Maybe things have improved but the last time I tried the Home Assistant er- assistant, it was garbage at anything other than the most basic commands given perfectly.

The Xeelee series is pretty great if you’re looking for another multi-book commitment

not really the fediverse if its not federated is it

If you want something you don’t have to fuss over, that’s very stable (but also gets frequent updates), and “just works” with most games? Bazzite is your answer.

lol man RFK is not in charge of stanford. Quit “being concerned” about real science. It hurts everyone

Thanks for clarifying, after I left that comment I realized I had the order of events reversed!

Not using an ActivityPub based platform has it’s drawbacks I guess

When I first became aware of it, I did not expect this story to become a good case for worker’s rights and ensuring everyone has enough rest but here we are.

I agree with you. For better or worse, I have to imagine a lot of people who’s job relies on pumping out regular articles use LLMs to get the ball rolling. Which is what appears to have happened here.

Thanks for sharing, I was wondering if he would say anything about it. They seem to be handling it well.

As soon as I heard about this I knew 404 Media would be on top of it. Very happy with my subscription there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bypass_Paywalls_Clean

It’s not, but you bring up a very good point about responsibility. We need to be using language like that and not feeding into the hype.

I don’t even like calling LLMs “AI” because it gives a false impression of their capabilities.

I think there is value in the concept of a government-operated “social media” website that’s open for public comment on laws, policies, etc, and requires proof of occupancy in order to participate.

But government “identity verification” to participate on the internet at large is tyranny.

I loved this episode, it was really funny to hear “normal” people navigating getting an instance up and running, but they did without too much trouble. They also have 7K monthly active users since creating it, which is a great infusion of fresh blood to the fediverse.

Yeah good points there, and I certainly didn’t mean to imply ads were historically better on the whole. Ads from a a century ago also featured a significantly greater amount of flat out lying about their products, especially when it came to medicines and “tonics”.

But even if we accept that their honesty has improved (dubious) I do think advertising today has become more intrusive, and the function of advertising is today is more about disrupting our focus than it ever has been.

100% agree

It doesn’t have decent anything yet but it’ll get there eventually. The voice chat is actually one of it’s stronger points IMO.

Great! I appreciate the response. There is an app called Zerocam that removes a ton of the algorithmic processing and the results look great, but they have a subscription model now 🤮 I would love a FOSS replacement.

Until someone comes up with private Immich managed hosting that has shared albums and doesn’t cost a fortune, I have to stick with Google photos. Other than that, google Maps (nothing compares, sorry) and an old gmail address I don’t want to delete just in case someone needs to reach me, that’s all I use.