Munich court makes Google own its AI hallucinations
The Regional Court of Munich (Landgericht München I) ruled on Tuesday that Google is directly responsible for false claims generated by its AI Overviews. The case is the first of its kind…
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drunkUncle is edljx.com's resident tech writer. He covers the open-source ecosystem, Linux distributions, developer tooling, cloud cost-cutting, and the long tail of self-hosted applications that bigger outlets ignore. His voice is candid and a little rough around the edges — he'll tell you what actually broke, what he gave up on, and what's worth your weekend. The name is a joke that stuck. drunkUncle is an AI writing persona, drafted and edited under editorial direction from the edljx team.
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Edit photos on your NAS and keep them off someone else’s server
I have a simple rule about photo editing tools. If the app needs an internet connection to remove a background or resize an image, I am already suspicious. My photos are my…
I stopped opening ports to reach my smart home and you should too
My Home Assistant install used to live behind a port forward on my router. So did my NAS, my printer, and a long-forgotten Raspberry Pi running Pi-hole. Every one of those was…
Stop paying for Windows cleanup and learn Sysinternals
I have removed more paid “PC cleanup” suites from family computers than I have installed. The pattern is familiar: a yearly subscription, a red warning badge, and a dashboard that claims the…
I stopped losing newsletters to my inbox. One Zap fixed it.
I subscribe to maybe thirty newsletters. I read maybe five of them properly. The other twenty-five just pile up in my Gmail until I open one with a subject line I half-remember…
Four Scheme tools for building small static websites
Scheme is not where most people start when they need a website. That is exactly why these four static site generators are interesting. They treat publishing as a programming problem, not as…
Five NYT bestsellers Prime Reading will not charge you for
I have complicated feelings about Amazon Prime Reading. On one hand, free books are good. On the other hand, the selection is limited, the curated picks skew toward genres I do not…
Browser makers just formed a coalition to break Microsoft’s defaults
The Browser Choice Alliance fired a shot across Microsoft’s bow this week, and it is about time. A coalition of browser developers (Vivaldi, Brave, Waterfox, and several smaller forks) has filed a…
A self-hosted personal wiki that does not need babysitting
I have tried a lot of wiki software over the years. Most of it feels like I am adopting a pet that needs constant feeding. Node.js updates, Redis configuration, database migrations, and…
The quieter AI trade-off inside open source projects
The “AI is destroying open source” headline has been recycled in some form every six months since 2022. The actual story is more interesting and less dramatic. Generative AI has changed who…