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We already have something that actually can achieve the human-level performance that keeps being claimed by these charlatans yet not attained, it’s called humans. Imagine what investing $7 trillion in humans could accomplish.

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@datakid The ongoing erosion of my ability to tell where information I enter into any random text box on my computer is sent and stored has me increasingly tempted to switch back to a 386 and WordPerfect 5.whatever for MS-DOS

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For those who aren’t aware, Microsoft have decided to bake essentially an infostealer into base Windows OS and enable by default.

From the Microsoft FAQ: “Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers."

Info is stored locally - but rather than something like Redline stealing your local browser password vault, now they can just steal the last 3 months of everything you’ve typed and viewed in one database.

oh wow I had a great long weekend disconnecting from cyberspace. I'm excited to take this energy and write some code this week 😈💜

From now on instead of a phone, I just have a raspberry pi strapped to my belt buckle with a giant battery pack in my backpack and a keyboard on my arm

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Just read an article about how Apple is going to incorporate openAI into the next iOS and it made me realize I need to maybe get a pine phone

I know this is going to be an opinion that a lot of people disagree with, but hear me out:

If you're going to "game-ify" your service... make it optional.

I'm not talking "you can just ignore it" optional. I'm not talking "just don't take it seriously" optional.

No. Let me disable it.

I want to use DuoLingo and NOT know what my ranking is or who my stuff is being compared to or what my score is? Let me.

I want to disable achievements on my Xbox or Steam? Let me.

It's not that hard.

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SaaS kinda feels like extortion sometimes. Bht I guess that's the core of capitalism?

Thinking about how Mozilla is "pivoting to AI" but DeepSpeech, one of the very few "AI" products you could possibly find a positive use for (pure-local speech recognition), is not only a Mozilla product but so abandoned that you actually have to downgrade to Python 3.9 to run it

@makeworld a few things tbh.

1. Thinking about mobile first. A lot of protocols end up focusing on desktop to server or desktop to desktop and don't account for stuff like NAT or intermittant uptimes. There's also the fact that storage modules take mobile storage location needs out of the box. Socket supply's packet routing is a bit better for networking and I think the holepunch dht is better for handling churn.

Can't wait for loops to get released so I can ditch tiktok like I ditched twitter. Ads and algos give me too much psychic damage.

What if I run my matrix server as something behind a hidden server and just talk to postgres directly? I can skip pretending like I acre about anything other than the database. Http apis are just
in the way compared to raw SQL

I seriously think this is the missing piece for those "computer in your house" startups. I worked a bit with one in the past and I really wish they figured out the how. Veilid with a web browser frontend seems great. I guess provided the speed keeps up? I hope it's faster than tor or i2p. The mobile first approach is my fave part I think.

Socket Supply is another great contender. I wish it didn't need to have each app loaded as seperate native apps instead of instantly. It makes sense why tho

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For real though I'm so pumped about I can't shut up about it at work. I wanna set some time aside for running http services behind tunnels and to wire the front end to @agregore so I can make it easier for folks to self host services which they can access from anywhere

I am greatful to the QT/KDE and GTK ui duopoly for allowing me to run my apps without either shell. It feels so good to be rid kf the clutter taking up CPU and disk read times.

i think the only thing I need to figure out is Matrix as a systemd daemon I can connect with a TUI so I can have multiple windows open

I have been seeding so many "Linux ISOs" and "Big Buck Bunny.avi" (copyright friendly open source movie) that my regular internet speed has ground to a halt. I've got my up bandwidth *saturated* over here 😎

Honestly my online socialization skills have gotten weaker since I started prioritizing my offline self more.

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