do you also think it’s okay to, say, use an N-word for Black people who commit crimes?

oh, they’re not cloning faces, the way I thought they did on the first four reads.

pretty good analysis of Mozilla’s situation by TechAltar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw-XYrMFb0A

given that that’s where they got 85% of their money from? yeah, probably.

direct, non-AMP link https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjr431lr72jo

tablets (especially ones that could be flashed with Linux, i.e. not iPads) are way less common than smartphones, so you get fewer devices to choose from for testing, fewer users who can run it, report bugs, and support the project, and less interest in general.

“oh neat, the scorpion is paying me to carry it through the river!”

the creator delayed the launch because he had to write the legalese for the service, and on top of that I think he’s waiting for the app stores to approve the app (the service isn’t available through a browser).

he mentioned in the past that the videos will be automatically deleted after some period of time, so that should make the storage situation a little bit more manageable.

At what price point would this device be useful?

given that it’s horribly bad at what it claims to do and was a fire risk? not even a zero point.

I remember reading about Samsung TVs looking for unprotected WiFi networks, so even if you don’t give it your network details, it’ll connect to your neighbour’s if it’s not password-protected.

Windows games on Linux software and Apple hardware. what a time to be alive!

Discourse has got an ActivityPub plugin, but the forum owner needs to explicitly add it to their forum.

the fate worse than quenching.

and now I’m imagining Siri speaking in a very high-pitched voice.

I’m working on a script that runs yay every hour, gets the list of upgradable packages, and creates a post about each one of them

so, no summary at all, or one that does shit job pointing out important bits or gets them wrong and therefore isn’t a proper summary? choices, choices.

It’s not terrible

it sucks at summarising information, though https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/09/03/ai-worse-summarising-information-humans-government-trial/

our distro follows the PISS ideology. it’s a recursive acronym for PISS It Simple, Stupid

coming up next: anuriaOS, for when your kidneys stop working

…I’ll be in my bunk