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If you are in NYC, the school has an app that logs your kids trips to the bathroom...are you really OK with that? Will that tech come to all schools? youtu.be/ncQpSBdGLec

What's going on with Nextcloud and ONLY OFFICE?? youtu.be/PO--gCgHfuU

@MadsMelbourne @Google Startpage, brave search, duckduckgo...

Google apparently couldn’t confirm that I’m an adult with my University enail address and wants me to verify my age so I can do basic search! @Google can get fucked!

@Maga4liberty No, I never did this. I would have to have been a smoker to...

Did you ever do this? Why????

Microsoft says that copilot is for entertainment only and use it at your own risk "Copilot is for entertainment purposes only. It can make mistakes, and it may not work as intended. Don’t rely on Copilot for important advice. Use Copilot at your own risk."

@TheGoldenDays I have used all these EXCEPT the Philips ones. Never saw those.

Which one did you use to burn CDs?

🚨BREAKING: Samsung customers are pissed off to find out that they’re $2000 fridges are now displaying ads on the front, and if they disable them, they can’t use all the features of the fridge. WTF is this!?

@AlternativeTo "While allowing search ads..." I'll cross that off my list

Waterfox will integrate Brave’s adblock engine directly in the browser for better performance, while allowing search ads by default to support revenue alternativeto.net/news/2026/4/wa…

@HumanPings It's a MicroSlop company...of course its searching your computer....

@SwitchedToLinux seen this ?

Words escape me at the moment...

It was a nice try, but my clients forward things that look suspicious. Don't trust this email even though it says it is legitimate and safe. @PayPal have you looked into these guys? It looks like they are phishing for PayPal logins.

AI is getting ridiculous... youtu.be/h4KXr-s8B4o

@LundukeJournal OnlyOffice is insane. They even send me a legal threat for reporting on their flatpak making constant pings to AWS servers...I laughed at them...

What in the heck is going on with Nextcloud, EU, and OnlyOffice?

Today we look at the overuse of AI and ask if a chatbot would be make a better boss than a human, but the therapists asked that about an AI girlfriend. We look at these and the news related to privacy and security. 8:00p EST All Articles: switchedtolinux.com/news/your-boss…

@YueKuratsu I used these in college. They were not overwhelmingly common, so most people went from 3.5 to usb.

これ使ってた人いますか？ 私の周りだとフロッピーディスクの次世代は圧倒的に3.5インチのMOが多くて、これの実物を見たことがないくらいです😅

Microsoft forces online accounts to set up Windows...then a Windows update breaks the online accounts...Microslop forever!! youtu.be/AngEtRL5YRs

@alphafox LiteBrite, my friend!

If you know what this is, we can be friends.

Chrome: uses 8GB RAM to show 7 tabs Linux: uses 500MB RAM to run the entire OS

If this story is true, it is a perfect example of why we ALL need to practice digital sovereignty (and why we need to keep our kids off the Internet!)