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- Comment on Gentoo Linux Begins Codeberg Migration In Moving Away From GitHub, Avoiding Copilot 1 week ago:
Lmao desperately trying to justify sunk cost, I see?
You’re right, it’s not scraping, it’s worse. Most AI bots do scrape sites for data, though since MS has direct access to the GH backend, they don’t even need to scrape the data. You’re giving it to them directly.
The issue here is trust. Microsoft, along with every other company invested in the AI race has proven repeatedly that getting ahead in said race is more important to them than anything else. It’s more important than user privacy, ToS, contracts, intellectual property, and the law itself.
If they stand to make more money screwing you over than they stand to lose from a slap on the wrist in court, the choice is clear. And they will lie to your face about it. Profit machines as big as MS don’t care. They can’t. They are optimized for one thing.
- Comment on Gentoo Linux Begins Codeberg Migration In Moving Away From GitHub, Avoiding Copilot 1 week ago:
Your confusion is understandable since MS has called like 4 different products “Copilot”. This refers to the coding assistant built into GitHub for everything from CI/CD to coding itself.
All code uploaded to GitHub is subject to being scraped by Copilot to both train and provide inference context to its model(s).
- Comment on If you "talk to yourself", you're deemed a "crazy person", but if you turn it to a song, then you're an aspiring musician. 2 weeks ago:
I don’t believe anyone who says they never talk to themselves while alone. How else are you supposed to get your mind to focus on only a single thought at a time?
- Comment on YSK you can poison your personal data to fight against surveillance capitalism. 2 weeks ago:
People using YouTube need this info more than people using PeerTube.
- Comment on Youlag (v4.2.0): Modernize FreshRSS for viewing YouTube and articles, now with DeArrow support to combat clickbait 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I noticed that. Luckily, the YT embedded player has an “add to Watch Later” button (the clock icon). I’ll use the favorites as a fallback for when Google inevitably kills that feature, lol.
- Comment on Youlag (v4.2.0): Modernize FreshRSS for viewing YouTube and articles, now with DeArrow support to combat clickbait 3 weeks ago:
This is great! FreshRSS has been part of my YouTube “flow” for a long time. I like going through my subscriptions list, adding them to my “Watch Later” playlist, and then watching them all in a row. This seems like it’d be perfect for that.
- Comment on Self-Host Weekly (6 February 2026) 3 weeks ago:
It’s no secret to regular readers of this newsletter that I’m still an
avidPlex user. Despite the numerous privacy concerns, price increases, and recent (confusing) primary domain redirect from plex.tv to watch.plex.tv, I still find the transition to Jellyfin a hard sell given its fragmentation and smattering of third-party clients that are all good* but not really great (oh, and hello to the Lemmy readers who always roast me for this take)*.Alright, I’ll spare you then. <3
This is a seriously cool plugin though, and I legitimately loved Plexamp. Plex’s decent really sucks for this community.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Translation: They going to try to “marketing” their way out of this hole.
Nothing about Windows or Microsoft will fundamentally change.
- Comment on California governor Gavin Newsom accuses TikTok of suppressing content critical of the current US president Donald Trump 4 weeks ago:
There’s definitely some “our team, their team” going on, but this isn’t really the same thing.
“Following TikTok’s sale to a Trump-aligned business group, our office has received reports, and independently confirmed instances, of suppressed content critical of President Trump”
This is not a criticism of the sale itself, but of reported censorship after the sale. Make no mistake, Newsom is still on the side of the billionaires. He just wants the billionaires to return to their progressive facade.
- Comment on TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture 4 weeks ago:
I just recently deleted my account and uninstalled the app. I’m not going to lie, it was hard because I had finally curated my algo to some pretty decent content that wasn’t just brainrot trash.
But I’d rather be bored than give Oracle anything.
- Comment on TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture 4 weeks ago:
iOS and Android provide these statistics to app developers. Anonymized stats on installs and account statuses are totally fair telemetry imo.
- Comment on TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture 4 weeks ago:
💯
- Comment on TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture 4 weeks ago:
But so much of the content is uncreative. The same songs and sound effects to some stupid reaction video.
How is that different from most social media platforms, though? Have tried browsing an uncurated YouTube recently? If there’s any incentive to boost views and engagement, people will optimize for that.
- Comment on Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux 2 months ago:
I was thinking of the 30 Pin Dock Connector, which was proprietary, but it looks like it used both FireWire and USB protocols.
Obviously Apple is known for propagating FireWire too.
- Comment on Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux 2 months ago:
Ah, the Apple strategy of forcing a standard.
- Comment on Docker security 2 months ago:
Yes, but having both in place can help mitigate lateral movement risk.
- Comment on Culture no longer exists in our reality today because the actors responsible for it most of it have long been deprived of their livelihood. 2 months ago:
I’m not sure what you’re asking.
- Comment on Culture no longer exists in our reality today because the actors responsible for it most of it have long been deprived of their livelihood. 2 months ago:
I think you’re looking in the wrong places. Culture is everywhere. The mediums and groups of people that propagate culture shift over time, but humans are inherently creative and will always develop it.
Try looking in places where there is a focus on community, connection, and the art itself—not places that focus on producing “content” for profit.
- Comment on It's the Christmas light video again - 2025 edition 2 months ago:
I literally wait every year for this video.
- Comment on Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service 2 months ago:
What you say??!!
- Comment on Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service 2 months ago:
IDK, the amount of abuse people have withstood only to keep using MS platforms is astounding. Some people would rather use trash than learn a new platform.
- Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 2 months ago:
Clearly, no-one involved in making these laws has ever heard of OAuth. Not every single site needs to manage your identity / credentials. The government already has this info, they can be the identity provider and use OAuth to grant access to age-gated resources without giving any personal data to the platform. Someone mentioned id.me, and I’m pretty sure that’s how that platform works, though they’re a private entity if I understand their site correctly.
I know most politicians are comically tech-illiterate, but it’s so frustrating to see them constantly implement terrible solutions to already solved problems without asking a single expert who knows how this shit works.
That being said, California passed a bill with a not perfect, but better approach. User age is configured on the OS level when a user account is set up, and then it will tell platforms what age category the user belongs to, and nothing more:
(a) An operating system provider shall do all of the following:
(1) Provide an accessible interface at account setup that requires an account holder to indicate the birth date, age, or both, of the user of that device for the purpose of providing a signal regarding the user’s age bracket to applications available in a covered application store.
(2) Provide a developer who has requested a signal with respect to a particular user with a digital signal via a reasonably consistent real-time application programming interface that identifies, at a minimum, which of the following categories pertains to the user:
(A) Under 13 years of age.
(B) At least 13 years of age and under 16 years of age.
© At least 16 years of age and under 18 years of age.
(D) At least 18 years of age.
(3) Send only the minimum amount of information necessary to comply with this title and shall not share the digital signal information with a third party for a purpose not required by this title.
I think iOS already does this, actually.
- Comment on It would be so funny if China colonizes Mars, then the Martian Colonists declare independence, and Mars become a new bastion of Freedom and Prosperity. 2 months ago:
We’d be lucky to even live to see a human on Mars.
- Comment on Immich Is Now Stable! 2 months ago:
That video was… something…
Anyway I love Immich. It’s definitely been on a stable release for a bit, but I think they’re just trying to get the word out. A lot of people seem to think it’s still in alpha.
Personally, I’ve been running the same Immich server for years now, rolling all the way up to the current release and I’ve never had any data loss. I just had to read the patch notes and adjust my docker compose accordingly a couple times.
It’s well worth paying for that supporter badge, btw. I’ve easily gotten more than $100 value out of it.
- Comment on Immich Is Now Stable! 2 months ago:
If you go into self-hosting hating containers, you’re gonna have a bad time.
- Comment on AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet — And Thanksgiving Dinner | Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures 2 months ago:
The vast majority of things gen AI produces becomes pointless when you take the human out of the equation imo.
- Comment on Cloudflare blames massive internet outage on 'latent bug' 3 months ago:
Indirectly, this was. He said this was a bug in their recent tool that allows sites to block AI crawlers that caused the outages. It’s a relatively new tool released in the last few months, so it makes sense it might be buggy as the rush to stop the AI DoS attacks has been pertinent.
- Comment on Self hosted DNS 3 months ago:
You’re, right, I misread the post.
At that point DNS is handled by whatever network you’re on. Since that not always under your control, hosting a private VPN (and setting DNS though that) is the way to go.
- Comment on Counter-intuitive population crisis 3 months ago:
- Comment on What if ALL the sun’s power was focused in one place? 3 months ago:
