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- Submitted 1 day ago to technology@lemmy.world | 45 comments
- Comment on MEGA launches new large file transfer service Transfer.it with no file size limit 2 days ago:
I keep seeing posts about wetransfer alternatives and so far haven’t seen wormhole.app mentioned. Does it have bad juju I don’t know about?
We built Wormhole with end-to-end encryption. When you use Wormhole, a key is generated on your device and used to encrypt your files. In transit, your data is unreadable to Wormhole and service providers like your ISP. The key never leaves your device and you’re the only one who has it – unless you decide to share it. With Wormhole, you’re in control of who has access to your files.
When you share a Wormhole link, the key is automatically included in the link so it’s easy to share with the exact people you want, and no one else. Wormhole never sees the key. And we don’t want to see it.
Every design decision in Wormhole begins with the safety and privacy of your data in mind. We can’t read your files, and no one else can either. Privacy isn’t an optional mode — it’s just the way that Wormhole works.
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- Comment on Video game actors' strike officially ends after AI deal 2 weeks ago:
The SAG-AFTRA post where they list what’s actually in the agreement.
Now that the new contract has been ratified, video game performers will see an immediate 15.17% increase in compensation with additional 3% increases in November of this year, and in November 2026 and November 2027.
Additionally, the overtime rate maximum for overscale performers will now be based on double scale. Health and retirement contribution rates have been increased as well, with an immediate 0.5% AFTRA Retirement Fund boost and another 0.5% boost starting in October 2026.
The new contract also establishes foundational guardrails around A.I., including informed consent requirements across various A.I. uses and the ability for performers to suspend informed consent for digital replica use during a strike.
I wonder what they had to give up.
- Comment on In the Sweltering Southwest, Planting Solar Panels in Farmland Can Help Both Photovoltaics and Crops - Inside Climate News 2 weeks ago:
Still, a 2025 University of Arizona study that interviewed farmers and government officials in Pinal County, Arizona, found that a number of them questioned agrivoltaics’ compatibility with large-scale agriculture.
“I think it’s a great idea, but the only thing … it wouldn’t be cost-efficient … everything now with labor and cost of everything, fuel, tractors, it almost has to be super big … to do as much with as least amount of people as possible,” one farmer stated.
Many farmers are also leery of solar, worrying that agrivoltaics could take working farmland out of use, affect their current operations or deteriorate soils.
Those fears have been amplified by larger utility-scale initiatives, like Ohio’s planned Oak Run Solar Project, an 800 megawatt project that will include 300 megawatts of battery storage, 4,000 acres of crops and 1,000 grazing sheep in what will be the country’s largest agrivoltaics endeavor to date. Opponents of the project worry about its visual impacts and the potential loss of farmland.
- Comment on Growth narratives on the new social networks 2 weeks ago:
[T]he reason why people care so much about Twitter and finding a good replacement is not because of total user numbers: Twitter was always the smallest of the Big Tech platforms after all. Twitter and X matter because of its unparalleled ability to generate culture and shape politics. Twitter and X are the places where elite consensus is formed. It is the dominant platform for shaping our collective understanding of the world. That’s why control over X’s algorithm (and chatbot) is so valuable: it is not about telling individuals what is correct, but it is about influencing what people think about what other people think.
So Twitter/X is where people higher in the hierarchy go to publicly perform their opinions, while people lower in the hierarchy sort themselves into their teams.
That sounds like the classical Greek democracy I remember from school.
But hearing it laid out like this (“elite consensus”) sounds instinctively gross.
- Comment on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not 2 weeks ago:
When I asked a couple of developers who work on websites/webapps with a lot of moving parts, they said it was easiest to just test for chrome, since that’s what most people use.
It’s turned into a self-fulfilling prophecy.
- Comment on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not 2 weeks ago:
It’s no longer the fault of long-term CEO Mitchell Baker, she of the six-million-bucks salary. She took the cash and left in February 2024. After the February 2024 layoffs that went with the “open source AI” announcement, in November, new boss Laura Chambers laid off another third of the staff, but somehow found the money to hire new executives.
Money is the problem. Not too little, but too much. Where there’s wealth, there’s a natural human desire to make more wealth. Ever since Firefox 1.0 in 2004, Firefox has never had to compete. It’s been attached like a mosquito to an artery to the Google cash firehose. The Reg noted it in 2007, and it made more the next year. We were dubious when Firefox turned five.
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Mozilla’s leadership is directionless and flailing because it’s never had to do, or be, anything else. It’s never needed to know how to make a profit, because it never had to make a profit. It’s no wonder it has no real direction or vision or clue: it never needed them. It’s role-playing being a business.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
The defendant’s full post read: “Go on Rotherham. Burn any hotels with them scruffy bastards in it.”
- Comment on A Win for Fair Use Is a Win for Libraries: Recent legal decision has reaffirmed the power of fair use in the digital age, and it’s a big win for libraries and the future of public access to knowledge 3 weeks ago:
This decision reinforces the idea that copying for non-commercial, transformative purposes—like making a book searchable, training an AI, or preserving web pages—can be lawful under fair use. That legal protection is essential to modern librarianship.
I’m happy that this works out in libraries’ favor, I can’t see how Anthropic managed to slip through “copying for non-commercial, transformative purposes”. Are they a non-profit and I just didn’t know?
- Comment on "Almost out of shampoo, better add it to my shopping list." 3 weeks ago:
In two years, only these two guys thought of buying more shampoo.
- Comment on Zero-day: Bluetooth gap turns millions of headphones into listening stations 3 weeks ago:
Archive link: archive.ph/wUAQn
- Comment on Jellyfin over the internet 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Am I a bad person for hating stuff like J-pop and anime? 4 weeks ago:
I think it’s normal to not be into stuff.
Hating stuff that you have the option to not interact with seems extra work.
- Comment on YSK: What a Proxy War is. 4 weeks ago:
by that metric basically any war since globalisation is a proxy war
I would argue that practically every war since globalization is a proxy war.
- Comment on An Alabama City Recommends Changing Its Laws to Accommodate One of the Country’s Largest Proposed Data Centers 5 weeks ago:
Weird headline. Is it the city making this recommendation, or the…
Despite universal opposition by the dozens of residents present at the meeting, commissioners voted to recommend changes to the city’s zoning laws to allow data centers in areas zoned for light industrial use and to rezone a 700-acre property from agricultural to light industrial to accommodate the construction of a hyperscale data center.
- Comment on How to store data on paper? 5 weeks ago:
This has to be a shitpost.
Transportation of paper-stored data
You can take the sheets with you, send them by post, or even attach them to homing pigeons
- Comment on A receipt printer cured my procrastination [ADHD] 5 weeks ago:
I plan to release my software publicly in the coming weeks. You can subscribe to my newsletter to get notified when it’s available.
Yup.
- Comment on YSK: Non-violent protests are 2x likely to succeed and no non-violent movement that has involved more than 3.5% of the country population has ever failed 5 weeks ago:
What does Chenoweth consider is violent?
Where’s the line where she would classify your movement as violent (and therefore likely to fail)?
- Comment on XMPP vs everything else 5 weeks ago:
I don’t usually hear this opinion.
Most of the time, it’s about how XMPP has everything you need without the boat of a Matrix server.
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 9 comments
- Comment on One major issue with social media is that it operates on a first come, first served basis. This essentially rules out the possibility of well-considered, well-researched content being successful. 1 month ago:
What you do is you go into the tumblr mines to screenshot someone else’s considered takes, and then be the first to post it somewhere else.
- Comment on The biggest privilege rich people have is to be extremely stupid on purpose. 1 month ago:
I would go broader and say that the privilege of wealth is freedom from consequences.
- Comment on The current system of online advertising has been ruled illegal 1 month ago:
This is a win for everyone in Europe, and possibly beyond. [Emphasis mine.] Companies may no longer secretly track your behavior based on “consent” given under pressure. Hopefully, this will not only put an end to these dubious practices, but also to those pesky cookie banners.
But we’re not there yet. Regulators have ruled the system illegal, and the court’s ruling has now confirmed it. Still, the companies making billions from this model won’t stop on their own. That’s why European regulators must now truly step up: enforce the law and make sure these companies actually comply.
Regulators try not to get compromised by lobbyists when billions of dollars are at stake.
I sincerely wish you good luck.
- Comment on Just started a community for those who wish to move away from Lemmy 1 month ago:
You can sell me on Piefed without trying to cancel Lemmy out of nowhere.
- Comment on MAZANOKE v1.1.5: Self-hosted local image optimizer in your browser — now supports TIFF, ICO, basic auth (featured on Tailscale, LINUX Unplugged, Selfh.st) 1 month ago:
I use Caesium for image compression.
Not shilling, since both seem to be free and open-source image compressors.
How’s MAZANOKE different?
- Comment on Why Silicon Valley Needs Immigration 1 month ago:
Time to plug into a WIRED subscription.Time to not read this article.
- Comment on What was Radiant AI, anyway? 1 month ago:
Just based on that thumbnail, I’m going to let it stay an unsolved mystery.
- Comment on Amazon's new "Delivery Plus" service. For an additional $29.95 your stuff will arrive less fucked up. Free with Amazon Prime. 1 month ago:
It sounds like a protection racket.
“Sure would be a shame if your package arrived in… less than ideal condition.”
- Comment on Replace jobs with AI then hire people to replace the AI’s job… 1 month ago:
They had an AI regurgitate other people’s writing, and then had humans massage the vomit into a blog post.
