⚡️TBOT 11: AI Companions Worse Than Porn, Why Your Word Doc Never Looks Right, Deep Sea Desalination, Find the Perfect XMPP Provider

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Here’s the stories for the week:

AI Companions Worse Than Porn: People are turning to to AI for companionship, seeking emotional connection. AI companies are more than happy to supply this drug, realizing personalized AI brings the most user enagement.

Why Your Word Doc Never Looks Right: Shots fired as LibreOffice, popular open-source office suite calls out Microsoft for their proprietary document format.

Deep Sea Desalination: Water shortages are leading companies to start pumping water from the deep sea. But is this safe? What’s the environmental impact?

Solutions: Find your perfect XMPP server: I love XMPP, although finding a server isn’t the easiest. That’s changing with providers.xmpp.net a project by XMPP community members to let you sort and find high quality servers.

🪄 We aim for our show to be well-researched, well-informed and focused on the most impactful stories all in about 20 minutes(ain’t nobody got more time than that)

⭐ PLUS - Each story comes with recommendations and there’s one cool tech trick or open-source solution every week.

We’ll be publishing full posts and clips of each of these stories soon.

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