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mattl

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About mattl

Formerly at FSF, Creative Commons, GitLab. Founder and operator, Libre.fm and co-founded GNU social/the fediverse.

Website is https://mat.tl

Mostly writing stuff, considering careers outside of technology as AI slop takes over.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #44943059

    Bandwidth isn’t free of charge

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    Comment #44940866

    But it needs a server too?

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    Comment #44868950

    So should those users switch to a Mac or something else?

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    Comment #44585005

    I'm starting to see more and more sites want to block them too.

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    Comment #44567518

    You have to use Discord to login?

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    Comment #44564187

    https://support.apple.com/en-us/121430 * Navigation (in some countries and regions1) –– choose another app instead of the Apple Maps app to use when opening links for a location I …

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    Comment #44538668

    IRC/Mastodon

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    Comment #44538617

    Firefox is still there, but Mozilla is adding AI slop to it too. I’d love to see an extension to disable all that stuff, or ideally get rid of it and make it an extension

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    Comment #44538392

    Check your luggage for fries

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    Comment #44538381

    Yes it makes very little difference if I can see all your public published blog posts on a WordPress site by iterating the number.

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    Comment #44538368

    Make it so they have to change it when they login. But also do not allow a simple password to be used ever.

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    Comment #44533960

    Ha! I’m sure I asked you about this before but I think you hinted at one point about being able to supply PD on a format other than disc and I think you said not on cassette. What …

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    Comment #44526952

    If you haven’t yet i recommend their family plan. 5 accounts for less than the price of 2. This made sense for me as two of my family are already using it.

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    Comment #44525650

    For standard email, fastmail.com is very very good. Plus they're working on JMAP, which may actually improve standard email for everyone. If you're okay with a non-standard email a…

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    Comment #44525506

    They're not even trying to make a browser it seems.

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    Comment #44525501

    I don't understand how anyone doing open source can use something trained on other people's code as a tool for contributions. I wouldn't accept someone's copy and pasted code from …

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    Comment #44525403

    Can you tell me the user agent string for the browser? https://whatmyuseragent.com

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    Comment #44525394

    Previously GitLab self hosted, then GitHub... now I'm bringing it all under something I host again, so I can block AI bots.

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    Comment #44521395

    I don’t remember the last time I deleted an email. I’ve marked things as spam, archived things but not deleted in a long while.

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    Comment #44521381

    Is whichever part of Mozilla that runs Thunderbird going to rehire the rust team now?

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    Comment #44512775

    Did you download everything you needed before cancellation?

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    Comment #44505764

    What's the easiest way to block these?

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    Comment #44501457

    A lot of people don't want AI slop and don't want the companies pushing it to crawl their websites.

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    Comment #44501445

    Post a URL to a page on your website on something like Mastodon and tail your logs.