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@stux@mstdn.social I use a Pi-Hole to block all the ads at home. It even blocks all the interstitial ads in games which is nice.
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Alex Hyett
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I am software developer who also makes educational tech videos on PeerTube/YouTube. I'm also a husband, father, geek, gamer and part time guitarist.
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@Lana@beige.party love this. This would have been a much more appropriate “periodic table” poster to have on my wall when I was at uni 😂🙈
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@cthos@mastodon.cthos.dev @zachleat@fediverse.zachleat.com I am sure they have added "Strawberry has 3 R's" into the system prompt along with this recent addition: “never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant to the user’s query.”
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@grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place I am sure that Zuck read/watched “Ready Player One” but only got to the point where they were filling everything with ads and stopped there and thought “I am going to do that”!
My wife wanted a simple habit tracker but all the options on the AppStore seemed to require a monthly or yearly subscription 🤮 (#enshittificaton at work). So naturally I did what any sane developer would do and built one myself. We have been using it with TestFlight for the past year but I have finally got around to releasing it. All data is stored locally, no tracking and no subscriptions.
It even has a cute bear logo that my wife designed.
https://habitted.app/
#habit #privacy #localfirst #iphone #app #appstore
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@mschlein @RadicalSocialWorker The art of stopping the recording just before the song finished and the radio host started talking.
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@fabienmarry this is good. On a serious note, abandoning tech and living in the woods sounds pretty good right now!
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@Haste this is definitely going to be an issue. There is already a taste of what’s to come from all the recent outages of Big Tech. It is only a matter of time for this to make it into more critical software.
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@Haste yes true. At least medical equipment has a lot of regulations so hopefully won’t be affected. Everything else though I can see becoming more buggy.
I couldn’t agree more with @mre@mastodon.social, everyone should have a blog. When I was at school (late 1900s😉) all my friends had a website and it was fun reading people’s posts and seeing what they shared. I miss those days.
https://endler.dev/2026/personal-blog/
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@bagder I have moved all my private projects to a locally hosted forgejo instance now. GitHub is just a shitshow now!
New newsletter issue: "GitHub is dead, What’s next?"
https://www.alexhyett.com/newsletter/github-is-dead-whats-next/
#github #git #selfhosting
#TIL that the 80s My Little Pony was made by Marvel!
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@plausible@fosstodon.org this is definitely the way to go. Growth at all costs only leads to layoffs in the future.
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@trebach@functional.cafe @stux@mstdn.social I have invidious set up on my home server for that with a shortcut on my phone to open a shared YouTube video up in Invidious. Not ideal but works well enough for me.
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@trebach@functional.cafe @f4grx@chaos.social @stux@mstdn.social ah yes. It’s useless if you watch on the TV for example. It’s a shame there is no way to isolate them.
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@pheonix@hachyderm.io how is the government ever going to protect the children if it can’t read all of your messages easily.
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@acallegaro@mas.to I use a self hosted miniflux with Reeder on Mac and iOS. Works quite well for me.
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@404mediaco@mastodon.social to be fair, with the current crop of politians that’s not difficult!
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@cwebber@social.coop I definitely have this like/hate relationship with AI. I feel like there are so many genuinely useful things that could be done with AI and machine learning. Things like early cancer diagnosis and accessibility tools. I must admit AI has helped me with coding when I have got stuck too. It is just a shame all the focus is on replacing human creativity. I am sure 90% of the useful use cases could also be done with small on device models that don’t wreck the environment.