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Beej Jorgensen

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Instructor, author, developer. Creator of Beej's Guides.

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  • Samsung’s latest stick vac can alert you to calls and text messages

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  • FML. This reminds me I just got trn to built for reading Usenet. I'm reverting.

  • California Assembly speaker and other Democratic state lawmakers ditch X, citing hate speech, disinformation

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  • There are real risks with relying on a private company, owned by Elon Musk, as a channel for communications

    Damn right. Time to fire up a mastodon instance.

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  • I should have been more specific that this was a Pixel. Does your phone have a way to accomplish the same thing?

  • DOJ renews call for Google to sell Chrome, and Android could be next

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  • Agree. Did Google not kiss Trump's ass enough? Is that why they're still going after them?

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  • On Android, hold the power button until the menu shows up, them choose "lockdown". The next unlock will require a PIN.

  • FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies

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  • I noticed this on my web logs earlier. Couldn't believe how popular I was until I saw "AI" in the user agent string for 90% of the his.

  • US appeals court rejects copyrights for AI-generated art lacking 'human' creator

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  • Why would you give a machine money?

    To be clear, you'd give the company that owns the machine money.

    Just use the generation tools yourself and then you have the copyright.

    Except that it sounds like no, you wouldn't by this court case, right?

    it’s just worthless AI slop.

    I agree. :)

  • How I use Mastodon in 2025 - fredrocha.net

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  • I'm following 42 hashtags, a bunch of science, teaching, and programming stuff, mostly (I'm a CS instructor). But also things like #trains. :) And the state and city I live in.

  • How I use Mastodon in 2025 - fredrocha.net

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  • I want to throw in a second good word for hashtags. I follow a tiny handful of people, almost entirely personal friends. But I follow a lot of hashtags. Because it typically is the content that I'm after as opposed to a particular person. If my favorite poster of weather information decides to post something about accounting, I don't really want to see that. Also following a hashtag gets you a lot more exposure to like-minded people than you would if you were trying to follow them all individually, and you see a lot more posts about things you enjoy.

  • FCC to get Republican majority and plans to “delete” as many rules as possible

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  • You gonna delete the equal time rule, too? Didn't think so.

  • US appeals court rejects copyrights for AI-generated art lacking 'human' creator

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  • Tricky case. You can pay someone to make a custom work you hold the copyright on. But you can't pay for a machine to do it if you want the copyright.

  • Multiple Tesla vehicles were set on fire in Las Vegas and Kansas City

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  • I have zero evidence Musk ordered the Tesla vandalism. Which, coincidentally, is exactly how surprised I'd be to find out he had.

  • “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen

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  • They're working hard to make sure piracy provides the best experience.

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  • The article and paper seem to be aimed at the set of people who hate pronouns intersected with the set of people who believe in anthropogenic climate change.

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  • How is chrome going to be funded if it's broken off?

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  • I, too, would pay. Probably $200/year. What I don't know is how much we need to keep up development.

  • DOGE Plan to Push AI Across the US Federal Government is Wildly Dangerous

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  • Recall how Boris Johnson would mess up his hair before going to talk to the general public. I think it's impossible to tell if musk is an idiot or just plays one really effectively.

  • Europe bets on RISC-V for homegrown supercomputing platform

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  • I'm not knowledgeable enough to answer, but I know China's also going big on RISC-V.

  • Lenovo joins growing China exodus as manufacturers flee US tariffs — OEM moving production lines to India

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  • Trump has a game going here where he alienates and punishes our allies, hands control of foreign aid to China, snuggles up to Russia, invites Hungary over for dinner, stops backing Europe militarily, and fits all the War Department warning signs for what to watch for in a dictator in America. That's the part we know.

    Whatever he's up to, it's not the status quo. The pressure from the tariffs can just be part of this larger game. As can the annexation threat. But that's the part we don't know.