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Not an April fools, but it might have been a plan they (whoever it was) chose to later not follow through with.

I vaguely remember the Sony fiasco.

Both of these were in the USA. The first was with a friend’s purchase, the latter was an article he sent me. It’s been a little while, but I know one was Samsung, but can’t remember the other brand or which was which.

Not all tvs allow you to do that. Some require you to be online. Some took it a step further and are equipped with 4/5G modems to bypass your network restrictions.

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The smart ones are sold at cost or at a loss, and your privacy is then sold to subsidize the profits. A dumb tv costs more money up front (since it’s not subsidized by your privacy), but it costs far less in overall value. It’s a tradeoff that the consumer needs to make. The lovely thing, is that (for now, at least) it is still a choice we can make.

I haven’t finished going through all of it yet, but it seems pretty extensive and inclusive. This is great!

This article may have been right 2 years ago, but not so much today.

I have an offline stt keyboard on my phone that uses Vosk. I used to have a stt digital assistant, too (can’t remember which model), but I didn’t need a “siri” and ended up uninstalling.

A Computer Scientist Breaks Down Generative AI’s Hefty Carbon Footprint

2023 article, but way more informative than the TikTok one here, and doesn’t seem like blatant propaganda.

I guess the gif I posted about seeing this before was spam. Sorry, everyone. Didn’t mean to violate a rule :/

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Don’t worry. The apps they want you to use definitely don’t have backdoors for them to use to circumvent all encryption, and those nonexistent backdoors will definitely not be found by other bad actors.

I used WordPress (the self hosted one) and Drupal. They were both fine for my needs. I’ve never used Grav, so I’m not sure how it compares. As for making it look better, I think it’s more important to the user that the site is usable and easily navigate-able. I know those were the main things I looked for in niche sites. Of course I preferred that they didn’t look like they were plucked out of 1999, but as long as I could easily find what I was looking for, I didn’t care that much. I guess what I’m trying to say, is that I hope you find exactly what you’re looking for, and that your users appreciate you for your efforts on that front, as well as the content itself : )

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It might be hard to find something as good as Grav, but good luck.

Edit: start here maybe? Really not sure what you’re looking for. Grav really seems to cover pretty much every scenario.

This looks amazing. And the fact that is uses postgres is a huge seller for me. Thanks for sharing this.

Yes, that’s what the ad said, but the actual class was basically teaching how to trick a woman into bed. The movie sucked, by the way, even if the protagonist figures it out and leaves the class (happyish ending, I suppose). The original story is much worse and much more objectifying.

He had his own school for scoundrels, and got 800k people to join? What a sad commentary on the world in which we live.

Super interesting approach. I like it.

Bluesky is supposed to decentralized, though it doesn’t seem to be. Threads being blocked doesn’t change the fact that it is technically part of the verse, although a red herring. Maybe both poor examples, but they’re alternatives to the verse, which was my point. Maybe adding a public mastodon instance as an alternative would have been a better example, but the main point stands: a uni isn’t likely going to host their own instance, due to the inherent risk associated with it.

Honorable goal. But it won’t work. From a business’s perspective, hosting such a server adds inherent risk. They won’t do it. You may be able to convince them to use the fediverse through threads or bluesky, but they won’t host their own instance, even if the CTO/CIO/CISO agrees with your love for the verse. I’m not saying you shouldn’t try. I’m saying you should provide alternatives to twitter and to self-hosted mastodon; alternatives that don’t require self hosting anything.

I absolutely LOVE that one. One of my all time favorites.