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@ Pxtl @lemmy.ca

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  • Trump is building ‘one interface to rule them all.’ It’s terrifying.

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  • The libertarian "don't tread on me" wing of the Republican party is hilariously quiet.

  • FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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  • git is just the source control. Pull requests, web front-end, a central server that is a single point-of-truth with policy enforcement, issue management, etc. do not come in the box with git.

    GitHub provides that, as do Gitlab and others. GitHub is a Microsoft product, and MS is getting scary with the AI push.

    ForgeJo is self-hosted and simple.

  • FFmpeg moves to Forgejo

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  • Is forgejo federated yet?

  • Neil Young Leaves Facebook & Instagram Over “Unconscionable” Policies for AI Chatbot Conversations With Children

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  • The way people turned up their nose at the Fediverse when the Muskening happened to Twitter was heartbreaking. I knew social media was an addiction but when you find out your dealer is an absolute monster how do you not go looking for a new supplier?

    But they all discarded Mastodon et al as cringe and teduoust. Like, the way even trans women influencers stayed on Twitter blew my mind. When bluesky got off the ground there was finally some migration, but not enough.

    It really showed me how many of the "anti-capitalist" and the "anarchism" and "mutual aid" people were all just talk. The mutual-aid volunteer-based platform exists and you stuck with the fascist because it was easy and you're too cool for the nerd shit.

  • Neil Young Leaves Facebook & Instagram Over “Unconscionable” Policies for AI Chatbot Conversations With Children

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  • I mean he's literally a boomer.

  • Techcrunch reports that AI coding tools have "very negative" gross margins. In other words, they are losing money on every user.

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  • But they make it up on volume!

  • Microsoft is cautiously onboarding Grok 4 following Hitler concerns

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  • Right? I don't want an AI chatbot, I want a natural language oral shell scripting language with APIs for all the major services I use and good verbal man pages. The AI can be a separate tool on a separate hotword that I'll probably only ever use to ask for help debugging the other one.

  • Microsoft is cautiously onboarding Grok 4 following Hitler concerns

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  • MS is also trying to be the one-stop-shop for people wanting to access AI-gen stuff through an abstracted provider-agnostic interface.

  • Eat | Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

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  • This is kinda the plot the later Callahan's books by Spider Robinson. Man-eating aliens who believe the only ethical way to slaughter is to trick the meat into slaughtering itself, and so they infiltrate humanity to encourage that.

  • Whatever happened to cheap eReaders? – Terence Eden’s Blog

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  • I wonder if Android Wear wouldn't work as an OS basis for this - lower power requirements, probably allows black-and-white screens. The problem there is that Android Wear is absolute hot garbage that can't decide if it's stand-alone or companion to your phone.

    Why is not just targeting raw AOSP instead of Google Android not considered? It seems like you could use modern hardware with that... is it the lack of Play Store that's the dealbreaker?

  • Removed

    Welcome to the Future

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  • It's not as funny when stripped from the context that the comic was drawn 5 years ago.

  • Tencent says it's not a Chinese military company and is willing to sue the US Department of Defense if it isn't removed from a blacklist

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  • Fair point, but that means the ban should be coming from Department of Commerce, not the DoD.

    Don't try to come up with bullshit excuses about espionage.

    "We're banning these private-business Chinese websites because China bans our private-business websites and that's anti-competitive".

  • To fight AI, we need 'personhood credentials,' say AI firms

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  • Right now I could go create 30 sock puppet accounts to respond to this. Is that really a good thing?

    Let government offer the service of "here is a way any human can certifiably identify themselves online" and let people decide what providers they want to give that info to.

    If you want to use or run anonymous social media, that's fine.

    I don't.

  • To fight AI, we need 'personhood credentials,' say AI firms

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  • I know a lot of people are cranky about digital IDs, but realistically there's no avoiding it at this point: we need real, government-backed, links-to-a-specific-human-with-a-birth-certificate unique digital IDs. Then service providers can (optionally) demand it in order to register, and can prevent you from creating multiple accounts, and can ban you from their service permanently, and can vouch for you to other services that you are indeed a Real Unique Human Being.

  • ASUS warns of critical remote authentication bypass on 7 routers

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  • Never turn on remote admin. You don't need to admin your router from outside of your house.

  • Why is Google allowed to remove purchases from our Play Store accounts without telling us?

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  • Honestly, as somebody who really loved the early era of Android gaming, I'm really disappointed how ephemeral it all was between the Play Store delistings and the absolutely atrocious approach to backwards compatibility in the Android OS.

  • X removes support for NFT profile pictures

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  • Even Twitter agrees, NFT stands for No Fuckin' Thanks.

  • 41% of fediverse instances have blocked threads so far!!!

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  • Have you looked into the process of actually spinning up your own Mastodon instance? It's not exactly the good old days of throwing together a LAMP box and installing PHPBB on it.

  • 41% of fediverse instances have blocked threads so far!!!

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  • Part of it is just today's polarized political climate, especially since the popularity of the Fediverse is partially a backlash to reactionaries taking over Twitter and the corporate enshittification of Facebook and Reddit.

    Everything is a war now, and solidarity and boycotts are basically the only weapons that small, independent actors have. So people apply "don't cross the picket line" thinking to everything, even where it doesn't make sense.

    Want to act properly? Contribute money and labour towards your instances. Help them build better moderation tools so they can handle the flood of crap from Threads, and onboarding tools and better UX so they can steal away the Threads users.