cross-posted from: lemmy.today/post/60474001

my family has meta quests

they like supernatural and an app the puts images on walls i dont know the apps name

do you have recommendations for vr headsets that are private but convient for normal people?

Full title: EU’s new social media child protection rules to require all social media accounts to produce state ID - Leaked documents suggest that some existing accounts will also be subject to identification checks

Today’s game is Assassin’s Creed Liberation. I finished Assassin’s Creed 3 today along with all the DLCs. My child hood self feels a sense of pride at that I suppose. It’s like this big beast I thought unslayable had been taken down.

As for Liberation, I’m fucking loving this. It shows that it’s a PS Vita game in some areas but besides that it’s really good.

I especially love the Persona System. It really contributes to the social stealth in a way I love and I wish we had gotten more. I love having specific outfits that work in specific niches. It almost reminds me of the first game and how you had to stalk enemies for information on the target. I do wish it had been used in that way more here though. It feels like the pieces are there but the final concept isn’t.

I’d love to be able to scout out a target ahead of time in one persons and then break in as another and finish the job. Granted, maybe there’s some technical limitations I’m missing here.

I got as far as Sequence 2 before stopping. I want to go back for more tomorrow so I hope I will. I’m also digging the Animus theme here. It reminds me of like a PowerPoint theme from the 2010s I remember vividly growing up.

Old (like 1800’s old) black and white picture of a scruffy cat sitting on a short stool with a conical hat on it’s head with DUNCE written on it. The title in the top left reads “THE STOOL OF REPENTANCE”

he’s suuuuch a cutie - just - god. he’s so good and nice and never actively lies. worse case is he lies because he literally forgot. such a honest lil man.

i’m FINALLY COUGHT UP with all the posts!!! doesn’t mean i’m done making them, but i’m finally back to being on track. so when tomorrows post will be number 70, it’ll actually be the 70th day of me making daily posts. that is good.

oh yea, this is totally not a political statement, i’d just really like this guy cuz he always seemed so honest. he’d slip on stuff sometimes but… how could you get mad at this shy llittle wittle guy??? impossible.

i wish you a wonderful day in which things turn to the better for you <3

rule

this is my cat

Still saving for a Switch 2

I had an old Google Pixel 3a XL sitting around and decided to see if it could handle running as a fully offline, self-contained web server.

I flashed postmarketOS 26.06 (headless Alpine Linux base) to it and set up a portable media node that broadcasts its own Wi-Fi AP, serves static pages, and streams video over a captive portal - no cell data or upstream internet needed.

Quick Hardware/Tech Stack Breakdown:

• Device: Google Pixel 3a XL (2019)
• OS: postmarketOS 26.06 (CLI base with OpenRC)
• Networking/AP: hostapd for the AP, dnsmasq for DHCP & wildcard DNS routing
• Firewall: nftables redirecting port 80 requests to trigger the captive portal popup automatically
• Web Server: Lighttpd handling HTTP requests and MP4 video range requests

Performance & Power Draw: Under a test load streaming 720p video to 4 concurrent devices, total CPU usage averaged around 5% (load avg 0.51). Power draw stayed around ~2.4W off the internal battery, with temps holding steady at 54°C.

Why build this? Mainly as an offline entertainment and information node. I run a non-profit foundation providing SCUBA training to young survivors of childhood abuse, and having a tiny, battery-powered web node lets us provide offline information and videos to people while traveling. I will also be able to use it to provide training videos if I am teaching in a location that does not have internet access available.

I wrote up a complete overview covering the setup, and performance metrics if anyone wants to replicate it or build something similar. Over the coming weeks I will be posting configs and some other information to Github with a link from my site.

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Happy to answer any questions about postmarketOS setup or the networking config!

lmao

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The latest versions of Common Voice datasets, Scripted Speech v27.0 and Spontaneous Speech v5.0, are available for download on the Mozilla Data Collective! A giant thank you to all of our contributors for their hard work putting together these datasets.

What’s new in this release:

Version 27.0 of Scripted Speech includes datasets for 295 languages. These datasets contain 32,349,999 voice clips, making approximately 42,593 hours of speech data available for developing and improving speech technology.
Version 5.0 of Spontaneous Speech includes datasets in 80 languages. These datasets contain 89,754 voice clips of free-form answers to questions, of which 302 hours have been transcribed and validated.

Since the last release, the Common Voice community has welcomed 1 language to Scripted Speech - Pa’O (blk) - and 6 languages to Spontaneous Speech - Chinese (China, zh-CN), Swahili (sw), Palauan (pau), Sundanese (su), Bengali (bn) and Shan (shn).

I’m not excited about how meandering that hed is, but it sets the mood for a very long piece.

In September 2024, an entrepreneur named Justin Brown uploaded a YouTube video in which he argued that writers should be “scared right now” about the rise of AI.

“I think that one of the big dangers is that AI is going to take many people’s jobs,” Brown muses to the camera as he hikes through a national park in Australia. “This includes writers, by the way.”

What Justin didn’t mention in the video is that, along with his brothers Lachlan Brown and Brendan Brown, he runs a company called Brown Brothers Media — which, former insiders assure us, had just months earlier fired a stunning proportion of its own writers as it embraced generative AI.

Over the past few years, BBM has pioneered a remarkably cynical business model. First it buys online publications that have established themselves as offering a distinctive type of journalism, like coverage of space travel, parenting advice, or business news. Then it floods their websites with dizzying torrents of AI-generated content — many thousands of articles per month, by our count — in a bid to soak up as many readers as possible via Google and other platforms.

There are signs that this strategy has been extraordinarily successful, with BBM boasting in 2025 that its network of sites had surpassed 50 million page views per month. It’s difficult to verify a site’s traffic without access to its internal data, but the analytics service Similarweb corroborates the claim that BBM is pulling in vast audiences, estimating that over the past year its network of publications has attracted an average of 64.7 million visitors per month. According to a recent ranking, that would make it one of the 30 most trafficked English-language media enterprises on the web, with a total digital readership substantially higher than that of NPR, narrowly besting CBS News and Forbes, and just slightly behind the Washington Post.

cross-posted from: quokk.au/c/transmemes/p/1187083/do-it-now

Do It Now

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1417255/young-users-ditch-google-for-ai-with-unknown-consequences

I am in the hunt right now for a domain (I plan to use for email and such, meaning, things that would be tied to my legal person). As some of you know, by law in many places it is required to have a set of legally true information to register a domain (from name to house address, in case the domain needs to be verified to belong to a real person).

I was checking porkbun a second ago, and the privacy policy really does not give me confidence (they mention very clearly there is sale and ai training involved). I am from Europe so I would expect gdpr to be respected by default, however, they say I would have to send an email to get my rights and identify myself (I expect an Id upload which is not really a thing I want to do).

Considering all this, what are the better places for domains? I expect to pay more than porkbun, but if it people that do it right, so be it.

cross-posted from: lemmy.today/post/60474001

Youjo Senki II, episode 12

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The inspiration for the image.

100% OC. No AI. About two hours worth of crap Photoshop skills. I did have to upscale the image in order to make it printable on a t-shirt.

NoteTrace is a self-hosted alternative to Google Keep, Evernote and Apple Notes: notes, checklists and reminders in a card grid, on your own server. AGPL-3.0, a single Docker container, a web app that works offline, a native Android app, and a Wear OS app. No telemetry, no cloud. This is the first stable release.

Part of the TraceApps family: NutriTrace (nutrition), CookTrace (recipes / pantry / shopping), LiftTrace (strength / lifting).

What it does

• Notes and checklists. Pins, colors, nested labels, archive, trash, version history, and full-text search that also finds words in voice transcripts and in photos.
• Reminders and Tasks. Repeating reminders that keep their local time, exact alarms on Android, and one view of everything that’s due.
• Offline everywhere. The installed web app keeps editing with no connection and syncs later; Android and the watch work offline too.
• Wear OS. Tick off lists, read notes, see what’s due, and speak a note (“call the plumber tomorrow at nine” sets the reminder), with a tile and a watch face complication.
• Voice notes and drawings. Record with the screen off and get a transcript you can tap to jump to.
• Bring your notes with you. Import from Google Keep, Evernote, Memos, Blinko and Markdown vaults; export everything as Markdown with images.
• Optional AI. Tidy up, summarise, or turn a note into a checklist, with the provider of your choice. Off unless you set it up.

Links

• Repo: github.com/TraceApps/notetrace
• Docs: traceapps.github.io/docs/notetrace/
• Release notes + signed APKs (phone and watch): github.com/TraceApps/notetrace/releases/…/v1.0.0
• Docker: ghcr.io/traceapps/notetrace:latest (mirror: traceapps/notetrace:latest)

AI Disclosure

Per Rule 7 / [AIP] disclosure requirements AI was used during development as a coding assistant. Level per category:

• Design (architecture, system design): Hint: I make the architectural calls; AI suggests trade-offs and edge cases I might have missed.
• Implementation (production code): Pair: roughly 50/50. AI drafts, I review, adjust, test on real hardware, and only commit what I’ve verified. Every commit is manually reviewed before it goes to my dev repo.
• Testing (writing tests, test plans, QA): Assisted: real-device testing is manual (I test on my own PC and mobile devices before every release). AI helps draft test plans and think through edge cases.
• Documentation (docs, comments, README, CHANGELOG): Pair: release notes and changelog entries are drafted with AI then edited for tone; comments and code docs are mostly Pair as well.
• Review (code review, PR feedback): Assisted: I’m the reviewer; AI helps with security sweeps, audit passes on complex changes, and consistency checks.
• Deployment (CI/CD config): Hint: Docker/GitHub Actions/release pipeline is largely conventional; AI-suggested improvements only.

“AI isn’t capable of taking any jobs away.”

cross-posted from: poptalk.scrubbles.tech/post/4812656

Halo is officially dead. It’s been dying for a while, this seals it.

For long time halo fans in the aughts, this is literally the last thing any of us ever wanted. Halo was always a completely different game than Call of Duty, but business never understood that and so today officially marks the end, where the Halo we knew is gone, and anything new will be a CoD clone more than anything else.

Colleges have never needed “AI” to edit their photos. Don’t feed the grift.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1416549/millions-spent-few-served-talkspace-pledged-to-expand-young-peoples-access-to-therapy-co

Meta’s new personal artificial intelligence agent now sits atop Apple’s App Store, ahead of No. 2 ChatGPT, as more consumers put their faith in AI to save them time and money — existential AI fears be damned.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1419779/un-panel-calls-for-stronger-safeguards-as-ai-agents-advance

@madthumbs@lemmy.world posting banger memes over in !linuxsucks@lemmy.world again.

cross-posted from: lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/46344343

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