People are shocked to discover they need to fact-check ChatGPT and I'm having the uncomfortable realization that they never fact-checked their uncle's Facebook posts, their friend's medical advice, or literally anything Google's top result told them, and suddenly the last decade makes sense...

Yah I did draw a wildebeest for this.
#Gnu

@HollyK

Still working on it.
This project has a #Friendica account now that will host some more editorial-style explainers (with screenshots and illustrations) in the near future.
The above is in co-development with an oral-visual presentation introducing small communities to #FOSS options in a simple way, with handouts.
Lastly, we have the first of some to-the-point poster-style PSA's for hardcopy and digital.

Thank you for the encouragement and articulation of the needs and wants.

RSS never tracked you.
Email never throttled you.
Blogs never begged for dopamine.
The old web wasn’t perfect.
But it was yours.

99 waterfox tabs on the screen, 99 waterfox tabs... close one down to bookmark town, 98 waterfox tabs on the screen!

Realized today that Waterfox/Librewolf/firefox Tabs can be substituted for Bottles of Beer.

Skype يغلق اليوم – هذه هي أفضل البدائل

بعد 23 عامًا من توصيل الأشخاص في جميع أنحاء العالم ، يتم إيقاف Skype ، خدمة استدعاء الفيديو الشهيرة ، يوم الاثنين. أكدت Microsoft ، الشركة الأم ، أن تاريخ غروب الشمس الرسمي للخدمة هو اليوم ، 5 مايو 2025. يمكن لمستخدمي Skype إما ترحيل جميع جهات الاتصال الخاصة بهم وبيانات الدردشة إلى فرق Microsoft ، أو يمكنهم اختيار تنزيل بيانات Skype الخاصة بهم والانتقال إلى خدمة أخرى لاستدعاء الفيديو.

https://shashof.com/skype-%d9%8a%d8%ba%d9%84%d9%82-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%8a%d9%88%d9%85-%d9%87%d8%b0%d9%87-%d9%87%d9%8a-%d8%a3%d9%81%d8%b6%d9%84-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a8%d8%af%d8%a7%d8%a6%d9%84/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

#LBLuxBoxWerkbench

FOSSify your home and office outlines are in great shape. Time to remember what conversational tone sounds like.

Going to start actively experimenting with virtual server and hosting basic (email, file transfer, remote desktop session) services. Then some fediverse apps. ( #movim for #xmpp, #mastodon, #friendica)
Remind me to take use-case notes.

#IconAltText: A brown square with subtle brick texture in starkly quartered light

#HeaderAltText: A photograph of a page demonstrating the use of thesaurus, using the entry for Formlessness as an example.

https://lifehacker.com/the-comprehensive-guide-to-quitting-google-1830001964

https://linuxstans.com/linux-phone/

just perusing 🙃

#breakupwithgoogle #decentralize #migration

@chojzina If they're trying to kill you, you're perfectly entitled to fight back.

@raganwald @alec @ai6yr
I had another thing I told the youngsters at work who complained about safety glasses. I would tell them that in 50 years of work in various industries, safety glasses only saved my eyesight once. The smart ones understood immediately.

my meatsuit repairs are going well!

several more weeks and I will likely be back to my baseline of half-functioning.

until then, i will still be on an agressive rest regime to support tissue regen.

remember kids: pace yourself and take care of your bounderies. mediocre friends and deadend jobs are not worth the burnout.

Also, nationalized healthcare is amazingly better than nothing.

@madeindex

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/honeypot

definitions 2 and 4, for the jist.

I am also implying that profiteers and proprietarians will hypercentralize any kind of resource or service to bait and switch regular folx.

I mean to suggest that federalization is a great backbone for cooperative exchange of information and resources.

there is a reference in the tags to comparative studies of resource handling by bonobos and chimpanzees.

I'm an unpaid volunteer who runs five websites and six accounts helping people use Mastodon and the wider Fediverse. I pay their bills every month.

If you want to help these sites & accounts keep going, you can buy me a coffee:

➡️ https://ko-fi.com/fedithing

(No registration, choose any amount, all currencies work.)

Alternatively, become a patron:

➡️ https://liberapay.com/FediThing

All support very greatly appreciated! 🙂

❤️ @FediTips, @FediFollows, @FediVideo, @FediGarden, @homegrown & @PixelfedHelp

p.s. As people ask, the websites I run are:

https://fedi.tips - Tips for using Mastodon & the wider Fediverse

https://fedi.directory - Interesting accounts to follow on here

https://fedi.garden - Nice, well-run Fediverse servers to join or move to

https://fedi.video - Curated selection of the best video accounts on the Fediverse

https://growyourown.services - Encouraging non-technical people & organisations to start their own Fediverse servers & websites

Ladies, no shade, but if he's:
* rock solid
* open for ideas
* always running
* universally respected by many
* known for great things
* intimidating to newcomers
* available 24x7 for you
* pure power to lift heavy loads
* 28+ years old
That's not your man, that's the Linux Operating System.

Some people are simply UNABLE¹ to write #Alt text of their images for various reasons.

Here are some solutions on the #Fediverse:

1. Ask the community for help using #ALT4ME (needs more support)

2. Follow #Alttext bots that generate text for you, but be aware they use electricity & #Google Gemini #AI which may train on images².

✔ @TeLoDescribot
✔ @altbot
✔ @altext
✔ ...

3. For those who are forgetful, there's a reminder #bot that privately notifies you if you forgot: @PleaseCaptionBot

1/2

Just got a new laptop with Windows. The hardest part is getting through the setup so I can install Linux. No, I don't want to log in with my Microsoft account, or set up a pin, or restore my backup from three years ago, but by God, I have to

@kristinHenry Excellent thread!
A couple of years ago someone explained CW usage as "Content Wrapper" and I've passed it on ever since!