Aug 26 (Reuters) - Tim Curry, the baritone-voiced British actor who pranced to movie fame as a singing, lingerie-clad “sweet transvestite” in the 1975 cult classic “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” has died at the age of 80, Variety and other outlets reported.

A cause of death was not immediately given, but Curry had been in ill health for some time.

Curry appeared in numerous movies, often as a hammy villain, was nominated three times for a Tony Award for Broadway roles, and performed voice work in many animated films and TV shows.

But his best-known role was Dr. Frank N. Furter, which came in his debut film, the outrageous, crowd-pleasing horror-comedy-musical “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” co-starring Susan Sarandon and Barry Bostwick.

In the book “The Rulers: Corporate Power in the Age of AI and the Cloud,” writer Cecilia Rikap examines how India, Brazil and China are taking on Big Tech companies.

Edit: forgot to mention that I’m based in Europe, which might be relevant for which devices are easily available.

Hi, I am a newbie looking for a new router, one where I can block ads and tracking (with AdGuard, PiHole or something similar), I can choose my own DNS, and hopefully tinker more once I learn more about routers and networks. I have a home server currently running only locally and would like to access it from outside my home, but I’m afraid of letting the door open to bots, hackers, etc.
I am currently using the router provided by my ISP, which has poor customization options and is also failing a lot lately (it loses internet connection at least once a week and needs restarting).

I have searched a bit around and I think something where I can install OpenWRT or other open source firmware would be good. On the OpenWRT forum I have seen recommended the GL·INet Flint 2 GL-MT6000 openwrt.org/toh/gl.inet/gl-mt6000. I also looked a bit more on GL·INet’s website and saw the GL·INet 3e (GL-BE6500) which has WiFi 7, and wondered if that could be a good upgrade, but seems it doesn’t support (yet) installing official OpenWRT.

As for me and my use case: I am comfortable with the Linux command line, my personal computer runs Linux and I have a home server running OpenMediaVault with a couple of services on Docker (Jellyfin, Navidrome, Radicale, Trilium, Calibre-Web, Wanderer), but I barely know anything about routers and networks. The router will serve to connect that server via Ethernet and use several devices (laptops, desktop PC, phones, tablets, AndroidTV…) via WiFi.

I wonder what the thoughts of people who know about routers and networks are.

• Are these good options for a first non-ISP router?
• Is the 3e (GL-BE6500) worth the update for WiFi 7 or is it overkill for my use-case? Maybe even a bad idea if it doesn’t support the official OpenWRT?
• Anything else I missed and should take into account?

In addition to the physical router recommendation, I have 2 more questions:

• from what I have read in other threads I believe I might need to keep my ISP’s router, or get another device to use as a modem before the router (I don’t know how to do that). Is that correct or can I just replace my ISP’s router with a router running OpenWRT (or similar) and be set?

• does anyone have any good resources to learn more about networks, modems, routers, etc.? for a newbie who is comfortable with the Linux command line but otherwise knows nothing about the topic.

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/51140134

My take from this Cybernews article about an Android toolkit to trick KYC verification significantly differs from theirs!

Them: “…the existence of such tools puts users and organizations at imminent risk.” “Not a tool for the masses”

Me: “Where can I find this amazing Privacy tool?” “A tool the masses everywhere need access to ASAP”

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/51140134

My take from this Cybernews article about an Android toolkit to trick KYC verification significantly differs from theirs!

Them: “…the existence of such tools puts users and organizations at imminent risk.” “Not a tool for the masses”

Me: “Where can I find this amazing Privacy tool?” “A tool the masses everywhere need access to ASAP”

Mozilla recently announced a partnership with the AI company Exa. They say:

Firefox is investing in partnerships with companies like Exa.ai to bring deep expertise in specific areas while sharing our commitment to user choice, privacy, and transparency.

They continue:

We’re picking partners for the same reason each time: people who think AI in a browser should work for you, not the other way around.

This is a little ironic when Exa’s CEO describes it differently:

We’re organizing the world’s knowledge, but this time for AI

…But I digress. Mozilla promises three things above.

1. User choice
2. Privacy
3. Transparency

I’ll be looking into privacy exclusively (and leave the fact Exa is an undisclosed member of the Andreesen Horowitz portfolio for another day).

A Privacy Audit

Exa’s privacy policy is short and troubling. It starts with an entitled attitude towards private data that might be available online:

Although publicly available data is not considered “personal information” under certain data privacy laws, we have nevertheless described how we collect, use and disclose such information…

This is an appeal to technical legality: common sense would dictate that a publicly leaked database of social security numbers would be personal information, but apparently the possibility that it’s not explicitly enumerated under some (unnamed) privacy laws irks the AI company.

Not a great start, but maybe things get better…

When you use or access the Services, we collect certain categories of information about you from different sources. In addition to the specific uses discussed below, we may use this information to provide and improve the Services and to maintain our business relationship… and protecting our rights and the rights of our employees, users or other individuals.

What other individuals need this company’a protection? How will information be used to “improve” their product? These questions are unanswered. But we do get told a bit more about sources:

We and third parties also automatically collect certain information about your interactions with the Services, including through cookies, pixels or other tracking technologies. This information is collected and used to better understand user interactions with the Services, run analytics, monitor and improve performance, measure engagement and to tailor and enhance user experience. Such information includes:

• Device information, such as device type, operating system, unique device identifier, and internet protocol (IP) address.

• Location information, such as approximate location based on IP address.

• Other information regarding your interaction with the Services, such as browser type, log data, date and time stamps, clickstream data (e.g., page requests, page views, how much time is spent on a page, content viewed or interacted with, text entered, etc.), interactions with marketing emails

That’s a ton of data!

Exa describes how they refuse to honor requests not to track you.

Your browser settings may allow you to transmit a “Do Not Track” signal when you visit various websites. Like many websites, our website is not designed to respond to “Do Not Track” signals received from browsers.

Exa admits they knowingly collect personal data by default, and it’s unclear how or if Firefox Smart Window uses can steer clear of the privacy problems.

On default plans, we use anonymized data…

[You can] opt out of Exa’s collection of brokered personal information, opt out of its database, or out of its certain sale of data customers…

Opt out of certain, but not all, sales.

Exa has a second privacy page that describes its compliance with requests to delete private data or opt out of selling it. It received 50 total requests to delete or opt out of selling private data, and “complied”, which can include incomplete compliance for some reason, with only 5 of them. That’s a 10% compliance rate.

[new] Exa monetized “finding” individual people

I just found out about another skeleton in Exa’s closet: the stalkerish People Search that scraped and started publicizing work information. From a LinkedIn post:

I can pull entire staff lists for companies. I can [get] an individual’s work history. I can pull lists of people with a particular job title in a geographical area. I can also combine all this with richer company information and web search data…

Exa are very brave as I can’t imagine LinkedIn likes it very much.

Does this fit Mozilla?

On privacy alone: no.

Mozilla promises a commitment to user privacy, and promises to only work with companies that share that commitment. Exa demonstrates hostility towards user privacy.

Maybe the New, AI-First Mozilla has abandoned this charter, but their website still says:

Individuals’ security and privacy on the internet are fundamental and must not be treated as optional.

Additional link from another source

politico.com/…/meta-kids-safety-features-settleme…

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…Under a power purchase agreement, Aethero will draw electricity on demand from Star Catcher’s planned orbital energy grid. The arrangement is designed to let spacecraft access additional power when computing loads rise, without having to carry enough onboard generation and storage to cover those peaks…

…The company says it can harvest solar energy and beam concentrated power directly onto existing satellite solar panels, allowing spacecraft to generate up to 10 times more power on demand without installing specialized receivers…

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Some of you may know by now that ani.social has its own official Matrix server. But not everyone who visits this community may have realized this, since the announcement about its launch was posted only in !meta, and the server itself was initially operating only as an experiment.

However, months are passing by, and it doesn’t look like the Matrix server is going away, so I wanted to invite members of this community to join us there. So far, the server is not very populated, but we do have a handful of regulars. There are rooms for anime, manga, novels, and there’s one for everything and anything too. This isn’t an attempt to lure you away from this forum, but simply an addition to enhance the experience for those who, apart from discussing posts here, also enjoy a real-time chat from time to time. Come and say hi!

You can join by using this link #space:ani.social or by entering #space:ani.social into your Matrix client.

Here’s a link to the official announcement (it includes information about registration on ani.social, but you can join using your existing Matrix account):
ani.social/post/28183037

Side note: If you decide to join, it’s a good idea to use spoilers when discussing anime/manga. However, not all Matrix clients can send or even display spoilers (most notably Element X – it can’t even obscure spoiler messages, so you’re risking getting spoiled; Element Web/Desktop is fine). That’s why I’d recommend using a client that supports spoilers. Personally, I can recommend Cinny, Commet Chat, Gomuks for desktop, and FluffyChat for mobile/desktop. SchildiChat Next is also decent on Android, but it only displays spoilers, can’t send them (there’s a workaround but it’s inconvenient). Obviously, you can use any other client if you want. The almost full list can be found here matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/

For those who don’t know what Matrix is – it’s basically a Discord for nerds and also kind of an IRC spiritual successor. It’s unpolished – you can realize that from reading the note – but still can be quite fun!
You can read more about it here: matrix.org

Follow the white rabbit, Neo!

@edit:
If you like the Cinny client, you can now use the version hosted in the ani.social domain:
chat.ani.social

Hey everyone!

A lot has happened since the v5.0 announcement. Step by step, Reitti grows into something richer: it now understands journeys with multiple transportation modes, tells you how much of your world you have actually explored, geotags the photos your camera didn´t, and reads the FIT recordings from your sports watch. Yesterday’s v5.3.0 brought all of these threads together, and I want to take a moment to share this progress with the community.

For anyone new here: Reitti (Finnish for “route”) is a self-hosted, privacy-first alternative to Google Timeline. It turns raw GPS points from your devices into visits, trips and a timeline of your life, stored exclusively on your own infrastructure.

Here are the features I’m most excited about:

Multi-Segment Transportation Modes

Real journeys are rarely single-mode: you walk to the car, drive, then walk again. Reitti now understands this and models it as one trip with multiple transport segments instead of mislabeling everything as “Driving”.

• Color-coded track lines with transition badges exactly where you switched modes (new “Display Transportation Modes” map setting)
• Fully customizable icons & colors per transport mode under Settings > Transportation Modes
• One click to reclassify your entire existing history, with live progress on the redesigned job status page

Spatial Coverage

Hexagons are bestagons.

The “fog of war” for your life: Reitti now calculates how much of your cities, regions, and countries you have actually explored, down to the percentage. With the historical sliders you can watch your map fill in year by year.

Heads up: this optional feature requires SPATIAL_COVERAGE=true, roughly 10 GB of additional disk space and some initial indexing time. Everything about setup and configuration is covered in the Spatial Coverage documentation.

Photo Geotagging via Immich

This one is for everyone running Immich next to Reitti: connect the two services once, and Reitti can locate photos that have no GPS data, then write the coordinates permanently back into your Immich library.

How it works: Reitti takes a photo’s capture timestamp, matches it against your recorded location history, and shows you the suggested position. Happy with what you see? One button press writes it into the photo’s metadata in Immich. Nothing happens without your confirmation.

This solves a real problem: most dedicated cameras, whether DSLR, mirrorless or action cam, simply have no GPS receiver. Until now, those photos sat forever on Immich’s “no location” pile or needed tedious manual tagging. With Reitti, the tracker you already carry does the job your camera never could. And since everything happens between your own two self-hosted services, not a single byte leaves your infrastructure.

FIT File Support

Reitti now natively imports .fit files, the standard format for cycling computers and sports watches from Garmin, Wahoo & co. No more converting your rides and runs to GPX first: drop them in and they show up in your timeline like any other recording.

More Highlights

• Live Location Only mode users (v5.2): share your live position without building a permanent history log. Privacy-first family tracking.
• Bulk GPX uploads for GPSLogger (v5.2): fewer connections, noticeably less battery drain.
• Improved visit/trip detection (v5.1): better algorithms mean less manual cleanup.

Community & Support

• GitHub: Report issues & view source
• Docs: www.dedicatedcode.com/projects/reitti/latest/
• RSS: Stay updated via the releases feed.
• IRC: #reitti on libera.chat
• Support: Buy me a coffee on Ko-fi

I’m always curious how you all use Reitti, so feel free to share your setup and stories in the comments. ❤️

AI Disclosure

Per this community’s rules for project promotion posts, here is exactly how AI was used in building Reitti:

• Implementation (Assisted): AI helps me generate boilerplate and work through specific problems, but the bulk of the code is written by me, and every change is carefully reviewed and tested before it lands in a release.
• Documentation (Assisted): I use AI as a writing tool to get docs and release notes into an appropriate state. The content, structure and decisions are mine; AI polishes language, clarity and consistency.

Everything else, including architecture, system design, testing, review and deployment, I do by hand.

— Daniel

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Please gather around for a long post about #WSocial and how they are responding to critiques.

I have noticed a trend: W Social leaders and staunch supporters are describing any critical posts about the company as “targeted disinformation.” Its CEO said they will soon have a technical solution in place for this. Oh?!?

🔗: https://mu.social/profile/anna.wsocial.eu/post/3mtqufy6g4s2r

I suppose the “targeted disinformation” claims are about recent posts by the likes of me and @pallenberg about troubling hate speech that is allowed on W Social.

Claims backed by hard evidence, in the form of screenshots and video captures. (I am increasingly doing screen recordings of problematic posts and interactions by W Social people because they have a tendency to delete evidence - like an infamous comment on a video by the Instutute for Remigration).

⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️

Discrediting sources, renaming evidence as “disinformation” and creating a victim narrative has a long, storied history.

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But I’m digressing. I speak up about W Social because:

• Mainstream media runs PR fluff about them;

• Horrid hate speech on the platform is completely unmoderated.

W Social is currently showing the limits of free speech absolutism. Its CEO wrote: “We don’t need W to become another echo chamber.”

Reminds you of something?

Atmosphere user @echna.bsky.social astutely remarked that “W Social is on an X speedrun, without ever having been like Twitter.”

🔗: https://mu.social/profile/echna.bsky.social/post/3mtqlknzork2t

Bluesky, #Blacksky, and #Northsky have mechanisms in place to report hate speech - and I am super thankful for that.

As of today, I cannot report to W Social posts by their users that contain hate speech.

The W Social moderation list’s only purpose is to make a distinction between verified users and bots.

Compare it with Blacksky’s moderation list and be amazed (see screenshots).

What’s the big deal about the lack of content moder…

Source

Today’s game is Control. I went back through the Ashtray maze today and got a series of photos i really like. I did a lot of stuff with lines and light which i really like how they turned out. I’m just gonna quickly dump them here because there’s not a lot i have to say about them other than “I think they look cool”.

Anyways, Reflections. These reflections are so damn sexy. Like, i legit spent a solid 5 minutes playing with the photomode and checking out the reflections. I think Control has to have some of my favorite reflections i’ve seen in a long time. It makes me want to see how Alan Wake 2 fairs… I’ll hold off on another playthrough though. For now at least. I’ve done quite a lot of playthroughs of that game and i should work through other things in my library.

I finished the Foundation DLC today and started the AWE expansion. I didn’t get far but i primarily wanted to talk about Hartman. They fucking nailed it with him as an enemy. I love how he’s this sort of Dynamic Threat you can’t fight off. You can only really ward him away for the time being. Getting in that elevator especially was terrifying because it traps you in there and you can’t do anything as he inches closer and forces the door up. My experience with Alan Wake had me really going “I wish i had a fucking flashlight right now”.

Anyways, the DLC appears to be short so i’ll probably make quick work of this game and then move on to the next game in my backlog. I might try a few sidequests though that catch my attention.

Saw the top post today about Nitter getting a cease and desist. Not surprised, but it hit a nerve.

Last winter I finally moved my family off Google Photos. Not for ideology, just tired of paying for One that gets more expensive every year.

Old Dell Optiplex 7040 in the closet, Immich for photos, Nextcloud for docs, Matrix for family chat. It was messy. I forgot to set up proper backups and almost lost a month of kid photos in January. My wife still brings it up.

Before that I thought privacy was about picking a better provider. Nitter was part of that logic too - use a private frontend for a bad platform. But frontends die. Nitter, Invidious, all of them. One letter and it’s gone.

Self-hosting didn’t solve everything, but at least my photos don’t depend on someone else’s frontend staying alive. The problem now is family. My server is in my closet, but my sister is still on Messenger, my mom on iCloud. My setup doesn’t protect them.

Curious how you handle this part. When the frontend you rely on disappears, do you try to move family to Signal/Matrix or just accept you can only protect your own node?

Until now, Mistral only ran Mistral models. That’s about to change: customers will soon be able to use open models from other providers as well, starting with GLM-5.2 from Z.ai.

cross-posted from : lemmy.zip/post/70348978

cross-posted from : lemmy.zip/post/70348978

• Songs of the Past is now available to wishlist ahead of its 2027 release. It will take players to the brand new realm of Letten — an idyllic land of rural tradition that hides a dark secret just below the surface.
• Remastered — a free upgrade for existing The Witcher 3 owners on qualifying platforms — brings a slew of upgrades and enhancements to visuals, performance, gameplay, and more when it launches on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S.
• The Witcher 3 is coming to two brand new platforms. A native version of Remastered will be released on Nintendo Switch 2, and through a new partnership between CD PROJEKT RED and Blizzard Entertainment, Battle.net — both on September 29.
• All owners of The Witcher 3 can now play to two acclaimed expansions — Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine — at no additional cost.

I’m genuinely gonna try to end it if I dont meet anyone to talk to and bond with. I cant with this, I seem to be an exception while everyone else seems to succeed to at least keep a conversation going. also, this conservative family is suffocating me. and environment is I have melatonin, some atarax and maybe some adderall in the house. nothing really lethal per se, but if I combine it with alcohol and something else, it might be deadly. I honestly dont know what to do