Notices by Viss (viss@mastodon.social)

hey so if you dont want apple or amazon or google getting all your voice recordings by using their voice assistants...

home assistant is stepping up to the plate - you can control your home via voice, via home assistant, by using a local speech to text LLM

https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2025/04/02/release-20254/

bananas

https://engineering.berkeley.edu/news/2025/03/brain-to-voice-neuroprosthesis-restores-naturalistic-speech/

@JessTheUnstill it used to be possible to soft brick tvs that talked bluetooth if you named your phone with any emoji and tried to pair with them. some kinda parsing issue under the hood. 100% there are still bullshits out there you can absolutely wreck this way :D

go to the cloud they said
it'll be fine they said

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/streamelements-discloses-third-party-data-breach-after-hacker-leaks-data/

boy its been a minute since i had to make a post on a 'linux forum' of some kind, but, man, is it exactly like it was 20 years ago.

- i ask a question, if its possible to do a thing
- some rando replies smugly that its not possible and i should do more research
- i post the youtube video thats a month old, from the head developer of the thing in question, demonstrating how to do this impossible thing and how to go even further than that
- the guy goes 'oh wow!' and then smugly reiterates.

new seasons of last of us just dropped

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5207878-fungus-labeled-urgent-threat-by-cdc-is-spreading-rapidly-hospital-study-finds/

@dansup hell yes! fully onboard with importing all my IG stuff into pixelfed :D

@dansup @pixelfed finally! cant wait for this to land on android. ill be spending a lot more time on pixelfed once it doesnt make me squint if im using it in a dark room :D

@aral @molly0xfff it really does hurt the brain

its snowing in julian

https://hdontap.com/stream/228394/downtown-julian-live-webcam/

go to the cloud they said
it'll be fine they said

@briankrebs intentional backdoor. no cve gets assigned if the shits by design.

- i cannot overemphasize this: dont be the motherfucking mastodon hoa. the entire reason bsky has been as successful as it was, is because too many people here told people "how to behave" on their first day, or shamed them because "they werent doing it right"

if you want mastodon to thrive, you have to make it "worth it to come here". nobody likes being shamed by rando strangers.

when the bsky exodus happens, please remember these things:
- dont be the fucking mastodon hoa. everyone hates those people. nobody cares if you think someone should be using a platform "your way". it drives people away. fucking stop it.

- dont shame them for going to bsky. do not mock them, do not give them grief. they made a mistake, and if they come back here, dont shit on them for it.

- make them feel better by coming here, not worse.

@jerry its a fucking bloodbath out there right now

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/meta-defends-its-vast-book-torrenting-were-just-a-leech-no-proof-of-seeding/

hahahahah i cannot WAIT for the mpaa and the riaa to break out into hives over this.

in fact, if this works out for meta, i see a bunch of class action lawsuits targeting the mpaa and riaa to pay restitution for all the grandmas and other random people they sued and intimidated since metallica showed us who they really are

@Sempf @InsiderTreat hah! its been years since i did the flight sim thing (like years and years and years. remember falcon 4.0?) but im having pangs back to incredibly staggeringly dubious claims by a buy who said he 'made a plane fly sideways' once, and got a fuckboat of media coverage over it.

the shit ...

totally wouldnt fly today :D

@foone @ryanc bananas

@foone @ryanc fucking what. thats bonkers. the IT overhead alone. there are .. i dunno.. tens of thousands? there are some people who just shouldnt be allowed to make decisions, and the chick fil a people definitely have many of them in their employ. for this, and for the other evil bullshit they pull

@foone f... what