Drunemeton

Vans don’t have trunks asshole!

(A paraphrasing of “Castles don’t have phones asshole!” from The Rocky Horror Picture Show …)

Trunk-or-Treating!

FTFA: “Launched federation for self-hosters and developers. Now there are over 1,000 other personal data servers (PDS) outside of Bluesky.”

Sorry you unknowingly took a stress bullet for the team! However I really appreciate the heads up.

One thing I am always aware of are apps that want permission to access Bluetooth and/or Wi-Fi and/or Networks.

Even though Bluetooth is very short ranged it can still be used to tie you into a location within a database based on other database records that are more detailed.

Yeah, I love playing you “My Great Dog-sitting Simulator” (not a real app) but you do not need access to my BT. The OS handles sending your audio to my headphones!

Well bsky.app has added almost a million users in 1 day! They actually call these events “EMEs” (Elon Musk Events).

It’s a great site, that I highly recommend you check out.

Very true! I recognized one name in your post. The rest sound too much like dwarves from Tolkien.

And “1984” was a warning, not a “How To”…

Yeah…

Hey! Perhaps they’ll use A.I. to weed out the A.I. generated bits.

I think that’s the “25-times faster” bit. They seem to be in a hurry to collect as much human-generated data as possible.

Ah, the ol’ “Brute Force” hack.

Is that Ed!? Holy shite he’s really changed his look!

Okay. So how do we turn it off!? I’ve read nothing in my Samsung manuals about this “feature” and here no instructions for turning it off.

I wholeheartedly agree!

I guess they just don’t have any other curated content to fill that space… /s

I’m not a fan either, but according to Apple their main News posts are “curated” by staffers.

Therefore it’s not an algorithm that can filter out certain topics and sites per your preferences. If they decide a post is newsworthy in the main area, and it just happens to be from a blocked site, you see that.

You like NFT, yeah?

The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself. — Carl Sagan

I’ve licked the frog twice! How many does it take?

I wish more people would realize this! We’re years away from a truly reasoning computer.

Right now it’s all mimicry. Mimicry that hallucinates no less…