Uh, Mastodon exists?

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There is a learning curve, and different people have different approaches. Yours is to dive in, which means you will learn a lot quickly. I always go too slow and do a lot of smaller experiments along the way. I make fewer major mistakes, but am slow to adopt new software.

You will make it through this frustration and be actually helping others figure things out before you know it.

Don’t worry about the copying and pasting. Strangers on the internet care more about your success and well being than corporations anyway. I’ve been involved with the open source community for decades in one way or another and I have never - not once - encountered malicious code in a support forum.

So the people killing women for partially uncovering their hair are the good guys?

The people murdering thousands of protestors are the good guys?

So the religious fundamentalists imposing doctrine at gunpoint are the good guys?

I think the people protesting for their lives and freedoms are the good guys, but that’s just me.

Not exactly.

For context, a bill only needs one sponsor. Most bills have about 2 or 3 cosponsors. Signing a bill as a cosponsor is not the same as voting, which hasn’t happened yet.

Yes, thank goodness we saved Gaza by keeping those dems out of office.

Do you get that literally has nothing to do with what we are talking about here?

My top customizable FOSS launchers:

Kvaesisto
Search-based with native-themed widgets and app drawer. Lots of integrations, reliable, and my personal daily driver.

Lawnchair
Drop-in replacement for Pixel launcher with some friendly features. Very active development.

Ion Launcher
Automatic app folders by category and decent customization options.

Einstein Launcher
Highly customizable and built from scratch. It’s under 3MB and already pretty capable, although it’s a young project and still in alpha

Oh boy, the doomerism that drove low turnout among the left in the Presidential election is back!

Hey, nothing bad happened from skipping the last election right?

People don’t read them but I think that’s not usually the point. The people I know who have written them usually end up with boxes in their garage that they eventually give at to friends and family.

It’s still a nice accomplishment and a good personal growth thing.

I actually have no recollection of why some records had the big holes in the first place. Were there players with a chonky spindle in the middle?

Keep protesting for the people of Iran. Keep pressure on Western governments to act and support the Persian people. The Iranian people never wanted to live under a fundamentalist terror state.

Economic isolation against every individual official and commander killing their own people is the most important tool we have.

Keep the information channels open at all costs.

London:

Berlin:

Paris:

Just to be clear, companies know that LLMs are categorically bad at giving life advice/ emotional guidance. They also know that personal decision making is the most common use of the software. They could easily have guardrails in place to prevent it from doing that.

They will never do that.

This is by design. They want people to develop pseudo-emotional bonds with the software, and to trust the judgment in matters of life guidance. In the next year or so, some LLM projects will become profitable for the first time as advertisers flock to the platforms. Injecting ads into conversations with a trusted confidant is the goal. Incluencing human behaviour is the goal.

By 2028, we will be reading about “ChatGPT told teen to drink Pepsi until she went into a sugar coma.”

You can use a much better organized front-end instead with optional account login.

The headline also does not say the same thing that the post claims!

Headline: “15% of content” --> every 6th or 7th post or comment is a corporate troll

Article: “15% of subreddits contain” --> the vast majority of subreddits contain no troll content

Actual study: [file not found]

I also cannot find any Pew research study resembling the one described. The link is a 2017 report that doesn’t mention reddit.

Me, an intellectual: Yes, but which time are you referencing?

Too bad there’s no other way to get music /s

Disney could add Super Grover to the MCU at any time and chooses not to.

Lol the greyzone is a great source, if you’d like to know what the Putin regime says about something.

Just weird to say “I don’t trust reporting from a state-influenced source. I’ll wait until I hear reporting from media owned by a different state with an even more vested interest.”