I would still be using Windows 7 if it was safe to connect to the internet.

I can’t believe government systems are just open to cyber security like that.

Are there not cyber terrorists for some teenager that has tried to do anything with these unsecured systems?

Yeah no shit. Then the new ones literally have less features than the old one. Like connecting SharePoint calendars

Step 1: put in touchscreens Step 2: touchscreens good because = smart Step 3: … Step 4: Profit?

Who knew you could just gaslight our AI overlords?

This is Not the Onion territory.

If only we had regulations…

If we had actual regulation here this would be illegal for distracting driving.

Illegal to look at phone (I know everyone does it and isn’t enforced, but still illegal on paper) but not illegal to watch this short message from our sponsors?

I hate living through a bad joke. Much rather read about this shit and laugh then wondering what the next stupid thing is.

I just don’t get why they haven’t put AI in the already established ‘assistants’ yet.

Why isn’t siri or google home not integrated? Why make new things instead of improving the tech you already have?

If I had to guess, its either because of branding, or because they know it doesn’t work that well yet. Probably both.

Good article, does bring up concerns. But I don’t like this argument.

Though this content could flourish in pockets of the fediverse, the scary scenario of prevalent child sexual abuse material is not the case.

It assumes that non-fediverse sites don’t have this problem. But the few articles I read about this news, Facebook is usually the way they share this disgusting content. So while yes we need to do something to stop it, it is not like traditional social media has solved it either.

Why… the two chess websites? That seems really random. I know chess has boomed within the past 5 years, but really? Both of them?

AI is useless for most people because it does not solve any problems for day to day people. The most common use is to make their emails sound less angry and frustrated.

AI is useful for tech people, makes reading documentation or learning anything new a million times better. And when the AI does get something wrong, you’ll know eventually because what you learned from the AI won’t work in real life, which is part of the normal learning process anyways.

It is great as a custom tutor, but other than that it really doesn’t make anything of substance by itself.

Interesting, never thought about using python as an excel replacement. Definitely wouldn’t work in my current work setting. But I just started taking a python class and I’ll have to keep this in mind.

No real info, so I am not hopeful and cynical.

My guess the new superpower is AI stuff or a shop to give them money for the memes.

Hello, I am also new at self hosting semi recently. There is a bit of a learning curve, but once your over the hump, it gets a lot better.

First, 100% use docker desktop if your using windows. Most github projects have a docker file you can use. This will take out 90% of the setup required and you don’t have to worry about applications not working on your computer. Thats the point of docker, to remove the “doesn’t work on my computer” problem.

Here are some independent github projects that I found useful for me and were simple to setup.

• excalidraw - digital whiteboard. You don’t need to self host this, but its a fun little project. You can just go to excalidraw.com and have 100% of the same features (it is all saved in your browser’s cache).
• mealie - I cook a lot so this is a nice ‘permanent’ cook book to have.
• warracker - I always forget what I have warranties on, so this will be helpful for me.
• Arr projects like sonarr, radarr, Jellyfin - sonarr and radarr is a good project to sink your teeth into (do not recommend using docker for this, I had issues with my docker container connecting to my external drives because I have Windows Home edition). This ecosystem is usually everyone’s first project along with pihole since its so useful. Sonarr and radarr will probably take you a week or weekend, Jellyfin will take like 5 min.

Reddit told me Anonymous is taking credit for it. Wonder if it is true or not. Either way, I do hope this is an attack on him.

https://lemmy.world/comment/15587446

I used https://kiwix.org/en/ to download wikipedia originally.

Then I saw in the desktop app that you can download a lot more “wikis” other than wikipedia. This is their library. https://library.kiwix.org/#lang=eng

https://library.kiwix.org/viewer#ifixit_en_all_2024-12/home/home

It includes computers, phones, game consoles, appliances, vehicles, tools, even medical devices and apparel.

Okay this is so fucking cool.

I heard that anonymous is taking credit for the ddos attack today.

If so, fucking finally!

I always had issues with chromecast. And I haven’t used one in 5+ years. I assumed they were better by now?

ifixit is such a wonderful company. I downloaded all their repair manuals so I should be able to repair ‘anything’. And it does seem to be everything.

I love that they are still adding more resources for the general public. An actual ethical company imo. But please let me know if there is some controversy I am not aware of.