Ready to #deGoogle 💯 per cent?

We've reviewed the top five smartphones that help you go Google-free in 2026.

@volla
@Fairphone
@murena
#SHIFTphone
#Punkt

Which one is your favorite?

➡️ https://tuta.com/blog/degoogled-phones

44 Photos That Will Take You Back To The Early Years Of Computers

By Austin Harvey

"Technology has advanced exponentially since the release of the first personal computer in 1974, but these vintage photos capture the time before handheld devices and social media."

https://allthatsinteresting.com/vintage-computer-photos

Books about computers at PG:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=computer

#history #technology

Perplexity is now crying because their plagiarism machine cannot bypass Cloudflare's firewall. How about you start paying for stealing others' content to train your shity AI?

Perplexity Says Cloudflare Is Blocking Legitimate AI Assistants https://www.searchenginejournal.com/perplexity-says-cloudflare-is-blocking-legitimate-ai-assistants/552927/

There is no Legitimate LLM or AI if takes all content without permission and these companies sell their services for money. It is stealing. Plain and simple.

GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation: GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke has resigned, and now GitHub will be part of Microsoft’s core AI engineering team. Github is no longer independent company.

https://www.theverge.com/news/757461/microsoft-github-thomas-dohmke-resignation-coreai-team-transition

Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/

When developers are allowed to use AI tools, they take 19% longer to complete issues—a significant slowdown that goes against developer beliefs and expert forecasts. This gap between perception and reality is striking. Basically, using AI tools slows you down as you spend more time rewriting prompts to fix your code.