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This instance has been demoted to my secondary Lemmy account if instability is going to become a problem here in the future. I'm promoting lemmy.wtf to my main Lemmy account, and I'll link it below.

  • I think the fediverse needs Android like hardware packaging

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  • A RISC-V equivalent might be better in terms of hardware openness.

  • What is considered a dirty word to you that makes you cringe having to use it or think of it?

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  • Influencer, because that term has pretty much become synonymous with 'grifter' at this point as most 'influencers' are trying to run a grift of some kind.

  • What’s contributing most to the death of the open internet?

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  • I think that we need more hybrid online/irl communities.

    • There's actually been some recent attempts to do exactly that, eg. zine communities have been getting big on ATproto recently, as well as art/craft communities in general.

  • What’s contributing most to the death of the open internet?

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  • Google's the main contributor to closing the web off, they even straight-up admitted to that a few months ago and tried to DRM the web with WEI, but that failed with massive backlash.

    Boohoo, the open web is broken....

    • You caused it, MF'ers....

    But yeah, walled gardens like Discord, Google, Meta, and Twitter certainly aren't helping matters, and even some of the alternatives got some controversy of their own, eg. Bsky recently censoring people on their main PDS, although given ATproto is an open protocol, there's no one and nothing stopping you from setting up an account on a third-party PDS like Blacksky or Northsky, or hosting your own, for example.

    Apart from that, more open and decentralized/self-hostable alternatives need to crop up and fast, and we already have ATProto, ActivityPub/the Fediverse, PeerSuite, XMPP, and even LBRY/Odysee.

  • YouTube Rolling Out AI Age Verification to New Batch of Users

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  • Assuming mirroring isn't borked by that aforementioned DRM.

  • Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show

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  • At least Meta straight-up admitting to grifting people, Google has yet to do so.

  • An Idea That I Could Get Behind

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  • I laughed way harder than I should've at that.

  • YouTube Rolling Out AI Age Verification to New Batch of Users

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  • Age-gated vids have been login-walled for a while now, non-age-gated stuff is still viewable while logged out and through alt front-ends, for now.

    I won't put it past Google to fully login-wall YT at some point in the future though, or even worse, put DRM on it so that it's only watchable through Chrome on Android, or Chrome or Edge on Windows, and non-Android and non-Windows OSes, and non-Chrome/Edge browsers are blocked, as well as alt front-ends and downloaders, and even mirroring to competing platforms.

  • YouTube Rolling Out AI Age Verification to New Batch of Users

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  • Invidious mainly, and that doesn't use any YT accounts, it's the equivalent of watching YT logged out.

    Also, Grayjay lets you log in through it but that probably doesn't bypass the age check if you're KYC'd.

    If you're an active creator yourself though or even if you only have a few vids you made years ago that are still up, I'd set up PeerTube, Odysee, or both, and post those there while you still can, though.

  • YouTube Rolling Out AI Age Verification to New Batch of Users

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  • One more reason to use an alt front-end, and clear/disable your watch/view history and not log into YT directly anymore, at least while you still can.

  • What open source project is the most exciting for you right now?

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  • Linux of course, it's been headlining lately in terms of improvements particularly on the gaming front, but also FreeBSD based on how quickly it's been moving in terms of improvements on the general desktop front, FreeBSD is at the point where it's a viable third option on the desktop if you're not gaming, although that's assuming you're running its CURRENT branch since that's where the latest development happens.

  • Nintendo's Palworld lawsuit suffers another potential blow as US takes "rare" step of re-examining previously granted Pokémon patent

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  • You know things are getting bad when two governments are on your case about your patent trolling, Nintendo.

  • What distro do you install on other's computers?

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  • Whatever OS they want or need, be it Ubuntu or Mint or whatever, or even Windows for that matter; it ain't my system so it ain't my decision at the end of the day.

    I could recommend things for my hypothetical client to look into on their own at a later date, but whatever OS I install on that system is ultimately up to the person I'm hypothetically building it for, I can't just randomly install something without the client's permission, assuming I'm getting paid to build them a PC in this hypothetical.

    Granted I'm speaking in terms of that person being a client in a business relationship more than a casual 'I'm getting sick of Windows, what should I run instead' setting-it-up-for-a-friend scenario, but still.

  • Do you think school uniforms are a form of authoritarianism?

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  • I absolutely do, within reason and within legal limits, school kids should be able to wear whatever they want as it's a big part of their self expression.

    Also, for things like art class, which can and will get very messy, very fast, especially with younger kids, school uniforms are just flat-out impractical vs. wearing old clothes you don't care about, eg. for clay day or for paper mache day or anything else like that, although ideally for stuff like this, you'd provide some old slightly oversized shirts to begin with that can be smudged with paint or clay or whatever without fear, effectively acting as smocks.

  • Google pulls the plug on first and second gen Nest Thermostats

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  • If there was ever a better reason to set up Home Assistant if you want a smart home.....

  • OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly

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  • As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity

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  • Unlike Linux, whose recent embrace of AI in the codebase is worrying to say the least, you flat-out cannot submit AI-generated code to NetBSD.

  • As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity

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  • NetBSD even explicitly banned AI from their codebase to boot, as quoted from their Commit Guidelines:

    Code generated by a large language model or similar technology, such as GitHub/Microsoft's Copilot, OpenAI's ChatGPT, or Facebook/Meta's Code Llama, is presumed to be tainted code, and must not be committed without prior written approval by core.

    Unlike Linux, whose recent embrace of AI in the codebase is worrying to say the least, you flat-out cannot submit AI-generated code to NetBSD unless it's approved in writing*.

    *originally in another reply, but deleted that and moved it here.

  • X is now offering me end-to-end encrypted chat — you probably shouldn't trust it yet | TechCrunch

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  • Probably shouldn't? How 'bout definitely shouldn't, ditto for Twitter in general. Give ATproto shit all you want but at least you can move to an independent PDS with it.

    Granted ActivityPub is still ideal over ATproto, but both are better than a centralized black box.

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What's with all the people on here asking, 'Can I do this with AI, can I do that with AI' lately?

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Google just broke all third-party YT clients, including yt-dlp; a full JS implementation is now required.

    github.com /yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/14404
  • Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ @lemmy.dbzer0.com
    DFX4509B @lemmy.org

    Google just broke all third-party YT clients, including yt-dlp; a full JS implementation is now required.

    github.com /yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/14404
  • Entertainment - Lemmy.org @lemmy.org
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    CDs are back because people want to actually own their stuff again.

  • Art Share🎨 @lemmy.world
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    'Splatter painting date'

  • Art - Lemmy.org @lemmy.org
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    'Splatter painting date'

  • Art Share🎨 @lemmy.world
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    'April Showers.....'

  • Art - Lemmy.org @lemmy.org
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    'April Showers.....'

  • pics @lemmy.world
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    OC

    Bunny chilling under the shade

  • Art Share🎨 @lemmy.world
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    'A Pair of Combee'

  • Art - Lemmy.org @lemmy.org
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    'A Pair of Combee'

  • Art Share🎨 @lemmy.world
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    'Field trip day'

  • Art - Lemmy.org @lemmy.org
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    'Field trip day'

  • Art Share🎨 @lemmy.world
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    'Igglybuff Hopscotch'

  • Art - Lemmy.org @lemmy.org
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    'Igglybuff Hopscotch'

  • Art Share🎨 @lemmy.world
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    'Snom!'

  • Art - Lemmy.org @lemmy.org
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    'Snom!'

  • Art Share🎨 @lemmy.world
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    'Craft Time with Happiny'

  • Art - Lemmy.org @lemmy.org
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    'Craft Time with Happiny'

  • Art Share🎨 @lemmy.world
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    'Outdoor Playtime'