Self-Host Weekly #146: Survey Says
Survey results, cranberry sauce, government affairs, and open-source burnout
Evidence That Humans Now Speak in a Chatbot-Influenced Dialect Is Getting Stronger
Slop may be seeping into the nooks and crannies of our brains.
The hidden Kenyan workers training China’s AI models
An unemployment crisis has created fertile ground for companies to step in with opaque systems built on WhatsApp groups, middlemen, and bargain-basement wages.
Monotype font licencing shake-down — Insanity Works
tl;dr Don’t try to shake-down a typography nerd with your dubious, automated claims about his employer using unlicensed fonts. How it started It started with a LinkedIn InMail message (sanitised to protect privacy): Sub…
Korea's Coupang says data breach exposed nearly 34M customers' personal information
E-commerce company Coupang has confirmed a massive data breach affecting 33.7 million customer accounts in South Korea.
‘The new price of eggs.’ The political shocks of data centers and electric bills
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Netflix kills casting from phones
Cast isn’t gone, but it might not work.
MKBHD's Panels wallpaper app is shutting down
MKBHD is shutting down the Panels app this week. Users will get automatic refunds, and there are plans to open-source the code. Read on!
TIL that actor Tim Curry is on a wheelchair since 2012
Loveholidays unveils huge Cyber Monday sale — with trips from just £19
Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
Did you know that Gmail can use your emails and attachments for its smart features? Here's how to check your settings.
[Opinion] AI finds errors in 90% of Wikipedia's best articles
For one month beginning on October 5, I ran an experiment: Every day, I asked ChatGPT 5 (more precisely, its "Extended Thinking" version) to find an error in "Today's featured article". In 28 of these 31 featured articl…
Self-hosted TinyPNG alternative with Docker (imgcompress
Self-hosted TinyPNG alternative to compress, convert, and resize images. Over 69+ Format are supported including (HEIC, JPG, JPEG, PNG, PSD, TIFF, EPS, ICO, WebP, GIF &...). Runs 100% locally u...
Fucked up with no one to blame but myself.
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RAM prices soar, but popular Windows 11 apps are using more RAM due to Electron, Web components
Windows 11 apps like Discord, WhatsApp, and Teams now use 1 to 4GB of RAM because they are web apps and the rising RAM prices make it worse.
TIL there's a green bean casserole flavoured soda drink.
SEATTLE — Jones Soda Co. takes the idea of a liquid diet to a new low. How does Green Bean Casserole Soda strike you? And how about an aggressively buttery-smelling Mashed Potato Soda? Even the creators of the fizzy con…
Valve confirms Steam Machine will be priced ‘like a PC with the same level of performance’
Valve won’t subsidise Steam Machine’s price like console manufacturers…
Browser Fingerprinting And Why VPNs Won’t Make You Anonymous
Amidst the glossy marketing for VPN services, it can be tempting to believe that the moment you flick on the VPN connection you can browse the internet with full privacy. Unfortunately this is quit…
Saudi Arabia's investment fund reported to be limiting new investments as cash runs low
Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF) is allegedly low on cash for new investments, after a multi-year spending s…
GitHub to Codeberg: my experience
In which I talk about the process involved in switching forges, and how well that went.
I respect choice for the name of the game
A cozy garbage-cleaning simulator. Dig through the dump, find ultra-rare collectible cards, rescue tangled birds, and relax.
Disney+ to Allow User-Generated Content Via AI
Disney CEO Bob Iger hinted at "productive conversations" with unnamed AI companies that would protect IP but add new features to the studio's flagship streaming service.
Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy
Doing it yourself is way more cost effective.
TIL about Miki Endo who sacrificed her life giving warning broadcasts during the 2011 Japanese Tsunami
Miki Endo (遠藤 未希, Endō Miki; July 18, 1986, Japan – March 11, 2011, Minamisanriku, Japan) was an employee of the town of Minamisanriku's Crisis Management Department, tasked with broadcasting disaster advisories and…
DRAM prices are spiking, but I don't trust the industry's reasons why
There are a lot of reasons to be skeptical.
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Bag of words, have mercy on us
OR: Claude will you go to prom with me?
How do you check if food is healthy?
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Mozilla’s Betrayal of Open Source: Google’s Gemini AI is Overwriting Volunteer Work on Support Mozilla
TL;DR: Mozilla’s translation bot on Support Mozilla (that is currently overwriting user contributions is based on the closed source, copyright infringing LLM, Google Gemini. This is in spite of Mozilla claiming that the…
‘Jmail’ is like any other inbox, except this one has Jeffrey Epstein’s emails
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TIL that trolls working for the Russian Government helped divide the american feminist movement
As American feminists came together in 2017 to protest Donald Trump, Russia’s disinformation machine set about deepening the divides among them.
Vibe Coding: Empowering and Imprisoning - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
How I block all online ads
A couple of years ago, I decided I'd had enough of ads. Not just the occasional banner or a quick pre-roll video — I mean all of them. They have to go.
Raspberry pi lidarr docker container
I am diving into the world of self hosting by setting up a small server on my
raspberry pi4. I already have tailscale, pihole, and navidrome setup in
containers on my pi, I now want to add lidarr or some alternative to …
LinkedIn removes hate speech protections for transgender individuals
On July 29, 2025, LinkedIn removed “misgendering or deadnaming” from examples of prohibited content in its policy on hateful and derogatory content.
Creative workers on the affects of AI on their jobs
How do an artist, a videographer, a musician and a copywriter feel about generative AI?
Israel’s IDF Bans Android Phones—iPhones Now ‘Mandatory’
The iPhone versus Android battle has just taken a sudden twist as hackers attack smartphones.
Smart Locker tai cac co so giao duc hien dai
SimpleTech chuyên cung cấp các mẫu tủ gửi đồ thông minh Smart Locker hiện đại, vận hành tự động, bảo mật cao, đây chính là giải pháp lưu trữ, giao nhận hàng tiện ích cho chung cư, văn phòng và doanh nghiệp thời đại số.
TIL that Larry Ellison's Oracle started as a CIA project
Yesterday, Vox somehow managed to write an entire article about the history of Oracle and its founder Larry Ellison without mentioning the CIA even once.
The plot to kill Americans: Kennedy escalates attacks on vaccines
The Trump administration’s assault on vaccines and public health infrastructure represents nothing less than a plot to kill Americans through the deliberate spread of disease.
OpenAI Is Having a Mental Health Crisis
ChatGPT's mental health team is bleeding talent and facing controversy
Aluminium OS will be Google’s take on Android for PC
A job listing reveals the first details of Google’s fusion of Android and ChromeOS.
TIL that ultra-processed food make up two-thirds of the calories consumed by American children
Many states have proposed bans on the sale of ultraprocessed foods in schools. The problem is the way they define ultraprocessing.
Who here works for The Onion?
LOS GATOS, CA—In an attempt to fend off growing competition from Paramount and Netflix, Plex CEO Keith Valory announced Monday that the streaming platform had submitted a $35 bid for Warner Bros. Discovery. “We believe …
Today's gossipdle
Solve the daily gossip mystery! A logic grid puzzle game inspired by Einstein riddles.
Flights disrupted after Airbus discovers intense sun radiation could impact flight control data
The issue is thought to affect 6,000 planes, which will need to undergo an urgent software update or have computers replaced.
Gmail users warned to opt out of new feature - what we know
Those who use the popular platform are being urged to think very carefully about whether they want this setting enabled.
I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right.
My all-in AI experiment cost me my confidence
Qwen Image Edit Camera Control - a Hugging Face Space by linoyts
Upload an image and adjust camera angles, movement, and lens settings to transform it. Get a new image as a result.
Self hosting Signal server
Does anyone have any experience in successfully self-hosting Signal server using
docker? Thanks in advance. EDIT: Thanks all for your response. I gave up on
Signal and installing Matrix server instead.
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