I just noticed this when I saw a strange “Achievement Unlocked” notification pop up on Reddit. What do you think of this? It seems like a retention tactic to me, like what Amino had with its streak leaderboards, and GameFAQs currently has with streak achievements for logging on ten days in a row and also for all days of a...
their page to link accounts to it was not a real webapp, it was a novnc page that would connect to an ubuntu vm that runs chrome with no sandboxing and basic password store under fluxbox wm
The only distro I can find that successfully configures a functioning bootable GRUB on this (bastard) machine is Nobara, which looks very cool but is way too heavy! Some things are glitchy; attempting tab completion seems to freeze Konsole for ~5 seconds and does not complete the command as expected. We’re working with an...
The two tobacco companies Altria and Philip Morris International combined made up 2% of the branded plastic litter found, both Danone and Nestlé each produced 3% of it, PepsiCo was responsible for 5% of the discarded packaging, and 11% of branded plastic waste could be traced to the Coca-Cola company.
Many more people are jumping from one streaming subscription to another, a behavior that could have big implications for the entertainment industry....
rule
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Microsoft’s AI chatbot will ‘recall’ everything you do on its new PCs | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
Twitter/x.com is now forcing you to disable Firefox's Enhance Tracking Protection. (lemmy.world)
Firefox’s Enhanced Tracking Protection (Strict Mode) is known to cause issues on x.com...
What open-source software would you like more people to know about?
There's apparently a Reddit activity streak achievement system now. (lemmy.world)
I just noticed this when I saw a strange “Achievement Unlocked” notification pop up on Reddit. What do you think of this? It seems like a retention tactic to me, like what Amino had with its streak leaderboards, and GameFAQs currently has with streak achievements for logging on ten days in a row and also for all days of a...
Donald Trump Is Short on Cash—and Selling Laws to Anyone Who Will Pay (newrepublic.com)
GOP official argues in favor of child marriage: Girls are ‘ripe’ and ‘fertile’ (www.nj.com)
Clean Energy is not enough (quotefancy.com)
Chad VLC (lemm.ee)
Rabbit R1 AI box revealed to just be an Android app (arstechnica.com)
Rabbit R1 AI box is actually an Android app in a limited $200 box, running on AOSP without Google Play....
rule (lemmy.ml)
Yes be the light. (lemmy.world)
After a vegan blue cheese won the Good Food Award, panicked dairy cheese makers forced the foundation to disqualify it (boingboing.net)
Systemd wants to expand to include a sudo replacement (outpost.fosspost.org)
GRUB on 32-bit UEFI (Nextbook 2-in-1)
The only distro I can find that successfully configures a functioning bootable GRUB on this (bastard) machine is Nobara, which looks very cool but is way too heavy! Some things are glitchy; attempting tab completion seems to freeze Konsole for ~5 seconds and does not complete the command as expected. We’re working with an...
Andrew Tate and brother Tristan to be tried in Romania on rape and trafficking charges (www.bbc.com)
Opinion: GNOME vs. macOS user experience (www.youtube.com)
Spoiler: GNOME wins...
Reading through the Project 2025 PDF is insane (lemmy.world)
Survey finds that 60 firms are responsible for half of world’s plastic pollution (www.theguardian.com)
The two tobacco companies Altria and Philip Morris International combined made up 2% of the branded plastic litter found, both Danone and Nestlé each produced 3% of it, PepsiCo was responsible for 5% of the discarded packaging, and 11% of branded plastic waste could be traced to the Coca-Cola company.
Intel CPU-dispensing vending machine game spotted in Japan — one user got a Core i7-8700 for $3 (www.tomshardware.com)
You can now buy a flame-throwing robot dog for under $10,000 (arstechnica.com)
Americans’ new TV habit: Subscribe. Watch. Cancel. Repeat. (www.nytimes.com)
Many more people are jumping from one streaming subscription to another, a behavior that could have big implications for the entertainment industry....