📱June 15th

Do you like bumping your music a little loud? Cops are searching Flock Safety ALPR data to investigate noise complaints. The creeping use cases keep getting more absurd. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

More License Plate Reader Mission Creep: School Residency

An EFF analysis of millions of searches of Flock Safety automated license plate reader (ALPR) data by police has uncovered a troubling pattern: in the absence of a warrant requirement to search ALPR

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All of the Wikinews projects have been closed by the Wikimedia Foundation. It’s unfortunate this happened, but most projects were dead and faced vandalism, spam and abuse. It was a pleasure to support the Wikinews projects while they were around!

This is how I felt when I made the switch from Windows to MacOS. I relate to this a lot. Image was posted by u/nooo000000oooooooooo

"Every time any of LinkedIn’s one billion users visits linkedin.com, hidden code searches their computer for installed software, collects the results, and transmits them to LinkedIn’s servers and to third-party companies including an American-Israeli cybersecurity firm." browsergate.eu

Interesting work from @mqudsi.bsky.social . neosmart.net/blog/recreat...

Recreating uncensored Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

There have been a lot of complaints about both the competency and the logic behind the latest Epstein archive release by the DoJ: from censoring the names of co-conspirators to censoring pictures o…

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And this is why you need an adblocker. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show

Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, and it internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day, company documents show.

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Never thought I would see the day when Notepad requires a subscription.

“'The G-Drive couldn’t have a backup system due to its large capacity,' an unnamed official told The Chosun." There is absolutely no excuse to skip backups because you have "too much data". Let this be a lesson to never forget your backups. www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/858t...

858TB of government data may be lost for good after South Korea data center fire

Destroyed drive wasn't backed up, officials say

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Update complete!

The Wikimedia Foundation was recently sued over the Caesar DePaço article due to information it contained about the subject. Unfortunately, the foundation leaked personal information about eight of the editors including their emails and IP addresses. Source: www.reddit.com/r/portugal/c...

Glad to see that the Internet Archive will have government documents uploaded now. mashable.com/article/inte...

The Internet Archive just became an official U.S. federal library

The new status means archive users gain access to a trove of government documents.

mashable.com

Makes a change from seeing a crashed Windows server.

I honestly feel some of this. As I use AI more and more, I feel like my ability to think is being weakened. I've been trying to use AI to help me think, like a friend or co-worker could do, instead of letting it do the thinking for me. time.com/7295195/ai-c...

ChatGPT's Impact On Our Brains According to an MIT Study

The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.

time.com

some of the new phone features coming to ios 26 look cool

I'm working on a Chrome extension for viewing EXIF data of images. I started this because similar Chrome extensions were paywalling features and I wanted a free open source alternative. I'm new to this, so I would appreciate feedback and tips if anyone has some! More info here: www.ternera.org/exif

EXIF Metadata Viewer - Find Hidden Information in Images

Reveal hidden details embedded within images directly from your browser

ternera.org

RIP Skype.

Apparently Let's Encrypt is ending support for email expiration notifications. Good change?

Best Wordle yet? Wordle 1,290 4/6 🟨⬛⬛🟨⬛ ⬛🟨🟩⬛🟨 ⬛🟨🟩🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

LG’s 2025 gaming monitor lineup includes a bendable 5K2K OLED

LG’s 2025 gaming monitor lineup includes a bendable 5K2K OLED

The 45-inch OLED can curve or flatten out in just seconds.

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Not bad. Wordle 1,283 5/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ ⬛🟩🟨⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

What Christmas traditions do people have going on?

Apparently Reddit is launching their own AI search. #ai #reddit

Apple may be coming out with a foldable iPhone in 2026? 9to5mac.com/2024/12/02/a...

Apple’s foldable iPhone is expected to save a surprisingly declining market - 9to5Mac

Foldable smartphones just saw their first ever YOY decline, and things are expected to get worse until Apple’s foldable iPhone debuts.

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In this thread, I want to share the steps I took to install a Nextcloud instance on TrueNAS.

mustard doesn't belong on hot dogs

In this thread, we will be taking a deep dive into a G2A crypto scam I found on the internet. If you’re not familiar with the site, they provide game keys and skins for prices that are usually lower than the retail price.

There are so many of you joining right now that things may temporarily glitch! If you’re seeing “invalid handle”, this is probably one of those things — see this thread for more information.

Bluesky@bsky.app · 2y ago

If you're seeing "Invalid Handle" on your profile, this should resolve on its own — thanks for your patience!! 🦋

If you use Steam, you can get free profile/avatar decorations for a limited amount of time. store.steampowered.com/points/shop/...

Steam Points Shop

Get points for shopping on Steam or by contributing to the Steam Community. Use your points to customize your Steam presence or award fellow members of the community.

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Did you know this was the first Youtube video created? www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQX...

Me at the zoo

YouTube video by jawed

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