VeraCrypt - Free Open source disk encryption with strong security for the Paranoid
this could be worth investigating, as a way to protect files in places like google drive for example
Caddy - The Ultimate Server with Automatic HTTPS
another web server app, open source and apparently popular. Would like to trial this on home systems
Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian
A bit scary tbh
Free Unlimited Text to Speech with Humanlike AI Voices | SoundWise ai
here's a tts app from soundwise / open.ai
It’s Time to Audit Your Flash Drives
this is kind of important... for someone who uses a lot of USB flash drives (and who might have experienced data loss in a big way already)
FreeOffice service: Portable installation
this FreeOffice app is not bad tbh, altho i'm not sure about the "free" aspect... seems like there might be some premium aspects. Anyway, they have a portable app, which is great.
How Did Elon Musk Turn Grok Into MechaHitler? - The American Prospect
an explainer for how musk turned grok into a far-right monster
Shangrao, China – Earth View from Google
earthview seems to be back online after a long disruption
Deskreen — Screen sharing and present screen: Turn any device into a secondary screen for your computer
this looks promising as an app for connecting laptop and tablet (for example)
OpenMANET
not sure i could ever build this, but good to see people are making open source mesh wifi happen in real world
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Deep Dream: An In-Depth Exploration - GeeksforGeeks
is this how you can run Deep Dream now...?
From Terminal to GUI: The Best Local LLM Tools Compared
good piece comparing the various Local LLM tools - ollama vs vLLM vs Transformers vs LM Studio
Running Kali Linux in a Docker Container – IT4HOME – IT and security
apparently this is how you install kali linux in docker... it's not making much sense to me i must admit, but making progress
OllamaDiffuser - Local AI Image Generation | Ollama-Style Stable Diffusion Tool
here's a bunch of image generation AI tools, under the banner of OllamaDiffuser
How to build a website for free in just 5 steps
basics of wix
4 Free Tools I Keep on My USB Drive to Fix Any Windows PC
Good tips here
The one ‘boring’ Docker container that completely transformed my home network
Seems rad
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AI in the Workplace 2025
research paper, download here
AI ‘workslop’ is creating unnecessary extra work. Here’s how we can stop it
important points here
Zed — The editor for what's next
interesting code editor, an IDE with many contributors, and built-in AI editing
How to Install DeepSeek R1 Locally on Linux
This one is complex... involves a combination of Docker with OpenWebGui for instaling DeepSeek on Ollama
First Nations artists warn against AI 'double colonisation' as Meta uses work for training - ABC News
Haven – MANET IP Mesh Radio (Digital Guide)
this looks kinda cool... a way to build a mesh network for eg bush doof
- We create cRPGs
a new educational repository for people learning to develop video games
I found an off-grid open source VPN, and it's amazing
looks promising
Releasing Common Corpus: the largest public domain dataset for training LLMs
aha, here is the Hugging Face Common Corpus dataset
nlpfromscratch/nlp-llms-resources: Master list of curated resources on NLP and LLMs
i can't work out if this list is intended to be public domain or not... i mean it's on github, so you would think the ideology would lean toward open source, but also they link to providers like the obvious Tech Bro Plundering Empires GPT etc
A LLM training dataset made up of only open or public domain content?
more info on the use of public domain dataset for LLM
The Common Pile v0.1: An 8TB Dataset of Public Domain and Openly Licensed Text
This is important... many people have been researching datasets with public domain resources
Tech companies are stealing our books, music and films for AI. It’s brazen theft and must be stopped | Anna Funder and Julia Powles
good points in this article, about the "extraordinarily brazen criminal" acts surrounding the whole AI /LLM industry
oday’s large-scale AI systems are founded on what appears to be an extraordinarily brazen criminal enterprise: the wholesale, unauthorised appropriation of every available book, work of art and piece of performance that can be rendered digital.