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A fantastic sci-fi MMORPG that's secretly also an idle game

Five lessons, and one open question

The Twitter implosion has brought a flood of people seeking a safer, less-toxic environment. The results have been mixed.

running decentralized detoxify monitoring for Mastodon

Since the launch of ChatGPT, generative AI has taken the world by storm. Text-to-image AI generators can create extraordinary images with just a text prompt, while ChatGPT promotes…

Safari and WebKit are here to stay with new features.

At WWDC23, Apple announced the rollout of Safari profiles for iOS 17, iPadOS 17, and macOS Sonoma. Safari profiles let you create separate browser

Caste-oppressed gig workers contend with uncertain working conditions and algorithmic wage discrimination from the platforms they rely on.

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How to make better software with systems-thinking

President Joe Biden had called out ticketing giants for their “junk fees” during his State of the Union address

Apple has been improving password management over the last several years to encourage people to use separate, hard-to-guess passwords for each site,...

Higher education risks becoming a cut-price assembly line. There’s a better way of producing good learning.

Recently, a friend sent me a link to an article that they thought I might mind useful. It was one of those articles, the kind that purpor...

Between the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, consuming drugs to expand one’s consciousness went from an intellectual pastime to an emblem of social decay.

Apple's stock Notes app got hardly any screen time during yesterday's WWDC keynote, but one powerful addition to the app in iOS 17 is a new...

The largest air force manoeuvres in the history of NATO has officially begun in German air space, a German Air Force spokesman confirmed to dpa on Monday morning.

"If one man fails to file a story of a millionairess marrying a poor factory hand because that man understands such a story is not properly A.P. stuff, such an error of news judgment ought to be generally made known to other employees."

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Several optimisations and changes I've made to my single user mastodon instance.

Intro I’ve been using Mastodon maybe two weeks now, and I am liking what I’ve been seeing so far. Sure, the first few days were very quiet, but as I followed more users (and trimed as needed), and followed some hashtags, it started to become a useful service. I was on the mastodon.social instance. But, with Mastodon being a federated service, I wanted to run my own instance. Maybe to control my own data?

As you may have heard, Reddit’s decided to pull a Twitter and start charging an extortionate amount of money for access to their previously-free API, in order to drive third-party clients like Apollo and RIF into extinction. Under Reddit’s proposed pricing, …

The fediverse keeps expanding in different and new directions. The Japanese Misskey community continues to grow rapidly. Link aggregators such as Lemmy and Kbin are getting more popular, and much other news!

Ferrari on pole for Le Mans 2023: the race preview

Reddit’s unpopular decision to revise its API pricing in a move that’s forcing third-party apps out of business has taken a weird turn. In an AMA hosted today by Reddit co-founder and CEO Steve Huffman, aka u/spez on the internet forum site, the exec doubled down on accusations against the developer behind the well-liked third-party […]

OpenAI's ChatGPT app is getting its first big update. The new version brings native iPad support to the AI chatbot app, as well as support for using ChatGPT with Siri and Shortcuts.