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Linux May Be the Best Way to Avoid the AI Nightmare (www.lifewire.com)
Linus Tech Tips (LTT) release investigation results on former accusations (x.com)
There were a series of accusations about our company last August from a former employee. Immediately following these accusations, LMG hired Roper Greyell - a large Vancouver-based law firm specializing in labor and employment law, to conduct a third-party investigation. Their website describes them as “one of the largest...
De-Google Your Life - Part 1 (piped.video)
Prepare to Get Manipulated by Emotionally Expressive Chatbots (www.wired.com)
Someone purchased the old domain of a FOSS app, then it's using it to deceive users to download adware (feddit.it)
One of those two sites is distributing adware. Which of them?...
‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services (www.theguardian.com)
Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT (www.tomshardware.com)
Google lays off hundreds of 'Core' employees, moves some positions to India and Mexico (www.cnbc.com)
Google is laying off more employees and hiring for their roles outside of the U.S.
Google Feed alternative
I like how GF shows me articles (with images) of different websites and topics....
30% of Children Ages 5-7 Are on TikTok (www.honest-broker.com)
Building my Homelab!
Hey, I'm in the way of building my homelab already thinking of some apps to run on it......
How to forcefully burn in subtitles, always?
In Libreelec I am using Jellyfin for Kodi. I have enabled force transcoding. I would like the subtitles in Jellyfin to be burned into the video with no exceptions. There's an option to disable subtitle extraction on the fly but this doesn't burn in the subtitles
How much maintenance do you find your self-hosting involves?
I recognize this will vary depending on how much you self-host, so I'm curious about the range of experiences from the few self-hosted things to the many self-hosted things....
Release v0.8.1 - A bit more than a Hotfix · Kareadita/Kavita · GitHub (github.com)
N100 Media Serving Efficiency with Quick Sync (412linux.io)
In my quest to optimize media serving capabilities, one feature that stood out for testing was Quick Sync, particularly its hardware acceleration potential. I embarked on a comparison between Jellyfin and Emby, evaluating the efficacy of Quick Sync and its impact on system performance....
Boston Dynamics introduces a fully electric humanoid robot that “exceeds human performance” (spectrum.ieee.org)
...replacing the previously hydraulic version....
Increase your Linux Server Internet Speed with TCP BBR Congestion-Control (www.cyberciti.biz)
I recently found this on Reddit while looking into why jellyfin is effected so much by latency. I found that this worked and thought I would share it because it is generally applicable, takes five minutes to setup, and helps a lot with bandwidth on higher latency connections. I admit I am not sure of the technical stuff behind...
Looking for the Perfect USB Flash Drive
I've been using some cheap flash drives for things like installing OSs and the like, but now I've picked up a Dell Wyse 3040 system to play with which only has 8gb of storage. So I'm installing the OS onto a flash drive permanently (don't worry, just for messing with, nothing of value will be lost if/when the drive craps out)....
Smart devices are turning out to be a poor investment (www.androidpolice.com)
‘IRL Fakes:’ Where People Pay for AI-Generated Porn of Normal People (www.404media.co)
A Telegram user who advertises their services on Twitter will create an AI-generated pornographic image of anyone in the world for as little as $10 if users send them pictures of that person. Like many other Telegram communities and users producing nonconsensual AI-generated sexual images, this user creates fake nude images of...
The slow death of Twitter is measured in disasters like the Baltimore bridge collapse (www.vox.com)
Twitter, now X, was once a useful site for breaking news. The Baltimore bridge collapse shows those days are long gone.
Majority of Americans now use ad blockers (www.theregister.com)
Testing 10.9.0
From Project Lead Joshua:...
E-waste is growing 5x faster than it's recycled, says UN (www.theregister.com)
I'm deGoogling. What's my new Podcast app?
I've been warming up to switching to GrapheneOS for months. Last month I bought a Pixel 8 (which is the buggiest effing phone I've ever owned, good job Google). I've just been waiting to have the bandwidth....
Reddit is going public. Will its unruly user base revolt? (www.vox.com)
Radxa Penta SATA HAT adds up to five SATA drives to the Raspberry Pi 5 (www.cnx-software.com)
It Appears Users Are Getting Bored With TikTok (www.techdirt.com)
Meta just showed off Threads’ fediverse integration for the very first time (www.theverge.com)
UK starts early trials of World's first pothole preventing robot (www.youtube.com)
Driverless vehicle that uses sensors to measure road surface quality and repair small cracks to stop them turning into potholes and hopefully decreasing the cost of road maintenance while improving average surface quality.
Jellyfin will get a LatestRelease home section (github.com)
I was just browinsg PRs of jellyfin. It's incredible how many PRs were merged in the past months. The linked PR is approved but not yet merged. I'm really looking forward to this new feature....
Never-before-seen Linux malware gets installed using 1-day exploits (arstechnica.com)
Resticity - a cross-platform frontend for restic
https://github.com/ad-on-is/resticity...
Commercials Are Streaming’s New Norm, and Creators Aren’t Happy: “It’s Almost Worse Than Broadcast” (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/6302705
So SBCs are shit now? Anything I can do with my collection of Pis and old routers?
I dunno when it happened but I swear SBCs were the new best thing in the universe for a while and everyone was building cool little servers with their RockPis and OrangePis....