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"Watch three official, two David Lynch-directed and several fan-made David Lynch Signature Cup Coffee commercials."

"Ecosia plants trees in over 20 biodiversity hotspots worldwide. Browse our reforestation projects by country to discover their impact on nature and people."

"I posted something on Mastodon that uses Unicode math symbols to produce fake bold and fake italic text. I used YayText.com to generate it, but I am not linking it because you I don’t want you to use it…"

Wow. Google decided to revoke an access-all-files permission it had granted the Nextcloud Android app back in *2011* from future Play store versions, meaning the cloud syncing app can no longer sync files with the cloud (except photos and media, because it can still get at those with a narrower permission). An installed copy of the app can still ask for those permissions and use them, but Google won't approve updates in the Play store if it does. Fortunately F-Droid doesn't have the same restrictions, and Nextcloud has the resources to maintain a slightly different build for the different channels.

"Without full file access, it’s kind of hard to use your own cloud."

"The majority of the traffic on the web is from bots. For the most part, these bots are used to discover new content. These are RSS Feed readers, search engines crawling your content, or nowadays AI bo"

"We are knee-deep in the age of techno-optimistic hype cycles and AI doomerism - both fueled by the same underlying mechanism: strategic information asymmetry."
"I'm proposing a counterintuitive thesis: there exists a significant "honesty premium" in tech that remains largely unclaimed."

"We still have not seen a single valid security report done with AI help"
"Some AI reports are easier to spot than others. One accidentally pasted their prompt into the report, Stenberg said, "and he ended it with, 'and make it sound alarming.'""