the fate worse than quenching.

and now I’m imagining Siri speaking in a very high-pitched voice.

so, no summary at all, or one that does shit job pointing out important bits or gets them wrong and therefore isn’t a proper summary? choices, choices.

It’s not terrible

it sucks at summarising information, though https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/09/03/ai-worse-summarising-information-humans-government-trial/

careful, you’re about to get whatabouted to death

well that’s fucking disgusting.

…I’ll be in my bunk

also Glaze turns out to be not as effective as initially thought https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/07/glaze-a-tool-protecting-artists-from-ai-bypassed-by-attack-as-demand-spikes/

the repliest of guys

yes, like your quote says, you have to invite other users. you have to explicitly add every user’s email in order to let them edit it, you can’t just create a link and send it to people.

looks like there’s no way to allow edits for everyone with the link, they can only view the document that way. guess it’s Google Docs for me for the foreseeable future :(

also, it doesn’t seem to support previewing .odt, while .docx works fine.

yes, that’s why there’s “neo” in the latter’s name.

probably because they currently don’t get stuffed a bucketload of crackly juice* in 60 seconds

*I don’t, in fact, know how electricity really works

…and explode them in the next 60

not even for the articles?

don’t worry, they’re already using The Onion

thus particular company is apparently also being accused of being involved in an NFT scam before they rebranded to Rabbit.

not really, it’s the same Matrix protocol as other Matrix instances use. the only difference is that they set up bridges and manage them on behalf of the users (something that’s possible when hosting your own Matrix instance, too).

you made a statement in public for all to hear. are you unable to defend the statements you make? or simply unwilling to have a reasoned discussion?

I think if a CEO repeatedly ignored my boundaries and pushed their agenda on me I would not be able to keep the same amount of distance from the subject to make such a measured blog post

well, it’s the other way around. the blog post was first, then Vlad contacted them, then the thread was posted.

the messages aren’t end-to-end encrypted, so there’s nothing stopping them from viewing them at their leisure.

it’s not a “clone”, it’s literally using Matrix protocol with their own servers.

they’ve automatically opted Tumblr accounts into training LLMs, so… not great

yes, it’s been added in a version that has only come out of beta today, if I’m reading their blog post correctly.

FYI, e2ee messages like Signal’s and Whatsapp’s are decrypted on Beeper’s server before they get reencrypted and forwarded to the recipient.

also, Whatsapp and Signal might log you out if you don’t use their client for certain time.

given that they struck a deal with OpenAI and Midjourney to train them on Tumblr data, I’d be wary of using their stuff.

it opened for me, I wouldn’t have posted it otherwise. perhaps it’s a regional thing.

Are you suggesting you use a different index that comes from a more ethical company

I don’t, I use a mixture of Startpage and DDG, but I’m always for a lookout for other options and also don’t sign up for a subscription to throw my money at them every month.

The phone you’re using to access Beehaw? Assembled by child labor or wage slaves somewhere in Asia. Even if you assembled it yourself, the parts were manufactured unethically.

which is one of the reasons why I own a Fairphone.

and sure, you can’t avoid all bad choices, but everyone draws a line somewhere. and when a techbro makes a techbroy post about how eVErYThiNg iS pOLiTiCiZeD ThESe dAyS and how that’s supposedly stopping innovation, because people like me don’t want him to work with a guy with a history of opposing our rights, then I stop having confidence in him and cancel my subscription because I don’t want to support him financially anymore.

Just curious, do you buy things from Amazon?

no I don’t. and to answer your next whatabout question, I don’t buy from brands owned by Nestle, either.

I’m still steering clear from Kagi after how they handled criticism after they started including Brave’s index

I wonder how long until they inform us about a data breach.

that’s surprising, LLMs are actually incredibly good at reading MRI scans https://hachyderm.io/@dfeldman/112149278408570324

I really, really don’t understand what their business plan was

iMessage on Android wasn’t their main goal, it’s just what made them famous. they’ve set out as an all-in-one messaging app (basically they let you register on their Matrix server with bridges for other messaging servers, so that they can manage them for you if you trust them enough) that also included iMessage support. for now it’s free but they’re supposedly planning to add some extra features that will require a subscription.

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the corporate-owned part, hopefully. and I think we’re actually witnessing the renaissance of the small, users controlled one.

So it’s more of a federation thing between services?

yeah, I guess you could call it that.

could make a third-party Signal-compatible app, but allow it to connect to Whatsapp instead of Signal?

you’d have to create a messaging service, not just a client.

only when the service specifically requests it and agrees to Whatsapp’s terms.

yes, but you’d have to make it your full time job in order to read everything he posts.