AkashicOwl

joined 6 months ago
 

I've been digging into the rabbit hole for a few months. Been switching to Linux, FOSS everything I can, trying to go to smaller sites, the least dubious social media, VPN, trusted mail, etc etc

But lately I've been in a rough state mentally (I say lately but it's always been with me) and having GPT guide me and being able to just dictate what I think helps me a lot on various levels, for various reasons.
But at this point, using ChatGPT with a mic, isn't this basically cancelling every effort I've made? (using it in the first place anyway) I'm weak and it helps me, should I just throw my efforts out of the window and just say I don't care about privacy anymore and use whatever everyone uses? (on one hand, I've found alternatives for almost everything, so I could keep on using those, but also, again, if I keep on using GPT on a regular basis, this is probably the worst threat the future has to offer in termes of privacy, so...I'm lost)

[–] AkashicOwl@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Molly White, who writes the Citation Needed newsletter and Web3 is Going Just Great blog, described this as “a good proposal,” and said it was “weird to see people flaming BlueSky for it,” since it’s not so much “welcoming in AI scraping” but rather “trying to add a consent signal to allow users to communicate preferences for the scraping that is already happening.”

That being said, yes, not great

We probably can't escape Ai everywhere, let's face it But most people won't care like they didn't care about their data in general before AI

I'm already using Mastodon in parallel, but I must admit I couldn't find a lot of people to follow...maybe gotta look harder, but I have to admit it doesn't seem as easy as it does on BS

 

The only Pixel I have is a Pixel 3XL which is not supported anymore for updates. A few questions. does that mean at some point you have to buy a new phone all the time? How long are they supported, do I need the buy the newest one everytime to have a decently long support? If I can install Calyx, but have already degoogled my phone, is Calyx still useful? But I suppose at this point it's still better to get a Pixel anyway and install Graphene which is supposedly better? how risky is it to run an unsupported phone like my Pixel 3XL? What can happen?

[–] AkashicOwl@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I think people hate it because crypto and all, but I use Brave search, to my knowledge (which isn't much) one of the only usable search engine that isn't using Google or Bing.

[–] AkashicOwl@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I do kind of agree, as I'm making art for myself. But at the same time, maybe that's because I'm not in a situation where I depend on having to sell what I'm creating is what I mean

[–] AkashicOwl@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Do you maybe have some recommandations, even older ones, that you find to be actually good? I like ASMR but have never really dug into it, watched on and off

[–] AkashicOwl@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

People need to stop seeing everything in black and white and put themselves in other's shoes. I'm not siding with anyone. I buy and I don't.

But if you were the creator, what would you think about your reasoning?

(now about the title story of this post, this is obviously madness, things gone too far)

[–] AkashicOwl@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah sorry, don't know about Iphones

[–] AkashicOwl@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Probably Ironfox

[–] AkashicOwl@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Their last post if from 14 days ago, not sure how often they usually post tho

[–] AkashicOwl@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Ok so I'm going to get hated for that, but trust me, this is just me being naive and knowing nothing about many subjects. But so, as much as this law can get into excesses and seems really bad, and I clearly don't want it, is it possible to balance the debate and say, objectively, that this can actually be help to help stop narcos which are getting a bit out of hand? Again, I'm leaning left, but I like to see both sides, I think nobody is ever 100% wrong, so I'm wondering what people think about it.

[–] AkashicOwl@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

due to limited ressources

Is it that hard to post the same thing on various social media? Maybe it is, I wouldn't know. But that sounds like a shitty excuse.

It looks like they're not up to date on X tho, hopefully they drop that shit. And they're on Bluesky, which, if not Mastodon, is a little bit better I guess.

I really don't get the hidden idea behind leaving Mastodon.