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  • Google I/O 2026 And Its Consequences

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  • The pitch MKBHD seemed to settle on was that Google will probably say, "Yes, we're taking all of your clicks. BUT, when we do finally send someone to your site, it's a guaranteed sale."

    Which ignores every part of the internet that isn't trying to sell you something, but it tracks.

  • The Quiet Renovation at Bitwarden - ByteHaven - Where I ramble about bytes

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  • Whether self-hosting stays viable long-term is the real question worth sitting with. Right now it works because Bitwarden’s clients are open source and the server API is public. Vaultwarden implements that API, and the official apps can’t tell the difference. That depends on Bitwarden continuing to publish open source clients and not restricting which servers they’ll talk to — neither of which is guaranteed under new management. The brake on the worst case: self-hosting is a listed Enterprise feature that generates real revenue. Killing it upsets paying business customers. That matters. The catch: what Bitwarden sells to enterprises is their own official server stack, not Vaultwarden. Vaultwarden exists in a space they’ve tolerated but never endorsed. If the calculus shifts, the tolerance ends without any announcement. Just let the API drift until compatibility breaks on its own.

    Starting to plan my next migration : Vaultwarden, or completely separate alternative like Psono or AliasVault?

  • Teen builds ‘Bionic Underwater Robotic Turtle’ to detect ecological threats

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  • Why did you come back to make this comment?

  • Teen builds ‘Bionic Underwater Robotic Turtle’ to detect ecological threats

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  • The Malawi iron man? He's awesome.

    Imagine the things he could have accomplished if he and all the people like him had Burlington, Ontario money, instead of "I had to make this out of scraps" money.

    Edit: Bringing up Kamkwamba is pointing at a rags-to-riches story and pretending it's proof the game is fair.

  • Teen builds ‘Bionic Underwater Robotic Turtle’ to detect ecological threats

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  • Crazy the things you can accomplish when your parents have money.

  • Cisco announces record revenue and 4,000 layoffs in the same day

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  • Me, after firing the Cisco CEO: We just made $53 million in revenue!

  • Bitwarden New CEO has extensive M&A, Private equity experience, Removes Transparency from its Motto

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  • Short-term, no change.

    Medium- and long-term, Bitwarden could cut off access to their clients and go closed source.

    Hopefully, Vaultwarden devs take advantage of the early warning and prepare contingencies for if when Bitwarden crosses the point of no return.

  • Louis Rossman Blasts EA for Dead Space 2's Lockout DRM

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  • BLASTS

  • Inkscape supports German petition to recognize Open Source volunteers

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  • Despite the petition being local to Germany, we believe that strengthening the position of open source contributors there will be beneficial to the open source community as a whole.

    Today it's Germany, tomorrow other countries might follow. We are all part of the open source community - every little step forward helps!

    Sounds good.

  • 'Nature' Retracts Paper on the Benefits of ChatGPT in Education

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  • “Of course, the problem with this form of social media circulation is that all of the details about the study got stripped away,” Williamson said. “All that was left were the major claims, which certain social media users helped boost and propel. All this helped the paper get a huge amount of attention, even though the findings really were not supported by the underlying research at all.”

    Williamson has not been alone in such concerns. When the paper was first published, Ilkka Tuomi, chief scientist of the research institute Meaning Processing Ltd., posted on LinkedIn about the pitfalls of such meta-analysis studies attempting to “draw conclusions about incompatible and ill-defined outcomes” from experimental results involving very different populations. “The only reason to do these studies seems to be that statistics and meta-analysis tools can crunch out numbers that look [like] science,” Tuomi wrote.

    I don't want to "attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity," but this seems like exactly the kind of thing everyone involved in publishing this should have been aware of.

  • EU calls VPNs “a loophole that needs closing” in age verification push

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  • If only we'd had age verification back then, Epstein and his ring of sex traffickers would never have been able to abuse those children!

    /s

  • NVIDIA's Shadow Library Scripts 'Have No Other Purpose' Than Infringement, Judge Rules * TorrentFreak

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  • Besides selling the most sought-after hardware, NVIDIA is also developing its own models, including NeMo Megatron models. These were trained using NVIDIA’s own hardware and with help from large text libraries, much like other tech giants do.

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    As the case progressed, the authors also brought up NVIDIA’s contacts with Anna’s Archive, inquiring about “high-speed access” to the shadow library’s massive collection of pirated books.

    This is probably why Anna's Archive hasn't been taken down yet - the big fish are pirating, too.

  • Open Source Does Not Imply Open Community

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  • Turn off the issues tracker and the pull requests or deploy a bare git server for releasing your code. Find a small group of people you really know and trust and work with them on projects, or do it completely alone.

    You don't need to allow strangers to invade your space. You don't need a performative Code of Conduct or an LLM policy. Open source doesn't need to be developed openly for it to be "open source".

    Write code. Make things you like. Use any tools you want. Do code drops at 2am on Christmas day. Whatever you do, don't get tricked into running an operation that's half tech incubator and half daycare for people whose parents gave them a keyboard and no social skills.

    I like this "my workshop has glass walls, but I'm wearing headphones and the doors are locked" model of open source.

  • NPR’s went to Polymarket’s elusive Panama HQ : NPR

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  • Title made me think NPR was the headquarters

  • I hear there are women out there who are attracted to disappointment

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  • Is there a pattern to people like this?

    Sure, love is blind and different people have different reasons, but it'd be really interesting to find out there also happens to be a "bang-the-pathetic-one" gene.

  • Utah first state to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs — law goes into effect, designed to prevent bypassing age checks

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  • They're not.

    I'm guessing it's just that websites are an easier target, legally speaking, than VPNs.

    The EFF warned that the legal risk could push sites to either ban all known VPN IPs or mandate age verification for every visitor globally.

  • Pentagon inks deals with seven AI companies for classified military work

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  • No worries. They'll use military-grade encryption.

  • Ghostty Is Leaving GitHub

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  • I'll share more details about where the Ghostty project will be moving to in the coming months. We have a plan but I'm also very much still in discussions with multiple providers (both commercial and FOSS).

    For the people, like me, who were wondering where they were going next.

  • Kdenlive 26.04.0 is out, featuring contributions from more developers than ever before

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  • I've never heard of this.

    Did you bother to look?

    It's gotten bad enough that Github added a feature to allow maintainers to disable pull requests entirely.

    Full shutdowns are rarer (only Cal.com and Jazzband spring to mind), because maintainers are trying to stay open and fight the avalanche of slop with AI contribution policies.

    Looking at all of the above, why do you think people shouldn't be skeptical when the number of PRs suddenly spikes?

  • The West Forgot How to Build. Now It's Forgetting Code

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  • because we just don't have the need

    The market isn't perfect at matching needs and abilities. We famously have a shortage of COBOL programmers, which is crazy given how much of our infrastructure still depends on it. A Nobel prize winner predicted that radiogists would be obsolete eight years ago, and we've been suffering a shortage ever since because people believed him and stopped studying it.

    The most interesting argument I've heard is that vibe coding is to coding, what baby formula was to breastfeeding. When formula was introduced, it took only one generation for us to lose a lot of the generational wisdom and cultural infrastructure surrounding nursing.

    We haven't completely forgotten COBOL, or radiology, or breastfeeding, and technically speaking, we won't completely forget coding, either. But we might forget enough that it becomes a huge problem when we need to remember.

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
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    Copyright and DMCA Best Practices for Fediverse Operators

    www.eff.org /deeplinks/2026/04/copyright-and-dmca-best-practices-fediverse-operators
  • Opensource @programming.dev
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    Waterfox to integrate Brave adblock engine, with search ads enabled by default

    www.waterfox.com /blog/15-years-of-forking/
  • Opensource @programming.dev
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    What's the point of switching to Discord alternatives, if they're going to be subject to the same age verification laws?

  • Curated Tumblr @sh.itjust.works
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    The God of Arepo

  • me_irl @lemmy.world
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    me_irl

  • Gacha Gaming @lemmy.world
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    Girls' Frontline 2

    1st Anniversary Special

    gfl2exilium.link /FirstAnniversaryMajorUpdate-SpecialPreviewProgramLive
  • VTubers @sh.itjust.works
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    Laughing purple dragon

  • Hollow Knight @lemmy.world
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    Breaking down the art style of Hollow Knight

  • Hollow Knight @lemmy.world
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    The (Somewhat) Complete Lore of Silksong

  • Gacha Gaming @lemmy.world
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    GFL

    Girls' Frontline EN Launching Soon on Steam

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Dismantling the Anti-AI Bubble Case

  • Sci-Fi Memes @lemmy.world
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    Every sci-fi movie

    infosec.exchange /@CDubbs/115297017384104452
  • Centurii chan @sh.itjust.works
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    I see PC purist complain about their cooling so much.