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arstechnica.com
Google is now rolling out a system where Chrome directly tracks your activity and shares its summary with advertisers. Also [Firefox is faster](https://treeherder.mozilla.org/perfherder/graphs?timerange=31536000&series=mozilla-central,3735773,1,13&series=mozilla-central,3412459,1,13) as of like two months ago. It takes five minutes to switch browsers, and the difference is so little that you'll often forget you did it.
interestingengineering.com
https://archive.is/2024.09.16-214410/https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/china-starlink-detect-stealth-fighters#selection-373.0-373.86
For those who don't know, Larry Ellison runs the tech company Oracle, and is consistently in the list of top-five wealthiest people in the world.
www.theregister.com
Famous demon and hater of Native Hawaiian's Ellison paints a future of AI surveillance where everyone is accountable, even while in the bathroom.
My old one got squished in moving. It was a Kobo Klara I got as a gift. Before, I had a refurbished kindle paperwhite 7th gen that I liked the UI of much more but didn't like having an Amazon product. Wondering what is out there now. My main desiderata is that it has warm backlighting and is small. Would also like better .pdf reading than the Kobo that was basically non-doable.
www.forbes.com
https://archive.is/5mr2C
www.abc.net.au
But why would you want to opt out of this, Luddite? 
> [Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars | Defector](https://defector.com/neither-elon-musk-nor-anybody-else-will-ever-colonize-mars) > > Mars does not have a magnetosphere. [...] I'm sure you have [a] sustainable plan for shielding live Mars inhabitants from deadly solar and cosmic radiation, forever. The article is tedious. The writer could make his points without whining, whingeing, and making bad jokes. \--- **Edit** I removed more unneeded humor from the quotation.
Windows 11 delenda est. Also inb4 "don't". I feel like bluestacks used to be better but it gives off weird scuffed fremium windows software stink now. What's the best way to run Android apps on an x86-64 computer?
www.scmp.com
https://archive.is/AQMn6
www.yahoo.com
> Ukraine's United24 Media, a government-run platform, shared a video of Ukrainian soldiers using the Steam Deck system to remotely control guns on social media over the weekend.
www.aljazeera.com
>Apple has unveiled its artificial intelligence-boosted iPhone 16, showing off the long-awaited phone hours after Chinese rival Huawei’s tri-fold phone began racking up orders. >“The next generation of iPhone has been designed for Apple Intelligence from the ground up. It marks the beginning of an exciting new era,” Chief Executive Tim Cook said at a product launch on Monday. >The iPhone 16 will use the new A18 chip and have an aluminium back, as well as a new customizable button that can be used for camera controls. >Huawei’s website showed on Monday that it had garnered more than three million preorders for its Z-shaped tri-fold phone. This underscores Huawei’s ability to navigate United States sanctions and solidifies its position against Apple in China, where consumers are hankering for more AI features and are willing to pay for them. [Full article](https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/9/9/apple-launches-ai-iphone-as-huawei-casts-shadow-with-tri-fold-phone) [Huawei Mate XT Official Unboxing - 1 ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTXoMN7W8L0)
People still chasing the flying car dragon
Damn disposable vapes are a huge waste.
From "Why Texas Republicans are Souring on Crypto" from The Economist https://archive.ph/eIXGc
I made the apocalyptic mistake of making a genzedong xyz account through the Matrix site, and it's one of those things that requires the blood of a virgin and the tail feather of a phoenix or whatever, and will spit out most passwords with `that is a very common password`. I fucked up by not writing it down, even though you aren't supposed to, so now I have forgotten it. I click "Password forgotten" in fluffychat.im/web/#/home and when I enter my email as prompted, I get an "unrecognised request" error. So I tried adding a recovery email from the Android app, from Settings \> Security \> Change Password \> Password recovery and pressing the `+` button. This produces an `Untrusted server "` error, very good quotes use. I tried several email domains and no dice. I beg of you to help. It would be cool if recovery email actually worked.
redsails.org
It's an Arc-Browser clone WIP which uses Firefox as base. It's everything I would want from a browser. Pros: 1. Open Source 2. UI-First Approach means it's working towards a modern browsing experience like Arc 3. Firefox as base so all Firefox Extensions like Adnauseum/Ublock work on it 4. No threat of MV3. Arc has stopped blocking ads for me hence I will no longer be using Chromium at all. Adblocking works like a charm on Zen. 5. Highly customizable with a very fast development cycle. Cons: 1. It's in Alpha so expect Bugs and less features 2. Still missing some features from Arc like Peek and Command Bar I would recommend trying out this browser @ https://zen-browser.app/
I'd been thinking Telegram would be a sufficiently secure alternative, but as Western intelligence gets their hooks into that system I think we need to go self-hosted. Element is the biggest name here, but I'm curious what options are the best for a combination of both security and feature maturity.
www.404media.co
>Laufer is the chief spokesperson of [Four Thieves Vinegar Collective](https://fourthievesvinegar.org/), an anarchist collective that has spent the last few years teaching people how to make DIY versions of expensive pharmaceuticals at a tiny fraction of the cost. Four Thieves Vinegar Collective call what they do “right to repair for your body.” > >Laufer has become well known for handing out DIY pills and medicines at hacking conferences, which include, for example, courses of the abortion drug misoprostol that can be manufactured for 89 cents (normal cost: $160) and which has become increasingly difficult to obtain in some states following the Supreme Court decision in Dobbs. > In our call, Laufer had just explained that Four Thieves’ had made some miscalculations as part of its latest project, to create instructions for replicating sofosbuvir (Sovaldi), a miracle drug that cures hepatitis C, which he planned to explain and reveal at the DEF CON hacking conference. Unlike many other drugs that treat viruses, Sovaldi does not suppress hepatitis C, a virus that kills roughly 250,000 people around the world each year. It cures it. > >“The holy grail for every virologist is to find a way to drain the viral reservoir, and Sovaldi does this. You take one pill of Sovaldi a day for 12 weeks and then you don’t have hepatitis C anymore.” The problem is that those pills are under patent, and they cost $1,000 per pill. > > “Literally, if you have $84,000 then hepatitis C is not your problem anymore,” Laufer said. “But given that there are other methodologies for managing hepatitis C that are not curing it and that are cheaper, insurance typically will not cover [Sovaldi]. And so we’ve got this incredible technology and it’s sitting on the shelf except for people who are ridiculously wealthy.” > > So Four Thieves Vinegar Collective set out to teach people how to make their own version of Sovaldi. Chemists at the collective thought the DIY version would cost about $300 for the entire course of medication, or about $3.57 per pill. But they were wrong. “It’s actually just a little under $70 (83 cents per pill), which just kind of blew my mind when they finally showed me the results,” Laufer said. “I was like, can we do the math here again?” > A miracle drug called Kalydeco had recently been approved for use on some patients with cystic fibrosis. It cost $311,000 per patient, per year. > > Laufer explains that both precursors needed to make Kalydeco are available commercially, and that one costs $1 per gram and the other costs $28 per gram. He checks the daily dosage (roughly 300 mg per day), and Chemhacktica spits out a potential yield. He explains that, in back-of-the-envelope math, “me, a non-chemist doing a first pass,” Kalydeco could be made “in the range of $10 a day for raw materials.” When Kalydeco was first introduced, it cost roughly $820 per patient per day.
>The company has updated its FAQ page to say that private chats are no longer shielded from moderation. >Telegram has quietly removed language from its FAQ page that said private chats were protected from moderation requests. The change comes nearly two weeks after its CEO, Pavel Durov, was arrested in France for allegedly allowing “criminal activity to go on undeterred on the messaging app.” >Earlier today, Durov issued his first public statement since his arrest, promising to moderate content more on the platform, a noticeable change in tone after the company initially said he had “nothing to hide.” >“Telegram’s abrupt increase in user count to 950M caused growing pains that made it easier for criminals to abuse our platform,” he wrote in the statement shared on Thursday. “That’s why I made it my personal goal to ensure we significantly improve things in this regard. We’ve already started that process internally, and I will share more details on our progress with you very soon.” Translation: Durov is completely compromised and will do whatever NATO tells him to do. Do not trust in the security of Telegram, which frankly was never that good to begin with. And do not trust anything else even remotely connected to the company or Durov personally.
Here's what I've tried so far: - Made the default "ASP.NET Core API" project (the weather forecasting one) in Visual Studio - Built it and copied the contents of the build folder to C:\Users\\[My username]\TestService - Ran the TestService executable. It says "Now listening on: http://localhost:5000" - Open my browser, enter the "http://localhost:5000" URL. I get a 404 error. This is all on the same computer. - Noticed that, under launchSettings.json, there were some other URLs listed, none of them localhost:5000. It gives 2 https URLs: https://localhost:7079 and http://localhost:5222. Both of these give "connection refused" errors. - At this point, I don't know what else to do Please help I don't want to lose my job **EDIT:** I was able to figure out what was going on. Solution is [here.](https://hexbear.net/comment/5348975) Thanks to hypercracker and everyone else who advised 
https://futurism.com/the-byte/government-ai-worse-summarizing >The upshot: these AI summaries were so bad that the assessors agreed that using them could require more work down the line, because of the amount of fact-checking they require. If that's the case, then the purported upsides of using the technology — cost-cutting and time-saving — are seriously called into question.
www.synthads.ai
hate this fad not sure if this or NFTs was worse at least with those you could completely ignore it
