If I ever have to buy a car, I'll either get a used one from the 00's or look for a "dumb" one. The amount of power that manufacturers wield over our own devices that we bought and paid for these days is nauseating.
Cory Doctorow describes a "reverse centaur" as a worker that's tasked with babysitting (in this case) the output of an LLM to make sure that it isn't wrong, as it often is. A plain old "centaur" would be a worker that uses technologies that make the work that they do easier and faster, like a centaur who uses their horse legs to run faster than a human. The "reverse centaur" would be a human with the head of a horse, where the human body would listen to the head of the horse (or LLM). That situation doesn't benefit the human nor the horse part.
"Dear humanity: We regret being alien bastards. We regret coming to Earth. And we most definitely regret that the Corps just blew up our raggedy-ass fleet!" - Avery Johnson
I'm not sure what you mean by this. Copyparty is a fileserver that I'm using for quick sharing of files and folders with others. "Managing multiple devices" is not what I would use it for, whatever you might mean by that. It does have one-way sync, if that's what you're looking for.
Broke: selfhost Forgejo (what Codeberg runs on, for those who don't know) because nobody looks at my code anywayWoke: access my Git repo directly through SSH because I don't need any other feature anyway
My RSS reader, Akregator, has an option to open every article in an embedded web browser. I use this feature precisely for these kinds of situations. Most artists that I follow have their own websites with proper RSS feeds, but others only post on Bluesky or similar, that also only show the title and body text. If I can't follow them through RSS, I just don't follow them at all. I can't be bothered to have their newsletter clog up my inbox or use some third-party service that will probably shut down when I least expect it to.
The people of the UK are heroes to us EU people, they try out all of the bold ideas that are sometimes floated around here, and show us all just how stupid they are. Let's hope that this will convince enough people here that privacy is, in fact, a very delicate thing and that maybe they should actually listen to all of the technical people sounding the alarm when another overreaching regulation is proposed.
R.I.P r/legoyoda ;(