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I’m no dev so I don’t understand all the technicalities but if I got it right you made it so the AI is itself showing how confident it is about its own answers? That is neat.

Not sure to understand the downvotes? Ins’t it a good idea to make it harder for AI to be telling bullshit without blushing?

Beside the handful of real absolute morons/racists/haters (we have similar people in the EU too, they are far from being exclusive to Britain), I consider this an impressive scam that went somewhat completely wrong.

Those promoting Brexit never intended to really leave the EU, that was a mean to grab more power by manipulating the… lesser informed population, and they were indeed quite surprised the day those people, and then a few more with them, actually voted for that Brexit scam. Making them the proud leader of something that was probably never meant to happen. Hence their absolute lack of preparation for it and the shit show that followed for years.

It’s also a demonstration of why a failing public educative system is fatal to a working democracy. Uneducated citizen can’t vote with their brains, only with their guts. And we all know that what usually comes out of guts is not ideas, right?

Something we can also witness happening in the USA, quite obviously, but also in most countries in the EU even in my dear own France. Sadly.

Maybe UK citizen have not yet realized how badly they screwed themselves with Brexit, and they need a second shot of an even sadder reality? Or maybe they’ve just given up already?

Barely 40 trackers blocked on Bloomberg trying to load that article (thanks uBlock Origin, running on my Firefox-based browser), to finally being told I can’t read the article without subscribing. Ads and marketing money have destroyed that Web we once owned.

Why would Apple be different than Bloomberg, they too like money.
And none will get my money, or time and attention.

I keep multiple dated backups made using a script shell + crontab, to automate the thing.

I feel more sadness than anger. Like I feel a lot more sad realizing younger people will probably not be able to experiment a free and truly personal web, like the elders among us did. That corporate-free Web used to be the norm… with its clumsiness and its many quirks, its ability to tolerate conflicting opinions too. Now, everything is policed and so… neutered. It’s also ad-saturated. It has turned into a TV, just worse.

Seeing Mozilla take that pitiful road made we feel a lot more sadness than anger, really. They were one of the few that were supposed to stand for another model. But I was not that surprised either…

No need to rush a decision, give it a swirl and you will see ;)

I remember that too.

BTW, Waterfox is a fork of FF ;)

Trust is hard to gain, very easy to lose. And much harder to regain, once its lost.

I have been a Firefox user since… its Mosaic days. And even after Chrome became a thing, FF remained my default choice. It was just my browser, I would shrug at anyone telling me Chrome was so much better.

Alas, their recent switch in regards to data/ads and after that their focus on AI, after a few previous decisions of them that quite worried me too, convinced me to do what I had never imagined I would do: replace FF as my default browser.

I now use Waterfox, and if Firefox is still installed on my Linux box I have not used it since (I’m a liar: I clicked it once, out of habit). I just don’t feel comfortable using it, it’s not my browser anymore. It’s just a browser, like Chrome or Edge, some corp is trying to force feed me, and to screw me with. Thx, but no.

I would love to see FF change path and regain my trust. But this will take some efforts.

I’m using Waterfox: privacy respecting and AI-free fork of Firefox.

Don’t put anything personal in it. That’s what I sued to do using my iPhone and what I still do now, using an Android.

• Qwant is ok. It’ snow my default, I used to use the US Kagi (which I loved but being US…).
• Vivaldi is a fine browser highly customizable (it’s my chromium-based choice), and they’re not pushing AI at all.
• Waterfox (a privacy-respecting , non-AI fork of Firefox) is my default browser. IT works great and its fully compatible with uBo.

Good question. For a similar reason people keep using corporate-owned social media, I suppose?

thank you :)

The only spyware we own are our phones and we completely distrust them, barely using them for what we’re required to use (security apps, and pro apps, stuff like that). At home there is no TV (would there be one, it would not be a smart one and if would there be no alternative it would just be a computer screen), no smart appliances, not even one of those hellish doorbells, or light bulbs. Our computers are wired to the network and the WiFi is off (we really barely use our phones) unless we have a specific need and it’s temporarily turned on.

What really worry us, my spouse and I, is the realization that sooner than later, we won’t have the choice of not using spyware riddled device anymore, as there will not be any alternative left.

Maybe it is not that huge of a deal for ourselves, we are getting old enough to not worry about buying the latest whatever, we also already focus a lot of our attention on analog tools and analog/low tech ways of doing things. But it still is a real worry.

Even more so for I (my spouse will surely tell you I’m kinda paranoid, but she is wrong she may even be part of their attempts at keeping me silent :p), as I have little doubt legal spyware could be enforced upon us by governments, say:

• to ‘protect children’ by monitoring real time what’s going on in the privacy of our homes. And since all citizen must be treated equally under the law (save members of said governments and their powerful friends), even homes without children would be submitted to that ‘protective measure’.
• to ‘protect the environment’ and ‘fight climate change’, say, by closely monitoring all our activities energy-wise (to reduce wasted energy). Monitoring it closely enough that they would also be able to precisely know what we do, and when.
• to reduce health risk and the health deficit too. Here again, by closely monitoring the things we buy and eat, what we drink, what we do and when… all in the hame of tracking what would jeopardize our health… and make us cost extra money to the society. And that would be made a lot simpler, and so much more tempting, like a lot, the moment we switch to a fully digital currency: no cash? no anonymity anymore.

Dear citizen,
One of our algorithms noticed your purchased a cake two hours ago and your real time Health Companion noticed after your latest pee that your sugar level was too high. Reaching a level that matches the exact sugar intake of that cake. . This goes against your medical condition. As a result:
Since it is a 333 Calories intake above your scientifically allowed daily food intake we will take back those 333 Calories from your next daily allowance.
Since it was your second time violating the Happy Healthy Habits program you agreed to by using our the mandatory Happy Health Department insurance, we will hold 50 times the cost of the cake from your wallet.
If you were to ever violate that rule again you will be definitely suspended from all benefits, your employer will be notified and required to withhold any advancement or promotion, and your entire wealth will be confiscated to reimburse the cost such egoistical behaviors like yours cost to the collectivity, and to the planet.
There will be no further warning.
Be happy, be healthy.
Your caring partner from the Happy Health Department.

FYI, it doesn’t auto play tha video (I hate what that happens) using Waterfox, a Firefox fork, with uBlock Origin.

Deletion is best-effort, not guaranteed. You’re effectively trusting a network of operators, not just one. I dunno whether that makes it better or worse.

Any deep thoughts on this conundrum?

I love the Fediverse for it’s respect of privacy, for its no-tracking and no-ads. And for that alone I would have zero desire to ever go back to Reddit or to any corporate-owned social platform, no matter how much more users and content they can have.

Back then on Reddit, I did not care about deleting my content. I still don’t care about that since I moved here.

I very regularly edit my posts, for correcting typos (adding informations) and stuff like that, but I don’t think I have deleted any, save a couple in the very early days that I published by mistake before they were finished. In other words:

• I’m 100% fine with the idea that I’m not the smartest dude (nor the prettiest ;) and what I say can be goofy at times… even more so every time I don’t write in my native French.
• Like you said, I tend to avoid saying anything online that would drag me into court… which may explains why I worry not much about deleting anything… which is a shame but not on Lemmy/Piefed or the Fediverse specifically (quite the opposite, I’m thankful to the people who created them and gave us access to these great alternatives to corporate-owned spaces), it’s a shame on our societies and they’re so-called respect for the freedom of expression.

and in that regard, privacy is only one aspect of the ‘problem’, imho. Censoring of ideas and persons, and self-censoring, is at least as important. At least.

After I started using the Fediverse, I quickly realized there were ideas and thoughts that were OK around here, and many more that were not. As well as ways of saying things. I also quickly realized I would rather not talk about some of those topics, and not use certain words… which, this time, is saying something about our own willingness to respect freedom of speech, and is saying at least as much about my own lack of courage, I suppose.

Every time I notice this (self)censoring happening, and it’s not hard to notice or rare, I can’t but wonder in what way are we acting differently or better than what we denounce? Also, it makes me wonder if we really are that fragile?

And it makes we wonder when this ‘childification’ (‘you must be kind to the others’, ‘you can’t use that naughty word’, and so on) of our conversations/debates/interactions and of our ability to confront ideas and people became our norm?

I’m confident enough in my own ideas and personal values to not fear being confronted with opposing peoples and ideas… even when they are salty. To a certain limit, obviously. And when that limit is reached I don’t call for those people/ideas to be censored/banned: I block them, without feeling any guilt about it: I preserve their right to express their salty ideas while also preserving my own right to not be willing to listen to their salty (and often sad) ideas. (do keep in mind I’m only considering ‘legal’ topics being discussed in the limits of what the law consider a civil discussion: calls to any form of violence are not ‘salty’ anymore, they’re threats and they’re illegal, and they should be dealt with accordingly.)

Hi,

Filen.io, they have a free 10 Gb plan and it’s end to end encrypted.

And all my best wishes for you journey.

Certainly, and I did not delete my account either ;)

recurring topics. My answer won’t change:

• More quality content/comments. People will go where they find what they’re looking for. No matter teh sad show reddit has turned into it is still filled with quality content (even more so in ‘niche’ communities).
• Less preaching. Does anyone really think that by telling people they’re doing it wrong or worse that they’re being dumb (because they’re using this or that) we will encourage them to change their habits?
• Less politics. My very first impression of Lemmy was almost enough to make delete my account. Politics, not the most subtle one, and memes were everywhere. Not really the type of content I was looking for (I’m fine discussing politics with anyone willing to discuss it provided we can go above the mere ‘you’re wrong because I don’t agree with you’ or the ‘you’re fascist if you don’t hate what I hate’ type of discussion).
  Everyone should be able to chose what they’re exposed to (including politics and memes, btw) but forcing them to taste it out of the box may not be the… most seducing default.