“Ridiculously Handsome Pansexual Lion”🦁 • He/They • Taken • Wannabe gamedev • Often wasting time with music • Netsec & Sysadmin Love • Also on Telegram • Now I use Arch, btw
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I think that free as in freedom doesn't imply it has no cost
you should pay for software you use, especially if its open source
The 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.
Mastodon is 100% the early days of social media all over. Some of you will already be familiar with this story.
My weather station (a very nice Netatmo that has served very well) crapped out after nearly 10 years of excellent service. I asked for recommendations here for a new station that would play nicely with #HomeAssistant, and hopefully, also HomeKit. I received *many* recommendations, with Ecowitt (and the brands it manufactures for) taking the lead.
A connection on here offered me their *unopened* Ecowitt weather station for a very generous price. It arrived yesterday, and I set it up, and it's already doing a great job. Works offline, talks to Home Assistant without any problems. I just need to do a couple of bits of configuration jiggery-pokery and it will pass data to HomeKit.
This is very much how things were when I first joined Twitter in 2007. In spite of attempts at #enshittification of everything, the #fediverse is putting up a good fight.
May your day online be as satisfying as mine was yesterday.
LATER EDIT: I’ve been thinking, and I do realise this good experience isn’t necessarily what happens for everyone. It’s still the case that too many good people don’t find a welcoming place here, especially if they are queer or of color. If this is you, know that I see you, and that I will always try to be welcoming and listening, even if you have things to say that bring me discomfort.
I made this for us(my bf and for myself) for valentine day! It was cropped to be two pfp.
Art and characters by me
#wolf #cute #fursona #love #mastodonartist #mastodonart #wolfart #cuteart #wolflove #valentinedaysart
"No" is a better privacy-enhancing technology than the state-of-the-art differential privacy techniques.
It's efficient! Not collecting data requires at most O(1) bandwidth, O(1) storage, and O(1) compute.
"No" is not "Maybe later".
"No" is not "Ask me again in 3 days".
"No" is not "Maybe after a few more beers", since many of the people that need to hear the first part of his message likely also needs the second.
This video was released by #Forbrukerrådet, the Norwegian #Consumer Council, a few days ago
It imagines the career trajectory of an "enshittificator"
It was hard for him to enshittify minor aspects of daily life in person, but became easy for him to do so at scale once he embraced the #Internet and #technology
It's genius #satire
credit:
Tóth Gábor Baltazár
Reading Recluse
Stephen Collins
bhdragoness
David Meyer
Soatok Dreamseeker
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