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Welcome to the Bear Den Hosting Bluesky account! The goal of this account is to talk tech and spread the word of a privacy and security focused managed hosting and private cloud provider that emphasizes individual attention and one-on-one teamwork! With us, your information is yours - not for sale!

As a reminder, Bear Den Hosting has private and secure email and cloud services that we are more than happy to set you up with! No AI, not now and not ever. Just humans working together for a better future away from Big Tech and AI slop. bear-den.org for more.

This is obviously false if you care to look, you're creating an American Exceptionalism. Backlash against AI is viral and common here in Norway and across the world. If you look in the US, your aunts and uncles are sharing AI generated political videos as well. Both can be true.

To any of the people who are trying out (or even fully switching to) AltStream... especially as the things it's supposed to be the 'alternate' to keeps being worse: Please consider supporting the platform on ko-fi. It is a community funded platform with no ads. altstream.online/support

Just so you all know, this little piss baby is upset that they got removed from the community for openly admitting to using GenAI to write lyrics for their music. Completely incapable of reading their surroundings, of which is an extremely anti-GenAI community. Eat shit, Slop Jockey. :)

A user of altstream posted about using AI to mangle something approximating music together. I would think it doesn't need to be said but our platform is a strictly no genAI space. If you promote it's use, you will be removed. It's that simple.

We are currently working on a bug that is preventing the media server from showing that folk are live on altstream. Sorry for the downtime, we will update you here when we have a fix.

UPDATE: PHP services have been restored following application of the patch and validating its application across the available services. All services provided use the latest PHP version available via Debian, which is now the patched PHP version, so nothing we run is vulnerable at this time. Thanks.

So this is one of those times where we're possibly gonna see chunks of the internet just fucking implode. This is what I would call "very not good". One of those times I'm *very* glad I'm out of the webdev/service manager game. Buckle up, it's gonna get bumpy.

URGENT NOTICE TO CLIENTS: Due to the severity of the PHP vulnerabilities found tonight, PHP has been disabled for Bear Den Hosting. This will impact MULTIPLE sites and services; we will update when the vulnerability is patched and service is restored. Thank you for your understanding.

I've got an initial implementation for altream.online integration into streamer. bot. Consider it in alpha, but I feel comfortable enough to open it up for broader testing. forgejo.bear-den.org/Ixvari/strea... Instructions on the repo!

Hi! We’ve not been around 6 years? We’ve been around 6 weeks.

It's #PortfolioDay again! It's me again, Danji Isthmus / Craftypillar / PlantBearGames I'm a variety artist who literally does anything artistic. I like trying new things to challenge myself. I make games, paint, write, sew, animate etc. Variety is how I stay happy. Website: craftypillar.art

If y'all don't like this, there is another option. ActivityPub is stable and mature, and it is waiting for you to come enjoy a good space with friends. social.bear-den.org is one way to start, though there are many others. If you can use email, you can use ActivityPub! 💖

We might not be able to get you a whole dollar in sponsor funds. But we can promise we're never scraping your streams.

What can we say other than thank you. Altstream has now hit 2000 registered users, just a few weeks ago we could scarcely imagine hitting this milestone! From a personal project for one streamer to get away from twitch we've grown into a thriving community, and you all made it happen!

Good morning from us at alt stream, and a huge thank you to everyone who has signed up to give our site a try! As of this morning we have passed 1500 registered users! We couldn't be doing this without all of you!

The site is running extremely stable, we have MistServer running well now too! I'm taking the weekend off doing any code, it's been a few weeks since I had time to just play anything, however if you need us for anything we're still around on socials and the Stoat / Discord. Enjoy streaming! ❤️

This is the beautiful kind of anti-AI advocacy that people can and should be doing. Props to AltStream for incorporating this! ❤️

"this wouldn't have existed without AI anyway, it's not taking away any potential jobs or opportunities" if you do not have the willingness or drive to make something without AI, then it shouldn't exist AI is built off of stolen labor. Want art? Do or fund the labor.

Migration still ongoing, we’re currently going through all the security setup first making sure everything is tight before moving our systems across. While that’s been happening, I’ve wrapped up the first iteration of a no auth required public API, It’s being tested currently for stability.

I've made a Stoat server version of our community Discord server! Because Discord is terrible, and people apparently don't want to go back to IRC and forums for some reason. You can join it here: stt.gg/ErtZ2YZV

Don't forget to look at smaller businesses as well for other needs! Bear Den Hosting is a small, LGBTQIA+ friendly hosting service for web, email, cloud, and social media - we'd love to talk to you about what we can do to help you break away from Big Tech!

I tagged them directly but would like help getting this to Sciggles + FA staff. It's not much but it could wipe out the income loss from dropping third party advertisers, based on their own numbers. Let's keep FA alive if we can!

Anisota / dame(dot)is / bsky38 / and more Using LLM's and coding and moderation on their websites and promotes their gen-ai work for hire. Mostly undisclosed unless you dig for the info -y tangled.org/pds.dad/infl... dame.is dame.is/available anisota.net/profile/did:... bsky.app/profile/did:...

Decentralization of communication is really the only way to avoid stuff like this happening since any platform that gets this big gets turned into a shareholder-driven techbro mess. Yay capitalism! Seeing as how I mainly belong to old MMO discords I doubt I'll be flagged, but who knows.

Well the thing that every sane person new was coming is here. Discord is a piece of shit but it's been a pain in the ass to try and drag people kicking and screaming towards using other things like IRC, forums, etc. I sure as shit ain't giving them my data, and I hope you don't either.

Since this has come up among people who follow this account: This is a veteran owned and run business. Yes, the focus is LGBTQIA+ support, privacy, and security. But if anyone believes that it's impossible due to the ownership by a veteran, well, we may not be the solution for your needs.

"use waterfox", they say. yeah, let me get right on that. i hear DDT was also a pretty remarkable pest control agent that was widespread pretty much everywhere. wonder why we stopped using that

Please be vocal about not using AI. We have to normalize it. No "I'm not going to say that because it should be assumed. I'm not going to give them this". We don't have time for that shit ideological shit right now. NOW is the time to capitalize on waning favorability. Ppl want human made

And if learning about this and the Harry Potter sex cult is fascinating, we highly recommend people check out the entire TESCREAL movement. It will offer so much enlightenment on why things are the way they are right now and let us all focus on ways to stop it from continuing (such as stopping AI).

Bluesky is implementing a secret "toxicity score." If you, like us, can see what this actually means (censoring of minorities, LGBTQ+, and boosting of "polite" bigots) then join us over in a place where you control your own experience - not AI and crypto types. social.bear-den.org for more!

It is fascinating to hear from people we know offline about Bluesky. A majority of them have tried it, but near universally they left because of the behavior of the staff. And these people are not computer touchers; they are average folks who checked it out because a friend suggested it.

This business is strongly anti-AI. We know the harms, the ecological disaster in the making, the cognitive decline it causes, and the sheer level of fascism it pushes. So why in the world, Bluesky users, would any of you who are pro-AI come in trying to spew your TESCREAL garbage at us? Why?

I am sorry to say Graphene has fallen to the slop. thread: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117226938743085364 they are making out that their vibe coding isn't *vibe* coding how dare you, which may be worse https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49591796

So a far-right Nazi party in Germany (AfD) has won an election and the first thing they did was thank Elon Musk. Y'all still on Twitter feeling good about this? Happy your money, clicks, and user count increase is funding fascism? Maybe try fascist-rejecting social.bear-den.org instead.

Dogposting. CC: @codingpa.ws and @heika.dog because I know they appreciate cute dogs. 💖

No surprise seeing EFF openly back the AI industry’s mass theft, in the same way it supported the crypto industry’s scams under the guise of ~decentralization~ Another org that so often defends the industry while trying to present itself as doing the opposite.

Remember, when studios say they can't offer anti-cheat on Linux what they are actually saying is "we can't install malware on your system."

so the paint.net dev is quadrupling down on his use of AI. Have y'all heard about Krita? it's Free! Aseprite? you can compile it yourself and it's Free! Goddamn shame i ever contributed financially to the paint.net