So the last month or so I have started the slow transition of deGoogling and other efforts... its scary because I've been using Google for 20 years. But I have jumped into the deep end with NextCloud and I cannot believe this is free. My only wish is that it was easier so that everyone could do it. It's pretty complicated but at the same time, so worth it to learn how!

If you have a web server and any experience managing hosted tools like Wordpress at all I highly recommend NextCloud. It's free software (you'd pay for hosting though...) and can replace all your Google producs and more: Gmail, Calendar, Tasks, Meet, Docs/Drive, Photos, Keep, Contacts, Google forms, Doodlepoll, Docusign, and more. It's even got a pretty cool self-hosted maps tool, but I haven't really played with the viability of replacing Google Maps with that yet. It's also got a self-hosted password manager, a recipe keeper and bookmarks manager if you want it (and more.)

Self hosing NextCloud has a steep learning curve if you're a beginner, but you can do it. The support community is pretty responsive and engaged. If you don't want to do it yourself, there are service providers who will host and support it for you with little effort from you, but that would remove the self-hosted data benefit (although most are data privacy centered).

Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) said sending troops from other states, “doesn’t make sense,” but she believes the district has little power to stop them.

That got us wondering: How would those governors feel if National Guard troops from other states were ordered onto their streets, perhaps to patrol one of the 53 cities in those states with a higher murder rate than Washington’s? After all, if D.C. is in the throes of a crime emergency worthy of a militarized response — and you have no concerns that response might backfire — then why aren’t the good people of Jackson, Mississippi or North Charleston, South Carolina?

So, we asked them.

Spokespeople for Governors Jeff Landry (Louisiana), Tate Reeves (Mississippi), Henry McMaster (South Carolina), Bill Lee (Tennessee), and Patrick Morrisey (West Virginia) did not respond to our request for comment.

Dan Tierney, a spokesperson for Gov. Mike DeWine (Ohio), sent the following statement:

“Ohio has traditionally helped the District of Columbia, Ohio mayors, and other states when they request assistance from the Ohio National Guard or the Ohio State Highway Patrol. Ohio has provided National Guard before to assist the District of Columbia with the inaugurations of both Donald Trump (R) and Joe Biden (D) as well as during the George Floyd protests,” Tierney wrote. “The National Guard was provided to Columbus and Cleveland in response to requests from Mayors Andrew Ginther (D) and Frank Jackson (D) during the same George Floyd Protests. The National Guard was also provided to help with natural disaster assistance to requests from Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R), North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper (D), and Louisiana Governor Jonathan Bel Edwards (D). We also believe Ohio was the only state to provide law enforcement officers, through the Ohio State Highway Patrol, to assist with the George Floyd/Derek Chauvin murder trial verdict through a request from Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D).”

According to a Democracy Docket analysis of the FBI’s Crime in the United States Annual Report, using Offenses Known to Law Enforcement, by State by City in 2024, 53 cities across Louisiana, Mississippi, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee and West Virginia had higher murder rates than D.C. in 2024.

And unlike when National Guardsmen assist in natural disaster recovery, these deployments are now facing legal challenges. The ACLU of West Virginia filed suit in state court Thursday to block Morrisey from sending 300-400 Guard members to D.C., arguing the deployment exceeds the governor’s constitutional and statutory authority.

Fucking good. Can citizens get in on suing the state/Governor? Asking for a friend.

I recently saw an ad for biscoff and I was surprised that people would eat them randomly. The only time I ever eat biscoff is on a plane when the flight attendant gives me some. Don't get me wrong I absolutely love them but I rarely think about it as something I can just go buy in a store. Seeing the ad was so jarring because to me it doesn't feel like something I should eat a lower altitudes

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I do not like the "Android" tip at the beginning lmao it can mean something very different

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Added several more "On The Air" activations:

• Historical Sites On The Air
• Inland Waterways On The Air
• Mills On The Air

If you know of others not in this list, please let us know.

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Looks like all of Murderbot, plus a couple other series. Supports World Central Kitchen.

Murderbot:

• All Systems Red
• Artificial Condition
• Rogue Protocol
• Exit Strategy
• Network Effect
• Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory
• Fugitive Telemetry
• System Collapse
• Rapport (Next book due 2026, not included)

The Rising World

• Witch King (Next book due October 2025, not included)

The Emilie Adventures (compilation of author's preferred editions of Emilie and the Hollow World and Emilie and the Sky World)

Wheel of the Infinite

The Book of Ile-Rien (compilation of author's preferred editions of The Element of Fire and The Death of the Necromancer)

City of Bones

L’intelligenza artificiale non è (ancora) così intelligente

L'articolo proviene da #StartMag e viene ricondiviso sulla comunità Lemmy @informatica
Nonostante le grandi promesse, l'intelligenza artificiale delude sul campo: nuovi studi evidenziano cali di produttività, fallimenti operativi e un divario crescente tra percezione e realtà. La Nota di James Hansen

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Guess the Episode

• 1 point for the episode/main plot.

• 1 point for the joke/scene.