Tailscale is Canadian

Ah, nice. I actually didn’t realize that. They are also open source friendly https://tailscale.com/opensource I don’t hate Tailscale, btw. They seem nice.

But, I like Netbird lets you self-host the server components. And, an important feature for me, is that Netbird doesn’t require me to create an account with Big Tech to use the service. Right now I created a dummy account with GitHub just to use Tailscale, Netbird just allows me to create a username and password. E-Z P-Z. No extra hoops to jump through.

After switching to Netbird, I’ll be able to get completely off of GitHub.

Nope. I’m trying to move further away from US proprietary tech, not towards it. I’m currently using Tailscale, but I’m looking at moving to Netbird because it’s open source and European.

Sounds right != Right

https://piefed.social/c/fuck_ai/p/1978003/ai-slop-and-science-creators-why-you-can-t-trust-it-and-how-to-spot-it

Packaged with a delightful new UI/UX, it’s hardware and software engineered as a true alternative to Big Tech.

Is this just Android with a custom skin? Or a real alternative like SailfishOS from Jolla?

Also, this reminded me of the n-gate website: http://n-gate.com/software/

Put it on fruit.

Wow, great video. I liked the overview of how HTTPS/TLS works.

That’s enough to season your fruit. 😋

Yeah, I hear the Spanish say: “Siete coma cinco”

See also: https://youtu.be/xcq5XYkFJfY?t=705

for why using it “responsibly” is super hard, even if you’re an expert. We’re hardwired to take mental shortcuts, so we might not even realize we’re using heuristics or falling for cognitive biases when fact checking the AI.

Great video, thanks!

15:35 - “the main thing that pisses me off” Uff. Felt that. Whenever one of my coworkers sends me some AI mountain of slop. First off, I can’t trust what this says. Second, IDAGF what the AI thinks. I asked for YOUR thoughts.

Also, I forgot about anchoring bias when working with AI slop. Very good to call it out.

1. Dental Support Organizations (DSOs) (orgs that dentists use to help them with the business side of things) treat dentists more like sales people and push more expensive and unnecessary procedures.

2. Dental insurance doesn’t work like health insurance, it’s more like a discount coupon for the dentist and the limits for coverage are really low.

but used responsibly

That’s like the most incredibly hard part of all of this. Everything is aligned so that you don’t use it responsibly. And it’s really hard to guard against this.

Just a few days ago, I was pairing with a coworker and he was using Claude to do a bunch of stuff. He didn’t check any of it. I thought he was gonna check stuff before pushing stuff… And nope! I said, “Wait, shouldn’t we review the changes to make sure they’re correct?” And he said, “Nah, it’s probably fine. I trust it. Plus, even if it’s wrong, we’ll just blame the AI and we can just fix it later.”

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Yes, checking the work would have negated all of the “time saved” and he was being a lazy fuck.

People who don’t like coding or engineering use this and they are not interested in using this responsibly.

All of these seem like heavy weight note-taking apps.

Penne pasta

laughs in Spanish

I currently use the official audiobookshelf app. It’s really slow and buggy for me. Every time I open it, it says it’s disconnected from the server. Then I have to click a button for it to reconnect.

What makes you say that?

They pulled the Signal messages from an iPhone… https://www.forbes.com/sites/larsdaniel/2026/04/10/fbi-pulled-deleted-signal-messages-from-an-iphone-without-breaking-encryption/

I would use a passphrase instead of a password. Make it a meaningful phrase and it’ll be hard to forget.

I had a password that I committed to muscle memory once… and then my muscle memory disappeared and my brain memory didn’t remember it… and… it was not good… 😅

Passphrase 1000% I’ve never had trouble remembering my passphrase.