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A Google Gemini-powered AI agent was given free rein to run a coffee shop in Sweden, and is quickly burning through its budget.

Great success!

Frances switchted to Linux on 2.5 million PCs

A reminder to leave a negative review for the apps that force you to use google play services or completely don’t work on custom android ROM’s.

The investment will be used to strengthen the structural reliability and security of KDE’s core infrastructure, including Plasma, KDE Linux, and the frameworks underlying its communication services.

I set up a Linux pc to replace my smart TV and add some gaming capabilites. It took some time but I learned quite a lot (Thanks to Debian and Arch wikis). And I haven’t missed any TV functionality.

A case study in why credentials are revoked before firings.

YellowKey reportedly works in Windows 11, Windows Server 2022 and 2025, but not in Windows 10.

Linked article about a lawsuit in California. AI was used to transcribe conversations between patients and drs. Audio is sent to the cloud for processing. This is becoming very common in healthcare now. Some sources say 80% of physicians in the US and Canada use these.

A few weeks ago, I found myself in one of the rare situations in which I was mindlessly doom-scrolling on LinkedIn just to exclusively see one post after another that contained no actual information and not a single sentence that would have lacked any more substance if you replaced every noun in it with a different noun. There were thought leaders leading no thoughts, founders founding nothing of actual value, strategists describing strategies that amounted to “be visible” and “ship fast”, and an alarming number of self-described AI experts whose expertise appeared to consist entirely of having a ChatGPT or Claude subscription and the willingness to write about it in seventeen-paragraph posts.

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Current approaches to addressing deceptive design largely focus on visible interface manipulations, commonly referred to as “dark patterns”. With the rise of generative AI, deception is becoming more difficult to spot and easier to live with, as it is quietly embedded in default settings, automated suggestions, and conversational interactions rather than discrete interface elements. These subtle, normalised forms of influence, which Simone Natale frames as “banal deception”, shape everyday digital use and blur the line between AI-enabled assistance and manipulation.

This looks interesting. Not federated or anything, but the general ethos seems in line with the Fediverse.

Apple and Google are gradually expanding their use of hardware-based attestation. They’re convincing a growing number of services to adopt it. Google’s Play Integrity API and Apple’s App Attest API are very similar. Apple brought it to the web via Privacy Pass, which Google intends on doing too.

Crossposted from https://reddthat.com/post/65500442

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Title. I made a space to try and encapsulate all the known Linux Mobile Projects. Ideally this could’ve been a list or directory of sorts, but since I didn’t find one, I kinda just decided to make one. - it’s inspired by postmarketOS’ space.

TLDR: Tesla will have as many robotaxis as Waymo in the year 2111, if the current growth rate holds (and if Waymo doesn't add a single additional vehicle). So... I'm guessing the Tesla stock price will skyrocket.

Cross-posted (hopefully properly) from !selfhosting@slrpnk.net

In addition to making people stupid, I wonder what affect will LLMs like Claude will have on programmers? How will new programmers learn if companies start using Claude?

Internet shutdowns are devastating for human rights. We can’t rely on tech oligarchs to save us, especially when these same companies and governments are the ones to sever our access to the internet and telecommunications. This is why it’s important to set up communication mechanisms before a disaster happens.

Can’t you just disable sleep on close? Fuckin noobs

This one is just so funny haha 🤣 🤣 🤣 “It doesn’t appear to be working too well – a 12yo kid fooled it by using an eyebrow pencil to draw a fake mustache …”

Changes in version 148.0.7778.167.0:

Signal has introduced new in-app confirmations and warning messages as additional safeguards against phishing and social engineering attempts that could lead to various forms of fraud.

I have always been intrigued by ExcaliDraw but it’s a client side thing that don’t store your drawings on the server, don’t support authentication or multi user out of the box.

Hello all!

It is one of the biggest ONYX updates so far.

Means nothing to me since I only use Mastodon, Lemmy and Bluesky (personally) ;)

Peace and data security be upon you all.

Basically, I was super tired getting home from an event last night and didn’t even notice the water hadn’t stopped flowing normally. It’s quiet so I don’t normally hear it.

Over the past two years or so, we’ve managed to cut our serving costs 5x, from ~$0.15 per active user per month to ~$0.03.

“My personal conclusion can however not end up with anything else than that the big hype around this model so far was primarily marketing,” Stenberg said in the blog post. “I see no evidence that this setup finds issues to any particular higher or more advanced degree than the other tools have done before Mythos.”

Use of AI tools for research and reverse engineering purposes is permitted. However, contributors are expected to fully own and understand all code they submit. Any communication with the team — including code, code comments, and GitHub comments — must come from the human contributor, not an AI agent acting autonomously.

A recently discovered bug in Android 16 allows any app to leak traffic outside the VPN tunnel.

I wanted to move away from Tailscale but found Headscale a bit too convoluted for what I actually needed.

Benchmark.