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• YouTube’s AI slop detector incorrectly targets Kurzgesagt as other creators fear same fate - Dexerto

  YouTube’s system for suppressing low-quality AI content mistakenly targeted Kurzgesagt, leaving the channel with its worst-performing upload since 2013.

• Flock Is Losing Dozens of Contracts as Controversy Grows

  One of the articles: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/technology/4672621/flock-controversial-camera-contracts-canceled-23-states/

• A visual guide showing how to install GoToSocial via YunoHost

  A step-by-step visual tutorial for newbies about installing and setting up the federated microblogging service GoToSocial

• The Day WhatsApp Goes Dark

  A thought experiment in what we built without noticing.

• Thieves Are Now Targeting AI Data Center Construction Sites for Copper and Expensive Equipment

  Investigators recovered two stolen trailers carrying $1.3 million in data center supplies, including copper wire and infrastructure equipment.

• W Social: a Broken Ghost Town?

  W Social has been experiencing major technical problems for over a week: it is effectively a ghost town, filled with thousands of new accounts that cannot use the platform.

• Limited Run's Co-Founder Once Had Aspirations To Make A "Physically-Focused Platform"

  “I never made much progress on this idea” - It’s looking increasingly likely that the future of console gaming is going to be digital-only, as Sony has just …

• Fresno County to study privatizing its libraries

  Fresno (the city) is talking about potentially making their own branch of public libraries in response. This is the biggest library system in my local area and will heavily affect my community in a VERY bad way.

• W Social, Fictional Metrics and the Beauty of Open Data

  W Social’s tagline is “Trust Your Feed” but the company’s landing page displays inflated engagement metrics - a misrepresentation that contradicts its own promise.

• Microsoft's new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly on Windows

  New Outlook takes 10 seconds to show an email after clicking a Windows 11 notification. Outlook Classic does it instantly.

• Post #2773419

  nice stickers! I have a couple on my laptop too.

• Data centers are creating ‘heat islands’ and warming the land around them by up to 16 degrees | CNN

  The vast data centers that power artificial intelligence are so energy hungry that they’re heating up their surroundings, according to new research. It’s an alarming finding given the number of data centers is predicted to explode over the next few years.

• Now witness the power of this fully operational Fediverse!

  How can you measure the popularity of a social network site? Perhaps by counting the number of active accounts, or the quality of the discourse, or even how many people reply to your witty memes. Me? I prefer to look at how many people visit my blog from each site. It is an imperfect measure - and a vain one - but lets me know where I should be spending my time. No point posting on a network…

• W Social uncovered: the reality behind the hype

  An article dispelling myths about W Social, the new European platform that aims to rival X: it is a fork of Bluesky that shares many similarities with Eurosky and requires government ID to sign up.

• What are your BEST tech purchases?

  What has brought you joy? Companion to the last question :)

• I Do Not Recommend Bitwarden

  A review of my experience with Bitwarden after several years of self-hosting it, and why I decided to move away from the password manager. Note: this is not my article.

• Now witness the power of this fully operational Fediverse!

  How can you measure the popularity of a social network site? Perhaps by counting the number of active accounts, or the quality of the discourse, or even how many people reply to your witty memes. Me? I prefer to look at how many people visit my blog from each site. It is an imperfect measure - and a vain one - but lets me know where I should be spending my time. No point posting on a network…

• Nextcloud stops bug bounty program due to increase of low-effort AI-generated reports

  Nextcloud has joined a growing list of projects, including Curl, that have ended their bug‑bounty partnerships with HackerOne due to an unmanageable surge of low‑effort, AI‑generated security reports. I received the fol…

• post-American, enshittification-resistant internet

  In december 2025, the author and activist Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr did a speech at the 39C3 called “post-American, enshittification-resistant internet” He talks about AI, internet enshitification, anti-circumvention law. guilotine few technofascists…but he also talks about alliance and hope ! ✊ Here is the transcript : https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/#the-new-coalition You can watch other of video from the chaos congress communication event here : https://media.ccc....

• Meshcore.io - Why The Split? - MeshCore Blog

  Migrating to the new meshcore.io site

• GitHub Reports DMCA Takedown Record and Surging Anti-Circumvention Claims * TorrentFreak

• U.S. Lawmakers Work on Unified Site-Blocking Bill to Counter Online Piracy * TorrentFreak

  Last week’s Supreme Court decision in Cox Communications reshaped the piracy liability landscape, creating new urgency for site-blocking.

• Post #1009502

  I like ising rss for a couple of comunities. It works well on smaller ones.

• Iran Strikes Leave Amazon Availability Zones "Hard Down" in Bahrain and Dubai

  Comments

• Tesla Is Sitting on a Record 50k Unsold EVs

• A newbie's guide to self-hosting with YunoHost. Part 5: Upgrades & Maintenance - elenarossini

  A post that explains how to keep a YunoHost server running healthily with system updates and how to run application updates (and revert back to a snapshot if things go awry).

• Post #383330

• Post #382652

  Meta has been granted a patent outlining an AI system capable of simulating a user’s activity on social media to post after their death. Some fucked up shit.

• Post #240686

  ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn’t built to work like that—and only got approved after DHS abandoned its own privacy rules.

• Post #238124