The satire caption was greatly appreciated

Roblox could avoid so much shit if they just REMOVED THE DAMN CHAT FUNCTION!!!

Never in my childhood did I need to chat with strangers in a game. Sure, you could chat on runescape, or any decent mmorpg at the time, but the chat was moderated, and key point, they weren’t hotbeds for child predators

Yeah, makes sense. I “solved” that issue by still doing handwritten notes but then scanning them and converting them to digital notes afterwards.

That being said, I grew up in the 90s so I was never deprived of the skill of handwriting as a kid. It wasn’t until apple made touchscreens popular that shit kinda went downhill

most schools offer textbooks digitally anyways. I never once was reprimanded for using pirated textbooks. If anything, teachers are just happy to know a student cares enough to learn. It’s really the crooked publishers that are far to greedy to serve any educational purpose that profit from copyright enforcement.

lol, I mostly ditched textbooks in high school not to support technology, but because I was tired of carrying around huge books in my backpack, the bulk of which I wouldn’t even need on a daily basis. Lo and behold, even 14 years ago, I could find pdf versions of most of my textbooks, some of which were offered officially from the publisher for free via the school.

The problems are the enshittification of the internet, the attention economy and the superb lack of American educational system, not technology itself. Almost every university in the world is filled with the sounds of clacking keys from laptops, this isn’t 1984.

I’m going to try this one out. Just found it on selfh.st, and it almost seems too good to be true. I don’t care about massive online communities, I just want to talk with friends, and almost every other discord-like platform seems like they prefer the former.

Thanks for the praise!

The Cybernews research team discovered an exposed MongoDB database containing nearly 1 terabyte of personally identifiable information (PII) exposing approximately a billion sensitive records across 26 countries.

Welp. I guess, time to change passwords.

seems like raspberry pi os on touchscreen devices supports on-screen keyboards and basic touch-screen features. There’s also the Librem 11 tablet, that runs linux on an Intel chip with Gnome.

I mean, I don’t watch ads either, but I’ll see new releases on letterboxd, or my local independent theatre will play something new, like Marty Supreme, and I’ll hear about it that way.

I find ads, regardless of their effectiveness in marketing, to be the least interesting way to find out about a film, because a well-made ad is more of an exception than the standard.

I was scared off a couple years ago when I attempted to host it myself. I took a break from selfhosting, but now I’m back, and from what I learned in the past, I know now not to torture myself swimming upstream when there are far easier downstream currents to follow.

I’m looking at conduit but I’m currently writing up a doc to plan out the process, and understand it before I actually deploy anything. I don’t want to open ports, don’t need federation and don’t need encryption, since I’ll be using tailscale to host a private server to only members of my tailnet.

I’ll report back, either here or in the main community, because I don’t want to expose ports, rent a VPS or use ansible for a simple private server for less than 10 people.

Meanwhile Mozilla every fucking large tech corporation is focusing on AI…

ftfy

because, I’m a human that makes mistakes.

not surprising at all. They take up very little room, so they are relatively easy to move, can be taken apart within less than an hour and parted out, often are locked inadequately, many establishments lack good/any bike racks in areas with decent foot traffic to deter crimes of opportunity . . . . . .

I am planning on building a decent 29er, that will be expensive enough to warrant designing some custom gps tracking solution so that if it ever is stolen, I can at least track it in real time. But I’ve had bikes stolen before, and from experience, having a bike locked in a safe, road-facing location for less than a few hours at a time is the best way, where I live, to avoid the pain of losing something so useful forever.

the ideal solution is to provide actual locked bike storage shacks/shelters in busy areas, but cities will sooner waste millions on horrid road infrastructure than anything to negate the fears that potential cyclists have about bicycle theft.

I tried convincing my friends to leave discord, and only 2 people attempted, but I kind of fucked up by enabling message encryption.

But now that this bullshit is here, I wonder if I should try again? I might go the VPS route and call it a day, but I really want to have it locally hosted so I don’t have yet another thing to pay monthly.

exactly my feeling. I used to use GUI’s in linux way more, but over time, realized, I kind of like not having to use my mouse.

I lack formal education in the tech field, but I honestly wish I didn’t waste my 20’s on drugs (it was fun though, honestly) and an attempt at a rap career, instead of getting my hands dirty in the field, so to speak. I got into computers in the early 2000’s, discovered linux in 2006, and since then I’ve been that friend who’s into computers and stuff.

I kind of forget what exactly got me into self-hosting . . . but youtube probably had something to do with it, with many youtubers like Raid Owl, Level1Techs, and even LTT talking about things like Jellyfin and TrueNAS, it got me curious as to why I never got into it sooner.

I love these kind of shots, and they are fairly easy to accomplish given the correct lighting

nice cat!

hey sorry for the late reply, but sure!

https://signal.me/#eu/-dTdIY1nPMXrTp18ce9xQeSNxr-S9IGwDg7PliKRvtMGYIQHSUZDRpg3PjAji8QA

anyone using any public facing website to organize a protest almost deserves to fall in my eyes.

Why hasn’t everyone downloaded signal yet?

See, the problem with reversing the pyramid, primarily for societies addicted to cars, is that even if all infrastructure was changed to make things the most safe for cyclists and pedestrians, the damage to the mind of the average citizen has to considered as well. The lack of exercise, the lack of the ability to consider one’s individual contribution to environmental pollution and the socioeconomic relationship people have with their private vehicles all have to be dealt as well in order for the outside world to need for such change.