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Who killed Google Reader? Ten years after its untimely death, the team that built the much-beloved feed reader reflects on what went wrong and what could have been

Twitter now blocks visitors from viewing tweets, profiles unless they’re logged in: No longer usable then for blogging publicly

Cape Town libraries have free access to Overdrive or Libby eBooks as well as over 7,000 local and international newspapers via PressReader

The Verge’s greatest nonfiction tech books of all time: They are all about the intersection with humanity, not about technology itself

Proton launches its password manager Proton Pass: But you may still want to consider Bitwarden for these reasons

Brave aims to curb the practice of websites that port scan visitors: Great idea, but will a normal user know what ‘localhost resources’ are?

Google Wallet will soon let phones without NFC (budget phones) make in-store payments with QR codes

$99 ESPBoy Turned Into Functional Walkie-Talkie

New Second Life Mobile App Preview Shows Off Greatly Improved UI, Graphics & Avatar Rendering — Aiming For Late 2023/Early 2024 Beta Release

An Android phone, running Linux and modified openpilot software, can do basic self-driving of a car

Cheat allows you to create and view interactive cheatsheets on the Linux command-line

Guide to lossless audio: Everything you need to know from a smartphone user perspective

The Top 7 Ways You Can Use Google Bard More Effectively

GloboNote – a feature-rich, free and open-source sticky notes application

Manjaro and EndeavourOS Are Both Arch Based, But There Are Some Big Differences

Liftoff! is one of the first dedicated Lemmy apps

How to Choose the Best RAM for Your PC: Takeaway is heatsinks on RAM are usually not needed

Cosmic rays could help us get around indoors, underground, and underwater: Has some pros and cons vs GPS

Kodi vs. Plex: Which is Best For You For Streaming And Entertainment?

Red Hat Enterprise Linux source code no longer available to the public: This effects various downstream distros based on it

Takealot SA versus Amazon USA tech price showdown: It’s around 50/50 so always best to check properly

How to make your own self-hosted VPN in under 30 minutes (and why you’d want to, or not, do this)

FeverPhone App: Researchers Created a Simple App That Turns Your Smartphone Screen Into an Accurate Thermometer, but it takes 90 seconds

Why You Should Consider Changing Your DNS Server Today If You Still Use Your ISP’s Default

Improbable launches MSquared, a network of metaverses, to open borders between virtual worlds

In praise of Reverse Polish Notation (RPN) with Python or C

DPReview will live: Gear Patrol has purchased it from Amazon

Beginning of the end for LCD TVs: They’re still cheaper but prominent companies focusing on OLED and microLED technologies

50 Years of Text Games book parses the rich history of a foundational genre: Zork and MUD? Sure. But also Universal Paperclips, AI Dungeon, The Oregon Trail, and Lifeline

Bluetooth vs. Wi-Fi Music: Which Has Better Audio Quality? Choose Wi-Fi if you can

Withings Body Smart Review: A Connected Scale For the Masses that includes baby/pet weight

The South African Post Office is failing — these are the best alternatives

Brave Browser’s Off The Record feature, to protect vulnerable people, is different from Private browsing mode: Website owners to action this

Gillette Cartridge Blades R110 ea (US$5.79) vs Gillette DE Blades R4 ea (US$0.21)!

Computer Storage Choices: It’s no longer just SATA Hard Drive vs SATA SSD as motherboards often support even faster options now like NVMe SSD

Steam Client Now Lets You Enable Hardware Acceleration on Linux BUT enabling hardware acceleration on NVIDIA GPUs may cause X11 to crash

NixOS has one config file, can roll back changes, and keeps package dependencies separated for each app

EU: Samsung and other brands may be forced to bring back phones with removable backs so that we can easily replace batteries

Calckey is also a federated social network based on the ActivityPub protocol, but it is really good looking with some extra functions inc account migrations

Relive the Internet of the ’90s With ‘Neocities’ – Build your next website like it’s not yet 1999

Samsung Galaxy Watch might soon just save your life: Finally getting irregular heartbeat recognition and notification

Applying simple CSS to Lemmy or Beehaw does add some nice indenting and spacing to look more like Reddit

Docker Mailserver (DMS) is an open-source production-ready full stack mail server that you can self-host in a Docker container

Think how much richer Internet searches will be with results from Lemmy, Beehaw, Kbin, etc