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More than a dozen whistleblowers and insiders have laid bare how the companies took risks with safety on issues including violence, sexual blackmail and terrorism as they battled for users' attention. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqj9kgxqjwjo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss

Meta and TikTok let harmful content rise after evidence outrage drove engagement - whistleblowers

Companies allowed more harmful content on user’s feeds, knowing their algorithms ran on outrage, BBC hears.

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corq 2d ago

The CIA once trained cats to be Cold War spies | Popular Science

https://www.popsci.com/environment/the-cia-once-trained-cats-to-be-cold-war-spies/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&utm_campaign=fark&ICID=ref_fark

The CIA once trained cats to be Cold War spies

Project Acoustic Kitty went about as well as you’d expect.

Popular Science

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2d ago

I really need to ditch the default Firefox dictionary. It's not the correct English, and 99% of even slightly technical/scientific terms are just not in it. Seeing squiggly lines irritates me, then it tries to correct it to something that I didn't intend.

I suppose that's what I get using an American dictionary, that claims it's UK, over an Australian one

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motofix 3d ago

#caturday #chamedi

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Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch)

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6d ago

Next on How It's Made — Kitty Loaf

Casual Digitals Feb 17

GStats.app

Steam Updates Feb 17

The global statistics have been updated!

Games: +1 (306257)
Owned Games: +8 (2521879)
Unlocked Achievements: +9 (22177309)
Total playtime: +6 days 11 hours 9 minutes

https://gstats.app/steam

#Steam #GStats #GameStatistics #Gaming #statistics #GStatsGlobalUpdate

Game Statistics Network

Get game statistics and achievements for different platforms, e.g. Steam, and games.

Game Statistics Network

Casual Digitals Feb 11

Age verification announcement is not going great for #Discord and rightfully so in my opinion. Source: https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/discord-alternative-search-10000-percent-stoat

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RE: https://mementomori.social/@afterdawn/116042271056101298

Tämä on kyllä ikävä uutinen En halua luottaa henkilöllisyyttäni #Discord tai sen yhteistyökumppaneiden haltuun. Voisin pelata videopelejä internet ystävieni kanssa ilmankin henkilöllisyyden vahvistamista yrityksille.

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Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch)

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Feb 4

No thoughts, only blep

Casual Digitals Feb 3

I recently upgraded my PC and I started to think writing about computer parts in my next blog post. This would give me an opportunity to learn more about #hardware related #cybersecurity. But I guess I should start from the basics because maybe not that many people peek inside their computers anymore and know what’s the function of different components? Later we could go deeper about how those components interact with OS and software