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Looking through the history looks a bit suspicious. Even if the questionable bids were removed, it’s still likely to be 100k+ for the username!

Edit: Closer to $15k right now lol.

A quick primer on XMPP & how/why you should host your own server for low-resource-usage, encrypted chat & other pubsub server.

Da hell they doin over there

tabula is a backgammon engine I recently created.

The engine builds on principles described by the author of the Motif engine here: https://bkgm.com/motif/engine.html

You can play against the engine right now at https://bgammon.org

TBH I have a mixed feeling about this.

In a surprising move, Apple has announced today that it will adopt the RCS (Rich Communication Services) messaging standard. The feature will launch via a software update “later next year” and bring a wide range of iMessage-style features to messaging between iPhone and Android users.

Apple’s decision comes amid pressure from regulators and competitors like Google and Samsung. It also comes as RCS has continued to develop and become a more mature platform than it once was.

The way they talk about it makes it sound like they invented the written word, but that notwithstanding the fonts actually look really nice in my opinion.

After an intense campaign of Union-busting, Klarna bends the knee.

Organizing works, dear friends.

The mission-driven tech company behind the Firefox browser, Pocket reader and other apps is now investing its energy into the so-called “fediverse” — a collection of decentralized social networking applications, like Mastodon, that communicate with one another over the ActivityPub protocol.

Google's anti-ad scripts are breaking browsers and privacy plugins. It could get worse because Google controls the ad market, Chrome, and the extension store.

This release includes the long-awaited Intel shadow-stack security feature that protects Intel processors against stack-overwrite attacks.

If lemmy had user-defined filters, I'd use them. Right now I'm downvoting the stuff, but there's already a community for musk-related stuff: !EnoughMuskSpam@kbin.social