HW/FW security researcher & Demoscene elder.
I started having arguments online back on Fidonet and Usenet. I’m too tired to care now.
The AI support doesn’t hurt you if you don’t use it - and they’ve done the right thing by making sure you can do things locally instead of cloud.
Here’s what AI does for me (self-hosted, my own scripts) on NC 9:
When our phones sync photos to Nextcloud a local LLM creates image descriptions on all the photos, as well as creating five tags for each.
It is absolutely awesome.
Threat modelling for a possible future is different from threat modelling for today.
The Netherlands kept good records of which religion a person belonged to in the 1930s, to be able to swiftly fulfil any possible religious requirements on burial services. A nice service.
The nazis thought so too, a few years later.
… the billionaire proof version of Bluesky is … Mastodon.
My 12yo learnt about Recall from some Youtube video and has now said they want to move to Linux. I’m not fully convinced it’s possible though, I know they have some modding tools etc for indie games that seem to be Windows only. Let’s see.
You want Matrix. Synapse if you intend to host for others, Conduit if you just want to host for yourself. There are quite a few different clients but I do indeed use ElementX on mobile.
IOCX has a noticeable increase in new user signups since a day or two back.
That sounds problematic. Where do they detail this?
Wikipedia:
Google Safe Browsing “conducts client-side checks. If a website looks suspicious, it sends a subset of likely phishing and social engineering terms found on the page to Google to obtain additional information available from Google’s servers on whether the website should be considered malicious”.
But why are random people visiting your instance?
If you were just selfhosting services for you and your family, would really browsers be flagging your site?
There will be no Librewolf without Firefox though.
We did listen to Beastie Boys over here too you know.
(So there are only five boroughs)
They’ve figured out that it’s impossible to have children today without paying for Youtube Premium Family …
Ah! Might good sir be a fellow Mechanical Engineer?
(no one else considers stuff that break instead of bend to be “harder”)
I have now installed it and I like it.
I haven’t installed it yet, but I’m going to try out Gitness for this: https://docs.gitness.com/
Yeah I was able to install sliding-sync on Dendrite without issues. A bit surprising that I didn’t see any guides made for it yet.
I host a SearXNG instance and follow the Matrix channel. Haven’t seen anything along those lines.