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"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.'""

"The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other.
This technique is as old as the hills; it was practiced in almost every Greek city, and the moderns have only enlarged its scale." --Bertrand Russell

"Rack-mountable, PoE-powered carrier board for Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 and compatible devices with all the necessary interfaces. 
With Compute Blade, you can create a high-density, low-power-consuming, plug-and-play blade server for home or data-center use."

Utah recently banned cities from flying unofficial flags like the various pride and Juneteenth flags. The city's new, official "celebration," "visibility" and "belonging" flags may look familiar.