Why I Recommend Against Brave



https://tube.kockatoo.org/w/bUoebB2f4PHyWtV85U3hqq

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I hate this sort of dark patterns so much, the trick was to click on Skip. Thanks Microsoft.

#Google ha annunciato che dalla prossima settimana l'intero processo di sviluppo di #Android verrà spostato dietro porte chiuse, abbandonando definitivamente il modello ibrido che ne ha caratterizzato l'evoluzione fin dalla nascita. Una mossa che, sebbene motivata da ragioni tecniche e di efficienza interna, solleva interrogativi sul futuro della natura #open_source della piattaforma e sul rapporto tra Google e la comunità di sviluppatori indipendenti. 🤦‍♂️

https://www.tomshw.it/smartphone/android-diventa-meno-aperto-e-non-e-un-bene-2025-03-26

Google will develop Android OS behind closed doors starting next week https://9to5google.com/2025/03/26/google-android-aosp-developement-private/

This is some bs. If AOSP development is made less publicly accessible it does NOT " simplify things for developers" but rather it hinders it for de-googled privacy respecting ROMs and their device ports. The need for continued and ramped up efforts developing alternative mobile OS's, like Ubuntu Touch, Sailfish OS, Droidian, Mobian, Postmarket, etc. is even more apparent with this move by Google.

#linuxmobile #degoogled #android #aosp #ubuntutouch #sailfishos #mobian

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/google-makes-android-development-private-will-continue-open-source-releases/

LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subnoscription costs | The free open-source Microsoft Office alternative is being downloaded by nearly 1 million users a week



https://lemmy.world/post/27426660

Boiling the frog, slowly… As more of these terrible decisions keep stifling Android up to a point where it becomes just a vessel to Google’s proprietary garbage (as it has been the case for many years already for a lot of things), it should be a wake up call for mobile Linux to keep improving and do it faster.

GitHub has gone - long live Forgejo (forgejo@floss.social).

Fully migrated out of Microsoft’s walled garden after they blocked us:

- 54k commits

- 9.5k issues

- 4.3k pull requests

- 100k comments

Everything moved. Nothing left behind.

https://git.omaps.dev/organicmaps/organicmaps

🎨 “Miyazaki ha ragione”

L’ultimo aggiornamento di OpenAI per la generazione di immagini ha inondato i social di opere in stile Studio Ghibli. Ma c’è un problema: non è magia, è deriva algoritmica.

🌀 Perché Miyazaki ha ragione:

L’animazione non è un copia-incolla di modelli addestrati su opere altrui.

L’AI trasforma l’arte in un meme infinito, svuotandola di intento e contesto.

🤖 Serve una discussione seria:

Etica dell’AI: chi guadagna sullo stile di Ghibli?

@spettacoli

#Anime #Miyazaki

aibro: NOOOOO THEYRE RATELIMITING CHATGPT IMAGE GENERATIONNN

eminem:

The Microsoft support forums, in their mission to be the most useless website on the internet, has found a new trick: You don’t need humans to write low quality non-answers. AI pretending to be an employee can do it just as well!

(Context: WSUS’s deprecation was announced in September)

#XSF Announcement

Today the #XMPP Standards Foundation publishes an Open Letter to urge #Meta to adopt XMPP for messaging #interoperability.

It’s time for real interoperability. Let’s make it happen.

https://xmpp.org/announcements/open-letter-meta-dma/

#jabber #chat #rtc

#opensource #decentralization #standard #dma

"If you're trying to dunk on the practice by linking to articles or examples that showcase the work, inadvertently flooding people's timelines with examples of this ghoulish, stolen work, stop.

Nobody wants to see that shit. Nobody needs to see it."

(Original noscript: Stop Sharing The Ghibli AI Slop, What Is Wrong With You)

https://aftermath.site/studio-ghibli-ai-art-openai-gpt-sam-altman-is-just-the-biggest-pile-of-shit

Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account https://www.theverge.com/news/638967/microsoft-windows-11-account-internet-bypass-blocked

Per l’Agenzia delle Entrate l’apertura di un account su una piattaforma che utilizza i dati personali degli utenti per generare ricavi equivale ad una operazione imponibile soggetta ad IVA. Per questo il fisco italiano ha chiesto più di un miliardo di euro a X, Meta e Linkedin. 💶

https://www.dday.it/redazione/52516/i-social-dovranno-pagare-liva-sugli-account-degli-utenti-il-fisco-italiano-considera-i-dati-una-transazione-commerciale

@internet

#UnoTech

In case you have linked my 88x31 button on your website through a link that says "https://gianmarco.gg/pins/gmgpin.gif", please change it to "https://gianmarco.gg/buttons/gmgpin.gif" as the "pins" subdirectory will no longer be available soon.

Another solution is to host the button image file yourself.

This also applies to any other buttons you get from my "pins" subdirectory.

Today Google bricked my Chromebook by force-installing a hidden extension that trains a machine vision model on the contents of my screen without my consent, making the whole machine too hot to touch, and I am once again begging someone, anyone, to remove Chrome from Google by any means necessary.

https://research.google/blog/screenai-a-visual-language-model-for-ui-and-visually-situated-language-understanding/

I would rather see your shittiest most half-assed napkin doodle than a single frame of your finest AI slop.

#Odysee starts to worry me a bit... Didn't they get rid of ads a while back? I know they have Google Analytics, but I thought it was only for their own analytics indeed. But now they have 875 spying partners, just like every other spyware website.