Vincent Cloutier @vincent@librem.one

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i applied for a botsin.space account for infinite bees

an important part of being an admin of an instance that you may not immediately realise is that your users may rely on your instance being up during an emergency.

That's a heavy responsibility.

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I think the main thing holding back GNOME mobile (for my usage) is a lack of reliable native apps for sites like YouTube, Reddit, Discord, or even federated services like Mastodon. It's unlikely we'll ever see official clients for these services, so it falls on dedicated users to create applications for them. Too bad most of the proprietary services actively kill third-party applications.

Bing and Edge + AI: a new way to search starts today https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/02/07/reinventing-search-with-a-new-ai-powered-microsoft-bing-and-edge-your-copilot-for-the-web/

People tell me they're afraid of AI and computers taking over the world but if it helps: I'm really not.

For the last few decades since Terminator came out, we've been hard at work building in a dead man's switch to every major system on Earth to prevent this from happening. I guarantee you that if computers try to take over the world, somewhere, within a month, a certificate for some critical dependency no one ever considered will expire and take all the machines out at once. We've done a few dozen trial runs of this to make sure the system works. 100% success rate so far.

i can’t stop listening to this radiohead cover of in rainbows with Mario64 sound font; pure joy:

https://youtu.be/B2JHChJpG_A

Pretty much every closed system you depend on (operating systems, libs, online services, social media, marketplaces) will eventually make decisions you can’t abide, it’s largely just a matter of when.

It’s ok to depend on them anyway, so long as you don’t delude yourself of this fact, and are prepared to pull the rip cord when the inevitable happens. Always have a plan B, even if that’s “burn it all and start again”

If you’re not willing to accept this, only depend on things you can control.

kept typoing "ls" as "lsd" so i fixed it