Leave big tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple ā and more
A handful of companies monopolise the web, with unprecedented access to our data. But there are many more ethical Ć¢ĀĀ and often distinctively European Ć¢ĀĀ alternatives
Building OpenWatch: an open-source alternative to YouTube
An open-source alternative to YouTube. Contribute to openwatch-app/openwatch development by creating an account on GitHub.
Virtual Machines vs LXC vs Docker: Whatās the Real Difference?
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Duke Nukem 3D 30th Anniversary Tribute | The Voice, Creators, and Legends Behind the King
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Palantir's AI Is Already Playing a Major Role in Tracking Gaza Aid Deliveriesā As Israel bans NGOs, the U.S. is handing aid delivery in Gazā¦
As Israel bans NGOs, the U.S. is handing aid delivery in Gaza to private companies pursuing their own agendas.
[OC] Dagger Directive mission playthrough, edited to be a more fun watch than raw footage.
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TIL the Windows 7 default wallpaper was created at a resolution of 10800Ć6750. The size of the source file is 556 MB.
Harmony, also internally referred to as img0, is the default wallpaper for all available Windows 7 editions, except Starter, which uses a different version of Harmony...
Invincible VS | Powerplex Gameplay Trailer
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Marvel MaXimum Collection | Reveal Trailer
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Kingdom Come: Deliverance director Daniel VƔvra is stepping away from game development
The writer and designer will instead helm efforts to produce a Kingdom Come movieā¦
TIL about the day of rage after Bloody Sunday that saw the British embassy burn down!
Fifty years ago: āThe biggest demonstration the Republic had seen in a generationā
TIL You can leagally drop your baby off at the fire station in all 50 states
Safe-haven laws (colloquially known in some states as "Baby Moses laws", a reference to a figure from Abrahamic scriptures) are statutes in the United States that decriminalize the leaving of unharmed infants with statuā¦
Day 5 of posting an indie game I found that I think looks cool - Demon Tides
Race across open oceans and uncover a kingdomās dark secrets. Expressively platform your way across dozens of locales, upgrading your gear and modifying your move-set every step of the way!
TIL: Feminist Icon Gloria Steinem Was An Anti-Communist CIA Operative who Kept Feminism From Discussing Class
Declassified Cold War Ties Show How U.S. Intelligence Shaped Feminismās Focus On Gender Over Class.
Day 4 of posting an indie game I found that I think looks cool - Dobbel Dungeon
Gather your party, roll your dice and battle across the islands to put an end to a powerful curse once and for all in this roguelike turn-based tactical RPG!
South of Midnight won Best Character Animation at the 53rd Annie Awards
Honored to share that our game took home Best Character Animation at the 53rd Annie Awards, and Most Innovative VFX at the 2025 Real-Time VFX Awards. Through handcrafted detail and visual magic, every movement carries sā¦
Simpsons Hit & Run and Prototype studio Radical Entertainment is back as New Radical Games
The studio has a new website and appears to be looking for workā¦
Marvel's Wolverine releases September 15, 2026
Who's ready for September 15, 2026? Wishlist Marvel's Wolverine now: play.st/4qPLzOn
This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby - 404media
The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. āI consider it to be a tiny part of rā¦
EA invents new microtransaction nightmare as it breaks paywall promise on Skate: rent a playable area for 24 hours or buy a premium pass, bā¦
Skate players were explicitly told map areas would not be "locked behind a paywall"
Xboxās leadership shift proves it: the gamer era is over, AI runs the show now
As the former lead of CoreAI at Microsoft steps in to replace Spencer, the question remains. What does the future of Xbox with AI look like?
One-Third of U.S. Video Game Industry Workers Were Laid Off Over the Last Two Years
Discover key insights from the 2026 State of the Game Industry report, covering layoffs, generative AI, unionization, platform trends, and more. Download the free report now!
Disney+ loses Dolby Vision, HDR10+ and 3D amid patent dispute
Spreading from Germany across Europe
(XMPP Setup Guide) Discord Was Never the End Game - TonyBTW
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Legal action over 'unfair' Steam game store prices given go ahead
Millions of gamers could get compensation if the lawsuit - which accuses Valve of charging inflated prices - succeeds.
TIL that Cancer might protect against Alzheimerās
A molecule produced by cancer cells can shield the brain from Alzheimerās disease in mice.
Stop Destroying Videogames initiative to get a public hearing organised by the European Parliament
Following the immense success of the Stop Destroying Videogames initiative, it's set to get an official reply and public hearing in the European Parliament.
The hidden surveillance network sending Californians' license plates to Border Patrol
California residents are noticing new license plate readers that appear to be operated by the Border Patrol. Some have had confusing encounters with agents.
The upgrade argument for desktops doesn't stand up anymore
Upgrading isn't all that it's made out to be.
Googlers Demand: Worker Safety & ICE Contract Transparency
We are Google workers appalled by the violence inflicted by United States Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs & Border Protection (CBP). In cities across the country we have witnessed these agencies condā¦
My thousand dollar iPhone can't do math
TL;DR: My iPhone 16 Pro Max produces garbage output when running MLX LLMs. An iPhone 15 Pro runs the same code perfectly. A MacBook Pro also runs the same code perfectly. The tensor outputs on the 16 show numerical valuā¦
The Linux kernel is just a program
Most books and courses introduce Linux through shell commands, leaving the kernel as a mysterious black box doing magic behind the scenes. In this post, we will run some experiments to demystify it: the Linux kernel is ā¦
Package managers keep using git as a database, it never works out
Git repositories seem like an elegant solution for package registry data. Pull requests for governance, version history for free, distributed by design. But as registries grow, the cracks appear.
Instagram says it will alert parents if their teen repeatedly searches for terms related to self-harm or suicide in the US, the UK, Canada,ā¦
We'll begin notifying parents if their teen repeatedly tries to search for terms related to self-harm, so they have the information they need to support them.
Firefoxās AI Kill Switch is a Trap: How Mozilla Made AI Your Problem
TL;DR: Mozilla recently released AI controls for Firefox: a single control panel that lets people disable AI features in the browser or pick and choose which to leave on. On the surface, this sounds like a win for user ā¦
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma shares her gamertag ā what it reveals
Asha Sharmaās Xbox profile shows a surprisingly new gamer history. What does it say about Xboxās future?
ICE and CBPās Face-Recognition App (Mobile Fortify) Canāt Actually Verify Who People Are
ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn't built to work like thatĆ¢ĀĀand only got approved after DHS abandoned its own privacy rules.
DI.DAY is a Movement to Encourage People to Ditch Big Tech
A new day for privacy advocates to look forward to.
Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable
@luana@wetdry.world It will fully support using other operating systems including users making their own builds of GrapheneOS. It's part of our hardware requirements. We'll likely be able to make hardened builds of firmā¦
Apple launches the MacBook Neo
Cute, colorful laptop takes the place of the old $599 M1 MacBook Air.
Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599
Apple today unveiled MacBook Neo, an all-new laptop that delivers the magic of the Mac at a breakthrough price.
A Day in the Life of an Enshittificator
Digital products and services keep getting worse. In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delvedā¦
Interview with a āJust use a VPSā bro (OpenClaw version)
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A new bill in New York would require disclaimers on AI-generated news content
A new bill in the New York state legislature would require news organizations to label AI-generated material and mandate that humans review any such content before publication. On Monday, Senator Patricia Fahy (D-Albanyā¦
Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman
As a historian, Iāve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman
'Reverse Solar Panel' Generates Electricity at Night
It produces only a little power, but its innovative approach could support hardware that operates during lengthy periods of total darkness, such as deep-space satellites.
TIL: Romans and Greeks routinely used folded sheets of lead or pewter to inscribe curses
A curse tablet (Latin: tabella defixionis, defixio; Greek: ĪŗĪ±ĻĪ¬Ī“ĪµĻĪ¼ĪæĻ, romanized: katadesmos) is a small tablet with a curse written on it from the Greco-Roman world. Its name originated from the Greek and Latin words fā¦
DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don't want AI
In a recent DuckDuckGo poll, nine out of tenresponders said they don't want "AI" features.
Your Pixel can now double up as a full Android PC with nothing more than a USB-C cable
Landing with the March Pixel Drop, your Google Pixel phone can now become a mini PC thanks to Android's Desktop Mode.
Burger King will use AI to check if employees say āpleaseā and āthank youā
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