That one went in the defederation bin as soon as it came up.

I had Tchap in mind.

I don’t know why Italy is wasting time on this.

Tech-illiterate politicians making public actions so their corporate donators keep investing in them.

One way that their incompetency limits the amount of damage they can accomplish.

At least they kinda get the implications, with their own Matrix derivative at the government level.

Or they could like… just not be dicks and supply firmware updates without the lock-in, instead of having to trade off security to use your device however you want.

I did it for some memes, not like I’m making money out of it.

Bought and revived by Alexis Ohanian? It can only turn out into a dumpster fire. It’s probably just to diversify their data collection in case there’s an actual massive Reddit exodus and the brand name becomes too toxic.

One more reason to have actual open-source drivers instead of binary blobs…

Honestly, I’m just keeping my money in my saving account. No way I’m spending my hard-earned money on overpriced stuff, I can wait a while longer, and I’m considering a Steam Deck as my daily driver. Not a beast, but not excessively priced either.

I suggest whoever has old firmware files to upload them to the Internet Archive (if they allow those).

Hotdog / Not Hotdog

But yeah, having a semantical image filter could do be a good first line, of course with human oversight.

AI trends

Yeah that part kinda sucks, but it’s not all bad. For example, there’s the offline translation engine that relies on a trained model that runs entirely locally, which is kinda neat and great privacy-wise.

I think you mostly just need to block incoming.telemetry.mozilla.org

That way you can’t work around Microsoft getting a copy of your work no matter what.

Would you say that your game can be played entirely locally of you can’t save your game while offline?

I cannot fathom even using a software that ties a critical feature such as the ability of saving your work to an Internet connection.

At that point, if your software relies on the Internet to accomplish an important task, it doesn’t matter if the app is native or runs some code in your browser if some critical features depends on someone else’s system to work as expected.

Practical Engineering is also on Nebula (among other some high quality YouTube channels), and tou can get an ad-free yearly sub for around $30. Not giving my views or af-money to Google.

One more reason not to buy ebooks from Amazon.

The average modern website takes more than this per page to display its content… it’s absurd.

Smelly armpits is unmanly and uncivilized (no offense to those struggling with that).

He can go live in a cave away from civilization if that makes him feel manly.

I’m surprised DOGE themselves aren’t using it to skirt FOIA.

Or maybe they are.