Mereo is a sociologist who is also a nerd. He believes in open-source software.
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The problem first became apparent to Tesla in March of this year after complaints about unintended hood opening from Chinese customers. By April, it had identified the problem as deformation of the hood latch switch, “which could prevent the customer from being notified about an open hood state.”
Given that China is now an electric car superpower, this situation will not bode well for Tesla in that country.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Nearly $109 million in deposits held for fintech Yotta’s customers vanished in Synapse collapse, bank saysEnglish
43·2 years agoThis post does not belong here. This is not a post about technology.
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Technology@lemmy.world•AMD has preemptively dropped support for Windows 10 on its new Ryzen AI 300 Series chipsEnglish
121·2 years agoIt’s all about getting users to buy new PCs that can run the AMAZING AI! (I’m being sarcastic here). It’s good for AMD and Microsoft’s pockets.
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Europe@feddit.de•France's Macron dissolves parliament, calls new electionsEnglish
27·2 years agoOne theory some analysts say is that since Macron’s second term ends in 2027, and since it’s his last, if the FN doesn’t govern well, then his party might be able to win again.
Basically, they’re saying that Macron is playing a dangerous game of chess.
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Europe@feddit.de•France's Macron dissolves parliament, calls new electionsEnglish
4·2 years agodeleted by creator
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Technology@lemmy.world•Windows won’t take screenshots of everything you do after all — unless you opt inEnglish
18·2 years agoIn the '90s and early 2000s, Microsoft’s business model was the classic one of selling products to customers. Today, it’s all about the cloud, advertising, and AI, where the product is the user.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Windows won’t take screenshots of everything you do after all — unless you opt inEnglish
1663·2 years agoThey will just enable it by default later when the heat passes. They always do. You no longer own Windows.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Google Chrome change that weakens ad blockers begins June 3rdEnglish
9·2 years agoBrave is Chromium based. UBlock will be affected by the changes.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Google Chrome change that weakens ad blockers begins June 3rdEnglish
1683·2 years agoFirefox is the way. If you haven’t tried Firefox since 2008, you should. It is as fast as Chrome. It has improved significantly since 2008.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Google won’t comment on a potentially massive leak of its search algorithm documentationEnglish
21·2 years agoGoogle Search uses a regular search algorithm. Google AI overview will be a product that feeds from Google search.
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Technology@lemmy.world•38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible a decade laterEnglish
271·2 years agoThe WayBack Machine would like a word: https://web.archive.org/
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Technology@lemmy.world•Texas power prices briefly soar 1,600% as a spring heat wave is expected to drive record demand for energyEnglish
643·2 years agoRationality is out of the window. Ideology is the new religion. They don’t want to become “socialists” even though they don’t know what it truly means.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Adobe’s ‘Ethical’ Firefly AI Was Trained on Midjourney ImagesEnglish
562·2 years ago- Garbage in -> Garbage out (x2)
- Garbage in (x2) -> = Garbage out (x4)
- Garbage in (x4) -> = Garbage out (x8)
- Garbage in (x8) -> = Garbage out (x16)
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“Just like the megathread,” an announcement reads, “free-form ads encourage multiple users to come together, get the information they need, and deep dive into the topic at hand.” Reddit explained that the open-ended nature of these ads will give advertisers more freedom to explore creativity and, hopefully, to start conversations with users.
Enshittification to the extreme…
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Technology@lemmy.world•Usage Of Elon Musk’s X Dropped 30% In The Last Year, Study SuggestsEnglish
0·2 years agoEver since Musk’s control of the company, Twitter (I refused to call it X) showed me multiple hate and racists posts. Basically, Twitter is showing me garbage. I now use Mastadon instead.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Meta relents to EU, allows unlinking of Facebook and Instagram accountsEnglish
0·2 years agoThe EU really is a force to be reckoned with. Long live the EU.

European Union, stand up to this bully, you’re the second second largest economy, act like one.