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@ otter @lemmy.ca

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I waddled onto the beach and stole found a computer to use.

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Note: I'm moderating a handful of communities in more of a caretaker role. If you want to take one on, send me a message and I'll share more info :)

  • Pixelfed & Loops Kickstarter Campaign Just Launched

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  • Interesting ok, I hope the donations take off because it felt like the team was spreading itself too thin working on all three things at once

  • Pixelfed & Loops Kickstarter Campaign Just Launched

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  • Didn't know about sup

    Open source, modular, instant messenger. Coming soon! Made by @dansup (Proof: https://mastodon.social/@dansup/111493816842232424)

    A big downside to fediverse messaging is that it isn't secure, and so we're warned when using it. Would anyone have more details on why we might use this over a more private messenger?

  • xkcd #3040: Chemical Formulas

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  • HCH₂COOH sounds like a sneeze

  • The Wearable Keyboard that's Faster than Talking

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  • I went in with a similar thought, but the video explained it better

    I was expecting them to compete against a rapper or something, but what they meant was being faster than conversational speeds

    Someone who is mute explained to them about not being able to communicate at the same rate as other people during conversation, despite being able to think and absorb info at the same speed.

    So they put some time into recommendations of a text-to-voice setup, demo-ed it in the video, and put the source CAD files / app open for people to use + offered to help anyone else for whom the tech might change their lives

    I'm not sure if the keyboard will catch on, but I thought that attempt was cool

  • Mastodon announces transition to non-profit structure | TechCrunch

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  • [iFixit] Worst in Show 2025: Not All Innovation Is Good Innovation | The Most Overengineered, Unrepairable, and Unsustainable Tech Disasters at CES

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  • We believe that the washing machine is the hearth of the modern laundry room

  • [iFixit] Worst in Show 2025: Not All Innovation Is Good Innovation | The Most Overengineered, Unrepairable, and Unsustainable Tech Disasters at CES

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  • I was going to try and edit in some more "AI"s but it's already near saturated

    They even changed their name to SoundHound AI?

  • [iFixit] Worst in Show 2025: Not All Innovation Is Good Innovation | The Most Overengineered, Unrepairable, and Unsustainable Tech Disasters at CES

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  • https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/9/24339817/vlc-player-automatic-ai-subtitling-translation

    The popular open-source VLC video player was demonstrated on the floor of CES 2025 with automatic AI subtitling and translation, generated locally and offline in real time. Parent organization VideoLAN shared a video on Tuesday in which president Jean-Baptiste Kempf shows off the new feature, which uses open-source AI models to generate subtitles for videos in several languages.

    Ok now that's cool. Since it's often all doom and gloom here, celebrating good tech is a nice change :)

  • [iFixit] Worst in Show 2025: Not All Innovation Is Good Innovation | The Most Overengineered, Unrepairable, and Unsustainable Tech Disasters at CES

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  • I looked up "Parent AI", and was disappointed

  • Accurate programming movie

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  • Postiz now supports Lemmy

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  • This is especially true with the RSS feed communities

    Also I don't think you're the only one. Often when I come across a clump like that, most of them are sitting at only a few upvotes while other posts in the community do much better.

  • Postiz now supports Lemmy

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  • That seems like an optional feature that competing products have.

    I'd rather the fediverse friendly open source version have features I won't use, if it means it can continue to grow and compete with the proprietary ones

  • Postiz now supports Lemmy

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  • Great to hear, thank you!

  • Proton 2024 Lifetime account fundraiser for online freedom | Ends on January 5th

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  • I didn't mind Proton's as much, but holiday season as a whole got annoying with all the emails. Mozilla in particular, I almost unsubscribed from their emails

  • AI Generated X

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  • The balance I've found is

    • if it's important and I have time: read it myself
    • if it's important and I don't have time: save it for later
    • if it's not important (and I'm fine with reading someone else's summary of it, knowing that their summary might be wrong), and curious enough, I'll get a quick AI summary of it. Afterwards I might go back to read it properly if it sounds interesting, or skipping it happy I didn't waste time on it

    That's actually why I liked having those summary bots in the comments.

    • only generated once, so it saves some resources compared to many users generating it for themselves
    • people who read the piece or know about the topic can call out issues

  • If time travel were to exist, which theory would you subscribe to?

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  • Stories involving 2 are often the most fun, as well as 4 if they aren't lazy with the timeline corrections

    1 feels the simplest and I would prefer it. With 3, unless the technology is limited to a few people, it's going to get messy

  • Bringing intuitive workflows and visual updates to the Bitwarden browser extension | Bitwarden Blog

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  • Making it bigger would be nice

    I find it more intuitive now that clicking on a card opens the details menu, but it's hard to autofill now

    The CTRL+SHIFT+L hotkey also stopped working for me, and I'm not sure yet if the issue is with Bitwarden, Firefox, or Zen. I'll take a look again in a few days, but that should work as an alternative to the tiny button for me

  • Bringing intuitive workflows and visual updates to the Bitwarden browser extension | Bitwarden Blog

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  • The UI is different now, here are the notes about the changes

  • AI in reality

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  • I found the screenshot order confusing at first, and it's not OPs fault since the original article got the screenshots backwards too

    From the article:

    Synopsis Wes Winder, a Canadian software developer, is facing backlash after his controversial decision to replace his development team with Al backfired. Once a trending topic on Reddit and a source of widespread ridicule, Winder is now in an awkward position as he turns to Linkedln in search of web developers to hire.