James R Kirk @ Kirk @startrek.website

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Privacy is a spectrum. But when 99.99% of userdata is publicly available no responsible person could call that service "private".

I'm going to be THAT guy and point out that while Piefed and Lemmy instances have much better incentive structures to be good to their users they are very much NOT private and on the default instance setup nearly all data collected is publicly available.

EDIT: Many people in this comment section don't seem to be understanding that "Lemmy" is not one website like Reddit. Each instance is it's own thing entirely and there is ZERO guarantee than a given instance isn't using hidden trackers. This is NOT a defense of Reddit or a criticim of Lemmy software which is very good. But it is a fact and you should be wary of the motivations of anyone claiming that "Lemmy" is private or similar.

Oh nice is this your site? I'll check it out. Just read the Boox review and it's intriguing!

Ha! That's on me for not reading until the end, thanks for that.

Was not impressed with it's Kaleido 3 screen. It looks great at first glance but the sharpness/greyness just does not compare. A monochrome carta 1300 screen is the best for reading, imo.

That's a good quote, I know she didn't mean it this way, but it made me think of LLM chatbots. They have no substance beyond their power to convince. They're basically pure marketing machines.

I agree, atomic distos have allowed me to make the switch and are better and easier than windows and even macos.

Well said! On one hand I suppose I am "happy" to see people questioning the value of these bots, but assuming it "understands" anything, or has "motive" is still giving them power they don't have and IMO, leaving the door open to allow yourself to be fooled/manipulated by them in the future.

It seems so obvious to me that Google's switch to LLMs is to prevent adblockers and yet I rarely see that point brought up.

LLMs cannot lie/gaslight because they do not know what it means to be honest. They are just next-word predictors.

I think the ads are terrible too, but it's a fool's errand to try and rationalize with an LLM chatbot

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I don't think the people watching this show are going to be the ones paying for paramount plus subscriptions

No, you can't. You can have a custom domain ("PDS" is the term they invented for this) but it still relies on bluesky's servers.

Don't let them distract with with the "whattabout matrix". The Matrix Foundation is not a social media company, and furthermore it's a nonprofit.

Bluesky is not decentralized.