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How come Android doesn't have a built in PDF viewer?
  • Pdf has a mind-bogging array of features, which make it so entrenched in the corporate world with no viable replacements at the moment. Things like forms where users can fill them out and submit (surprisingly a popular feature), cryptographic signing to prevent tampering, DRM, etc. Heck, I think you can even add JavaScript code to a pdf.

  • Google Maps tests new pop-up ads that give you an unnecessary detour
  • What do you mean? Can't you see all those innovations in the ads and tracking industry?

  • Oracle Java police start knocking on Fortune 200's doors for first time
  • Why would anyone recommend their company to use Oracle stuff these days? Oracle should give kickbacks to people that recommend to use Oracle Database, Java, or VirtualBox in their company so they'll keep at it /s

  • Tesla chair says Elon Musk needs $46 billion pay plan to stay motivated
  • Tesla Board Chairperson Robyn Denholm urged shareholders to re-approve CEO Elon Musk's $46 billion pay package this week, saying the vote is "not about the money" while suggesting that Musk could leave Tesla or devote less time to the company if he isn't properly compensated.

    Don't threaten me with a good time!

  • United Airlines passengers to see targeted ads on seat-back screens
  • Numbers must go up at all costs. By the time the company's reputation hit rock bottom, the CEO already jumped ship to the next company.

  • United Airlines passengers to see targeted ads on seat-back screens
  • If you're getting targeted ads for penis enlargement pills, then the system thinks you have a small pp. If this is an error, you should submit photographic evidence to their office to prove you don't have a small pp.

  • Developer posts secret key on GitHub, loses $40K in 2 minutes
  • The whole point of crypto is to be immutable, so that money is simply lost to him now.

    IIRC there are several cases where some group of people lost big enough coins and force most of the miners to fork to get their money back. Not bitcoin though.

  • Developer posts secret key on GitHub, loses $40K in 2 minutes
  • They notify but iirc only if you push a commit to a public repo. The dev in the article pushed it to a private repo, then later made the repo public.

  • Little bobby 👦
  • Won't this cause subtle but serious issue? Kinda like how pomegranate translates to "granada" in Spanish, but when you translate "granada" back to English it translates to grenade?

  • Stupid question but is it possible to get a virus from an MKV file.
  • Every once in a while security researchers would discover sophisticated exploits that would allow malwares to take over your computer via multimedia files, but those are actually rarely exploited in the wild by run off the mill malwares.

    Unless you're an important person being targeted by hackers and three letter agencies, your biggest source of threat is running infected programs from untrusted sources, e.g. cracks downloaded from random torrents or warez sites, shady sites serving ads that trick you to run some executables, etc.

  • Little bobby 👦
  • How do you sanitize ai prompts? With more prompts?

  • YSK: lemmy.ml is managed by tankies, and lead lemmy developer is a tankie
  • I may not agree with the devs political view, but I think their work developing lemmy is excellent and made me subscribe to monthly donation on opencollective. Lemmy is an open source project where the devs have absolutely no say over how the software being used, as evidenced by so many lemmy instances defederating from lemmygrad and lemmy.ml. Their political belief won't affect other instance.

  • Top news app caught sharing “entirely false” AI-generated news
  • Future historians will have a lot of trouble identifying fake ai news when studying our current era.

  • “if you can obtain a copy of a court order...we’ll do our best to make it happen" Unlike Steam, Good Old Games claims they are willing to transfer accounts to entitled parties after a user's death
  • Like other mentioned, a lot of old games sold right now actually packaged with dosbox. Some even packaged with Wine so it can run on different platforms. The real problem would be emulating current modern graphic stacks but that would be future preservists' problem.

  • “if you can obtain a copy of a court order...we’ll do our best to make it happen" Unlike Steam, Good Old Games claims they are willing to transfer accounts to entitled parties after a user's death
  • Imagine inheriting a GOG account originally registered by your great-great grandpa containing ungodly amount of games you can't possibly play all of them in a lifetime.

  • AI layoffs
  • If we fire all developers and allow AIs to program themselves, the AIs are going to commit virtual seppuku after a few days.

  • Butts, breasts, and genitals now explicitly allowed on Elon Musk’s X
  • Eradication? If anything, streaming services turn the sex dial to 11 for a while now. It's as if they won't greenlight a new show unless it has a certain amount of sex and nudity scenes.

  • Ikea is hiring UK workers for its new store in Roblox
  • Does this mean Roblox is becoming this generation's Second Life now?

  • A Spark Extinguished
    chinabooksreview.com A Spark Extinguished | China Books Review

    At the height of the Great Famine in 1960, a group of students exiled to the countryside launched a magazine that dared to tell the truth. Their convictions, and the love they bore for one another, were put to the test.

    A Spark Extinguished | China Books Review

    > At the height of the Great Famine in 1960, a group of students exiled to the countryside launched a magazine that dared to tell the truth. Their convictions, and the love they bore for one another, were put to the test.

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    talk.tidbits.com Features lost across versions of macOS

    Article Do You Use It? How TidBITS Readers Install macOS Updates - TidBITS says that “Some people even wait until Apple announces or even releases the next macOS version, under the theory that it somehow isn’t fully baked until then.”. I wait until the next major release, but not under that theory. ...

    Features lost across versions of macOS
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    TIL you can improve your google search result by adding "before:2023"
    mastodon.social Grant Gulovsen (@gulovsen@mastodon.social)

    Someone recently posted a hot tip about adding "before:2023" to Google web searches and I forget who it was but wow what a huge difference it makes. So thank you to whoever that was. It gets rid of so much AI-generated SEO crap.

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    openai.com OpenAI and Elon Musk

    We are dedicated to the OpenAI mission and have pursued it every step of the way.

    OpenAI and Elon Musk

    OpenAI's response to Elon Musk's claims.

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    torrentfreak.com Film Companies Seek 'Torrenting History' Related to Redditor * TorrentFreak

    A recent subpoena request shows that film companies are trying to obtain information on a Redditor's piracy habits.

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    Interesting post about BlueSky’s underlying federated protocol (AT Protocol)

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    PSA: Update your docker installation. Leaky Vessels flaws allow hackers to escape Docker, runc containers
    www.bleepingcomputer.com Leaky Vessels flaws allow hackers to escape Docker, runc containers

    Four vulnerabilities collectively called "Leaky Vessels" allow hackers to escape containers and access data on the underlying host operating system.

    Leaky Vessels flaws allow hackers to escape Docker, runc containers

    > Snyk team has found four vulnerabilities collectively called "Leaky Vessels" that impact the runc and Buildkit container infrastructure and build tools, potentially allowing attackers to perform container escape on various software products.

    > On January 31, 2024, Buildkit fixed the flaws with version 0.12.5, and runc addressed the security issue impacting it on version 1.1.12.

    > Docker released version 4.27.0 on the same day, incorporating the secured versions of the components in its Moby engine, with versions 25.0.1 and 24.0.8.

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    Apollo dev released a youtube app for Vision Pro
    christianselig.com Introducing Juno for Apple Vision Pro

    YouTube is probably one of the parts of the internet I consume the most, so I was more than a little sad when YouTube announced that they don’t have plans to build a visionOS app, and disabled the option to load the iPad app. This leaves you with Safari, and the website is okay, but definitely doesn...

    Introducing Juno for Apple Vision Pro
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    www.theguardian.com The man who owes Nintendo $14m: Gary Bowser and gaming’s most infamous piracy case

    The hacker whose involvement with anti-piracy software ended in a jail sentence has emerged from prison struggling to make rent as he starts paying his fine. ‘It could be worse,’ he says

    The man who owes Nintendo $14m: Gary Bowser and gaming’s most infamous piracy case
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    Order/license chaos for VMware products after Broadcom takeover
    borncity.com Order/license chaos for VMware products after Broadcom takeover (Jan. 2024)

    [English]These are currently difficult times for customers and resellers of VMware products who want to reorder, extend licenses or simply activate product licenses. After the Broadcom takeover, absolute chaos reigns. Dealers have been terminated, orders via OEMs are sometimes impossible, and the en

    Order/license chaos for VMware products after Broadcom takeover (Jan. 2024)
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