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@jake4480@c.im
2025-11-27 08:37:41

The U.S. patent for mp3 audio was granted on November 26 in 1996. This piece is kinda weird about it in spots, but it gives a decent history about how it laid the foundations for peer-to-peer music sharing, etc.

The U.S. patent for MP3 audio was granted on this day in 1996 — laid the foundations for peer-to-peer music sharing, iTunes, and today's streaming services
The Fraunhofer Institut had been working on its lossy audio compression tech for phone line transmission since 1977.

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-11-26 00:00:13

amazon_copurchases: Amazon co-purchasing network (2003)
Network of items for sale on amazon.com in 2003 and the items they "recommend" (via the "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought" feature). If one item is frequently co-purchased with another, then the first item recommends the second.
This network has 400727 nodes and 3200440 edges.
Tags: Economic, Commerce, Unweighted

amazon_copurchases: Amazon co-purchasing network (2003). 400727 nodes, 3200440 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/amazon_copurchases#312

amazon_copurchases — Amazon co-purchasing network (2003)
Network of items for sale on amazon.com in 2003 and the items they "recommend" (via the "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought" feature). If one item is frequently co-purchased with another, then the first item recommends the second.

@catsalad@infosec.exchange
2025-09-27 04:53:37

I am a responsible kitty and can be trusted with your items near the edge of a table.

Video of a cat going around and knocking a bunch of stuff off a table (as one does)
@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-09-27 05:15:53

eBay agrees to acquire Tise, a social marketplace for secondhand fashion and interior design items that has raised $45M in funding, for an undisclosed sum (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
techcrunch.com/2025/09/22/ebay

eBay to acquire social marketplace platform Tise | TechCrunch
eBay’s acquisition of Tise indicates that it's looking to modernize its platform to attract younger shoppers, expand its social commerce tools, and build a stronger presence in the sustainable retail market.

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-11-26 05:18:01

Current ethnic cleansing in US is making some a lot of money, while destroying others.
“When ICE takes…person…system around them…built to swallow everything they ever touched.”
“Towing companies profit. State agencies profit. &…people who once lived in…homes & drove…cars & held…IDs are left w/nothing but…clothes on their backs. This is not a broken system.”
“…system functioning exactly as…designed.”

When ICE Takes a Person, Why Do Their Possessions Vanish Too?
An investigative expose. Forty-one percent of migrants say their belongings never returned from ICE custody, and the items left behind at the moment of arrest disappear just as quietly.

@cheeaun@mastodon.social
2025-10-27 04:06:38

RE: mastodon.social/@cheeaun/11541
After looking at this, got curious to know the limits in most servers.
So I did a little data analysis. Servers list from @…

Chart titled "Image Matrix Limits" showing a table lists matrix MP values (2, 17, 33, 38–195) with counts and percentages and bar graph: 33 MP dominates (2145, 93.50%), 17 MP (139, 6.06%), and small entries for 2 MP and 38–195 MP.
Chart titled "Image Size Limits" showing counts and percentages of image sizes (MB) with a horizontal bar graph. The 16 MB row dominates (2,081 items, 90.71%) while other size buckets (4–5, 8, 10, 15, 19, 20, 24–32, 38–48, 50–99, 100–1354 MB) show much smaller counts and percentages.
Chart titled "Video Matrix Limits" showing matrix sizes 2MP (138, 6.02%), 8MP (2149, 93.68%) and 9–36MP (7, 0.31%) with horizontal bar graph.
Chart titled "Video Size Limits" showing size bins (10–20, 40, 50–80, 86–98, 99, 100, 128–160, 200, 250–800, 990–2048 MB) with counts and percentages; the 99 MB row dominates with count 2086 (90.93%).
@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-26 14:36:10

The EU says its regulators asked Shein for documents on measures to prevent the exposure of minors to inappropriate content and the circulation of illegal items (Jenny Che/Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-11-25 11:00:15

amazon_copurchases: Amazon co-purchasing network (2003)
Network of items for sale on amazon.com in 2003 and the items they "recommend" (via the "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought" feature). If one item is frequently co-purchased with another, then the first item recommends the second.
This network has 403394 nodes and 3387388 edges.
Tags: Economic, Commerce, Unweighted

amazon_copurchases: Amazon co-purchasing network (2003). 403394 nodes, 3387388 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/amazon_copurchases#601

amazon_copurchases — Amazon co-purchasing network (2003)
Network of items for sale on amazon.com in 2003 and the items they "recommend" (via the "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought" feature). If one item is frequently co-purchased with another, then the first item recommends the second.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-10-24 06:36:01

Pricempire: after Valve updated the exchange rate of Counter-Strike digital items, the market fell by $1.75B, or 25%, on October 23; in 2024, a gun sold for $1M (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20