Who is he?

I hate politicians but love my country. Politicians are Job seekers who are good at manipulating people. Loves trolling

[Sassan Ordibehesht @S_Ordibehesht]

@JafarNajafov reader, it is inferior to the free Sumatra PDF (https://t.co/BkS7CXjp1c).
3/3

[Sentient @sentient_agency]

10 GITHUB REPOS FOR PEOPLE WHO WANT TO OWN THEIR ENTIRE DIGITAL LIFE

Bookmark every single one. Every company on this list rents you back your own data. These let you take it.

1. https://t.co/xsJLUZrJ2A
Stop trusting: Google Workspace.

Files, calendar, contacts, mail, video calls, and collaborative docs, all in one install on hardware you control. It runs on 500,000+ servers worldwide and several European governments use it in production. The full Google suite, minus the company reading everything. AGPL-3.0.

2. https://t.co/Qm55OR5YI1
Stop trusting: Google Photos.

Auto-backup from your phone, face recognition, map view, AI search, shared albums, everything Google Photos does, running on your own machine while it stops training its AI on your family. The single most satisfying self-hosting win there is. The app most self-hosters recommend first.

3. https://t.co/YkeCv528hs
Stop trusting: Netflix and Plex.

Stream your own movies, shows, and music to any device with zero subscription and zero telemetry. Plex hiked its lifetime pass to $250 and killed free remote streaming, so people left. Jellyfin asks for nothing and tracks nothing. 52K stars.

4. https://t.co/6yjmHQ3S8m
Stop trusting: 1Password and LastPass.

The entire Bitwarden server rewritten in Rust, running on a $5 box. Every official Bitwarden app on every device syncs to it. All the paid premium features unlocked, AES-256 encryption, zero per-seat fee. Your passwords on your own server. 59K stars.

5. https://t.co/TAAgMKA2MO
Stop trusting: Dropbox, iCloud, OneDrive.

Your devices sync directly to each other, peer to peer, end-to-end encrypted, with no server in the middle holding a copy. Pick a folder, add your devices, done. No account, no subscription, no company that can raise the price. 64K stars.

6. https://t.co/K0iUBV0dia
Stop trusting: Google Home and Amazon Alexa.

The hub that runs your entire smart home locally, lights, locks, sensors, cameras, without any of it phoning home to a tech giant. Your house keeps working even if the internet goes down. The most powerful home automation software made, and it's free.

7. https://t.co/Auus4Elbr5
Stop trusting: Evernote and Dropbox for documents.

Scan any document and it reads the text, tags it, archives it, and makes it instantly searchable. Receipts, contracts, insurance forms, all in one private archive on your machine. "I know I have that document somewhere" stops being a problem. 26K stars.

8. https://t.co/9GJZswxBjB
Stop trusting: GitHub.

A full self-hosted code platform, repos, issues, pull requests, CI, running on your own server. A community-driven fork of Gitea built to stay free and independent. Your code, your history, your infrastructure, owned by no one but you. Runs on almost nothing.

9. https://t.co/25tT1dHJH4
Stop trusting: every ad network watching your home.

A network-wide ad and tracker blocker that runs on your router and covers every device, including the smart TV and phone apps that have no extension system. One install protects the whole house. Free.

10. https://t.co/kRO73om68d
Stop trusting: paid monitoring services.

Once you self-host this much, you need to know it's all running. Uptime Kuma watches every service you own and pings you the second one goes down, in a clean dashboard that replaces $50/month tools. 84K stars.

One weekend of setup. A lifetime of owning your data.

[Proton Mail @ProtonMail]

If you use Gmail, you need to read this.

Google’s AI, Gemini, can read your emails, attachments, bank statements, etc.

For many, this feature was switched on without consent.

Here's how to turn it off 🧵

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[Param @ParamSiddh]

POV: you are using Claude opus 4.8

[Shimon Aine @ShimonAine]

The dance South Africa players had prepared to celebrate if they beat Mexico.
It didn't happen 🤣

[The Sigma Mindset @thesigmamindset]

Next time you're feeling sad or down remember what Eddie Murphy once said...

[Who is he? @DCowpeas]

@Zvoutete14 Baba watch 8 minutes of magic

https://t.co/of1TnSO4Yv

[Who is he? @DCowpeas]

@thaslickpastor https://t.co/75a89ctDP8

[Robert Wilkinson @robertwlk]

40 years ago today, l asked my childhood sweetheart, my best friend and the most gorgeous woman l know to marry me.

All three said no.

[Ayaan 🐧 @twtayaan]

The creator of Linux just publicly called out the AI hype. Word for word.

Linus Torvalds took the stage at Open Source Summit 2026 and said this:

"When I see people saying 99% of our code is written by AI, I literally get angry. Because those same people — I can pretty much guarantee — 100% of their code is written by compilers. But they never say that."

He is not anti AI. The Linux kernel saw a 20% jump in submissions this release because of AI tools. He uses it. He gets it.

His point is something most people are too afraid to say.

AI is a productivity tool exactly like compilers were. Compilers boosted programming by 1000x. AI adds another 10x on top. Enormous. But nobody says "the compiler wrote my code." So why are we saying AI wrote it?

He also flagged something nobody is talking about.

AI is flooding small open source projects with drive-by bug reports. Someone runs a prompt, files a report and disappears when asked for a patch. Maintainers with one or two people are drowning trying to keep up.

"Sometimes AI reports a bug and when you ask for more information the person has done that drive-by and does not even answer your question. That is the real burnout issue."

And his final warning was the sharpest of all.

"People who do not understand the complexity of systems will prompt systems and write processes that will fail."

The AI hype crowd is very loud right now.

Linus has been building real systems for 35 years. When he talks, engineers listen.

Full interview here:
https://t.co/LmXJtvKc4O

[Who is he? @DCowpeas]

@Grippa_Zw Koo hakuna dzisiri dzemabhachura here

[Dahn.K @EKabanda]

I always thought Sony WH 1000 XM5 had the best noise cancelation- until PSG changed my mind.

[Who is he? @DCowpeas]

@EmmanuelMotelin What is a third-world mentality

[Crazy Kennar @crazy_kennar]

BLENDING IN AS A FOREIGNER IS SOUTH AFRICA 😂😂😂😂😂

[Grafana @grafana]

🚨 We recently discovered that an unauthorized party obtained a token with access to the Grafana Labs GitHub environment, enabling the threat actor to download our codebase. (1/6)

[Who is he? @DCowpeas]

@ArtherChatora Do Lenovo or any other laptop manufacture make their own chips? Even Apple didn't till recently.

[Paideuma.TV @PaideumaTV]

https://t.co/sl9BSaRT5N

[Who is he? @DCowpeas]

@begottensun What about juice jacking

[Who is he? @DCowpeas]

@Mavhure This is AI though. Hakuna munhu anonzi mufara ane accent yaJemma