Incessant tinkerer since the 70’s. Staunch privacy advocate. SelfHoster. Musician of mediocre talent. https://soundcloud.com/hood-poet-608190196

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Cake day: March 24th, 2025

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  • Man, you guys REALLY do not like AI here. lol Yeah, it’s a novelty for the average consumer. Sure, corporations try to wedge AI into everything, like an AI Rice Cooker. But we have to go there to figure out what it’s core usefulness is. Think of when corps were hit by the trendy cloud thing. They pushed entire operations to the cloud. Then we figured out that what can be run in the cloud, might not ought be in the cloud. So, after a while, we regrouped, and no one even gives ‘the cloud’ much thought anymore…it’s not special or trendy anymore.

    It’s like every trendy technological gizmo that supposed to make your life sooo much easier. These are selling points for people who really don’t understand the real potential, and just want to make faceswaps, and bizarre pictures, or maybe music. I use AI when I’m mastering music tracks because I’m clinically deaf and some frequencies I just can’t hear. Works very well.



  • I use Readeck as well. My only complaint about Readeck is there really is no ‘one click, backup/export’ option. You can, however, download all the zip files it makes along with the db, and transfer it to another server. I know you can import bookmarks from Firefox, and you can export the epub, but you can’t export all of your saves. At least I’ve never found a way beyond just downloading the full db and zips.





  • (mostly illegal sports streaming sites)

    This doesn’t accomplish what the legislature intends. It never does. For instance, in the US, Texas in all their wisdom that can’t keep an electrical grid running smooth without duct tape and bailing wire, has decided to ‘ban’ PornHub. It makes all the christofascist’s dicks hard because in their mind, they have rooted out evil and destroyed it. (See Satanic Panic in the 80s) However, their weak, little minds cannot comprehend the fact that for every technology, there exists an equal, yet undoing technology.

    Do it for the children I hear them say, and I would agree in this example, that children should not be viewing porn. A better solution would be to make parents actually parent. You brought a service into your home that can be both highly detrimental and highly beneficial, and then you turn around give it all, including a cel phone, to a very inquisitive mind uninhibited, unmonitored, and uncontrolled in any manner. You’re the problem, not porn.

    /end soapbox