Say "No!" to IoT cybernetics

Mycroft, one of the few (if not only) self-hostable and open source voice assistant projects out there, has been litigated almost to the ground by a patent troll, company Voice Tech Corp.

They've asked for new investment, but not donations. I think we can help, regardless!

Mycroft's published a story of Mycroft and patent trolls about 2 years ago. You can get the ebook for about $10.00. I encourage you to buy if you want to support the Mycroft project!

https://mycroft.ai/product/mycroft-and-the-patent-trolls/

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Mycroft, one of the few (if not only) self-hostable and open source voice assistant projects out there, has been litigated almost to the ground by a patent troll, company Voice Tech Corp.

They've asked for new investment, but not donations. I think we can help, regardless!

Mycroft's published a story of Mycroft and patent trolls about 2 years ago. You can get the ebook for about $10.00. I encourage you to buy if you want to support the Mycroft project!

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Like 25 Feb 2023 at 21:02 | Open on fosstodon.org

Say "No!" to IoT cybernetics

Context: https://mycroft.ai/blog/update-from-the-ceo-part-1/

https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/13/linux_ai_assistant_killed_off/

Project: https://mycroft.ai/

Custom donation: https://mycroft.ai/product/donate-to-open-source/

25 Feb 2023 at 21:04 | Open on fosstodon.org

Say "No!" to IoT cybernetics

Upgrade from 20.04 to 22.04 for some folks at my job:

One couldn't boot (vg00 not found)

One managed to fly past 22.04 and upgraded to 22.10

Another can't connect to the WiFi at the office

And none of this was found in my testing 🤦‍♂️

Like 2 Nov 2022 at 17:10 | Open on fosstodon.org

Steven Rosenberg

@brandon Not great. Reinstalls, or time for a new distro?

2 Nov 2022 at 17:16 | Open on ruby.social

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Phil Baker 🇺🇸 🇺🇦

@brandon I have an Ubuntu dekstop/NAS that I brought forward from 18.10 through each upgrade cycle to to 21.10 without issue.

Then the upgrade to 22.04. GDM crashes, sound output randomly reverts to "Dummy Output", several packages are 'held back' every time I do software updates. It's a mess.

I just rebuilt an old PC to run Fedora desktop, and the NAS will be reverted to FreeBSD.

2 Nov 2022 at 18:30 | Open on fosstodon.org

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No, @itsfoss, it's really not

Like 3 Apr 2022 at 16:46 | Open on fosstodon.org

Say "No!" to IoT cybernetics

@Gargron Thank you for writing out the explanation of the idempotency header here: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/2402

Would it be possible to formalize this explanation in the docs or at least link to the stripe link in the API docs?

Like 9 May 2020 at 18:03 | Open on fosstodon.org

Eugen Rochko

@brandon Is the explanation there not sufficient?

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/methods/statuses/

10 May 2020 at 8:54 | Open on mastodon.social

Say "No!" to IoT cybernetics

Accessibility flaw with Mastodon web interface: You cannot post a toot with Right-Ctrl+Enter.

I know I made a joke-ish toot a few days ago about this but I realize that this would make it significantly harder for some folks to post toots.

cc: @Gargron

Like 2 Mar 2020 at 0:38 | Open on fosstodon.org

Eugen Rochko

@brandon Can't confirm, both CTRL buttons work exactly the same.

2 Mar 2020 at 0:40 | Open on mastodon.social

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