I agree with you. More to the point…why accept code from anyone (clanker or meatbag) without provenance?
If I don’t know you, and you can’t explain what it does? Straight into the garbage it goes.
The issue isn’t AI contamination. It’s accepting code from any source without provenance and accountable review.
I specifically bought mine for this very reason!
Roborock S5 Max.
Its an older model - and it has all the connectivity / WiFi crap in it - but if you never sync it to the app in the first place (or allow it WiFi access), it works fine with local LIDAR and off line mode.
Good vac; recommended.
PS: I can’t believe they called that app Valetudo (I get it - Hygieia). Just…that word has a very different meaning in many folks brains
We maybe have a different recollection of human history. “Talk shit, get hit” was pretty popular across the ages.
Perhaps I should have said “…disrespecting others ANONYMOUSLY”. I think that last little bit makes all the difference.
A grim analysis…but one I fear has merit, based on priors.
To pivot briefly though: what are people’s feeling towards pseudonymous PGP?
Sometimes I think Mike Tyson had a point: “Social media made y’all way too comfortable with disrespecting people and not getting punched in the face for it”
There has to be a privacy respecting, non-surveillance state, yet “own it or retract it” method to posting on line. What we have right now… has not worked out so well for us.
Hmm. Perhaps requiring PGP public / private keys could be used to show provenance without leaking PII helter skelter?
As in - you don’t need to sign your name per se but it can be traced back to you.
I might be talking out of my ®ear, but that might be a middle ground (if at all technologically possible).
It certainly seems to be trending in that direction, no? A lot of the “best” ideas do tend to get crowbarred out of the US.
OTOH, with the EU pushing to divest itself of American software and policies, perhaps there’s still some wriggle room.
OTOOH, because of the nature of the Fediverse, something like this can happen in theory:
Good analogy.
Yeah, I wonder that too. I think the mindshare Lemmy has (such as it is) comes from being seen as a sort of middle-finger, privacy-respecting, libre alternative.
That positioning clearly attracts a lot of people (myself included). But at the same time, it’s occurred to me that the nature of the Fediverse means you can’t really have true “privacy.”
I can’t speak to what each instance retains (IP logs? metadata?) or how long for - and I assume it varies widely from place to place.
“Bad guy Reddit, good guy Lemmy” may be an oversimplification…or just wishful thinking.
Oof, busted :)
I had a feeling there were background trackers, even here.
Your comment wrt LLM firehose is on point too I think.
I do think the don’t be dumb is good advice (barring the famous quote from George Carlin) but given what you’ve just shown, it does sort of negate one of the appeals to self hosting a Lemmy instance. A lot of squeeze for not much more juice.
I don’t know if this is a solvable problem but I’m willing to listen / learn.
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If you have to ask, the answer is yes.
I have tried TrackerControl. As a stand alone, I think its great. A little bit more verbose in its front end (and for some reason, a little more battery hungry than DDG) but similar functionality. The system app blocks are a good feature. As you say, the DDG option is simpler.
Re: Firefox. Firefox has become very feature rich and heavy. On a 6 year old phone with 3GB ram, I can maybe get it to work smoothly with 4-5 tabs, whereas DDG has no issue with 20+. It would be my preference to use FF but it (and the usual forks) don’t seem too performant on my old beater.
I’m curious to see how long I can keep it out of landfill. I’m trying for 2028, as a personal challenge. That will be almost 10 years out of a $200 phone
For sure. And in that spirit -
Another option for people: pay $10 to get an OpenRouter account and use providers that 1) don’t train on your data 2) have ZDR (zero data retention)
You can use them directly there (a bit clunky) or via API with something like OpenWebUI.
https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui
Alternatively, if you have the hardware, self host. Qwen 3-4B 2507 Instruct matches / exceeds ChatGPT 4.1 nano and mini on almost all benchmarks… and the abliterated version is even better IMHO
https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507
https://huggingface.co/DavidAU/Qwen3-4B-Hivemind-Instruct-NEO-MAX-Imatrix-GGUF
It should run acceptably on even 10 yr old hardware / no GPU.
I coded a OpenMateo weather call into my python router, so I can type >>weather (city, country) and get live updates.
Failing that, you can search or API this https://openweathermap.org/
Or if you wanna go ultra-minimalist (and super cool)
https://github.com/chubin/wttr.in
https://wttr.in/
^^ if you just type that, it will give you the weather matching your current IP address. Else use /cityname
eg: wttr.in/London
I mean…you could just get them to deliver what you need :) Or try your local hardware store (if one still exists near you)
I wonder…does it need to be a real phone number, or can it be a virtual phone number that forwards?
You just need to authenticate once, right? Then you can drop the burner number and you’re clean?
EDIT: Yup!
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Woof - the axes on that chart LOL. Suffice it to say, they’re all pretty dang close. Interesting. Maybe the easter bunny can bring me something with >8GB VRAM so I can actually run em locally. I’m guessing Kimi-2 eats about what…500GB+ for 128K context?
Your memory is not bad :)
The middle east thing was likely ADCC. The Japan thing was likely PRIDE, NHB or Lumax Cup. Many different promotions before UFC ate em up back then.
You’d love these I think
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_a_Champion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Smashing_Machine_(2025_film)