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WhatsApp is getting ads using personal data from Instagram and Facebook


Meta announced today that it also wants to introduce ads on WhatsApp, which will be based on personal data from Facebook and Instagram. This further integrates WhatsApp into other Meta services - an originally independent app, which initially was available for just $1 per year without ads or data usage. This also means that Meta is consolidating its social networking monopoly. EU law was actually supposed to prevent this.
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WhatsApp is getting ads using personal data from Instagram and Facebook


Meta announced today that it also wants to introduce ads on WhatsApp, which will be based on personal data from Facebook and Instagram. This further integrates WhatsApp into other Meta services - an originally independent app, which initially was available for just $1 per year without ads or data usage. This also means that Meta is consolidating its social networking monopoly. EU law was actually supposed to prevent this.
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in reply to moonleay

Signal, Telegram, SimpleX.

Spin the wheel ladies and gentlemen!

in reply to moonleay

Tbh. This took waaay longer than i expected. They bought it con 2014. I didn't even know a company was capable of holding its enshitification tendencies that long


Scooter - An interactive search and replace for the terminal.


I've found this to be pretty useful when needing to do recursive / multi-file search and replace. Also has bindings to work within terminal text editors like vim and helix.

Uses rust and ripgrep under the hood for speed.

in reply to spacemanspiffy

The dev's VSCode application installs a helper package in /root/.vscode-server. Separate copy for every user that connects. It runs a bunch of 'node' processes that often stack up more used CPU time than MySQL. I'm not a fan...
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in reply to tasankovasara

Interesting, I appreciate the explanation.

It's crazy how much a single node instance can max out my huge desktop CPU, so I can imagine.




WhatsApp to get channel subscriptions, promoted channels, and ads in Status


Takeaways
- We’re introducing channel subscriptions, promoted channels and ads in Status in the WhatsApp Updates tab to help you find channels and products you’re interested in.
- The growing popularity of the Updates tab makes this the right place for these experiences, in a way that doesn’t interrupt your chats.
- Nothing changes about people’s personal chats, which remain end-to-end encrypted and are not used for ads.



sala dei libri inaugurata online con già pochi tomi, ma ufficialmente libreria digitale senza dei topi


Nel mentre che, come al solito, sclero medio-fortissimamente, dato che non riesco neanche per idea a mettere in ordine la mia libreria fisica (ma questo è un argomento per un diverso post, più incazzato), in questo ultimo paio di giorni mi è saltata in mente l’idea di perlomeno mettere in ordine quella digitale, di mia […]

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sala dei libri inaugurata online con già pochi tomi, ma ufficialmente libreria digitale senza dei topi


Nel mentre che, come al solito, sclero medio-fortissimamente, dato che non riesco neanche per idea a mettere in ordine la mia libreria fisica (ma questo è un argomento per un diverso post, più incazzato), in questo ultimo paio di giorni mi è saltata in mente l’idea di perlomeno mettere in ordine quella digitale, di mia libreria… O meglio, piuttosto costruirla ufficialmente, visto che francamente il termine “libreria” non è il più adatto per la mia condizione pregressa in tal senso (che è ovvero formata di file sparsi in giro tra archiviazione cloud, torrent scaricati e non, disco del PC quasi pieno, e roba ancora diversa con di mezzo Kindle e tablet). 🤥

Con buona pace di chi è contro l’illimitata condivisione libera dell’informazione (contro la “dittatura del dominio pubblico“), quindi, ho semplicemente scelto di creare un nuovo sito dalle implicazioni teoriche come sempre squisitamente discutibili, in cui manterrò una collezione più o meno curata di quelli che — un po’ perché mi faceva ridere, ma un po’ perché è tecnicamente una descrizione più accurata — in realtà non chiamo libri, bensì tomi, ossia volumi di cose… letteratura, saggistica, manga, manuali, PDF colorati; in generale roba intrigante che è bene preservare ordinatamente. 🤗

Quindi, prendendo semplicemente ispirazione dalla già per mano mia esistente Sala Museo Games (a partire dal generatore di sito statico, che anche in questo caso è stato Jekyll, dopo aver perso per l’ennesima volta tempo a cercare invano soluzioni alternative più flessibili ma non troppo), ho messo su il sito tomistico-topastico più epico che io abbia mai visto, TOMOSTASH: https://gamingshitposting.github.io/TomoStash/!!! (Si, è sul namespace di GamingShitposting perché mi seccava creare un’organizzazione GitHub separata; e poi, così fa ancora più ridere.) 🐭
Schermata home del sito, griglia con i vari tomi con le copertine e i titoli
A parte il solito gusto della collezione di dati pubblica, per cui come tutti sanno io ho per ottime ragioni un’ossessione (fosse anche solo il fatto che, stranamente, tendo sempre a perdere i dati che tengo privati nel mio disordine generale, mentre pubblicando sul web in qualche modo non perdo mai cose dentro una discarica di bit), questo sito mi sarà utile anche per eventuali recensioni future di mie letture stellari, dove potrò semplicemente linkare alla pagina di un dato tomo per l’acquisto da fonti ufficiali, download dei file digitali gratuiti da me accuratamente archiviati e conservati, o addirittura lettura in browser di diversi formati!!! 😇

Queste fiturs sono ovviamente già lì, sul mio bel sito de’ tomi, ma a lungo termine ci sarebbero anche ancora ulteriori miglioramenti possibili che… spero verranno concretizzati, ma purtroppo Octt Del Breve Futuro è completamente imprevedibile anche per me (Octt Dell’Attuale Presente), quindi meglio non fare spoiler. E, per quanto ci sia il rischio che questo nuovo progetto secondario lastricato di buone intenzioni finisca come la Sala Museo Games, ossia bello e funzionante ma con una libreria stagnante, perché non ci sarà altra gente che vorrà contribuire su GitHub con manodopera dataentryantespero se ne possa fare buon uso. 🚀

Vabbè… a parte sistemare la home del sito — che in foto qui è come dovrebbe essere, mentre chi lo va a vedere subito ora scopre che c’è dello scombinamento con l’allineamento della griglia, ops — e riempire la libreria con cadenza continua e qualità alta — che è la cosa più difficile, perché per i tomi che già si trovano su Internet non è facile procurarsi e valutare il file migliore possibile disponibile, ma è qualcosa di importante per una raccolta che si prefigge l’evitare che le menti esplodano navigando — alcune delle tecniche che mi invento qui sopra potrebbero essere utili anche per migliorare la Sala Museo Games, quindi… se andrà bene, non solo non avrò perso tempo, ma ne avrò guadagnato?! Boh! 😝

#archive #archivio #books #library #libreria #libri #sito #tomes #tomi #TomoStash #website





Trump Mobile launches $47 service and a gold phone



in reply to Avid Amoeba

Debts are gone AND now he can sell the user data with impunity! No NO, that was that OTHER GUY




Palestinians say Israeli troops fire on Gazans trying to reach GHF aid hub, with 34 reportedly killed


in reply to geneva_convenience

Happens everyday. Their 'humanitarian help' is only a trap to lure civilians into killing zones.


A Biden official says Israel committed war crimes. Who else will come forward


Politicians lie, and the people around them do too. When it’s convenient – when the whole world is pulsing with revulsion, for example – they begin to reveal flavors of the truth.

The Biden administration lied more than most, its public-facing members particularly. Its policy in Palestine was to embrace the Israelis in a “bear hug” – to smother them with love. And there’s thin cover for a genocide beyond lies.

In the interview, the former spokesman shared his personal view that it is “without a doubt true that Israel has committed war crimes”. Asked if that had been true when he was employed by the government, he suggested that lying is just part of the job: “You are a spokesperson for the president, the administration, and you espouse the positions of the administration. And when you’re not in the administration, you can just give your own opinions.”

Miller isn’t alone. The Biden-era spokespeople for the genocide included the White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and the deputy state department spokesperson Vedant Patel, as well as Jake Sullivan, a primary policymaker for an addled president, who represented the actual center of power along with John Kirby, a former admiral, and Antony Blinken, the former secretary of state. The group spent the period from October 2023 to January 2025 lying to an anguished public. They lied scornfully (Jean-Pierre) or gleefully (Miller), mawkishly (Kirby and Blinken), or blandly (Patel and Sullivan). And they did it every day, for 15 months.

in reply to surph_ninja

the people of .world downvoted me for pointing out that this guy was covering for war crimes in 30 second video bites while he was doing it; i doubt very much that they're going to bother watching a 30+ minute interview.
in reply to eldavi

.world is circlejerking about how happy Iranians are that Israel is bombing them. They are living up to their reputation.


Pipewire improved its accessibility, allowing for screenreaders to start much earlier


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in reply to Leaflet

Incorrect. Not run as root, but launched by root in a system service (runs as the pipewire user).
in reply to Leaflet

Hum, don't know if this is a pipewire issue or if the DeskMini has too bad shielding (then again, DAC is outside via USB-C). But each time i have slightly huge CPU load, audio starts glitching with crackling to the point of failing altogether until restart of the audio server.
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in reply to MonkderVierte

I also have a DAC connected via USB to my laptop but I have never experienced this. Which distro are you on?
in reply to eta

Artix, basically Arch. Replaced Pulseaudio with Pipewire as user service. Same issue with PA tho.
in reply to MonkderVierte

Do you have FluidSynth installed? I had similar issues recently - I just have a script that restarts pipewire automatically on login.

in reply to PixelDerp404

I can just hear the SBB voice “Intercity 8 für Olten, Bern, Lausanne, Gleis 5”
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WhatsApp is officially getting ads


WhatsApp is rolling out ads. In an update on Monday, Meta announced that it will now show ads from businesses through its Stories-like status feature.

Meta says it will tailor the ads to your interests by using “limited” information, including your country or city, language, the channels you follow, and how you interact with ads on the platform. You can also change your ad preferences from Meta’s Accounts Center.

This isn’t the only change Meta is making to WhatsApp. The company will also start showing promoted channels when you click on the Explore button to find new ones to follow. It’s also rolling out the ability to subscribe to channels to “receive exclusive updates” as well.

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in reply to MazonnaCara89

I forgot WhatsApp existed.

Guess its shittier now.

Mhm. Yup.

in reply to sp3ctr4l

It's the go-to messagging app in my country for historical reasons.
in reply to MazonnaCara89

I hate how my country (Brazil) depends so much on Whatsapp. If I could, I would uninstall that app immediately.

in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

fair. Isreal motto seems to be attack, ask for ceasefire and then attack while negotiations are underway. Personally think it's a no brainer for Iran to see through that cover play.

Also agree with the decision to cease proceedings with the US during the period, it's unlikely anything beneficial will come out of the talks while engaging Isreal so it's a waste of effort.



in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

Yeah but even if USA fucks off Ukraine right now, it will still remains a hot zone ready to be exploited by further US meddling, as one of many such zones in the world. And it will be a tool for internal US politics too.
in reply to PolandIsAStateOfMind

I think it's going to be a bit more complex than that because most people in Ukraine are tired of the war, and they're starting to realize they were used by the west. I don't expect there's going to be much appetite for some sort of an insurgency movement after the war is over. Meanwhile, the resentment towards the west will very probably result in blow back in Europe. The US will likely keep meddling, but I do think their influence will collapse in the whole region.


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WhatsApp is adding ads to the Status screen


After years of providing free services without any bells attached, WhatsApp is now going to start showing ads on the popular chat app. To be clear, users will only see ads on the Status screen — the app’s take on Instagram’s Stories.

So just like you see an ad after watching a few stories on Instagram, you will see ads on WhatsApp after you’ve scrolled through a few Status updates.

The company said that its ad mechanism uses signals like users’ country or city, language, and the channels they’re following, as well as data from ads that users interact with.


Meta said it is not using personally identifiable data, such as users’ phone numbers, messages, calls, and groups to serve targeted ads. If a user has added their WhatsApp account to Meta’s Account Center, the company will use their Account preferences to show ads.

#tech


in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

b-but have you considered the prooductivity
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in reply to thirstyskyline [she/her, ae/aer]

funny you should mention that (I know you're being sarcastic 😀

Overall, our results suggest that the rise in remote work and TFP growth are positively correlated. From 2019 to 2021, the (weighted) average percentage-point increase in remote workers across industries was 14.9. This suggests that the rise in remote work was associated with an average 1.2 percentage-points increase in industry-level TFP.


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The Bureaucrat and the Billionaire: Inside DOGE’s Chaotic Takeover of Social Security


The drama offers a case study in how Elon Musk’s team sought to run a critical government agency through misinformation and social media blasts — and how longtime employees responded.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/us/politics/doge-social-security.html?unlocked_article_code=1.PU8.U02v.PgGBOziHDpcL




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Best multi-identity anonymity-focused email client


Hi, I'm looking for a mail client that is well suited for managing multiple identities and can easily handle routing everything over an anonymity network.

I would use Thunderbird, but I think when you take it online, it downloads from all your connected email accounts. I want to "go online" at will toward particular email addresses, in other words I do not want my upstream mail provider to be able to associate my accounts in any way, including access time, assuming there is a large enough other pool of people using the same client/anonymity network.

Are there any that are well made for this purpose? Otherwise I will use the mail frontend over Tor or something, but it would be nice to have a lightweight client-side application too so I can keep my emails downloaded and delete them from the server.

in reply to moon

I'm having a hard time finding how to access about:profiles, but in looking for this I found you can disable the "download messages on startup" option. Maybe Thunderbird is the solution. It will require some more investigation, but this is giving me hope.
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in reply to Grapes

In the menu bar go to help > troubleshooting information. In the page that opens there 8s a link to about:profiles.
All details are available on the mozilla website.
support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/p…






Microsoft Tests Removing Its Name From Bing Search Box




Microsoft Tests Removing Its Name From Bing Search Box




Make America Hate Again





Gazans flee aid distribution site from gunfire




‘Extremely disturbing and unethical’: new rules allow VA doctors to refuse to treat Democrats, unmarried veterans


cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/14277007

DeepL:
„Äußerst beunruhigend und unethisch“: Neue Vorschriften erlauben es Ärzten der Veteranenbehörde, Demokraten und unverheiratete Veteranen die Behandlung zu verweigern.

Das Ministerium für Veteranenangelegenheiten erklärt, die Änderungen seien eine Reaktion auf eine Verordnung von Trump zum „Schutz von Frauen“.