 13, 2023  /  creators

          TikTok has quietly been inserting Wikipedia snippets into search results

          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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          • TazzT
            Tazz
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            LOLOLOLOL @ Gen Z

            I will never look at a donut the same way.

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            GTFO

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            • Gators1G
              Gators1 @Tazz
              last edited by

              @Tazz said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

              LOLOLOLOL @ Gen Z

              I will never look at a donut the same way.

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              Is that really a new trend?

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              • TazzT
                Tazz @Gators1
                last edited by Tazz

                @Gators1. That and three inch eye lashes. I’m sure TikTok will show how to do it at home.

                99jenlkj Blinks GIF

                GTFO

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                • ?
                  A Former User
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                  Ivan Vendrov

                  The Tyranny of the Marginal User

                  The Tyranny of the Marginal User

                  why consumer software gets worse, not better, over time

                  Kind of illuminating read on the forces that inevitably lead to enshittification.

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                  • Lob12L
                    Lob12
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                    My favourite weather website just changed their already super functional interface to some disgusting steaming pile of shit instead.

                    [IMG] https://image.ibb.co/nhhF0Q/new_sig_lob12.jpg [/IMG]

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                      Blanks @Lob12
                      last edited by

                      @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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                      • TazzT
                        Tazz @Guest
                        last edited by Tazz

                        @Blanks I think she botoxed her tits after she left Newsom for a Trump

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                        GTFO

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                          Blanks @Tazz
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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

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                          Last time I saw a clip of her she looked like a coked up blowfish.

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                          • ?
                            A Former User
                            last edited by A Former User

                            Mwmbl - Search

                            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.

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                            • KilemallK
                              Kilemall Careful, railroad agent @A Former User
                              last edited by

                              @Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

                              Mwmbl - Search

                              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.

                              It looks like the word mumble said while mumbling.

                              https://i.imgur.com/hX2CMMZ.jpg

                              Never go full Lithu-
                              Twain

                              No editing is gonna save you now-
                              Wingmann

                              http://s3.amazonaws.com/rrpa_photos/72217/DSC_2528.JPG

                              http://s3.amazonaws.com/rrpa_photos/20416/PTOB 101_resize.jpg

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                              • ?
                                A Former User
                                last edited by A Former User

                                This popped up in Edge on Android just now:

                                Screenshot_2023-09-20-18-39-12-47_df198e732186825c8df26e3c5a10d7cd.jpg

                                I read up on it and it apparently blocks YouTube ads. A bit cheeky from a company who is putting their own ads in every spare inch of screen real-estate on Bing and Windows.

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                                • Gators1G
                                  Gators1
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                                  Sounds like the old Microsoft is back. The EU will be a bit richer soon.

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                                  • Gators1G
                                    Gators1
                                    last edited by

                                    Oops…

                                    https://www.polygon.com/23880760/microsoft-xbox-leak-court-documents-oops

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                                    • TazzT
                                      Tazz
                                      last edited by

                                      I guess this is good but I have no idea what it is.

                                      Sep 20, 2023  /  GPUs

                                      Nvidia Says Native Resolution Gaming is Out, DLSS is Here to Stay

                                      Nvidia Says Native Resolution Gaming is Out, DLSS is Here to Stay

                                      The times are changing

                                      GTFO

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                                      • ?
                                        A Former User @Gators1
                                        last edited by

                                        @Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

                                        Oops…

                                        https://www.polygon.com/23880760/microsoft-xbox-leak-court-documents-oops

                                        I read a couple of days ago Microsoft had a link to 38 terabytes of private data up on GitHub for three years.

                                        https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/microsoft-ai-team-accidentally-leaks-38tb-of-private-company-data/ar-AA1gUoEZ

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                                        • Gators1G
                                          Gators1 @A Former User
                                          last edited by

                                          @Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

                                          @Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

                                          Oops…

                                          https://www.polygon.com/23880760/microsoft-xbox-leak-court-documents-oops

                                          I read a couple of days ago Microsoft had a link to 38 terabytes of private data up on GitHub for three years.

                                          https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/microsoft-ai-team-accidentally-leaks-38tb-of-private-company-data/ar-AA1gUoEZ

                                          Yeah, I saw that one. I think the data they used to train their LLM or something? Wonder how many times you can find data that says “all obey your master Bill Gates!” in there?

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                                          • Lob12L
                                            Lob12 @Guest
                                            last edited by Lob12

                                            @Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

                                            @Tazz said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

                                            I guess this is good but I have no idea what it is.

                                            Instead of your GPU initially generating everything in whatever your screen resolution is, it does it at a lower resolution and then they use some AI tool to fill in the missing pixels.

                                            It’s faster / less demanding and probably almost necessary for some situations where you have a 4K+ display and are running a AAA game with the highest graphics settings.

                                            Yeah but it doesn’t render so good yet, especially with games with fast moving objects. Things leave a “trail” behind them as they move fast and as the AI struggles to fill the missing pixels.

                                            [IMG] https://image.ibb.co/nhhF0Q/new_sig_lob12.jpg [/IMG]

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