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Ars Technica

Secrets of the Octopus takes us inside the world of these “aliens on Earth”

Dr. Alex Schell on the surprising things we're learning about these amazing creatures

arstechnica.com/science/2024/0

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Den of Earth

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Paging Evan Dahm and his copyright lawyers?

Mister Mustard

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Anyway, who wants a personal bot that can only do what I can do already?

Gimme one with greater speed, greater strength, greater precision, and yeah, a weirdly much greater range of movement.

AustralianHistoriesPodcast

@arstechnica Oh excellent!
But does it have the potty mouth of the old Atlas? 😂😂😂

youtu.be/lZvj0EJsvWM?si=U7EmE_

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mhoye

@arstechnica c'mon, though. "Readers should remember that whatever penalties result will only be felt when affected software is performing specific cryptographic operations. For browsers and many other types of apps, the performance cost may not be noticeable."

The Icarian

@arstechnica That means these are not-so-secret, not-so-encrypted keys.

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LyleDAL

@arstechnica Do they have class action lawsuits in the UK? Because, I see a HUGE lawsuit against Fujitsu and the Post Office here.

Greengordon

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These lawyers should be in jail and bankrupt.

"the Post Office's lawyers had rewritten Fujitsu witness statements."

noplasticshower

@arstechnica when AI does this, nobody will know there's a bug

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Michael Darweesh ☑️

@arstechnica "The Electronic Frontier Foundation called Google's description of Manifest V3 "Deceitful and Threatening""

Brandon

@arstechnica Firefox about to become the number 1 browser.

No coincidence this is announced after their last month of unsuccessfully attempting to outwit uBlock on Youtube. Now they are back to block uBlock without admitting that's the whole purpose.

Monsieur Valentine 🇺🇦

@arstechnica it's inevitable, adblocker affects their bottom line.

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Meowki

@arstechnica I don’t get it. How exactly will they stop android users from accessing youtube without their DRM when dekstop browsers can? Let me guess, by suing people for ‘breaching effective copyright’ lol?

awooo :autism:​🏴‍☠️🐾⎇

@arstechnica I think the description of how the scanning occurs is a bit too vague, and puts too much emphasis on rooting. Play integrity is an implementation of trusted computing, an old demon from the early 2000s.

The problem goes down to the silicon and firmware level, those are used to attest to the boot state of the device and whether you're running the official OS, which means apps (or rather app servers) can require you to cryptographically prove you're running unmodified android to be allowed to connect.

Unless we get rid of TC or neuter it by adding user override as was proposed back in the day and rejected, there won't be any software freedom. It's only a matter of time until a proposal like WEI succeeds on the web, as it already has on mobile devices more generally because of the overwhelming power of Apple and Google. The only path I see forward is legislative, but the tech is too hidden for most to even notice and take action before it's too late.

@arstechnica I think the description of how the scanning occurs is a bit too vague, and puts too much emphasis on rooting. Play integrity is an implementation of trusted computing, an old demon from the early 2000s.

The problem goes down to the silicon and firmware level, those are used to attest to the boot state of the device and whether you're running the official OS, which means apps (or rather app servers) can require you to cryptographically prove you're running unmodified android to be allowed to connect.

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argv minus one

@arstechnica Just in time for the mouth-breathing voting public to elect Trump or DeSantis in 2024.

Prove me wrong, America. F***ing prove me wrong.

Jeff ♨️ Darcy

@arstechnica About fucking time. Enshittification needs to stop, and *all* of the Big Five are guilty of it.

Manuel Recount

@arstechnica The music, at that time, was out-of-this-world futuristic for 15-year old me. Loved that game!

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@arstechnica The version on PS4 is pretty awesome, but for PC you cannot beat BallisticNG store.steampowered.com/app/473

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Chancerubbage

@arstechnica I had so many type 1 fonts in the 90s. When OS X came around, there wasn’t even a way to knowingly manage them. It stole my mojo.

It wasn’t just the move from press to web that threw a spanner in the works of many graphic design careers; it was eradication of habit.

gnaegi

@arstechnica Cool, I had exactly this combo in the picture with the Apple Laser Printer and the Plus. It weighted a ton and it took ages to print a „complex“ PS file. But when it worked it was awesome… I used PageMaker

Thorsted

“Adobe also says that PDF and EPS files with Type 1 fonts will continue to render properly, as long as those fonts are "placed for display or printing as graphic elements." That text will not be editable, however.”

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Cybarbie

@arstechnica Ars: "It's not the year of Linux on desktop; it's the year of Linux on a handheld."
Also Ars: "Windows was still reported by 96.21 percent of users' systems"

Why are you like this?

komikymi

@arstechnica i tried my coworker's steamdeck and it was too big for comfort for my girlhands 🥲

Ars Technica

Twitch bans stream sponsor overlays, and “I’ve never seen creators so pissed”

Twitch tries to walk back "overly broad" new policy following instant creator furor.

arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/06

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deepfake horizon

@arstechnica I don’t stream, watch any streams, or have an account on any streaming service and even I think this is dumb. The people you’re targeting stream as a job and you’re trying to tell them how they’re allowed to make money? I don’t think so, Mr. Bezos. No one goes to twitch because it’s twitch, they go to see the people they enjoy.

Tom Bellin :picardfacepalm:

@arstechnica We are quickly entering the canibalization phase of "advertising funded services."

The VC funding that kept these services afloat is gone. They need cash, and there's not enough revenue in the entire system to generate the returns they want.

Twitter, Meta, YouTube, Reddit, Twitch, etc. will all inevitably end up sucking every one of their "creators" dry, Jul their platform, and still never even get close to their ludicrous targets.

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@arstechnica Was debating on doing like sewing for charity on a live stream... so like I couldn't promote my own charity fuuuuuu

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