Leraje @ leraje @lemmy.blahaj.zone

This account is now backup only. I have moved to https://piefed.blahaj.zone

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I'm not 100% sure what Lemmy Explorer is....but assuming its a tool to help you find communities?

If thats so, just make a note of the community address, switch back to your logged in account and search for that community whilst logged in to your piefed.social account

I know this all feels disorientating and needlessly confusing but its worth it. Stick with it and keep asking for help when needed.

Imagine if instead of just reddit.com there was also reddit.org and reddit.co.uk and reddit.nl and reddit.social and (etc etc) all on a different server from each other and each with its own set of users and subreddits. But each user and each subreddit could be viewed and joined by any user from any server - that's Lemmy.

So you're on the piefed.social server (but on the fediverse servers are called 'instances') and I'm on the lemmy.blahaj.zone instance but we can both see, subscribe to and post to a community (the Lemmy name for subreddits) on an instance neither of us are members of - the asklemmy community on the lemmy.world instance.

Take a look at your screen (or app if you're on mobile) and you'll see 'Local', 'Subscribed' and 'All'. If you select 'Local' you will see a list of posts from Communities that are on your home instance (which is piefed.social in your case). If you selected 'Subscribed' you'd see posts from all the Communities you chose to join/subscribe to across all instances. If you choose 'All' you'll see posts from the entirety of Lemmy whether you subscribed to them or not. Whichever view you choose can be sorted by things like 'new', 'active', 'hot' etc.

To find Communities you're interested in joining, use the Search function, type in a keyword and select 'Communities'.

Cut, otherwise you do a line and you wake up in A&E.

Thunderbird Pro will apparently be:

This email thing plus Thunderbird Send (which is basically https://send.vis.ee/), Thunderbird Appointment - a scheduling tool and Thunderbird Assist, which is:

"...at least for now, being cautiously labeled as “an experiment” that will allow users to take advantage of AI features within their email. However, the goal is to be lightweight enough that the language models can be run locally on a user’s PC in the interest of privacy. This service is being developed in partnership with Flower AI, which leverages Nvidia’s confidential compute to provide private remote processing in the event a user’s PC isn’t powerful enough. Sipes emphasizes that any remote processing features attached to Thunderbird Assist will always be optional, in the interest of ensuring complete user privacy."

So AI shit that nobody asked for or wants.

Archive link for anyone else for whom that article crashed their tab.

Wonder when they'll start floating the idea of martial law.

"“A struggle for life is constantly going on amongst the words and grammatical forms in each language. The better, the shorter, the easier forms are constantly gaining the upper hand, and they owe their success to their own inherent virtue”"

Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man, 1871.

Its fine - the loss will be covered by the millions pushed into Victorian levels of poverty via his recent welfare cuts. After all, those billionaires really deserve another private jet.

If they are genuinely stating months as a realistic timeframe then they either know nothing or are fully aware and this is a deliberate killshot.

Makes sense, thanks.

I'm going to take a wide definition of the word 'art' here and apply it to all artistic methods.

Its not art. Art, almost by definition, partly reflects an emotional state the artist was in when creating the work. AI merely apes the output, not the necessary emotional connection. Its like the shitty music that used to play in lifts (elevators) in that it uses the output but is utterly soulless.

Its ethically way worse than piracy. If you pirate (for example) an ebook or music its more than likely because you want to escape DRM or some other type of controlling software designed to prevent you from actually having control over what you would otherwise have bought. LLM's steal not just that but the whole creative process. Its more than pirating a movie or track or book, its more akin to stealing the thought process from an artists mind and trying to replicate the process automatically.

It is, to me, just another example of making the whole of our international artistic culture a bland homogenized cesspit of crapness. Its capitalism's best way to profit from art as there's no one to pay. But we end of with ever decreasing quality. AI based art becomes like humanity in the matrix - used then liquidised to feed the next iteration.

And then there's also the environmental impact. The last thing the word needs right now is something else gobbling resources - especially when the end result is utter shit.

I promise this is genuine curiosity, not snark, but what's the benefit/point to tracking ones pet?

They'll vote Reform.

I'm not sure that I was, which is even more depressing to realise.

Not to worry, Rachel Reeves fantastic plan to decimate the welfare state will take care of this issue - and as an added bonus vastly inflate the value of funeral businesses across the country! Win-win!

I'd recommend a Kobo Clara. They do do a colour variant but the next part of my recommendation might not be able to cope with it, I don't know.

That next part is KOReader - you can install it 'over the top' of the standard Clara software so it becomes the working environment. Its got so many pluses I don't have time to list them all but it plays nice with Calibre, you can SSH to it, FTP to it, even access it from some cloud services. I can't say if it supports colour or not though as I don't use a colour Clara.

Transferring your current collection is probably a non-starter due to the recent limitations Amazon have put on downloading files. Getting new ebooks is up to you, there's loads of both legal and not so legal places to source books from, depending on how you feel about DRM.

In terms of transferring books - as well as the ways I mentioned above it also supports OPDS and of course standard USB cabled transfers too.

I'll miss the ability to buy using cash-bought gift vouchers as that seems the only straightforward way to preserve privacy.

There was a post on some Lemmy community or other yesterday which stated that most Americnas support ideas like universal healthcare (55%) and getting rid of guns from private ownership (mid 60% IIRC).

In that thread someone said it was awful that even amongst progressives the support for universal healthcare was so low and the very few responses to that were basically - :shrug: we've been lied to what are we gonna do about it?

The responses to the gun ownership stat were numerous and declared support for 'second amendment rights'.

When even US progressives are passionately defending the biggest cause of child death in the USA in 2022 but are apathetic about universal healthcare, that's a uniquely US problem that speaks very much to the level of thinking power available.

Meta will definitely not be collecting and selling on any more data about users of the ad-free version. We know this because of their spotless track record in privacy and safely implementing algorithms which has, in turn, made them one of the most trusted and trustable companies in the world.

No, no, I'm saying it should have been reported there and I don't get why they didn't share it.