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@lo__
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don't take my word for it

I'm an electrician.

I dare you to use ChatGPT to wire a plug.

This is why AI is absolute horse shit.

#chatgpt #aibullshit #aiisdangerous

RE: https://mstdn.social/@TechCrunch/116002492150627749

I've been disabling telemetry on #Firefox of late, but I think I'll turn it back on so that #Mozilla knows I disabled #genAI

#Mozilla is losing their mind. They're now promoting themselves with #AI-generated red panda videos, and doubling down on AI apologetics:

"AI isn’t just another tech trend — it’s at the heart of most apps, tools and technology we use today."

#Firefox is in dire straits. It needs to be rescued from Mozilla.

Why does Pebble even need one single "app store" in the first place? Can they both just commit to making an open platform, like F-Droid with multiple repositories?

#Pebble #Rebble #CoreDevices

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@kajer @lo__ @kkarhan Hi! Sorry to revive this thread but I restarted development from scratch on my browser that I joked about making but now it's on macOS instead.

This is how it’s like, much better than the last screenshot. It's not perfect but it can parse and render HTML. C for backend, Swift for rendering and eventually Kuroko for plugin scripting.

Inori is currently at https://codeberg.org/NerdNextDoor/inori.

Eventually, I'll make https://inori.nerdnextdoor.net.

#Reddit's #Privacy moderators also censored a New York Times tech journalist's post for "promoting a blog".

The #journalist had written out a lengthy post **exclusively for people on Reddit** and was actively engaging with users and answering their questions before moderators shut it down.

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1lp6m4j/i_tried_and_failed_to_disappear_from_the_internet/

The #Reddit #Privacy community moderators still censor posts that are inconvenient to the American surveillance apparatus.

This one's title:
"The #Trump administration is building a national citizenship data system"

Reason for removal is allegedly "FUD" and "slander" and "conspiracy theories."

2011—"For the past few days, a mystery has been unfolding in Silicon Valley. Somebody, it seems, hired Burson-Marsteller, a top public-relations firm, to pitch anti-Google stories to newspapers, urging them to investigate claims that Google was invading people’s privacy."

Fun bit of #InternetHistory.

#Facebook #Google

http://web.archive.org/web/20110514183954/http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-05-12/facebook-busted-in-clumsy-smear-attempt-on-google/full/

Facebook Busted in Clumsy Smear Attempt on Google

The social network secretly hired a PR firm to plant negative stories about the search giant, The Daily Beast's Dan Lyons reveals—a caper that is blowing up in their face, and escalating their war.

The Daily Beast
To borrow rhetorical form from the NRA:

"when privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy".

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