I just can’t take all this free speech that’s happening right now

Fusion energy is still a distant pipe dream at this point. Don’t believe the hype.

Look, i’m not saying that this isn’t a problem. My only question is, is this one of those “global warming is because people don’t recycle their soda bottles” things? In other words, How concerned should I be about this vs, taking attention away from the energy, beef, and transportation industry?

How do we keep forgetting over and over again as a society that people are spreading bigotry and conspiracy theories ON PURPOSE? We keep deluding ourselves into believing that if we just get the right tool to properly educate people then the problem will go away.

LLMs can and are being used to spread misinformation and propaganda and conspiracy theories and bigotry at least as rapidly as they can counteract it.

When the water is just right.

That seems to be the case.

Seems like it would be better to have government buy-in to federated platforms. There are some governments that have moved their official announcements to Mastodon, which is a good start.

What the Fediverse really needs to ensure longevity is government and journalist support.

I guess even a broken clock is right twice a day.

Reddit has that effect. I admit I was a little unhinged when I came here, but either people calm down and start acting like real human beings, or else they realize they can’t have their fun being trolls and they leave. It’s a funny thing that happens when an entire platform is centered around people, not profit. Bots and ragebait are great for stonks - they drive “engagement” and inflate MAU - so they are pervasive on every platform with shareholders.

Reddit isn’t really intuitive either. Most platforms have at least some learning curve. We have a great ecosystem of apps that help. I only wish a YouTuber would make a good explainer.

Here’s one for the Fediverse that I saw recently: https://youtu.be/QzYozbNneVc

Cool, I’ve heard that people love paying for access to their own content that used to be free.

This is a good time for anyone still on the site to share some Lemmy links.

Thanks. I couldn’t understand if there was a data breach that led to this or if it was just current users.

I used Authy a couple years ago, do I need to be worried?

“This is a premium feature. To unlock the right-click menu, just enjoy this 30 second ad, or click to add to your monthly subscription.”

It’s always seemed like a laundering scheme to me.

Although they did actually market and sell oversized lighters at a hefty profit (as “flamethrowers”).

You just described every company

I don’t totally understand how or when article image headers populate.

I especially love the image, which is both a literal and a figurative illustration of AI failure.

It’s clearly meant to be an ouroborus made out of tech. The AI image generator left out the key trait - it’s supposed to be eating itself.

You can also use this calculator app, as well as camera, recorder, gallery, dialer, text messages, and more. Also well designed and also FOSS

https://github.com/FossifyOrg

You can replace your calculator, as well as your clock, contacts, record, translate, and more pretty easily. It’s well designed, and it’s FOSS!

https://you-apps.net/

Thanks, I appreciate it. I’ll check it out.

Not sure what you mean by “train.” If you mean “test” then yes, they are in alpha and anyone can submit bugs. As other users have said, we have only their word that they intend to keep the source available. If you mean “track users to train ML models,” then no. The whole point is that the software is private. All of the processing - the gesture typing, the audio processing, the LLM, etc are all performed on-device. And the source is visible for all to see, so it offers similar protections to FOSS software in this regard.

The software doesn’t “phone home” - it can’t even check itself for updates. It just sends you a little message on a predetermined schedule to manually check. (or you can use a repo/software manager)

In theory and in practice, any Open Source project could be purchased by a for profit company who takes down the source code. However, any prior code would remain under the previous open license. Apparently one of the issues with this license is that it contains no durable license for the code itself. You can’t just fork it and make your own version, although you can use any of the code with certain noncommercial and attribution requirements.

Thank you - I would love to read any resources that you have

Outside of software spaces the discussion around copyright seems so much more nuanced. Any creative commons license is generally considered “copyleft” regardless of the details, and some are far more restrictive than the FUTO license. Consider projects like Wikipedia which accept content licensed under GDFL, or CC-BY, or CC-BY-SA, Apache 2.0, or PD.

I am not a programmer, so maybe I am missing a huge piece of context, but what is the insistence in the free software community for what seems like total license purity? I even see software engineers arguing that “everyone” should use Apache or MIT and not the other, which is somehow bad for the FOSS community. What am I missing? Isn’t more free better than less free?

I’ve been using it for about a month now on a pixel phone and it’s been excellent. Parts of it are still in alpha, but I have been lucky.

Although Wikipedia is occasionally prone to group-think, and the editing process is truly Byzantine, it is also one of the most indispensable projects on the internet. this diatribe reads a little like:

Sorry, but I believe that terror groups (such as the KKK, Proud Boys, GDL, ISIS/Daesh, NJP, Patriot Front) should not be allowed unlimited free reign to spread their message and recruit followers but that’s just me. I understand the argument for unlimited free speech on every platform, but I happen to disagree.

Ready going

FIFY

It is specifically not that. It’s about people misusing the term “Zionists” to refer to Jews, which is also a thing that happens.

The complete statement is here if you want to see it. The posted article does a pretty poor job explaining it.

Yes, let’s hope so!

Who said anything about banning it? You can read the full statement here. As I said, this is about bigots co-opting the word to say bigoted shit, taking into account the nuance of how a word can be used or misused. Literally no one other than propagandists are talking about Meta “banning” the word.

We do not allow content that attacks people on the basis of protected characteristics such as nationality, race, or religion, among others. We do allow people to criticize adherents of political affiliations and ideologies.

That is exactly it. Antisemites figured out a while back that they could say whatever they want about Jews as long as they swap out the word Zionist. This has been a feature of white supremacy for ages. It used to be “people with big noses” or “people who wear hats” or even “bankers,” or “globalists.” The latter two are more similar to the use of “Zionist” because they represent actual groups that people criticize. That gives more cover to the actual antisemites.

This is actually a good thing, because it removes that cover from bigots who want to hijack the movement and hide behind it.

Thanks, I’ve been trying to find them to include in the App Directory, so please let me know if you happen to find out!

Any idea if the dev is on lemmy?

Thank goodness we have Lemmy tbh

Or that part of the Bible was written by a politically motivated king to centralize his power and overturn the checks and balances between the monarchy and priesthood.

Gosh it would be awful if someone taught all those kids that Adam was originally androgynous, that priests are required to perform abortions, that the sin of Sodom was not fully supporting the poor, and that Joseph was a drag queen.

Sure would be a shame.

Okay, now we’re cooking!

This is like when the bad guy from the last movie teams up with the heroes at the last minute to help fight the new big bad.

Hashtag pride month