​​ Decembah!

MKBHD is taking down his wallpaper app https://www.theverge.com/news/835090/mkbhd-panels-wallpaper-app-shutdown

My latest blog post: We don't love #PeerTube enough.

RE: https://gabe.rocks/tech/peertube-love/

@mntmn@mastodon.social from the IBM 1970s presentation everyone likes

AI Warning: Google has been caught A/B testing replacing real article headlines with AI-generated substitutes, which are of course sometimes wildly misleading/against journalistic ethics. If you see a blatantly horrible headline in a news aggregator, check whether the site's own page matches before blaming the site! https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/googles-toying-with-nonsense-ai-made-headlines-on-articles-like-ours-in-the-discover-feed-so-please-dont-blame-me-for-clickbait-like-bg3-players-exploit-children/

with or without AI, A/B testing as practiced by Silicon Valley is unethical. It ranges from quiet gaslighting to full-on Stanford prison experiments with no ethics board or informed consent.

The RAM shortage comes for us all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rbz0akyLyQ

Riunione #NaLUG del 29 novembre sull'homelabbing per liberarci dei servizi online proprietari, fra cui @nextcloud@mastodon.xyz, @forgejo@floss.social e @jellyfin@mastodon.online hostati su Proxmox e @nixos_org@chaos.social.

PeerTube: https://videos.gianmarco.gg/w/eMXUqsqRnoDBBpgihuCqLz
Odysee: https://odysee.com/@gianmarcogg03:e/homelabbing:8
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P4nSJS5rEQ

@opensource @linux

#FreeSoftware #LibreSoftware #SoftwareLibero #OpenSource #FOSS #Video #Privacy #Linux #SelfHosting #Homelab #Nextcloud #Forgejo #Jellyfin #Proxmox #NixOS

L’eterno ritorno di Chat Control

Si torna a parlare di lotta agli abusi sui minori, privacy e crittografia end-to-end, dopo che, il 26 novembre, il Consiglio UE ha votato a favore dell’approvazione del nuovo testo del Child Sexual Abuse Regulation (CSAR), più comunemente conosciuto come Chat Control.

@privacypride

https://www.guerredirete.it/leterno-ritorno-di-chat-control/

Avevamo ragione, come sempre, nel comunicare che fino ad Aprile 2026 il chat control sarebbe tornato a massacrarci l'esistenza! A molti di voi potrebbe non interessare ma consegnare i nostri dati a Big Tech, far indebolire la cifratura dei certificati ssl e stravolgere le regole per un controllo di massa anche no!

Agite al link sottostante:

https://fightchatcontrol.eu

#stopchatcontrol #fightchatcontrol #privacy #security #freedom

Here's an in-depth dive into Chat Control!

https://thelibre.news/how-we-lost-the-fight-to-chat-control/

🇪🇺#ChatControl Twist: Commissioner Brunner backs Parliament against governments' mass surveillance plans!

The first Trilogue starts this Tuesday. 📅

Read the full story & get the recording (Mashups welcome! ✂️🎧) 👇

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/eu-chat-control-twist-commissioner-sides-with-parliament-over-governments-boost-for-european-parlaments-strong-mandate/

🇮🇹Colpo di scena sul #Chatcontrol: Il Commissario Brunner si schiera con il Parlamento contro i piani di sorveglianza di massa dei governi!

Il trilogo inizia questo martedì. 📅

Dettagli e registrazione (Fate dei mashup! ✂️🎧) 👇

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/eu-chat-control-twist-commissioner-sides-with-parliament-over-governments-boost-for-european-parlaments-strong-mandate/

why valve devices are important

https://tilvids.com/w/73j9S83Wht6tgWbZmYUmNE

Having no DDOS protection probably results in less downtime than having CloudFlare.

Bootloader Unlock Wall of Shame

Link: https://github.com/zenfyrdev/bootloader-unlock-wall-of-shame

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46149019

Linus Tech Tips: There was a recent thing from a major tech company where developers were asked to say how many lines of code they wrote, and if it wasn’t enough, they were terminated. And there was someone here who was extremely upset about that approach to measuring productivity because it means nothing.

Linus Torvalds: Oh yeah, no, you shouldn’t even be upset at that point. That’s just incompetence. Anybody who thinks that’s a valid metric is too stupid to work at a tech company.

LTT: You do know who you just said that about, right?

Linus Torvalds: No.

LTT: Oh. Uh… he was a prominent figure in the improved efficiency of the U.S. Government recently.

Linus Torvalds: Oh, apparently I was spot-on.

https://www.neowin.net/news/linux-creator-torvalds-thinks-elon-musk-is-too-stupid-to-be-working-at-a-tech-company/

Microsoft won. It's over for Linux & Mac.

The PeerTube server will now go down to attempt a new migration to the new server.

I encountered an LLM-based support assistant today that told me it couldn't answer my question because another, different LLM chatbot had an exclusive license/authority on that information, and I suddenly had a vivid vision of a previously unexplored layer of hell.