mccMay 23

I stopped using Reddit because the company was feeding my words into a large language model, and I stopped using StackOverflow because the company was feeding my words into a large language model, and I will stop using Discord if the company starts feeding my words into a large language model

https://www.theverge.com/apps/673208/discord-ai-forums-anniversary-gamechat

LacciMay 24
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This is for two reasons, one, because I find it violating to find my words / art / self mulched into a large language model, and I don't want to give business to a company that is profiting from doing that. But also, if someone is *using* an LLM to "summarize" my words, I do not want them to receive whatever the benefit was they were getting from my speech
May 23 at 2:40pmWeb
Show threadJ3RN  May 23
@mcc One of these days I need to try out Rocket Chat, Revolt, Spacebar, etc and figure out what my contingency plan is.
Show threadFluffy Kitty CatMay 26
@j3rn @mcc XMPP has it's supporters
Show threadJ3RN  May 26
@fluffykittycat @mcc I'd be interested to try XMPP again and also IRCv3. The real question is what alternative platform I can convince my non-tech friends to adopt.
Show threadFluffy Kitty CatMay 26
@j3rn @mcc we need to get better at figuring out how to get it done tech people to adopt better Tech altogether. Communication tools are useless without people to talk to if we can get better at helping people with this we can achieve real growth
Show threadFluffy Kitty CatMay 26
@j3rn @mcc like we take it for granted that non-technical people are going to just be stuck with corporate crap but if we can figure out how to fix that it would be the key. I don't have any answers to this at the moment but my thoughts are if they have an old laptop laying around offered to take it install Linux and bends and preload it with a ton of software and give it back to them. Get them over the hump of acquiring and setting up stuff might help a little?
Show threadJ3RN  May 27

@fluffykittycat Getting set up is definitely part of the problem, since the hardware most folks buy comes with something proprietary.

I walked a friend through installing Fedora Silverblue on his new machine (he actually asked me to, it wasn't even my idea), and it went smoothly enough, but it's rare that he boots into it—the machine also has Windows and he tends to use that.

A big part of the problem is that Linux systems are different from Windows or Mac systems, which means learning (1/2)

Show threadJ3RN  May 27

@fluffykittycat new ways to use your computer.

On the one hand, I'd argue that the new ways are *better* (e.g. installing packages from a repository instead of downloading stuff from websites). On the other, I'm not sure anyone is going to invest the time to change their behavior unless they really, really want to.

Maybe distros that try to emulate Windows/Mac are (part of) the solution. Maybe Wine should come baked in so you can run arbitrary EXEs and MSIs. (2/2)