@kirschner Fisker Automotive went bankrupt.

"Virtually every subsystem in the Ocean — brakes, airbags, shifting, battery management, door locks — needed to periodically connect with Fisker’s cloud servers for diagnostics or regular operations. When those servers went dark, the cars didn’t just lose their infotainment screens. They lost critical functionality."

https://electrek.co/2026/05/16/fisker-ocean-open-source-ev-story-after-bankruptcy/

@antinomian @BmeBenji that's really kind! I deeply appreciate this sentiment, and in a lot of ways I think AI has been a reminder of the need to reassert the importance of human relationships. I am certainly trying to reflect that in my teaching. But I also have found that, in carefully chosen circumstances, its use can help enable more high-quality relationship building.

A few reflections on that here. https://nathanschneider.info/2026/08/ai-i-tried-to-love-you/

@fuzzyleapfrog Du wolltest "Ursachenbekämpfung" sagen? Sicher?
Das wär ja mal... geradezu technologieoffen!
(Und jetzt bin ich heute echt meine politischen Lieblingswörter schon losgeworden.)

@siracusa So long as you don't go full Kenneth Clark, you're alright

@matz rigrazie ^___^

New Jersey local news landscape: Beacon of optimism or harbinger of industry decline?
https://centerforcooperativemedia.org/news-topography-report-aug-2026/

@danirabbit huge. Tysm!

This is the first genuinely operational littleFedi instance.

It has been online since 1st July, is single-user (just me), and runs on a Raspberry Pi Zero W powered by NetBSD, directly on its SD card.

It consumes just under 1W.

Its database is this size:

-rw------- 1 little wheel 109289472 Aug 26 15:14 littlefedi.db

That is, just a little over 100 MB. Yes, MB.

Its average CPU load is extremely low.

It is perfectly usable both from the web interface and from Mastodon API apps.

I have 179 followers and 169 followings, and it doesn't bat an eye.

I promise myself to use it more, and I will.

You don't need Big Tech to communicate with others.

You don't need an expensive data center to exist online.

Because we are people, and the bits are just extensions of our voice.

#littleFedi #Fediverse #OwnYourData

@ariadne You hit on a pretty key point in regards to AI.

If you aren't already an expert in what you're having the model do for you, you don't have the ability to verify the correctness of the output. Anything produced outside of that is going to be somewhere between an unsupportable mess and hot garbage.

"No way to prevent this" say users of only language where this regularly happens

https://xeiaso.net/shitposts/no-way-to-prevent-this/memory-safety/CVE-2026-41992/?utm_campaign=mi_irl&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon

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In Review: Zenith Defy Revival https://wristwatchreview.com/p/in-review-zenith-defy-revival

@kepano
Signal
Proton Mail
Proton Pass
Windy (weather)
Moshidon
Niagara Launcher

@DJGummikuh NVIDIA's projected revenue is toast but that's not the worst problem, their stock will correct but they'll be fine. Their clients won't be.

Is it only me who sees the Siri animation running on a HomePod in the background of the latest Apple event invitation?
https://www.applemust.com/this-is-what-apples-event-invitation-means-maybe/

@scripting damn, here it's so hot instead! Turned aircon off and now it's about 32 degrees celsius again (if not 35). But until 2 weeks ago we went up to 41.

Despedida a Ruben Rada, Isla de Flores
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5nICyIL378

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