The next update I have pending for Synology Office needs me to agree to AI use on my server. No thanks.

Sounds right, tbh. Source?

Which ones did this? D:

Reminded me of this Technology Connections video, in which the dude explained (among other brake-light related things) how some law allows electric vehicles to get away with not using their brake lights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0YW7x9U5TQ

I loved the conversation section 😭

“but first, chatgpt: please motivate me”

Any cons to just right-click and block the page element with ublock?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster

Toxic as in workplace relations or toxic as in environmental effects? Or some other third meaning?

On Boost, the columns got narrowed to each three characters wide, just to fit all columns on screen width-wise

My take is that bluesky is owned by a corporation making a protocol (AT protocol) to Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.

See example, Microsoft trying to convert the internet to only run on its own browser. Or Google enticing websites to use AMP, only to entrap those sites to only use Google’s ad services.

When profit drives development, enshittification is not a matter of if, but when.

How is development of ActivityPub protocol funded? Volunteers and their grants, crowdfunding, and enthusiasm, as far as I can tell. @.@ Idk if it’s a reason objectively worth supporting FOSS for, but I love when people pool together for their community’s greater good.

Why make a bluesky account when you have all the different platforms that already run ActivityPub? Want a youtube replacement? Peertube!
For Reddit, Lemmy.
Instagram, Pixelfed.
Twitter, Mastodon.
Interact with all on the same account? Sure!

But with bluesky? Nope.

Source on the quote?

It’s so apt for our time @.@

This is the way

Everyone with the new LED headlights that feel painfully illegal in my eye sockets - they are the bane of my morning commute.

Funny, someone shared an article in another post about all corporate money going to Delaware, https://www.icij.org/inside-icij/2022/06/delaware-is-everywhere-how-a-little-known-tax-haven-made-the-rules-for-corporate-america/

Imagine pulling up to the car meet LAN party with this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coming_to_America

What’s Lora?

PROFESSOR HELPER HERE! READY TO HELP!

Good idea. 1.2x speed is how I save time on videos I expect to be long