lily33 @ lily33 @lemm.ee

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But AI isn't all about generating creative works. It's a store of information that I can query - a bit like searching Google; but understands semantics, and is interactive. It can translate my own text for me - in which case all the creativity comes from me, and I use it just for its knowledge of language. Many people use it to generate boilerplate code, which is pretty generic and wouldn't usually be subject to copyright.

1. This is not REALLY about copyright - this is an attack on free and open AI models, which would be IMPOSSIBLE if copyright was extended to cover the case of using the works for training.
2. It's not stealing. There is literally no resemblance between the training works and the model. IP rights have been continuously strengthened due to lobbying over the last century and are already absurdly strong, I don't understand why people on here want so much to strengthen them ever further.

Exactly! Many of the criteria included aren't all that good for new users, and neither are the suggestions. It's not really a good resource for experienced users either.

Well, when you get from 3 to 2000 in only a few years, the vast majority of these versions will be unusable. No wonder they had to drop everything after 11...

That said, you can use a third party service only for sending, but receive mail on your self-hosted server.

Linux can totally do that. Even if your distro doesn't package it, you can always install spyware from source.

Stop asking for pseuso-privacy features. The Fediverse is public by nature. Any "measures" to control access to the public posts on it are just lying to users.

Server owners should be able to control who can access their servers - but that is NOT - and should NOT be - treated as a privacy feature.

After you're done with the initial setup, I've found looking for nix code on GitHub to be very useful for seeing how to do things.

Indeed, my first though was that these are not MY questions.

threads.net is currently blocked. You can see a complete list of blocked instances here. There was a discussion about this when threads first announced plans to federate.

No, I want a communal, collaboratively managed platform to recommend things to me based on an open source algorithm whose behavior I can adjust the way I want. Alas, this just isn't a thing.

Just amongst the available options, the closed algorithm optimized for engagement has so far been better at showing me interesting things than an unfiltered chronological feed.

I know it's a feature, and I know people on Mastodon care about it. And because of that it's not for me. That's fine. My point was, exactly because Mastodon is not for everyone, there's no need to be derisive of the people who "flock to yet another corporate social media honeypot."

Well, if you want me on Mastodon, implement a personalized recommendation feed. Until then, corporate platforms are the only option.

Well, people like to think that the fediverse is a genuine threat to Meta. And they like to feel they're doing important work defending it from Meta. So this will indeed pop up again, and again, and again.

Let's be fair, it's actually about all those people whose password is "password". But it is annoying to those who use 15-character random strings for passwords.

I wouldn't say there's a place to start. Once you start using programs that are configured through config files, learn about those config files in particular. Eventually, you might find that you prefer editing config files even for programs that have GUI settings - then you dive in more.

Regardless, once your config files become complex enough that you can't quickly rewrite them if necessary, start looking for a dotfiles manager, tracking them in git, backing them up, etc...

Actually, there are many programs that are designed to be configured by editing the config files. It's not a "very unusual" case.

I don't know why you would expect a pattern-recognition engine to generate pseudo-random seeds, but the reason OpenAI disliked the prompt is that it caused GPT to start repeating itself, and this might cause it to start printing training data verbatim.

I generally back up the whole ~/.mozilla, and if I restore it after reinstall, everything is as it was. I've not tried isolating only the profile, seems pointlessly complicated.

Actually, both Arch and NixOS are pretty reliable, and won't just break out of nowhere, leaving your computer unusable.