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Google just called its new AI Search the "biggest upgrade in 25 years" but really, it's killing the open web. 😡

The open web was built by millions of people sharing knowledge freely → Now, Google who owns the monopoly on Search is ruining it.

We wrote about what's really happening, and what you can do about it 👉 tuta.com/blog/why-google-ai-se…

#AI #AISearch #Google

Image of old Google with the title "How it started" and an image of the new Google with AI titled, "How it's going" and a text with an arrow pointing at Google's new AI search saying, "This is killing the open web"

Google's "new era for AI Search" is killing the open web | Tuta

Google calls its intelligent AI-powered Search box the "biggest upgrade in over 25 years," but we must consider what is happening to the open web (yes, the one that trained the AI). Let's look at why it's bad, and what we can do about it.
Tuta
#AI #Google #AIsearch
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Lately I have been moving my workflows away from Microsoft Office and onto LibreOffice. For a while, I couldn't figure out how to manage images in a Writer document like I did in Word, but finally figured it out.

I did a quick write up of what I experienced and how I was able to setup Writer to work like Word -- and keep my workflow the same. It was an easy change.

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#software #libreoffice #microsoft #office #office365 #howto

LibreOffice Writer, Microsoft Word and Images

I use two apps in Microsoft Office: Word and Excel. I have been moving away from relying on Office and using LibreOffice instead. The switch from Excel to Calc was easy.
Steve Mookie Kong (ultramookie)
@LibreOffice
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I will definitely give this a read, but as someone who used Microsoft Word for 35 years, the switch to Libre Writer has been an uphill battle. On the surface, it seems remarkably similar, but when you dig down deep into the "power user" features for formatting, etc., it's an exercise in frustration to get it to work the way I expect it to.
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Many AUR packages have been compromised - forum.tromjaro.com/t/many-aur-…

We explain how to check if you were infected.

#aur #aurexploit #linux #xfce #tromjaro #manjaro #foss #opensource #atomicarch

Many AUR packages have been compromised

You can read the entire thing here - Over 400 Arch Linux AUR Packages Hijacked to Deploy Infostealer and eBPF Rootkit But basically it seems that hundreds of AUR packages that were not maintained in a while got “updated” with a malicious code.
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#Linux #opensource #foss #manjaro #AUR #xfce #TROMjaro #aurexploit #atomicarch

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If you bought the hardware, you should have the final say on the software. Google's plan to block unverified apps is a direct attack on user sovereignty. keepandroidopen.org @keepandroidopen #KeepAndroidOpen

Keep Android Open

Your phone is about to stop being yours. In September 2026, Google will block every Android app whose developer hasn't registered with them.
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#keepandroidopen @Keep Android Open

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Thank you Raza for becoming our new TROM supporter - tromsite.com/donate/

We should release new content for TROM very soon!

#trom #tromsite

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Android's strength was its decentralized nature. Google's plan to mandate central registration for every single app developer destroys that. We must resist this centralization of power. @keepandroidopen #KeepAndroidOpen keepandroidopen.org

Keep Android Open

Your phone is about to stop being yours. In September 2026, Google will block every Android app whose developer hasn't registered with them.
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#keepandroidopen @Keep Android Open

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A Rocket Exploded. We Need to do Math.

youtube.com/watch?v=pXVmkurTOg…

This felt like an important video to share.

Thumbnail of the video from YouTube. You can see a rocket explosion in the background, with a picture of Hank Green in front. The text on the left reads "You don't understand how many people there are".

A Rocket Exploded. We Need to do Math.

Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.
Hank Green (YouTube)

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I hitchhiked from the info center at Þingvellir National Park to Geyser and the waterfall Gullfoss. Gullfoss runs down two faults through an incredible canyon, and geyser is the one that gave the name "geyser" to all geysers ☺️ (though its neighbor Strokkur is the one erupting more often these days). Both are very touristy but incredible sights; definitely worth seeing. I didn't wait long to catch a lift and I met some interesting people on my way, including a British geologist who gave me some fascinating insight. I'll explain it all later in my peertube videos 😉

#iceland #hiking #camping #nature #travel #gullfoss #geyser

#nature #travel #Iceland #hiking #Camping #gullfoss #geyser

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“No matter how much they try to beef up a law to make it accurate or effective, we can't get away from the fact that the internet will always route around censorship, and that teens are very tech savvy — whether you like it or not,” EFF’s Rin Alajaji told Utah Public Radio. upr.org/politics/2026-06-04/ut…

Utah VPN law faces federal lawsuit from Pornhub's parent company

A law passed earlier this year would have required adult websites to continue enforcing age restrictions for Utah users — even if those users tried to disguise their location with a VPN.
Naomi Cragun (Utah Public Radio)

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#AppFatigue IPA: /æp/ /fəˈtiːɡ/ (n) The tendency to NOT install new apps on your mobile phone because you finally understand that most apps should just be a website so you can seamlessly use a service on a PC, laptop, tablet or mobile device. Also a sign of distrust as apps are black boxes with access to a lot of data sources that invade your privacy in ways you can hardly quantify.
#appfatigue
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Working hard to release our new TROM Project: TROM Articles. New content. More easily accessible than the books. A huge article is already done and some 80% designed. Hopefully we will release soon! ;)

#trom #tromsite

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This illusion was new to me. Does whichever dot you look at turn more purple?

Pretty neat how clearly this lets you see the reduced sensitivity to blue light in the very centre of your vision.

schulz-hildebrandt.com/9-purpl…

arxiv.org/abs/2509.11582

Blue dots on a greyish blue background

The 9 Purple Dots Illusion

Are this Dots Blue or Purple? Here you can find background information about the recently published "9 Purple Dot Illusion"
Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt
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Age verification: protecting kids from GrapheneOS since 2026.

The fucking state of everything, I swear!

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Whenever I'm forced to use commercial, proprietary software, I look into open-source alternatives because I know it's only a matter of time before the company in question tries to fuck me with a random change to its terms of service.

By the way, Plex users, welcome to Jellyfin.

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Why #FDroid for your #Android device? No need to "just trust us" about how we check, how we build and why we care, you can look at everything that we do as #FLOSS offers the transparency you want.

@bendineliot explains this in many more words: f-droid.org/2026/05/27/buildin…

#keepandroidopen

Building trust through software rather than giving it | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

Security and privacy come from trust The experience we have with our devices usually feels private and secure. If no one else is looking at our screen, it se...
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Lenovo and Motorola learned NOTHING from superfish: avoid their products


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@GrapheneOS team if you're reading this, I heard that you guys are partnering with Motorola to provide official support for their devices and even the possibility of buying phones with GrapheneOS pre-installed. I was overall pretty happy about this partnership and what it meant for the future of degoogled mobile OSes, however I'm concerned to see Motorola's involvement in this new affiliate link scandal and how shady it was and their overall response after this came out in public. I know this issue doesn't affect GrapheneOS users in particular, but I still wanted to run this by you and see if you guys have any comment on this.

Thumbnail of the video from YouTube. The text on the left reads "motorola becomes another honey?" with the picture of a honey jar below it, there is a big sticker on the jar showing the brand logo of Motorola and the Honey browser extension (which got caught app in an infamous affiliate link scandal). On the right side you can see Louis Rossmann wearing a black T-shirt and sunglass, talking and gesturing with his hand, with a microphone in front of him.
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It's unintended from Motorola's part since it wasn't authorized by them and was done without their permission. That doesn't mean whoever did it didn't intend to do it. It makes no sense for them to put referral codes into Amazon links with the codes tied to an obscure Instagram influencer. It clearly wasn't something authorized. They're having a company which might be problematic do contract work for them or are using their SDK and both seem to have screwed up missing this going in.
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I arrived at Þingvellir National Park after 6pm. I set up my tent at the campsite (since wild camping is illegal in the national parks of Iceland), cooked, relaxed, then went for a walk on the main touristy paths of Thingvellir at around 10pm. It was still light out, yet there was nobody around. Amazing. I stood there, in the fault between North America and Eurasia, and admired the striking walls around me. Those walls move away from each other by about 2cm each year; this is an active rift. These walls are part of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and Iceland is one of few places where you can see the ridge above the surface of the ocean. And what an incredible sight it is, especially when you have it all to yourself.

#iceland #geology #nature #thingvellir #þingvellir #camping

#nature #geology #Iceland #Camping #thingvellir #þingvellir

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LLM advocates still don’t seem to be able to comprehend that ordering the machine not to ‘make stuff up’ doesn’t help. It doesn’t know when it’s making stuff up, and it couldn’t change that even if you told it to. (In fact it’s always just making stuff up, and is only ever true by chance.)

Part of why I’m so negative about them is that their advocates simply do not understand how they work and do not seem to want to.

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Hallucinations are the bane of my existence when using Claude Code and that has significantly improved after adding the following instructions to my Claude .MD file.

Sharing for anyone else who uses Claude as a daily driver for analysis and writing but has gotten frustrated by it making things up.


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Bernd

I am a safety engineer for safety-relevant and mission-critical systems. And it is disheartening to see safety professionals at international conferences present 2-page-long prompts, doing basically all this, but much more so, and expect their "spicy autocomplete machine" (@pluralistic) to create safety analyses this way. And always talking about the LLM as if it could think. And prompt it to show its internal steps and "reasoning", not understanding that it does no such thing. It just creates another string of words that sounds as if an intelligence were describing the inner workings.
The upshot almost always is "It sucks, we have to check and correct everything. We love it. It is the future!" 🤡🤪
@Cory Doctorow
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