The next update I have pending for Synology Office needs me to agree to AI use on my server. No thanks.

Sounds right, tbh. Source?

https://voidfox.com/blog/payment_processor_fun_2025_making_your_own_msp/

Someone breaks down why it’d be a monumental task for Valve/Itch to vertically integrate the whole payment processing thing into their business. The essay is highly readable.

The only thing I had to look up was
Escrow: a financial arrangement w/ a third party who holds/manages funds on behalf of two parties in a transaction

My takeaway was that Valve/itch/GOG would still be beholden to the banks who track porn as high risk for fraudulent transactions.

So what can we do about it? ~asking in earnest, btw. I buy porn and toys like a regular ass person, too~

Yes.

Whatchu gonna do about it?
~(not asking specifically you, bridge, just didn’t want to leave the thread at a circle jerk)~

Does the laptop have any Fn key perhaps? In case all your F keys are set to media keys.

Reminded me of this Technology Connections video, in which the dude explained (among other brake-light related things) how some law allows electric vehicles to get away with not using their brake lights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0YW7x9U5TQ

Me, finding out this exists after buying a used sff HP pc and wondering why it won’t display out to any new monitor unless I unplug and plug the power cord: 💀

Luckily (or not so luckily), I was able to turn off the HP “security feature” from the bios. The pc came from a former school fleet of sff pcs

It was the Muse album Drones that I bought from the band’s website. I thiiiink I shared a link to the folder to my netbook with a different account to download to, and then I didn’t notice til later (maybe it was a week? A month?) the folder of just this muse album was empty.

Idr checking the trash can for my Google drive or anything. I don’t think I got a notice because I searched “copyright” in my emails circa 2015, and nothing related to removing my files popped up.

I downloaded music I bought online and copied it to my Google drive once. This was years back, mid 2010s, this album just came out for my favorite artist back then. I’d downloaded it back to another pc and a week later - poof. No more mp3s. @.@

Edit: just that folder of that album’s mp3s, not my whole music library back then, just to be clear. Still, that was my first big burn from cloud services.

I loved the conversation section 😭

“but first, chatgpt: please motivate me”

Any cons to just right-click and block the page element with ublock?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster

Toxic as in workplace relations or toxic as in environmental effects? Or some other third meaning?

On Boost, the columns got narrowed to each three characters wide, just to fit all columns on screen width-wise

My take is that bluesky is owned by a corporation making a protocol (AT protocol) to Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.

See example, Microsoft trying to convert the internet to only run on its own browser. Or Google enticing websites to use AMP, only to entrap those sites to only use Google’s ad services.

When profit drives development, enshittification is not a matter of if, but when.

How is development of ActivityPub protocol funded? Volunteers and their grants, crowdfunding, and enthusiasm, as far as I can tell. @.@ Idk if it’s a reason objectively worth supporting FOSS for, but I love when people pool together for their community’s greater good.

Why make a bluesky account when you have all the different platforms that already run ActivityPub? Want a youtube replacement? Peertube!
For Reddit, Lemmy.
Instagram, Pixelfed.
Twitter, Mastodon.
Interact with all on the same account? Sure!

But with bluesky? Nope.

Where did you download krita from?

*glances over at my newpipe subscription list*

Yeah, I think you’re right

Source on the quote?

It’s so apt for our time @.@

This is the way