Links of the Day
I collect cool, interesting links spread all over the web and share them here in daily posts. Hope you enjoy! More of them in the archive.
Amazon to end support for older Kindles, prompting user outcry, BBC News. Kindle models released before 2012 will no longer be able to connect to Amazon. This means it won’t be possible—through official channels—to add new books to the device. Several sources are saying you can still transfer books via USB cable, but remember that Amazon has removed the option to download them? Thank goodness Calibre exists.
Analysis finds that Google’s AI Overviews are providing misinformation at a scale possibly unprecedented in the history of human civilization, Futurism. Conducted by the AI startup Oumi (a red flag, no doubt), the analysis found that AI summaries are wrong 9% of the time. That may not seem like much, but considering that these synthetic texts appear 5 trillion times a year… it’s a lot.
US: Meta is removing ads from lawyers offering to sue social media companies for psychological damages, Axios. Meta can’t seem to block ads for scams and illegal betting, though.
Microsoft blocks WireGuard updates. It’s the same case as VeraCrypt, which I mentioned yesterday: suspension of the developer’s Microsoft account, which prevents him from obtaining certificates from Microsoft, the only entity that can provide them for applications using Windows kernel drivers. Have you ever heard of Linux? Or macOS?
LittleSnitch for Linux. The coolest app I never really cared much about having (since it’s expensive), LittleSnitch, now has an official version for Linux. And it’s free! I’m so jealous… It’s just not entirely open source; the back-end (the part that makes the magic happen) is closed-source.
New video controls on Spotify. Remember when Spotify was just an app that played music? Someone there remembered, and in a rare concession, the app will soon include controls to disable all videos.
Tennis. A small command-line app that prints CSV tables to the screen in a very readable and pleasant format. Free and FOSS.
What's My ΔE(OK) JND?. Test your vision (and your screen’s color accuracy) by trying to identify the exact point that divides the two colors displayed on the screen. There are always two colors, even if it doesn’t seem like it.