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.

If a normie youtuber can learn linux, you have no excuse.

Your TV is watching you

https://www.vox.com/technology/405879/roku-amazon-netflix-moana-disney

#advertising #privacy #streaming #IoT #SmartTV

#WhatsApp's #MetaAI is now rolling out in #Europe, and it can't be turned off

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intelligence/whatsapps-meta-ai-is-now-rolling-out-in-europe-and-it-cant-be-turned-off/

#privacy #Meta #AI

🦊 Firefox 137 introduces tab groups, a refreshed address bar with search enhancements, improved PDF handling, and developer updates. It also features HEVC playback support on Linux and a calculator in the address bar, among others.

https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/4/firefox-137-brings-tab-groups-a-refreshed-address-bar-hevc-playback-on-linux-and-more/

Imagine being the person who, 30+ years ago, solved the problem of moving the mouse diagonally to a submenu closing the submenu because the mouse passed over another element – just add a short timeout before switching to a different submenu – and then living to see every application on the planet reimplement menus without that behaviour.

Cutting Mozilla Out of Firefox With a user js! https://youtu.be/EGluCuXPL48 #firefox #mozilla #privacy

Sabato 5 aprile parlerò ad una riunione didattica con il #NaLUG riguardo le piattaforme di #chat libere e #opensource, decentralizzate e private. Maggiori informazioni qui sulla riunione e su dove si terrà: https://www.nalug.tech/nalugunina-sabato-5-aprile-2025/.

#Linux #FreeSoftware #SoftwareLibero #LibreSoftware #Privacy #InstantMessenger #Matrix #XMPP #Signal #DeltaChat #SimpleXChat #SimpleX #Decentralized