John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed
It's brief, around 25:15...
There's a clear up tick on daily users growing and we've crossed the 50k line as of yesterday! LETSSS GOOO! ( lemmy.world )
Decentralized Social Media Is the Only Alternative to the Tech Oligarchy ( www.404media.co )
LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs | The free open-source Microsoft Office alternative is being downloaded by nearly 1 million users a week ( www.computerworld.com )
Interest in LibreOffice, the open-source alternative to Microsoft Office, is on the rise, with weekly downloads of its software package close to 1 million a week. That’s the highest download number since 2023....
Study Finds Consumers Are Actively Turned Off by Products That Use AI ( futurism.com )
Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft.
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Musk 'Pressured' Reddit CEO to Silence DOGE Critics, Leaving Moderators Outraged: Report. ( www.latintimes.com )
They exchanged messages just before the subreddit r/WhitePeopleofTwitter was given a temporary ban for 72 hours
uBlock Origin developer recommends switching to Firefox as Chrome flags the extension ( www.neowin.net )
https://www.neowin.net/news/ublock-origin-developer-recommends-switching-to-ublock-lite-as-chrome-flags-the-extension/...
The erasure of Luigi Mangione ( substack.evancarroll.com )
Right now, on Stack Overflow, Luigi Magione’s account has been renamed. Despite having fruitfully contributed to the network he is stripped of his name and his account is now known as “user4616250”....
Just a reminder we are the future of social media. ( lemmy.world )
Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. ( www-xataka-com.translate.goog )
What are we going to do about it?...
Happy #GlobalSwitchDay
Lemmy Just Broke the 54k MAU Record Set During the 2023 API Exodus!
Not allowed to work from home
The Onion buys rightwing conspiracy theory site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’ ( www.theguardian.com )
Here’s Why I Decided To Buy ‘InfoWars’ By Bryce P. Tetraeder, Global Tetrahedron CEO ☞ https://theonion.com/heres-why-i-decided-to-buy-infowars/...
Itch.io games site taken down ( bsky.app )
Bluesky Post (this was also posted on twitter)...
Update: IRS successfully launches their own free Direct File - now ALL of my fellow 'murcans are eligible for 2025 ( sh.itjust.works )
Source...
Self-Driving Tesla Crashes into Wall Painted to Look Like a Road… Just Months Before Planned Robotaxi Launch ( fuelarc.com )
Mark Rober just set up one of the most interesting self-driving tests of 2025, and he did it by imitating Looney Tunes. The former NASA engineer and current YouTube mad scientist recreated the classic gag where Wile E. Coyote paints a tunnel onto a wall to fool the Road Runner....
Microsoft Teams is dog shit
That’s all....
The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates ( lemmy.world )
Those claiming AI training on copyrighted works is "theft" misunderstand key aspects of copyright law and AI technology. Copyright protects specific expressions of ideas, not the ideas themselves. When AI systems ingest copyrighted works, they're extracting general patterns and concepts - the "Bob Dylan-ness" or "Hemingway-ness"...
The best thing you can do for the fediverse is just be kind
The fediverse is small, and thats both a blessing and a curse - one of its several blessings is that in a smaller space we all individually have a bigger impact on what the culture of this space is like....
Mastodon’s founder cedes control, refuses to become next Musk or Zuckerberg ( arstechnica.com )
His grand vision remains to leave Mastodon users in control of the social network, making their own decisions about what content is allowed or what appears in their timelines....
A PR disaster: Microsoft has lost trust with its users, and Windows Recall is the straw that broke the camel's back ( www.windowscentral.com )
It's a nightmare scenario for Microsoft. The headlining feature of its new Copilot+ PC initiative, which is supposed to drive millions of PC sales over the next couple of years, is under significant fire for being what many say is a major breach of privacy and security on Windows. That feature in question is Windows Recall, a...
Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. ( finance.yahoo.com )
The gloomy sentiment around Reddit Inc. has failed to dissipate after its shares fell 50% from a February high, with volatile technology stocks under pressure.
You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism | Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them ( www.404media.co )
If there’s one thing I’d hoped people had learned going into the next four years of Donald Trump as president, it’s that spending lots of time online posting about what people in power are saying and doing is not going to accomplish anything. If anything, it’s exactly what they want....
