Technology

As the link details, this is a project by Google to add a system not only to web clients, but also to web servers, that performs Device Attestation so that the website can control how, and if, a web browser or a machine in general can visit it.

As expected from Google, this is basically a combination of DRM and Anti-Adblock. They try to sell it as a way to """"only"""" perform nonidentifying checks, but in the same document in their section of open issues they leave to the air how to prevent their users (websites) from using it to discriminate web browsers that don't complain with certain criteria (such as "be Google Chrome").

There are various Issues opened already to let these people know the evil they are creating. One notable is here (28), and this social media thread follows the more general issue.

Over the last 3 weeks of our data (June 21 to July 12, 2023), we saw a weekday daily tweet count drop from the 1,272 pre-Elon average to just 333 tweets a day, which is about a 74% drop in weekday tweets. The 2-week rolling average (including weekends) dropped down to 272 tweets over the final 2 weeks. When I attempt to remove automated CVE announcements (bots), the drop is even more significant, dropping from over 500 a day down to 66 over the last two weeks, an 87% decrease in CVE-related tweets.

Relevant HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36780739

From the discussion it seems most of the infosec people have moved over to Mastodon already which is nice.

Relevant HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36709895

More Links https://www.ghacks.net/2023/07/12/twitter-block-threads-links/

https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/11/twitter-blocks-links-to-rival-threads-while-ceo-downplays-reports-of-traffic-decline/

https://9to5mac.com/2023/07/11/twitter-is-blocking-threads/

Relevant HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36673040

Geddit is an open-source, Reddit client for Android without using their API. Many devs are working smart to bring us the content without API. Nitter is back, now Geddit.🍻

My dad told me to look into something called "parallel computing" but I don't really understand what it is or how to put it into practice.

I have a raspberry pi 4, and two windows computers.

I can wipe the raspberry pi and one windows computer, but I am looking to run games (that can't currently run with just the one computer) on the other windows computer.

I apologize if I'm being dumb, I don't know as much about computers as I'd like.

They allege that OpenAI's ChatGPT and Meta's LLaMA chatbots were trained on datasets that included their copyrighted books, without their permission. The datasets in question were allegedly obtained from "shadow library" websites like Bibliotik, Library Genesis, and Z-Library. These websites are known for distributing pirated content.

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/923025

lemmy.world is a victim of an XSS attack right now and the hacker simply injected a JavaScript redirection into the sidebar.

It appears the Lemmy backend does not escape HTML in the main sidebar. Not sure if this is also true for community sidebars.

Threads (Meta's counterpart to Twitter) just launched today on both Android and iOS supposedly but when I go to the Play Store, it shows me this message (see screenshot). Anyone else have this issue?

hello im back again...

so i recently upgraded a 11 year old laptop i use to use from 2gb of ram to 8, it made a big diffrent. also thanks to the linux community i decided on linux mint mate and its a pretty basic laptop.

i was going to use the laptop to make gaming videos with but it cant really game too well or record while gaming. it has another issue that is the battery is bad so it it to be plugged into a wall at all times, i guess its not very portable.

I litterly have no idea what to do now with it and i dont want to sell it sense i just upgraded the ram, like woudl it be better to try somethign else, any ideas by chance or things to share?

Seems like every major social media company had a bet on who can implement the worst idea possible.