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  • US Commerce Department probing TSMC as suspected chip supplier to Huawei

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  • If you want to do business with the US (either directly by selling/buying to/from them, or indirectly by using US equipment) you need to comply with US export control regulations as they apply internationally. Even if you are a Dutch company wanting to make chips at TSMC you need to make sure your chips are US export control compliant. TSMC may be a pure play foundry in reality they can't make anything nor sell to anyone. Don't get me wrong, it is messed up but that's the reality. The EU has similar regulations but they only apply to the internal market which makes more sense.

  • What's a cool website you’ve visited that no one seems to know of?

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  • Scrobling used to be huge back in the day of mp3s and last.fm practically invented it.There are also alternative APIs implementing the same idea. Unfortunately for them they never caught up on the age of streaming.

  • You never forget your first

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  • Ubuntu was a fantastic distribution to start early on. Especially in the pre-10.x days there weren't many beginner friendly ones. Your alternatives were Debian with very outdated software, SuSE which was kind of OK, Fedora which was also quite unstable and lacking packages (remember hunting RPMs on the old RPMfusion?) or Ubuntu. At some point I'd outgrown Ubuntu and moved on to greener pastures. Nowadays I'm not sure I'd be recommending Ubuntu to new users, Fedora is quite good and without all the snap store shenanigans. Even Debian installation experience is not too bad and it's not lacking too much in software.

  • Google engineers want to introduce DRMs for web pages, making ad-blocking near-impossible in the browser

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  • Unfortunately what's going to happen in reality is that any non-standard ad consumption (including non consumption) will be flagged as fraudulent. "We cannot verify your activity, please disable your add-ons to continue".

  • Google engineers want to introduce DRMs for web pages, making ad-blocking near-impossible in the browser

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  • It literally lists countering ad-blocking as a use case.

    Users like visiting websites that are expensive to create and maintain, but they often want or need to do it without paying directly. These websites fund themselves with ads, but the advertisers can only afford to pay for humans to see the ads, rather than robots. This creates a need for human users to prove to websites that they're human, sometimes through tasks like challenges or logins.

  • (Linux users !) What was the first Linux distro that you used ?

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  • Yay another Mandrake user! I actually bought the box from a computer store back in 2003. Mandrake was actually a decent effort for a user friendly distribution and the standard installation included tons of software. Getting pppd to connect that serial ISDN modem to the internet for the first time was magical. I've been a Linux user ever since. The other main alternatives at the time were Debian, Slackware both too complicated for a newbie.

  • How many people here have actually used XMPP?

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  • I run a small server for my family on a cheap VPS. We've been using it for about 5 years now and it's chugging along. It's simpler and lighter than Matrix (at least from the server's point of view) but the user facing side could use some polish. It's perfectly fine for one to one chat. I wish it was more popular for group chatting.

    Here's a list of good servers if you want to try it out. You will also need a client. Check one with E2E suppo ort (called OMEMO in XMPP).

  • Revealed: UK plans to drop flagship £11.6bn climate pledge

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  • It's the be-all end-all justification for anything

  • YouTube tests disabling videos for people using ad blockers

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  • While I'm not opposed to paying for YouTube (it is a service after all) the only way to do so would be by being logged in to YouTube with whatever black box algorithmic tracking and curation that entails. There is no "proper" way to anonymously access YouTube without ads.

  • IMHO XMPP / Jabber is the best Instant Messenger (IM) protocol

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  • Yes Conversations is still a paid app on Play Store. The F-Droid version also doesn't support Google cloud notifications so some message notifications will go missing occasionally. For Android there's also Quickly which is a Conversations fork and aTalk which works OK but reminds me of 90s Windows software. It's still quite usable though. Honestly Conversations is totally worth the money if only for the amount of effort gone into modernising the platform which also a testament to its extensibility.

  • Kev Quirk, one of the admins of Fosstodon (a Mastodon instance), destroys Meta in an email exchange.

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  • Early on when Google wasn't shit and Facebook was just coming out of the startup phase both of them had chat platforms based on XMPP (the OG federating protocol). For a few glorious moments everyone could chat with anyone through the corresponding XMPP endpoints. At some point they decided they can't be arsed anymore and shut off federation on their servers. They captured enough market and siloed their users.

    There's 1 million % this will happen again. It's textbook EEE.

    Well done on Mastodon admins for not cooperating with Facebook's strong arming tactics. Facebook's server will evolve into another walled garden, Mastodon federating with them will only help them.

    Fuck them

  • New data proves almost no one uses Bitcoin as currency. It's actually more like gambling

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  • I tried to pay something with Bitcoin instead of debit card a couple of years ago. The transaction took ~4 hours to clear and that's with fees totalling about 40% of the amount. Granted the original amount was like $10 but still way too slow and way too expensive. I understand that technically credit cards are not instant too, but there's an intermediary that guarantees that the amount has been reserved until the bank clears your payment. I wasn't expecting Bitcoin to be instant but 4+ hours is excessive.

    That's 2-3 years ago so my experience might be outdated.

  • Free and Open Source Software @beehaw.org
    fouc @lemm.ee

    Drones run linux: the free software movement isn't enough

    j3s.sh /thought/drones-run-linux-free-software-isnt-enough.html

  • IMHO XMPP / Jabber is the best Instant Messenger (IM) protocol

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  • It's trivial to self host. I'm running a server on a small VPS for the family. Best part is they don't even know they are running XMPP, just installed Conversations and that was it.

  • IMHO XMPP / Jabber is the best Instant Messenger (IM) protocol

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  • I doubt it was accidental, that's standard tech corp playbook. Build on established technology or open standard,, then shut the gates when critical mass has been achieved.

  • World News @lemmy.world
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    Filipino fishermen in the UK live lives of peril and loneliness

    ig.ft.com /filipino-fishermen/
  • World News @beehaw.org
    fouc @lemm.ee

    Filipino fishermen in the UK live lives of peril and loneliness

    ig.ft.com /filipino-fishermen/

  • Saturday thread

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  • Adulthood means being excited for a new mattress!!

  • Majority of Americans Would Like to Return to Time Before Cell Phones, Internet, According to New Poll

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  • Yes, I feel "social media" (or whatever this engagement driven, algorithmically fed hellscape can be called) is driving up the responses. We know, by now, how adversely social media affect the mental well-being of children, being bombarded all the time by the fantastic lives of plastic "influencers". Add to that cyber-bullying 24/7 which is now common, peer pressure for "green and blue bubbles" and a ton of other nonsense you can probably understand how people in a age bracket that there's chance of being parents might feel negatively about today's technological status quo.

  • The UK Is a Hot Country. It’s Time to Build Like It

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  • My previous house was like that. Top floor flat, western facing, drowned in sunlight 14 hours a day. Nice and bright but during moderately sunny and warm weather it was minimum 28°C all day long.

    Never again.

  • A storefront for robots: The SEO arms race has left Google and the web drowning in garbage text, with customers and businesses flailing to find each other.

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  • You search for anything slightly niche, everything past page one is just rubbish. It's especially jarring when searching for something programming related and 80% of the results are auto-generated stuff scraped from Stack overflow. It reminds me of Amazon where you search for a product and almost all results are chinese-made clones of what you are looking with randomly generated names.

  • United Kingdom @feddit.uk
    fouc @lemm.ee

    The UK Is a Hot Country. It’s Time to Build Like It

    www.wired.com /story/uk-homes-heat-wave/

  • What Indie hidden gems do you recommend?

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  • Don't sure if it's exactly hidden but for me Dungeons III (and 2) has been unexpectedly fun. It takes everything that made Dungeon Keeper and it takes a level higher. Pretty fun game.