Deadly Headshot @dheadshot@mastodon.social

Analog Camera Goes Digital https://hackaday.com/2021/07/15/analog-camera-goes-digital/

Microsoft’s fix for Windows 10 gaming issues is coming soon​

Based on reports in nVidia forums:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/mq75d6/cumulative_updates_april_13th_2021/

Changelog provided b MS (updated):
https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2021/07/15/announcing-windows-10-insider-preview-build-19044-1147-21h2/

Patches coming August 2021 Patch Tuesday.

oh my gods. they literally have no shame about this.

GitHub Support just straight up confirmed in an email that yes, they used all public GitHub code, for Codex/Copilot regardless of license.

The pics in this piece have been AI generated from the written description!

Authors now can generate their own illustrations automatically?!

https://moultano.wordpress.com/2021/07/20/tour-of-the-sacred-library/

"Teens, tech and mental health: Oxford study finds no link"

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56970368

The new U.S. government finally calls #BigTech's business model what it is: #surveillance.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/07/09/executive-order-on-promoting-competition-in-the-american-economy/ #TrackingFreeAds #digitalrights

banking and similar apps locking themselves down when they detect a jailbreak has got to be one of the more obnoxious threat modeling failures that exist

#showerthought Billionaires can go to space, but it takes real people to get down to earth.

If you're in the #Houston area, the Houston Computer Museum is liquidating its entire collection, mostly pre-2000 machines: https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1178156389355802/ Selected images of available items attached. #retrocomputing

INPUT magazine article on MNT Reform just dropped https://www.inputmag.com/reviews/mnt-reform-review-your-diy-laptop-fantasy-is-here-at-last

If the Bishop moves forward, the Queen can take him.

Agreed.

its called DNS because when you ask it to resolve a hostname it says "don't know, sorry"

F***ing Amazon. They flagged the payment method on my son's account and are reviewing it. Meanwhile, he's locked out of his Kindle until then. Why? No goddamn idea.

Matrix Multiplication http://matrixmultiplication.xyz/

The Easy Way to Enable ‘Minimize on Click’ in Ubuntu https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/07/enable-minimize-click-ubuntu-dock

Debian bullseye fully frozen
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2021/07/msg00002.html

https://botsin.space/media/ehvTvhIk8sIb-2Ut47g

The computer of the future will have just one button, and it will say "no." You'll press it when your computer is doing something you don't want it to do, and it will use that feedback to learn your preferences.

Here's a little thing that may not be obvious to many people....

When you install an open-source app from Google Play or the Apple app store, there is no guarantee that what you install actually matches the public code.

@fdroidorg are doing a great service. They independently build the public source code for apps from scratch, review for common issues, and publish their builds. Thanks to "reproducible builds" it's possible to verify they do not tamper with the code.

https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Security_Model/