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"Linux Mint and Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) scored the highest in our Linux Distro Reviews series, but which should you choose?"

"AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help."

An island network using Fediverse technologies in allowlist-only mode.

Fan art mashing up the main characters from Deltarune and Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle

GoToSocial Documentation: How to use the `slurp` tool, and tips for importing from Mastodon, Pixelfed, etc.

A minimalist ActivityPub microblogging server. Like, really minimalist. And opinionated. HONK!
"No attention mining. No likes, no faves, no polls, no stars, no claps, no counts."

"As you may know, the novels Semiosis and Interference are set on a distant planet and feature a small animal called a fippokat. The fippokat is based on my sister-in-law’s imaginary childhood animal…"

"When we bring a technology into our newsrooms — or into any organization — and particularly when we embed it into our workflows, we import the assumptions and values of the people who made it. The things they think are important to encode — and the things they don’t think are important to protect."

March 2021: "the Fagradalsfjall volcano near Iceland’s capital of Reykjavik began erupting for the first time in 800 years...it’s gifted the world with some awe-inspiring views of lava flowing from the ground.
The sight has been best captured by Icelandic drone pilot Bjorn Steinbekk, who took the straightforward approach of flying right through the eruption. "

"this video crystallized a number of things I’ve been chewing on about nostalgia, about fascism, and about the aesthetics of AI since November 8th, 2024, and it has to come out. Let’s take a journey back to the past, or rather multiple pasts: pasts that are real, imagined, and synthetically generated by algorithms running on expensive, energy-sucking hardware."