💡 Want to install and uninstall any software, including operating systems, browsers and app stores?

Device manufacturers, vendors, and platforms should not dictate how we use our devices.

We need #DeviceNeutrality

https://deviceneutrality.org/

#FreeSoftware #SoftwareFreedom

Of all the apps & (cloud) services - unless your life is extremely boring - the highest ROI is taking ownership of your photos and videos.

Some legislations mandate scanning & many providers do it anyway: you risk awkwardness, loss of data or even all associated accounts with uncertain appeal process outcomes, plus potentially legal action.

Even if all your data *is* boring, false positives are highly likely.

-> https://immich.app/

#DigitalSovereignty #DigitalDetox #Immich

Transparency report: #deltachat gave out data for the following number of users in the last years: 0, nada, zilch.

granted, it helps to not have data to begin with :)

#Telegram is the exact opposite: they have _all_ the data about users, message histories, contacts, group and channel memberships, phone numbers, media files, bot interactions etc .... all in the clear on their central server, ready to be grabbed.

https://www.404media.co/telegram-gave-authorities-data-on-more-than-20-000-users/

Microsoft takes Windows Subsystem for Linux open source after nearly a decade

WSL has also recently added official support for both Fedora and Arch distros.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/05/microsoft-takes-windows-subsystem-for-linux-open-source-after-nearly-a-decade/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

If you think slop bug reports are bad now, just wait until this moves from public preview into full release https://github.blog/changelog/2025-05-19-creating-issues-with-copilot-on-github-com-is-in-public-preview/

Major projects are going to need to completely move their issue tracking off of Github or up there moderation as at least at this stage there doesn't appear to be a way to block the use of this feature https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/159749

Adobe keeps trying to push their customers away, their customers keep staying. Weird.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/05/adobe-hikes-subnoscription-prices-to-support-generative-ai-features/

#adobe #ai #subnoscriptions

"Online Piracy is Unironically BASED And You Should Do It" by The Hated One

https://youtu.be/cut0wnqiR_k

#Piracy #Copyright #IntellectualProperty #DRM #Streaming #StreamingServices #Netflix #Torrent #P2P #YouTube #Privacy #FreeSoftware #LibreSoftware #OpenSource #FOSS

"AI" is not intelligent. Nor is it conscient.

There is no "it" behind LLMs. Only rich people who want you to unlearn all your skills, by relying more and more on their LLMs. And once you've unlearned all your skills and once you're so utterly dependent on LLMs because you're so helpless without them and once you no longer know how to do *anything* without consulting a LLM, these rich people will crank up the subnoscription prices and become even richer. Because in rent-seeking capitalism, of course everything is a subnoscription.

Companies like OpenAI keep telling you that AI is real and will soon™ become sentient and destroy the world. And for that reason, OpenAI and its likes are actually public benefit companies, at least according to their own arguments, because they—the good people, the Sam Altmans of the world—work on making AI safe, and are thus the saviors of the world!!! Messiah-complex much?

And because these companies now positioned themselves as public benefit companies, they get massive funding. It's all just a giant grift, designed to make rich bastards even richer. And people who spend way too much time on LinkedIn fall for it, in masses.

It's time to wake up! You've been utterly fooled if you didn't know any of this. But it's not too late. Do the programming yourself again instead of vibe-coding some shit you don't understand. Unless you *want* to pay ever-increasing subnoscription fees to the Sam Altmans of the world, like a serf, milking you until the day you die.

#AI #LLM #madness #rant

The thing I hate most about AI, in the current era:

Google, DDG, Bing, etc. are all now effectively worthless on the first 2-3 pages, for most of my queries having to do with *anything* general.

Even specific queries like 'smart outlet energy consumption card HA'.

The problem is AI slop; there are thousands of websites (even some old venerable sites that were sold off) that just have "that exact query as a web page", but the results are AI generated, and have no helpful information inside.

So, Google just launched a major new AI demo that requires people to relax their browser security settings. Wow.

GitHub took down the repository just now. It was up for 19 hours when we reported it. GitHub took action within roughly 2.5 hours, which was rather quick.

Linux Is Perfect Unless You're Blind #Linux #YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvxdkmPka20

@geerlingguy@mastodon.social The Internet, soon...

Addio alle chiamate spam dai finti numeri italiani: l'agcom mette finalmente una pezza.

L'AGCOM blocca lo spoofing: entro 6 mesi stop alle chiamate commerciali con numeri italiani falsi usati da call center esteri.•Previste multe fino a 1 milione di euro per gli operatori telefonici che non fermano le chiamate di telemarketing truccate.

#spam #agcom #telemarketing

https://www.smartworld.it/news/agcom-spoofing-chiamate-truffa.html

might be a controversial take but pirating photoshop doesn't hurt adobe and is thus bad

you're still using their software and learning it and getting used to it

you're contributing to the pandemic of people that can't use anything but adobe products

you're contributing to the "oh but my friends/colleagues use it so I don't have a choice"

pirating adobe products means the dependency on adobe products doesn't go away. you're only worsening it

❄️ NixOS 25.05 has been released.

https://nixos.org/blog/announcements/2025/nixos-2505/

#NixOS #Nix #Linux

Watching Microsoft’s robots telling Microsoft’s other robots that they need to agree to Microsoft CLAs in between Microsoft’s developers begging Microsoft’s robots to actually understand the problems they’re trying to fix in Microsoft's platform code on Microsoft's version-control website is kind of amazing.

This is definitely the future Terry Gilliam promised us.