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vividspecter

@ vividspecter @aussie.zone

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  • Free and open source Audiobookshelf Android client

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  • If any ai Ia involved they will dismiss not only it but you and it’s a really irritating habit that is starting to emerge.

    It's perfectly understandable. It used to be that a project that had the appearance of a significant amount of work and polish put into it could be reasonably trusted. With the rise of LLMs, that assumption has gone completely out the window as people can churn out appealing looking slop in record time. In addition, LLMs are dominated by the most transparently evil tech companies in existence, and the fully open models aren't yet good enough, and are still built on the backs of the absurd amount of energy usage used to train the models.

    That all being said, I don't think the OP is being malicious and I appreciate the disclosure but I'd give this project a year of maintenance before I would reasonably trust it.

  • WhatsApp Introduces Ads in Its App

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  • Once businesses were on board, Facebook hoped to sell them analytics tools, too.

    Then once we've got them hooked, it's Enshitttification Time!

  • Censorship Comes for Stephen Colbert

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  • I'm guessing it's because he gently criticised Christian Nationalism, and Trump can't allow that.

  • Censorship Comes for Stephen Colbert

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  • Streisand effect on their part, with the interview accumulating millions of views.

  • Is there a good way to tell if music was made with AI?

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  • I'm not sure if there's reliable ways to detect it automatically, but seeing if they have any sort of presence outside of where you are purchasing it would be a start. I'd normally say look on MusicBrainz but even if the bundle above is legit, it's not the sort of music that would end up on there I suspect as the website owner appears to be the creator and there's no obvious artist attached to it.

    Anyway, that bundle seems suspect to me.

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  • What's the point of switching to Discord alternatives, if they're going to be subject to the same age verification laws?

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  • It's not just they are doing age verification, but the method they are using to implement it. ID collection is not privacy respecting, and further to that, they've already had a major data leak, including said IDs. For the facial scan method, they claim that it will be on-device only but given that it's closed source software, they could change this at any time.

  • Why is self-hosted voice chat so hard?

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  • Not FOSS or open source in any sense. You could still say it's self-hosted, but I suspect most people self-hosting care about this.

  • big list of selfhosted chat apps to meet all your friends on a real "server"

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  • Snikket is essentially just prosody but more of an all in one package.

  • Statistics for Strava, a self-hosted, open-source dashboard for your Strava data.

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  • Endurain, a self hosted fitness app, may get gadgetbridge integration once the network helper is finished.

  • What desktop operating system would you recommend to the average user?

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  • SteamOS is great but there are too many games that require Windows.

    It's mainly multiplayer games with anti-cheat malware. If they prefer single player games, they'll be fine.

  • Looking for FOSS server monitoring UI

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  • This one is nicer than uptime-kuma if you prefer declarative config.

  • Linux 7.0 Kernel Confirmed by Linus Torvalds, Expected in Mid-April 2026

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  • The kernel doesn't use semantic versioning, so it's just an arbitrary rename from 6.20 to 7.0. We will know the changes when 6.20 / 7.0 is in the -rc phase, which should be soon as 6.19 was just released.

  • 'Take the vaccine, please,' a top US health official says in an appeal as measles cases rise

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  • He's a grifter more than anything else and will do whatever he believes serves his own interests, and only his own interests.

  • 'Take the vaccine, please,' a top US health official says in an appeal as measles cases rise

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  • The head of HHS, RFK Jr, famously killed a bunch of people in Samoa by lobbying against the measles vaccine. And Oz himself has anti-vaccine stances toward a number of other vaccines. Seems like consistent messaging may be helpful here.

  • Fast-paced and exciting environment

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  • Unredacted files reveal Anthropic’s ‘secret plan’ to ‘destructively scan all the books in the world'

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  • They also initially took content from libgen, which is a fair bit less legal. Personally, I have mixed feelings about all of this. On the one hand, I don't like some shitty for-profit AI company making money from the collective works of civilisation. On the other hand, I think copyright protects works for far too long anyway and most should be in the commons already. Mind you, I would be more sympathetic if Anthropic et al. were doing all this for research purposes instead of capitalism. Maybe that would be a better copyright reform, in that it expires much more quickly than the current laws (say 10 years) but restricts third parties making a profit for a longer period. Likely that would be complex to design and enforce, however.

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    Certificates...ugh

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  • Probably need a bit more detail for this like caddy logs and your caddy config. I did a similar thing on NixOS with services.acme getting the certs and then configuring the cert files to include caddy group access (I didn't use caddy directly either for those reading as the DNS challenge approach requires third party plugins which is a bit annoying on NixOS).

  • what is good remote desktop software?

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  • Sunshine and moonlight. Or just ssh if it's for administrative tasks.