Amalia Zeichnerin
| Pronouns | He/him/they/them |
| Myers Briggs type | INFP, INTJ on a good day |
| Tarot Card | The Fool |
| Beatles or Elvis? | Primus |
WombatDhampir
@VampirePenguin
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GenXcellent. Ruefully Cishet. Lazy leftist. Angry Buddhist. Woke prole. Linux cowboy, Weird tourist, Polite pervert, Trash artist, Pixel pusher, Book schnozzler, Mind-stronaut, Leaf cruncher, Darkness bather. There's more of course, but you get the idea...
@arstechnica I prefer speaker, but not in public. Who are these people?! I hope this never happens near me, because when it does imma join the conversation.
@Haste I'm seriously considering going offline. I'm old enough to remember life before the internet, and sure maybe it's just nostalgia goggles, but it seems like people were happier then. I would have no problem going back to physical media and having IRL relationships. The promise of instant access has cheapened everything and made it disposable, including each other. And increasingly, the internet just seems like a sucking tube trying to devour the world whole.
@Daojoan No. The worst thing the internet did to reading was shortening ideas to the length of a social media post. You are in rarefied circles if the people you a surrounded by are competitively reading. The people I'm around brag, BRAG, about how few books they've read. Social posts from other semiliterates is high literature to these- and most- folks.
Randahl FinkGerman satirical artist Jacques Tilly has been sued in Russia by Vladimir Putin for defaming the Russian state by making carnival sculptures in Germany — outside Putin's dystopian jurisdiction — so it would be a real shame, if that made us share his artworks and embarrass Putin even further.
@NiwlCraft I have always hated Microsoft and Gates on a purely intuitive level that was at times hard to rationally justify. Like the way dogs can tell if someone has bad intentions. I need to trust myself more.
Reading RecluseThe LLM discourse on the Fediverse has really irked me the last few days.
Refusing to read writing made with the use of LLMs and refusing to give time to writers who use, promote or justify the use of LLMs is not purity culture, it's a boycott. It's a political act of withdrawing my time, resources and support for something that I find deeply morally wrong. It's protest. I have a choice and I refuse.
LLMs are exploitative, destructive, biased, mediocre parroting machines. Using them has a negative impact on the climate, the arts, the quality of the internet, the job market, the economy, the accessibility of electronics, even on skill development, creativity and mental health. LLMs are made and trained on the unpaid labour of millions -if not billions- of people who didn't consent. Their generic output litter the path to finding anything by true human creators.
Wherever I can, for as long as I can, I reject LLMs and anything that is related to them. I'm boycotting.
@indiewire No I won't disable my ad blocker. Ad servers are a huge vector for trackers, malware and other unsavory issues. Sorry not sorry.
@jbz I also feel this way. I love that it's a place for misfits and luminaries to work without artificial boundaries put in place by marketing weasels and money ghouls. I think that is the most baffling thing to outsiders about Linux. It's not a product. You're not a customer. It's a wilderness full of powerful tech and you are only limited by yourself.
@retro_brewz I want this so bad!