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The web is dying because of AI. Anything you look up now, you can’t find any reasonable results that are not teams of AI generated slop text.
@torgoDaniel Appelquist The default search engine in my browser is Wikipedia
Milk-V Titan: A $329 8-Core 64-bit RISC-V mini-ITX board with PCIe Gen4x16
Link: https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/01/12/milk-v-titan-a-329-octa-core-64-bit-risc-v-mini-itx-motherboard-with-a-pcie-gen4-x16-slot/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46588159
Parkour!
うちの子アルヴィの耳ぴこアニメーション 清書版
前回よりぴこぴこ感が出てるんじゃないかな？
#OC
AI assistants are the archnemesis
of data privacy.
Because AI models are inherent
data collectors.
They rely on large data collection for training, improvement, operation, and customization.
More often than not, this data is collected without clear and informed consent (from unknowing training subjects or from platform users). This data is then sent to and accessed by a private company with many incentives to share and monetize this data.
By using these platforms, we are encouraging them to collect even more nonconsensual data on everyone. This is an important social responsibility to consider. Choose carefully.
The web is dying because of AI. Anything you look up now, you can’t find any reasonable results that are not teams of AI generated slop text.
@artemis AI?
i think these are real...?
열심히 찾던 이유는 내 속에
The web is dying because of AI. Anything you look up now, you can’t find any reasonable results that are not teams of AI generated slop text.
왜 이렇게 귀엽게 부르는데
RE: https://mastodon.social/@tess/115917420473692099
If I had a nickel for every time this happened to me today, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but agfhahahfjakahahdhakldkfjkahfhfagkfjfjj
It is definitely one of my favourite games of all time.
This game had such a big impact on me, I often recall this being the highest scoring N64 game in all the magazines, and I think it is well deserved.
My only complaint is I wish I could skip some of the lengthy dialogue sections 🤣
GHOST IN THE SHELL (1989)
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:npjlo3nj7rpeisck676njzf4/post/3m76e34yoq22e
Tiny Apocalyptic Time Tip 🌐✨
If you too feel uneasy about
the state of the world,
and you too worry about losing access to one of the greatest knowledge treasure of the internet,
Know that you can download an
offline copy of Wikipedia!
Here's how 📚👇
1. Download the free and open source software Kiwix (this will be your reader): https://kiwix.org/en/applications/
2. If you want smaller versions of Wikipedia, you can download them within Kiwix.
Within the app, go to "Categories" in the menu on the left, then browse to a topic/version you want. Scroll to the bottom for Wikipedia mini, for example. Click on it then click "Download" on the right 
3. Once you have downloaded a database, click on "Opened" on the left > database you want to search > "Open Main Page" on the right.
4. You can use the Search field on the upper-right to find topics like on online Wikipedia! 🔍
5. If you want the full English version of Wikipedia (110GB), you might want to download it from the torrent file instead. Install a torrent client of your choice (I use Transmission).
Then, go to this page, click on "Download - 109.89 GB" blue button on the first result (size may vary overtime), then select "Torrent file": https://library.kiwix.org/#lang=eng&category=wikipedia
6. Once you have the torrent file, open it with your torrent client to start the download. This is BIG! Be patient! 📦
7. Once the download is completed, open your Wikipedia `.zim` file with Kiwix!
8. Magic! 📖✨
Extra Tip: You can download many other awesome knowledge files from the Kiwix Library! Personally, I also got the iFixit knowledge base! ⚒️ 
@Em0nM4stodonEm 
I'd like to share that I use OSSDict on Android, which can use a lot of dictionary files, including Wiktionary and Wikipedia.
https://github.com/farfromrefug/OSS-Dict
https://github.com/itkach/slob/wiki/Dictionaries
Can someone plug the NAS back in?
RE: https://mastodon.social/@tess/115917420473692099
If I had a nickel for every time this happened to me today, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but agfhahahfjakahahdhakldkfjkahfhfagkfjfjj
Statement by Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, UK
Link: https://www.bundesregierung.de/breg-de/aktuelles/statement-by-denmark-finland-france-germany-the-netherlands-norway-sweden-and-the-united-kingdom-2403016
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46669945
Making a mountain bike data acquisition system
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/18/making-a-mountain-bike-data-acquisition-system/
Looks like we'll be getting near-record lows* around the end of this week. Oh joy.
* Around -30; wind chill in the mid -40s.
"Is that Celsius or Fahrenheit?"
Yes.
自創作特設サイト「鉄道省京原事業部」開設についてのお知らせ
https://natumi.tkngh.jp/article/?id=ffd51dbf-3dc4-4c1f-93f1-26c294f8e92d
自創作についての変態すぎるサイトをつくりました 
@catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
What if we... 👉 federated 👈?
@northJason Parker (he/they)
can I intewest you in switching to Winux???@catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch)
Want to know how companies are guessing your age? Read all about it in our guide to age assurance technology. https://eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/so-youve-hit-age-gate-what-now
有百分之四十五的保守派共和黨人士認為最高法院傾向自由主義，只有百分之九認為它很保守；而傾向自由主義的民主黨人則正好相反：百分之四十八認為最高法院偏向保守，只有百分之十五認為它走向自由主義。
很顯然的，這些數字應該足夠讓我們思索。其實我們對於司法公平性的評斷，並不是根據事實。
#Welcome to recent arrivals from the bad place(s). Be gentle w/ yourself as u leave behind the dopamine flames & u will soon find a more sustainable dopamine ember of #joy, #hope & #community
Follow hashtags, ppl who post interesting things & ppl they follow, & soon your feed will be filled w/content you’ve curated (not an algo designed to hijack your dopamine center)
I’ve found it well worth it after coming here in the great Twitter migration of 2022 (does this mean I’m a #mastodon elder?😂)
"man ports" gives many useful hints about installing FreeBSD ports.
Ma librairie a offert ce marque page à ma fille qui l'adore parce qu'elle s'y reconnaît.
"A Private Life" is Jodie Foster's moving French masterpiece
https://www.salon.com/2026/01/18/a-private-life-review-jodie-fosters-french-masterpiece/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Movies 
@movies-SalonMovies
#franceculture #wikipedia #savoir #information #llm #Intellligenceartificielle
Avec l’arrivée des IA génératives, quel avenir pour Wikipédia et l’accès au savoir ? Selon Jérôme Hergueux, chargé de recherche au CNRS, nous risquons de passer d’un système décentralisé à une concentration des données entre les mains de quelques grandes entreprises privées.
Extrait de l'émission de France Culture : "La Fabrique de l'information"
Ok, #forkiverse, settle a debate for me. What type of metal containers, if any, is safe to use in a microwave?
Looks like we'll be getting near-record lows* around the end of this week. Oh joy.
* Around -30; wind chill in the mid -40s.
Creativity is like a muscle. If you want to become more creative, you have to exercise it.
When I was in art school (years ago), we exercised every day to become more creative. Artists have to train to get there too. It's not magic or "talent," it's hard work.
When you use AI to give you "inspiration," you are doing the opposite of that. You are atrophying your creativity muscle.
If you want to become a creator, and become more creative, you should stop using AI entirely. Instead, start training your own genuine creativity. Otherwise, it will eventually dry off completely.
Singer just referred to Godzilla as a "lizard" and I have taxonomic *opinions* on this.
Did Godzilla have feathers? TEACH THE CONTROVERSY!
#Welcome to recent arrivals from the bad place(s). Be gentle w/ yourself as u leave behind the dopamine flames & u will soon find a more sustainable dopamine ember of #joy, #hope & #community
Follow hashtags, ppl who post interesting things & ppl they follow, & soon your feed will be filled w/content you’ve curated (not an algo designed to hijack your dopamine center)
I’ve found it well worth it after coming here in the great Twitter migration of 2022 (does this mean I’m a #mastodon elder?😂)
If you just left Bluesky today to join or come back to Mastodon, welcome (back)!
We are glad you are here with us 
@Em0nM4stodonEm left #bluesky about a year ago. Now only on #fediverse -- #mastodon and #diaspora, as well as #linkedin for commercial survival.
If there were a way to prospect for #infosec consulting clients on the fediverse only, I'd quit linkedin at machine speed. almost.
@zach_cyberwolfox @Em0nM4stodonEm Welcome (back?)!
I’ve found 
@FediTips very helpful.
@aprilfollies @zach_cyberwolfox
Welcome Zach 👋
There's lots of help for new and returning people on the website at https://fedi.tips (especially the section at the top of the page labelled "Quick Start").
Also please feel free to ask if you have any specific questions 🙂
Tiny Apocalyptic Time Tip 🌐✨
If you too feel uneasy about
the state of the world,
and you too worry about losing access to one of the greatest knowledge treasure of the internet,
Know that you can download an
offline copy of Wikipedia!
Here's how 📚👇
1. Download the free and open source software Kiwix (this will be your reader): https://kiwix.org/en/applications/
2. If you want smaller versions of Wikipedia, you can download them within Kiwix.
Within the app, go to "Categories" in the menu on the left, then browse to a topic/version you want. Scroll to the bottom for Wikipedia mini, for example. Click on it then click "Download" on the right
3. Once you have downloaded a database, click on "Opened" on the left > database you want to search > "Open Main Page" on the right.
4. You can use the Search field on the upper-right to find topics like on online Wikipedia! 🔍
5. If you want the full English version of Wikipedia (110GB), you might want to download it from the torrent file instead. Install a torrent client of your choice (I use Transmission).
Then, go to this page, click on "Download - 109.89 GB" blue button on the first result (size may vary overtime), then select "Torrent file": https://library.kiwix.org/#lang=eng&category=wikipedia
6. Once you have the torrent file, open it with your torrent client to start the download. This is BIG! Be patient! 📦
7. Once the download is completed, open your Wikipedia `.zim` file with Kiwix!
8. Magic! 📖✨
Extra Tip: You can download many other awesome knowledge files from the Kiwix Library! Personally, I also got the iFixit knowledge base! ⚒️
Back in the day, everyone hated Quark. And I mean *everyone*, at least unless you worked there. If you worked in publishing you had to use QuarkXPress. They knew it, and charged accordingly. It was very expensive software, customer services was awful, etc. But you had no choice about using it.
Trump’s tariff threat over Greenland risks ‘dangerous downward spiral’, warn Nato members – Europe live
The headline confirms: the USA is no longer a NATO member.
> The leaders of Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the UK issue joint statement ahead of EU ambassadors meeting
Millie says meow
I like the photo I got today from her while we walk together. 
When writing about Property-Based testing, I found they were much more solid and comprehensive than usual tests, due to their more general (properties vs examples). They weren’t used because they felt more complex and time-intensive to write, despite being shorter and having to change them less.
I’m still interested to see how it’ll unfold, but despite shipping code faster and using more general forms of specs when engineering with LLMs, the testing methods used never made use of the gained time nor of the more general spec.
Instead the trend is to just generate more examples and review.
I’m not sure what may lie behind these observations, which goals and pressure gradients shape them, but it feels funny/interesting that the gains appear to be “reinvested” in specific ways that reinforce existing tradeoffs, rather than seizing opportunities for a new balance.
Day 416 of the anti-government protests in Tblisi
So they're only "detaining illegal aliens", but they've got separate holding cells for US citizens?
A grim listen. Get prepared USians.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@ninlyricbot/115917294465602100
Bed too warm and comfy
Today is all about relaxing with our pack.
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Jim DeLaHunt
David Beazley
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Stefano Marinelli
@reiver ⊼ (Charles) 