Los Angeles medical examiner says former child actor Daveigh Chase died of AIDS

The cause of death for Chase, 35, was acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, according to online medical examiner records from this week that listed her last name as Schwallier. “Chronic polysubstance abuse” was listed under “other significant conditions.”

Chase was known for voicing the lead role of Lilo in Disney’s “Lilo & Stitch” and her performance in the 2002 horror film “The Ring.”

https://apnews.com/article/daveigh-chase-aids-cause-of-death-60133726cfe77ddc4c72510a66bfccee

can anyone comment on how good, or not good, search (for posts) is between self-hosted fedi platform apps good for single-user servers, such as #Snac2, #Mitra, #GoToSocial, #Bonfire, etc?

I am looking for search which is actually usable by someone who wishes to find things and perhaps sort what's found, unlike that provided by e.g. Mastodon, Akkoma, etc.

meanwhile, the actual problem with water demand: stress on, again, *local* *potable* water systems is 100% solvable with regulations.

will regulating evaporative cooling out of existence in areas where it's not appropriate offset the water use with electricity use? yes it will. so regulate that.

finally, not all data centers even default to evaporative cooling *now* when this is just blowing up in public awareness. please for the love of god do some research.

I am so tired of hearing people smart enough to know better screeching how AI is going to cause droughts, cause *flooding* (due to evaporated water raining out), or collapse agriculture due to water demand. do the fucking math. none of this will happen even with 100x current demand.

data centers with evaporative cooling can absolutely stress *local* *potable* water systems, but actual use is a drop in the bucket vs agriculture. seriously, do the math so you don't look ignorant.

...also, since Tails "upgraded" to Wayland, it's glitchy as hell running in VMs, but I anticipate being told it's not a supported use case and that Wayland is the future, so I don't bother reporting.

because the aim is to filter Discourse™ without too many false positives on general nerd discussion of genAI, it's interesting to see that this filter seems to be evolving to depend more on matching phrases and more on exact matches, as compared to my politics filter which seems to have a higher proportion of single words and substring/word-stems specified.

my genAI discourse filter is getting to the point where it's fairly useful with a good number of true positives. I've also cut a few frequent false positive terms from it recently.

the more deals like this get made, the more I see merit in increased suspicion of such grant-giving entities, which very few developers seem to share. and I guess I don't entirely blame them. a lot of people building the Fediverse are broke as fuck, and it's good to be paid for your work.

but when entities like the "Sovereign Tech Agency" start funding censorship infrastructure, and platforms like Delta Chat take a bunch of grant money from NLnet... we need to be aware of that. @maikel

...ahh okay, so that's the 1 level deeper story behind the kerfuffle I didn't dig further into this morning.

plausible 2027-2028 scenario: watch as the infrastructure funded by the "Sovereign Tech Agency" (aka the German government) is rapidly co-opted by governments to enact censorship. critical of Israeli apartheid? bam! you're on the DNI list, pal!

this goes along with wondering whether susceptibility to negative stimuli is a key part of what constitutes an "actual" depressive episode :kms:

starting to question whether I've actually been having a depressive episode with the increased lighting and certain other factors masking some of the symptoms such that it doesn't "feel" like one

looked into it and it appears to in fact be house centipede "season" 😫

2 house centipedes within 24 hours, NOT GOOD

the very first time I used the new meatballs drawer in #Firefox Android, I tapped the quit button instead of the refresh button 👍

my settings have "clear browsing data when quitting" turned on, so in practice I rarely quit unless I want to clear browsing data, so this nuked all my recent history.

maybe if Mozilla wasn't squandering immense resources on AI slop nobody wants, #UXfail like this wouldn't make it to general release.

I know there are a number of relentless Delta Chat boosters out there, and I get it - it's very promising - but the group moderation issues aren't gonna fly in the real world. Period.

After evaluating a number of E2EE decentralized chat alternatives, the one I ended up *actually using* with all its warts is #XMPP.

#DeltaChat is technically very interesting and I will keep a close eye on it, but until its severe issues with group moderation are fixed, it's a non-starter for anyone wishing to run groups with more than a handful of users who know each other personally. Its back-end tech stack is also not any less rickety than XMPP setups, and isn't easier to deploy either.

another morning, another 10+ terms added to the politics filter

Ring is rolling back many of the reforms it’s made in the last few years by easing police access to footage from millions of homes in the United States. This is a grave threat to civil liberties in the United States.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/amazon-ring-cashes-techno-authoritarianism-and-mass-surveillance #BigBrother #surveillance #SurveillanceState #Bezos #Amazon #dystopia #PoliceState

you know what that is? the philosophy of an advertiser.

my social media accounts are for my benefit. I will filter whatever I want, whenever I want, at all times.

I once read a post from someone who literally said "my struggle is not for you to just scroll past let alone filter" and I chuckled a little bit as I reached for the mute button