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· 18 Kislev 5786 (Monday 8 December 2025) · 1 minute to read

From the Woopsie Doodle! Dept.: Elon Musk's AI chatbot has been caught handing out home addresses of ordinary individuals on demand, and was willing to provide step-by-step instructions on how to stalk these people when prompted. https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/privacy-concerns-raised-as-grok-ai-found-to-be-a-stalkers-best-friend

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· 18 Kislev 5786 (Monday 8 December 2025) · 1 minute to read

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Timothy Appleby 🎄 (mastodon.stickbear.me)

@vol4life8657 Yes. RAM is expensive now.

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· 18 Kislev 5786 (Monday 8 December 2025) · 1 minute to read

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Wil James🍻 (tweesecake.social)

@FreakyFwoof @mikedoise Yeah I know but we have two rigs we need to replace so that's going to take some time.

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· 18 Kislev 5786 (Monday 8 December 2025) · 1 minute to read

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Andre Louis (universeodon.com)

@mikedoise Downloading. Thanks!

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· 18 Kislev 5786 (Monday 8 December 2025) · 1 minute to read

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Michael Doise (techopolis.social)

@FreakyFwoof They're Elektron, and they use the new Edge rendering engine like all other apps for Windows.

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· 18 Kislev 5786 (Monday 8 December 2025) · 1 minute to read

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Michael Doise (techopolis.social)

@FreakyFwoof Yes they are.

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· 18 Kislev 5786 (Monday 8 December 2025) · 1 minute to read

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Andre Louis (universeodon.com)

@mikedoise I'm not sure this little notebook would handle it. It chokes on Spotify and Whatsapp, to say nothing of the two running together.

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· 18 Kislev 5786 (Monday 8 December 2025) · 1 minute to read

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Andre Louis (universeodon.com)

@mikedoise I forgot about Audio Quake.

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· 18 Kislev 5786 (Monday 8 December 2025) · 1 minute to read

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Michael Doise (techopolis.social)

And yes, a lot of them went to Bluesky and Threads. Which is frankly a good thing, Mastodon is bad enough on its own and getting worse.

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· 18 Kislev 5786 (Monday 8 December 2025) · 1 minute to read

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Michael Doise (techopolis.social)

Which is why I'm following you and you keep making it past my semi-regular purges.

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· 18 Kislev 5786 (Monday 8 December 2025) · 1 minute to read

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Michael Doise (techopolis.social)

We tried that. It was the early days of Mastodon before the great Twitter migration.