The best advice I have for new nerds: Refuse to pay rent.

Don't subscribe. Don't lease. Don't use their cloud. Don't slip down the freemium slope. Don't create accounts on their services.

Buy it once. Run it local. Avoid commercial software.

It'll be a huge pain and you'll be an outsider but it'll be endless, interesting, and hard fun that'll pay you back with a curious mind and an understanding of the fabric of our intellectual infrastructure that will make you light-years more capable, useful, and healthy than the "AI" zombies.

Fuck vinyl, tape is where it is 😛
Today's thrifting finds.

#tape #cassette #thrifting #vinyl #music #vintage #retro

Actions speak louder than words.

I am unable to install EU Login app in my phone because I use LineageOS and not the Google Spy Android.

Thus, I cannot use the double factor authentication, mandatory from the 25-02-2026 on unless I tell Google.

A frontal attack to our #privacy.

Stupid, no?

@EUCommission

My favourite piece of internet today is the theory that Jesus was actually a type of yeast.

Turns water into wine
Floats on water
Makes bread for 5000 people
Put in a cave for 3 days and lo - he has risen!
Jesus was a sourdough starter.

Also this would imply: We should be calling him 'Mother' not 'Father'

@dan
- "My dishwasher is on the internet!"
- "Why is on the internet?"
- "To download software updates!"
- "Why does it need software updates?"
- "To fix security vulnerabilities!"
- "Why would it have security vulnerabilities?"
- "Because it's on the internet!"

PSA for anyone who missed this that Persona, the age verification system used by Discord, Linkedin, Roblox, ChatGPT, and (in the UK) Reddit, is a USA-hosted service backed financially by Peter Thiel.

No, I don’t want an AI assisted experience

I want clean air, forests, and a future for the next generation

@de_fulenzer https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVrbovsBzZ1QXNYXBqOEQtBNRKfdF4DGJ

"De TU Delft blijkt soms zonder hun medeweten namen van studenten en medewerkers te delen met de politie. Het gaat om mensen die willen meedoen aan aangekondigde demonstraties op de campus."

#Privacy #Demonstratierecht #Democratie

https://delta.tudelft.nl/article/tu-deelt-namen-van-studenten-en-medewerkers-met-politie-amnesty-is-kritisch

Don't anthropomorphize LLMs, language is important. Say "the bot generated some text" not "the AI replied". Use "this document contains machine-generated text" not "this work is AI-assisted". See how people squirm when you call out their slop this way.

How to Get Started with darktable, 2026 Edition

No matter your experience with raw photo editing, darktable can be intimidating and has a number of unique features which can be hard to understand at first. So just jumping in and flailing around is not a good strategy for learning. With that in mind, here are my recommendations for getting started properly.

Fully updated for 2026 and darktable 5.4 [...]

https://notebook.stereofictional.com/how-to-get-started-with-darktable-2026-edition

@bix Meer dan eens tegen een auto/fietser aangelopen die dat concept ook niet snapte

@bix ... maar waarom gebruik je microsoft edge ?