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Mozilla Firefox new alt-text generator powered by "fully private on-device AI model"
(hacks.mozilla.org)
left me stunlocked with this one icl
frogman
joined 1 year ago
on the surface they do a lot right. warrant canary, no logs, solid infrastructure, profitable.
for me, i really don't like the weird ways that they market. super misleading to imply that they make a person "anonymous" and/or greatly improve your privacy beyond you sending them your information instead of your isp. i also really dont like the lack of transparency, particularly with closed-source clients. i also really don't like the number of controversies that nord has been in, even insofar as getting hacked. i don't want my vpn provider to have any, let alone quite a few, of these controversies.
in terms of the model, proton is transitioning to a non-profit which reinforces why they are so well-regarded by the community. long history of doing right by consumers, where it matters most.
best post on here in ages, im in love
anyone know what kind of snails these are? i want one
my bad, i misunderstood. thanks.
i don't think we disagree in a vacuum but bringing that up in the context of this particular thread is probably unhelpful
beehaw is a safe-space, we shouldnt villify the experiences/needs of people who need alt-text. this could be game changing for people who need it.
Months ago you mentioned a Bumble-like app designed specifically for queer people, do you remember it? 👀 A person could post about events like a queer cinema night out.
so cool man, thanks for sharing this
if it makes you happy, use the term. no need to get caught up in all this nonsense unless you see it's hurting somebody (which im sure it isnt) :p
i doubt you'll get banned lol, it's probably not that deep to the admins.
if anyone is concerned about it, just open the instance ToS and ctrl+f "name". im sure it's not important.
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image:
screenshot of a Tweet from Running With Scissors reading
"We've been told our games are too expensive in some countries but we've been using Steam's recommended pricing for a while. We trust Valve enough to not change this. If our games are still too expensive for you, you can pirate them until you have enough to support us."
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Scientists Create New Material Five Times Lighter and Four Times Stronger Than Steel
(scitechdaily.com)
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Song Recommendation: Your Young Voice - King Creosote & Jon Hopkins
(kingcreosotejonhopkins.bandcamp.com)
We're reaching the end of an era wherein billions of dollars of investor money was shovelled into tech startups to build large user-bases, and now those companies (now monoliths) are beginning to constrict their user-bases and squeeze for every single penny they can possibly extract. Fair or not.
Now more than ever, it's important for us to step back and reconsider whether we want to be billboards for these companies anymore.
For anyone unfamiliar, some good resources to have when starting your degoogling journey are below:
Privacy Guides - A list of privacy-respecting services you can use.
Plexus - A crowdsourced information bank of service compatibility with degoogled devices.
This random PDF - A study from 2018 detailing data that Google tracks about its' users.
Thinking of self-hosting some basic tools; SearxNG, Bitwarden, Lemmy.
What kind of tools are you self-hosting right now? Which ones are easy to manage, which ones are awkward? 👀
Looking for some romances that aren't so childish. I'm okay with a high-school setting if the characters don't feel like infantile, for example Sakurasou vs Your Lie In April.
To start, some I enjoyed are:
Science Fell in Love, So I Tried to Prove It
What do you guys think of the idea of smart homes? I could make a basic setup using https://home-assistant.io to control my home temperature and lighting; the tools for doing this are everywhere nowadays and implementation doesn't seem too horrific anymore.
But setting aside what I "can" do, is this something that I "should" do? How can a person implement this without connecting any devices to the internet?
A quote loosely attributed to Aldous Huxley, but contested here.
"The perfect dictatorship would have the appearance of democracy, a prison without walls in which the prisoners would not dream of escape. A system of slavery where, through consumption and entertainment, slaves would love their servitude."
I interpret this as pro-socialist, but it seems it has roots in anti-communism? Food for thought nonetheless
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seems pretty epic to me! :p