ThePowerOfGeek

I try to use local stores or other websites, and only use Amazon if I can’t find what I need there. But at least half the time I end up having to use Amazon because I can’t find what I need.

It’s probably a kind of vicious cycle: as Amazon eats further into profits of other companies they are more limited in what they can offer.

With tungsten cubes apparently. Lots and lots of tungsten cubes!

I fucking loath LinkedIn! I don’t go on there much, but every time I do it’s 99% shameless self-promotion using vapid, one-dimensional content that’s wrapped in a thin veneer of motivational speech bullshit.

How do many people can’t see through it (let alone tolerate it) is beyond me. LinkedIn embodies so much of what’s wrong with modern society.

JavaScript, AJAX, and modern web frameworks have pushed us away from displaying information in a pure and clean way. We need to go back to a better time!

Looks at no-HTML websites

Shit, we’ve gone back too far!

Exactly!

Screw that. Give the government a way to track my vitals 24/7 and sell that information off to their cronies in the private sector? No thanks.

That’s not how knowledge works. You can’t just have an LLM hallucinate in missing gaps in knowledge and call it good.

Pretty good advice. Although they are probably recommending that for more than just it being a Meta data farming scam.

Awesome, thanks for the tips!

I started down the Jellyfin path after they made that announcement. It’s super easy to install, and in many ways the UI is nicer than Plex. But I ran into challenges getting my server safely accessible for users outside my LAN. And I haven’t had the time to look into that further.

Would be great if there was a clean, easy way to set up the webserver portion so it’s as easy to share content entirely as Plex. But I get they are a volunteer project with a lot on their plate.

Good news good Signal.

Accelerando is such a weird but excellent novel.

TIL Ghostery had their own browser.

Oh maybe it is only FOSS.

Keep an eye on Revolt.

Hopefully Revolt (a Fediverse alternative to Discord) continues to improve and can completely take the place of Discord relatively soon.

Edit: it might only be FOSS, not federated. Still a promising project though.

Who would have thought that gutting the technical expertise of the company would lead to such vulnerabilities. 🤔

Ohh right… everyone with more than a few brain cells!