Basically: record every song you listen to, and when you listen to it (plus some more metadata), and then add it to a giant public dataset. Open source software then uses that to make music recommendations based on your and other people’s listening, and to give you interesting stats about your listening.

That kind of captcha is trivial to bypass via frequency analysis. Text that looks like language, as opposed to random noise, is very statistically recognisable.

Finetuning, self-hosting and whatever decentalised network they’ve got going on there aren’t going to change the core of the technology. Oh, and it’s a tiny local model (about 1/100th the size of cloud models), too, it’s going to perform poorly compared to SOTA models anyway.

These will still fall prey to the reason that LLM summaries are bad: LLMs pick up the average, what is common, rather than what stands out and is genuinely important or new. Your writing will end up averaged out and the key things will be missed, only what is repeated again and again.

In my experience you can use a LLM to point out typos or grammar errors, but not to actually edit or rephrase your work. And at that point it’s effectively just a slow and expensive, but better, spelling/grammar checker.

Matrix file limits are server-dependent, usually enforced for the uploader only. If you run a server you can set it to several gigabytes lol

Alteernatively, use a tool designed for file transfer: https://gist.github.com/SMUsamaShah/fd6e275e44009b72f64d0570256bb3b2

Yep, that’s the point described in the linked paper - traffic goes via the same domains used for their app, and the messenger is embedded in their app

The Matrix Foundation and Element/New Vector are different orgs, and it’s Element with the government contracts

“slowly being cannibalised” at the start the foundation was just new vector/element putting on a funny hat. It’s got less bad as time has gone on tbh

Copying my post from up thread:

Delta chat is hilariously slow. It’s less of an instant messenger and moreover next business day messenger. That’s ignoring the problems you’ll have running it on your own infrastructure.

Electric is not a discord clone and element has a customer base more similar to slack. And to end encrypted direct messages have been the default for years now in Matrix.

Delta chat is hilariously slow. It’s less of an instant messenger and moreover next business day messenger. That’s ignoring the problems you’ll have running it on your own infrastructure.

To go on top of the reverse DNS/mail comments, it can also be useful for running a service like codeburg pages, or some other program that handles its own virtual hosting and TLS, without interfering with your more traditional services.

Stalwart recently released CalDAV & CardDAV support, and it’s what I use for mail. It’s pretty secure by default too.

Haha thanks. From what I’ve figured out, this it’s Lemmy and HN that brought the traffic. I can’t seem to upload an image of the graph though :(

Talon is closed source, What’s available on GitHub is the community command set - effectively just configuration

That wouldn’t be what I would expect. Having mixed new lines in a file is generally a bad thing - the editor should pick one mode

Definitely! The author is super friendly in IRC too (and Xe, the anubis author, is there as well lol)

I finally dealt with the AI scrapers hammering my Forgejo instance - https://jade.ellis.link/blog/2025/05/18/actually-stopping-forgejo-ai-scraping Hopefully next week I’ll be able to get back to actually programming Continuwuity rather than fighting fires.

Here are some interesting feeds I follow, mostly tech-focused and quite Rust heavy:

• Alexis King’s Blog https://lexi-lambda.github.io/feeds/all.atom.xml
• Blog on Asahi Linux https://asahilinux.org/blog/index.xml
• brson https://brson.github.io/feed.xml
• dystroy https://dystroy.org/blog/atom.xml
• ecton https://ecton.dev/rss.xml
• fasterthanli.me https://fasterthanli.me/index.xml
• Faultlore https://faultlore.com/blah/rss.xml
• Graphite - Blog https://graphite.rs/blog/rss.xml
• Ink & Switch https://www.inkandswitch.com/index.xml
• Jade’s Website https://jade.ellis.link/blog/rss.xml
• Lord.io https://lord.io/feed.xml
• Mara’s Blog https://blog.m-ou.se/index.xml
• matklad https://matklad.github.io/feed.xml
• Raph Levien’s blog https://raphlinus.github.io/feed.xml
• Tulir Asokan https://mau.fi/blog/index.rss
• Xe Iaso’s blog https://xeiaso.net/blog.rss

Generated by opening an OPML export in firefox, running the following script and deleting a bunch of feeds:

 "- " + [...document.querySelectorAll("body > outline > outline")].map((f) => `[${f.getAttribute("text")}](${f.getAttribute("htmlUrl")}) \`${f.getAttribute("xmlUrl")}\``).join("\n- ")