Students who think they are chatting privately among friends often do not realize they are under constant surveillance

This is the problem

I’m using a few numpads as simple remote controls for HA, and I got a bit carried away and set 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 to set the alarm clock time for the following morning.

Never used it, I always just set the alarm time through the UI

The ecosystem is not so healthy on the server side, and I think the API documentation is a major factor.
The project has been sitting on this for many years

You could say it’s an improvement over BlueSky because with Mastodon you can host your own server, but if you don’t like their server, then you’re out of options

Mastodon builds on the ActivityPub protocol with its own API, but the last time I looked into it, the documentation of the API was poor, so it was difficult to develop for.

I haven’t looked at the BlueSky docs so I can’t compare, but it sticks in my craw a bit seeing the words “friendly for third-party devs” being used in the same sentence with Mastodon

I love the flat earther energy in this

sudoers getting renamed to grownups

The original article is paywalled (I mean, registration-walled?), this summary is not

404 Media reported that 4chan users claimed to be sharing personal data and selfies from Tea after discovering an exposed database.

No-one suspected Bruce Wayne’s “free WiFi for Gotham City” initiative

It doesn’t even try?
People are right, this AI thing is overblown

Maybe wearing a different tinfoil hat every day would mess up a person’s “fingerprint”

Hmm… How many significant figures of pi was it made to?

I’m not sure how much it would make sense for me as I don’t use Nextcloud for anything else

I just want a self-hostable open-source alternative to the shitty closed-source IM systems I’m forced to use

I’m sticking with Matrix for now, hopefully some of the issues I’ve had will get ironed out

I wonder how you haggle with an AI

Actually this reminds me of the story a while back about how LLMs give better results if you threaten them with physical violence. Maybe that’s one way to get a cheaper ticket?

This is genuinely really classy

As long as most rooms of the entire matrix network are replicated on the matrix.org homeserver

Is this a dealbreaker for people though?

Can AI reliably tell if a cat is longer than a banana yet?

Started running a homeserver recently, trying to get non-techy friends to join, can confirm this is difficult (the main one right now being people using old software on their phones, one friend was running iOS 14 for crying out loud)

Once set up I find it OK as a user

This story marks the loss of another revenue stream for Mozilla. Their business is increasingly reliant on Google’s search deal for money, and if that money stops, they’ll have to face that same reckoning. For example, they won’t be able to afford paying their CEO millions of dollars a year any more.

I think they should start repositioning themselves now as an activist organisation that is fighting corporate interests trying to control the internet. If they can do that, I think a lot of people would pay to use Firefox

Enough internet users are familiar with the adage “if a product is free, you are the product”, through personal experience

I’d be OK with paying for Firefox if it meant that it was stripped of all association with advertisers. And presumably, if Mozilla were freed from that association, they’d be able to make a stronger case for how they’re protecting a free internet