direct, non-AMP link https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjr431lr72jo

tablets (especially ones that could be flashed with Linux, i.e. not iPads) are way less common than smartphones, so you get fewer devices to choose from for testing, fewer users who can run it, report bugs, and support the project, and less interest in general.

“oh neat, the scorpion is paying me to carry it through the river!”

the creator delayed the launch because he had to write the legalese for the service, and on top of that I think he’s waiting for the app stores to approve the app (the service isn’t available through a browser).

he mentioned in the past that the videos will be automatically deleted after some period of time, so that should make the storage situation a little bit more manageable.

At what price point would this device be useful?

given that it’s horribly bad at what it claims to do and was a fire risk? not even a zero point.

Tuta.

I remember reading about Samsung TVs looking for unprotected WiFi networks, so even if you don’t give it your network details, it’ll connect to your neighbour’s if it’s not password-protected.

Windows games on Linux software and Apple hardware. what a time to be alive!

it’s the opposite, actually: she got harassed because she didn’t talk about it when talking about creating a bootable drive.

Discourse has got an ActivityPub plugin, but the forum owner needs to explicitly add it to their forum.

they said, linking to an LLM-generated song

the fate worse than quenching.

and now I’m imagining Siri speaking in a very high-pitched voice.

I͖ͭ̍̀̏͂̋̏͛ ͕͚̱̗̭͗͗͑ͥͨ̆ͥ͊ͅm̤̻͕̪̥͓͍̿̑̚a̜̝͖̯̰̦͐ͭ̄͋c̠̹̱̱̖ͦ̿̋͗̎l̝̭͚͇̎ͧe͙͕͂͆ ̳̩̦͙̯̮̙t̘̯̯ͣͧ̍ȉ̩̜́̏̂ͯ̉͑̄s̪͖̎ͬ̐͆

Startpage and DuckDuckGo, but you might want to disable summaries in the latter’s settings.

so, no summary at all, or one that does shit job pointing out important bits or gets them wrong and therefore isn’t a proper summary? choices, choices.

It’s not terrible

it sucks at summarising information, though https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/09/03/ai-worse-summarising-information-humans-government-trial/

https://moist.catsweat.com/faq

are they federated with each other?

no. there’s a sort of a third party bridge, but it requires an account on one platform to follow a bot in order to show up on another, so if someone on Bluesky doesn’t explicitly do it and you’re using Mastodon, then you’re not going to connect.

careful, you’re about to get whatabouted to death