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Twitch is transforming into a political arena. Hasan Piker is at the forefront.
  • I'm a fan and catch YT recaps of topics he covers that I find interesting.

    I will say though that he, as a political influencer, is beholden to his target demographic in the same way that Fox News captivates/gets held captive by its more fervent supporters. It's a crude analogy, but my understanding is that the ideals of journalism is to follow the news, while influencers follow the engagement.

    It is interesting getting his insights and hearing a knowledgeable person speak on the issues, but it isn't the same as getting news from a true blue journalist imo

  • Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second
  • OTA antennae for sports.

    For streaming, I usually watch it on my laptop so that I can have easier options to skip and replay.

    My desktop is connected via HDMI so I have that as an option but I rarely take advantage of it.

    I live by myself so I don't have as much pushback as you likely would FYI

  • ClamAV setup
  • I use it. I think it was a hardening recommendation from lynis IIRC.

    I definitely experienced a lot more freezing on my laptop after installing it (it's a memory hog) so I upped my swap and things are back to normal.

  • Mozilla launches privacy friendly AI addon called "Orbit"
  • Probably not for me as I'm not interested in a summarizing tool, but I'm not against AI in general.

    OAN, I think over time, the community will see that AI was a bubble, but in the same way that the internet was a bubble back in the day.

  • What's a handy terminal command you use often?
  • Getting cheatsheets via curl cheat.sh/INSERT_COMMAND_HERE

    No install necessary, Also, you can quickly search within the cheatsheets via ~. For example if you copy curl cheat.sh/ls~find will show all the examples of ls that use find. If you remove ~find, then it shows all examples of ls.

    I have a function in my bash alias for it (also piped into more for readability):

    function cht() { curl cheat.sh/"$1"?style=igor|more }

  • What's going on at Mozilla these days?
  • Their current userbase is not their target userbase. They are trying to reach a more mainstream audience but all of their attempts to monetize are seen as useless by their current userbase.

    • They want to increase revenue w/ ads - A loud swath of FF users are tech savvy and have adblocking enabled
    • They want to pivot towards AI - A loud swath of FF users see AI as gimmicky

    Repeat ad-nauseum

  • Share your Linux-related Blogs/Websites

    I follow two already using FreshRSS and I'm looking for more

    • https://martyoeh.me/blog/ (found out about it today on lemmy)
    • https://www.dwarmstrong.org/ (Found out about it in the fediverse)
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    Platformer is leaving Substack for Ghost, an Open-Sourced publishing platform

    www.platformer.news Why Platformer is leaving Substack

    We’ve seen this movie before — and we won’t stick around to watch it play out

    Why Platformer is leaving Substack

    "After much consideration, we have decided to move Platformer off of Substack. Over the next few days, the publication will migrate to a new website powered by the nonprofit, open-source publishing platform Ghost. If you already subscribe to Platformer and wish to continue receiving it, you don’t need to do anything: your account will be ported over to the new platform."

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    Does Google Inserting Deceptively Placed Ads in the Play Store seem icky to anyone else?

    They've started inserting a subtle ad as the first result instead of the actual app you're searching for.

    This has to have been a change over the last month or two I feel like?

    I'm having to reprogram myself to view the first result as irrelevant. Really makes me want to increase the F-Droid alternatives that I use.

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