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Setup Home Assistant to post (Toot) to Mastodon via an automation

Meta is planning on joining the fediverse. There are early plans on making a decentralized network with ActivityPub, so that it connects to the fediverse. This lead to a lot of different reactions within the community. This article documents some of the different types of responses.

If you bought a Remarkable 2, the price is probably fine.

The pleasure-seeking behind today’s righteous causes

If you use a Chromebook as your daily computer, there are a lot of keyboard shortcuts you can use to ramp up your productivity. Here are some of our favorites.

Airship technology has been around for over 150 years, but fell out of favor in the 1930s. Now, interest in the low-emission, lighter-than-air transport is reviving as a sustainable solution for logistics across the globe.

For many years now, I’ve talked about why so many of the problems that face the current internet could be understood by looking at how we moved from an internet dominated by open protocols to…

Bloomberg Technology reports on the self-destruction of a Silicon Valley icon in the podcast Foundering: The John McAfee Story.

Audio company reveals new details about its big plans for video

Emily M. Bender, Alexander Koller. Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. 2020.

And a chatbot is not a human. And a linguist named Emily M. Bender is very worried what will happen when we forget this.

To divine what will happen to Twitter, just look to other social networks that changed under new owners.

Today I’m featuring Sindre Sorhus and celebrating the One Year Anniversary of Indie Dev Monday.

A new feature that generates natural language answers to search queries using Wikipedia.

DuckDuckGo's new DuckAssist tool launched in beta Wednesday, bringing ChatGPT powered results to users of its apps and browser extensions. DuckAssist's answers are limited to sources like Wikipedia to avoid the AI insanity we've seen from similar tools.

Want to level up your ChatGPT experience? Learn how to integrate TextExpander with ChatGPT to create and manage frequently used commands to get the information you need—every time!

Mastodon does not always pull responses to posts from other instances through to your own instance. This means that if you read a post from another server, you may not see all replies. This post provides a GitHub Action that can help push remote replies into your home instance.

James is joined by Iconfactory principal and designer, Gedeon Maheux to talk about the week that saw Twitter nuke API access for the 3rd party apps such as Twitterrific.

Welcome to this edition of Weekly Musings, where each Wednesday I share some thoughts about what's caught my interest in the last seven d...

I had a sleepless morning and decided to flesh out a Howzit feature I’ve been meaning to get around to. In case you’ve missed it, Howzit is my “Markdown makefile” tool that allows you to keep track

“If you make a change right now, everything breaks.”

A tutorial on how to build datasets from the hidden feeds powering almost every website on the internet

OptOut aims to be a daily news app "100% free from corporate media narratives."

When we talk about technology, we often talk about the people behind some of the amazing inventions and technologies that we use everyday…

AI-chatbot software for complex requirements

DaVinci Resolve is an all in one professional level video editing app that includes color grading, color correction, visual effects, and audio post-production. DaVinci Resolve is available for macO…