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Encrypt-Keeper

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  • How a Video Game is Teaching Firefighters to Handle EV Fires

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  • Pretty interesting, though the current primary method of EV Fire fighting tactics is the use of fire blankets, which isn’t as exciting or game worthy.

    Also lol @ the author confusing backdraft and flashover.

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  • You can use programs like Ripper or Automated Ripping Machine to watch for inserted disks and rip them automatically. You can even add remixing or transcoding into the workflow so that all you do is insert the disk into the drive and after some time out pops the file in the exact format and size you want, even directly into your media library if you want.

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  • I’d imagine that’s the case for a lot of people actually. People don’t just pirate to get things for free. Lots of people buy easily pirateable games on GOG because it doesn’t have DRM. Lots of people buy and rip Blu-rays instead of torrenting movies.

  • Microsoft CEO Admits That AI Is Generating Basically No Value

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  • While that’s true, the thing that stuck out to me is not even that the AI was mislead by itself finding AI slop, or even somebody falsely asserting something. I googled something with a particular yea or no answer. “Does X technology use Y protocol”. The AI came back with “Yes it does, and here’s how it uses it”, and upon visiting the reference page for that answer, it was documentation for that technology where it explained very clearly that x technology does NOT use Y protocol, and then went into detail on why it doesn’t. So even when everything lines up and the answer is clear and unambiguous, the AI can give you an entirely fabricated answer.

  • Microsoft CEO Admits That AI Is Generating Basically No Value

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  • I was just talking about this with someone the other day. While it’s truly remarkable what AI can do, its margin for error is just too big for most if not all of the use cases companies want to use it for.

    For example, I use the Hoarder app which is a site bookmarking program, and when I save any given site, it feeds the text into a local Ollama model which summarizes it, conjures up some tags, and applies the tags to it. This is useful for me, and if it generates a few extra tags that aren’t useful, it doesn’t really disrupt my workflow at all. So this is a net benefit for me, but this use case will not be earning these corps any amount of profit.

    On the other end, you have Googles Gemini that now gives you an AI generated answer to your queries. The point of this is to aggregate data from several sources within the search results and return it to you, saving you the time of having to look through several search results yourself. And like 90% of the time it actually does a great job. The problem with this is the goal, which is to save you from having to check individual sources, and its reliability rate. If I google 100 things and Gemini correctly answers 99 of those things accurate abut completely hallucinates the 100th, then that means that all 100 times I have to check its sources and verify that what it said was correct. Which means I’m now back to just… you know… looking through the search results one by one like I would have anyway without the AI.

    So while AI is far from useless, it can’t now and never will be able to be relied on for anything important, and that’s where the money to be made is.

  • Plex is discontinuing its “watch together” feature

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  • Lack of feature parity is the number one thing holding so many people back from switching to Jellyfin. Of Plex is going to start deleting beloved features, a lot of minds will be made up very quick.

  • The future of the internet is likely smaller communities, with a focus on curated experiences

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  • And active

  • Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms

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  • In order to discover someone’s posts on Mastodon, they need to be on the same instance as you, or someone else on your instance has to already be following them.

  • Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms

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  • Oh, looks like it doesn’t. It’s Friendica that uses both ActivityPub and Diaspora protocols

  • Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms

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  • Because a fediverse is any group of technologies that talk to each other via a common protocol. In 2025 that’s ActivityPub and has been for awhile. It would be one hell of a stretch to assert that a single platform with its own home made protocol that doesn’t talk to any other technology in the entire fediverse as part of that fediverse. So at best you can say Bluesky has its own fediverse. And if one fediverse is going to be “the fediverse” it’s going to be the one that actually connects all the most common platforms people use today, including Diaspora.

  • Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms

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  • I would assume the same reason anyone chooses it over the fediverse, because they want their content to be easily discoverable.

  • Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms

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  • A fediverse, but not the fediverse (ActivityPub/the one you’re on right now)

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    Jellyfin is not just good... but better than Plex now?!

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  • I mean you very much still have the privacy issues and online requirements. And if you’re not even using the plex web client or any of the apps, all Infuse is using plex for is the metadata, at which point you might as well just use the Jellyfin back end.

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    Jellyfin is not just good... but better than Plex now?!

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  • Jellyfin is still not up to snuff with where Plex was pre-enshittification, but Plex is enshittified. For everyone in between, there’s Emby, which I have been very happy with.

  • Apple Pulls Encrypted iCloud Security Feature in UK Amid Government Backdoor Demands

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  • I’m going to play devils advocate for Apple here because unfortunately I do know exactly what would happen if they were to do that. If they release any official tool or even ability to do that, and somebody gets all their data stolen because their home backup solution was not secured properly, all the headlines will read something like “Apples iCloud backup system hacked, user has all data stolen”, and 98.5% of the general public will assume that includes apples actual cloud ICloud backup system, will NOT understand that the user himself is at fault, and their reputation will tank.

  • Robot with 1,000 muscles twitches like human while dangling from ceiling

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  • Oh, well yeah Standard liters per minute or SLM, specifically refers to flow rates measured in the U.S.

    So the “other” measurement would evidently be Europes “Normal liters per minute”.

    What the difference is, I couldn’t tell you.

  • Robot with 1,000 muscles twitches like human while dangling from ceiling

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  • You mean the flow rate of a volume of liquid? What are you confused about exactly?

  • Introducing Pi-hole v6

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  • It doesn’t really look different at all

  • Introducing Pi-hole v6

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  • NextDNS isn’t selfhosted, is it?