Pornhub has just blocked itself in the state of Texas:

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Pornhub Pulls Out of Texas

All of the sites in Aylo's network, including Pornhub, YouPorn, and Brazzers, are blocked in Texas, their homepages replaced with a message about t...

my posting experience on threads is about as bad as twitter was at its worst (for me). understand my experience is different & more privileged than many but half of what i post there is flooded by humorless tech employees and fanboys spamming me with pedantry and ACTUALLYS and weird linkedin maxxers. i am having less than zero fun there. mastodon remains my only good social media experience of the last few years

BREAKING: Google formally endorses right to repair and is set to lobby to pass a strong right to repair law in Oregon. Says parts pairing (done by Apple) should be illegal

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Google Formally Endorses Right to Repair, Will Lobby to Pass Repair Laws

Google says repair should be easy and "parts pairing" should be illegal.

this is a highly specific ask: I just learned that some cities have programs where they give gift cards to unhoused people, people on welfare, etc. Does anyone know any experts in this space? Anyone who would know anything more about these types of programs, who lobbies for them, whether they’re effective, etc? Working on a story and could use some help understanding the docs I’m looking at

i've been using vanilla facebook a lot for a story i'm working on and it really feels like using an ancient, unsupported technology. its UX is *horrible* and things like messenger etc load incredibly slow. astoundingly bad

Ubiquiti users saying that when they tried to log onto their own networks, they are being fed access to random users' accounts. One guy in Germany is getting security camera access /alerts from a complete stranger's cameras

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Ubiquiti Users Somehow Being Fed Access to Strangers' Security Cameras

"This is not expected behavior," Ubiquiti said on Reddit.

this by @npub1w9ay...04m0 is really good - I have been pleasantly surprised and heartened by how supportive and kind the overwhelming majority of people on Mastodon have been so far ... and then there are also the people who say we are unethical monsters for doing like, bare minimum stuff to make our website solvent, like asking for email addresses

Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet.

Yeah, Mastodon’s Got A Reply Guy Problem

The “reply guy,” the internet-native take on Florida Man, has started to cause problems in the fediverse, and it comes down to ideology.

my dream feature is a desktop video editor for social video that, in the app itself lets you emulate mobile websites (i.e., record vertical) and lets you screen capture to drop into the editor timeline for vertical social video .......... does this exist already.......

This legal petition from iFixit and US PIRG argues that the FTC is obligated to create rules protecting right to repair. I think it's pretty compelling and worth a read: FTC and Biden have repeatedly said repair monopolies are illegal but have not actually created regulations to stop them, and have only enforced against them around the edges. I think formal regs are a good idea:

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Consumer Rights Groups Petition Government to Create Formal Rules Protecting Right to Repair

The FTC and Biden have repeatedly argued repair monopolies are illegal. So why haven't they created formal regulations protecting right to repair?

Going on Tech Won't Save Us with @npub10jk3...dpae was really fun! Please listen: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1004689/13492628-reporting-critically-on-tech-w-jason-koebler-samantha-cole