im back in America and i was driving yesterday enjoying myself, was even literally thinking about making a post like "America yeah, i kinda missed you but its pretty nice to be back home" and then i drove past 7 fucking flock surveillance cameras on my way home... changed my mind right away

the internet is less lonely when people actually pay attention to each other

i tried a snail for the first time in France, it was actually pretty decent

maybe that's enough fedi for today

i like how most people don't realize actual "military grade" just means all components were speced by the absolute cheapest bidder and everything was made to be as cheap as fucking possible.

database of choice:

and now i had the most fucked up experience in the train restaurant car. i ordered tea and tiny ice cream, guy charges me 9 euros (already wild), but then when i was paying:

he took the terminal with my card still inserted, turned it away from me, while looking at the back of my card, and asked "and what is your name...?"

like he was checking if i stole the card. apparently i don't look trustworthy enough? not wearing fancy clothes so i must be suspicious?

straight up profiling and invasive as hell. its my card, my name, my money fuck off.

watching snow out the window while drinking tea on a bullet train through Europe

what a vibe.

checks cloudflare status page

doesn't load because cloudflare is down

and people were asking me why I was using wiregaurd instead of "just using a cloudflare tunnel"

hi chat, I'm in Berlin for a few days, anyone around who wants to grab coffee or smthing?

people are actually completely missing the obvious? by starting a new federal investigation trump now can selectively release info against his political opponents while not releasing any of the info about himself.like its right there in the bill...

"DOJ is permitted to withhold certain information such as the personal information of victims and materials that would jeopardize an active federal investigation."

trump orders doj to start investigating Epstein, wow its almost like this is some kinda game he is playing, didnt a bill get proposed and a petition was signed to vote on it?

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4405

oh yeah there it is, wait what is that text in the bill?

"DOJ is permitted to withhold certain information such as the personal information of victims and materials that would jeopardize an active federal investigation."

oh. oh.... oh..........

yeah we are not getting the epstein files.

my new fav invisibility cloak

hi! do you live in Berlin, want to help me out with a little thing, and wanna make 50 eurodedooes? DM me!

hi fedi, looking for lawyer recommendations

i build safety/accessibility tools and honestly should probably talk to someone who knows digital rights law. need guidance on doing this work across different places (US/EU/Australia).

any recommendations? boosts appreciated

Big news! @altbot has a new home

So I drove 8 hours to deliver the server, and then it traveled ANOTHER 9 hours all the way to Chicago to live with my friends at Nulled LLC (small colo/VPS company). They've been incredibly generous with pricing to support the project, and also insanely patient with all my first-time-colo "stupid questions" lol

Why did I need to move it? Well Altbot generates hundreds of alt-texts daily, but also... my home network was getting targeted with DDoS attacks (not fun). This gives way better uptime, protection, and room to scale.

The journey has been honestly... crazy. it all started as a scrappy project, moved to a locally hosted LLM on my home server, and now it's properly colocated at a REAL datacenter!

Ongoing cost is ~$100/month for colo, plus future hardware upgrades (will need to get a 2nd GPU soon!). If you value what altbot does for fediverse accessibility and want to help keep it running:

GitHub Sponsors: https://github.com/sponsors/micr0-dev
Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/micr0byte
Monero: 862RNuw4KuhMWAoFQxPyUmP8E9jJTDv4EB7FTYeXuDVpNVW3QiCyokRWUHqTZ6xh1NR5j539jCQ7FZR4xG17GBqkRBKGDD2

Huge thanks to Nulled LLC for making this possible! <3

... and for the one who can't see this, thank you for everything. and I wish you were still here.

you know its bad when the error is "What the fuck happened here...."

/Genuine Question

Does claiming that evidence is "AI-Generated" actually stand up in court?

What about if someone attempt to claim AI-Generated content as evidence?

Has any of this happened yet?

I just voted! For my first time! :D