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"The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone."

"I’m going to assume that if you’re reading this, you more or less understand the situation in Minnesota and I don’t have to explain it to you!"

Where are Fediverse and ATmosphere servers actually located? (City level, not closer than that.)

Apparently there is an unofficial AArch64 port separate from the Arch Linux ARM project.

The tension between getting people off of the corporate web, and the fact that a lot of people can't afford the time and money to host their own online presence.

An epic thread on Bluesky, satirizing contemporary political and business culture via the last electronic dispatches before an imagined asteroid impact.

An alternate start page that doesn't offer AI "answers" and leaves known AI-generated images out of search results

Some of the newer HTML features degrade gracefully on browsers like Lynx. Others...really don't.
(via OSNews)

"Remove AI features, telemetry data reporting, sponsored content, product integrations, and other annoyances from web browsers."

"More than a decade after Aaron Swartz’s death, the United States is still living inside the contradiction that destroyed him. Swartz believed that knowledge, especially publicly funded knowledge, should be freely accessible. Acting on that, he downloaded thousands of academic articles from the JSTOR archive with the intention of making them publicly available. For this, the federal government charged him with a felony and threatened decades in prison. After two years of prosecutorial pressure, Swartz died by suicide on Jan. 11, 2013. The still-unresolved questions raised by his case have resurfaced in today’s debates over artificial intelligence, copyright and the ultimate control of knowledge..."