MoonlightFox
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- Comment on Signal's Meredith Whittaker says AI agents doing tasks on users' behalf pose security and privacy risks and refers to their use as “putting your brain in a jar”. 1 day ago:
Yup, it’s overblown. Just wanted to give an explanation, you never know what level of awareness other strangers have online. Wish you the best, and see you around!
- Comment on Signal's Meredith Whittaker says AI agents doing tasks on users' behalf pose security and privacy risks and refers to their use as “putting your brain in a jar”. 1 day ago:
It is not a problem in many contexts. For instance complementing people in social non-work gatherings. “Wow, you look great in that suit”, or “You are even prettier than I remember”. Or when talking about someones ability to attract attention.
However in the context of an important message from a person, it derails the conversation and kinda just objectifies a person. As if it is more important than what they are saying or contributing.
It basically boils down to this: Do you want to be remembered for being good looking or your contributions to this world? How does it feel to be unsure if you got the job, because of looks? Or if people are listening because of your looks?
I am glad you asked, and I already saw someone gave a great explanation, but wanted to pitch in as well 😊
- Comment on Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option. 1 day ago:
Just came across d-shoot.net/kagi.html . Seems like there are more good reasons to avoid it besides it also using Yandex as an index.
- Comment on Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option. 1 day ago:
Yes, but not fully. They have their own index as well. They have also recently started a partnership with Ecosia to focus more on that effort.
- Comment on Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option. 2 days ago:
I totally agree that it is a miniscule amount. I try to prioritize more effective actions for other causes I care about, but personally am uncomfortable with any compromises with Russia at the moment. Luckily it’s basically close to zero products and services that are Russian, so it’s easy to avoid. So everytime I come across something Russian, I just avoid it. Kagi is one of the really rare times.
There’s also non-economic reasons to avoid a Russian index considering their reputation with misinformation campaigns. Even a slight nudge in the direction of Russian positive propaganda is damaging. But this was not my initial argument.
There is also the information gathering aspect, knowing what people search for (even if anonymous) is valuable.
- Comment on Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option. 2 days ago:
I see your point, but I think there is a meaningful difference.
Russia started a war with a peaceful nation. It is in no way, shape or form a provoked war.
There are a couple of ways you can react to hurt the agressor. With the goal of making them stop hurting the innocent. Military action is one, economic is another.
Most European countries have decided to hurt them economically. As a European I agree with this, and fully support it. I try my best not to support the Russian economy. If Russia as a country changes in the future, my view will probably change as well. This is a war that Putin started.
That said, I believe the support from the US to Israel was wrong. The US has been supporting genocide. One could argue that supporting the US economy supports these sorts of actions as well. However, the scale is important and how much involvement is important.
If you had mentioned an Israeli company, I would agree 100%. The difference is that the US have not been spending 1/4 to 1/3 of their entire fiscal budget fighting a peaceful democratic nation as the agressor.
Anyways, at this point I am kinda mad at the US for being a unreliable partner and going to trade war with Europe and bailing in their responsibilities when it comes to the war in Ukraine and creating uncertajnty within NATO, threatening nations etc, anyways. So not spending a lot of money on US goods and services at the moment either no.
- Comment on Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option. 2 days ago:
I have been sick a lot lately, so have had a lot of time on my hands. I don’t have a search for Kagi or something. I wanted to use Kagi though, so I was disappointed when I realized that they want to continue this practice.
What are you implying with it being suspicious? In what way?
**If Kagi pays a Russian company for a service, that company pays taxes to the Russian government.
Russia spends 32% of its budget on the Russian military. So for every dollar they get in taxes, one third is spent on the Russian military.
With a corporate tax rate of 20% that means 6.4% of Yandex profits go to the military. Since Kagi is mainly a paid service, I don’t want my money to go to the Russian military, and I guess a lot of other people don’t want this either**.
reuters.com/…/russia-hikes-national-defence-spend…
The Russian people are not to blame, and I am sure a lot of great people work at Yandex and at different companies in Russia. That said, Russia chose to attack a peaceful democratic country, they are currently sanctioned by a lot of western countries in hopes that it will pressure their economy enough to force them to stop the war.
There isn’t much we can do to stop the conflict besides hurting them economically and supporting Ukraine. If we continue to use Russian products and services then that does not work. Unfortunately this affects everyone in Russia.
- Comment on Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option. 2 days ago:
I have no idea, but they amongst other indexes use the index from the Russian company Yandex
- Comment on Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option. 2 days ago:
Obligatory mention that Kagi also use the Russian search index Yandex. This aids the Russian economy and the Russian war effort.
- Comment on Little Man is chubbed 2 days ago:
I love that little bed 😍
- Comment on Day 229 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing until l forget to post Screenshots 6 days ago:
I have followed your daily gaming posts since you began. Appreciate the content!
- Comment on Notepad++ and Don Ho: A story of software, activism, and defiance 6 days ago:
Not an easy thing to change about oneself. Good job and thanks for sharing 👏
- Comment on Leo knew it was a joke and laughed because it was just a joke 2 weeks ago:
And another point, as a man a lot younger than say Salma Hayek. I’d happily be her young handsome piece of action. I would also get to be with an extremely attractive woman.
The same goes for these women and Leonardo Di Caprio. He is objectively an attractive man. It’s also bragging rights. I was in a relarionship with x-celeb. Of course many women dream of being with him, and of course a lot of them are gorgeous.
I think they are both having a great time, and see no reason to judge.
I fully agree let’s care about the things that actually matter and actually hurt people.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I’d call this a win and love. Being open to being wrong is a great quality.
I see some people here not recognizing that this is a great development, or enough or whatever. These things take time for society to adjust to. Going from being skeptical / negative to a full blown ally is unreasonable to expect from someone in a short timeframe.
Being open to change and different opinions is something we should always support. That path might be rocky and hard, sometimes almost impossible.
For the sake of diplomacy and making him even more supportive seriously consider getting that “second opinion”, even though it might feel valueless for you. He just wants to make sure that you don’t make a huge irreversible mistake.
Makeup, dressing in clothes and taking some hormones or whatever is one thing, irreversible surgery is another thing. So I kinda get where he is coming from, but you probably know what’s best for you.
Anyways, good luck, and I wish you the best going forward, and am happy this is going in the right direction for you 🌈❤️
- Comment on AI chatbots unable to accurately summarise news, BBC finds 3 weeks ago:
So there is not any trustworthy benchmarks I can currently use to evaluate? That in combination with my personal anecdotes is how I have been evaluating them.
I was pretty impressed with Deepseek R1. I used their app, but not for anything sensitive.
I don’t like that OpenAI defaults to a model I can’t pick. I have to select it each time, even when I use a special URL it will change after the first request
I am having a hard time deciding which models to use besides a random mix between o3-mini-high, o1, Sonnet 3.5 and Gemini 2 Flash
- Comment on AI chatbots unable to accurately summarise news, BBC finds 3 weeks ago:
Why do you say that? I have had no reason to doubt their reporting
- Comment on AI chatbots unable to accurately summarise news, BBC finds 3 weeks ago:
I have been pretty impressed by Gemini 2.0 Flash.
Its slightly worse than the very best on the benchmarks I have seen, but is pretty much instant and incredibly cheap. Maybe a loss leader?
Anyways, which model of the commercial ones do you consider to be good?
- Comment on ENHANCE 3 weeks ago:
Contacts gives you full field of vision, and they don’t get dirty. If you are lucky you only have to take them off and on for switching once per month and can sleep with them. I am one of those, and can buy the cheapest contacts too.
In other words, always good vision, with full FOV
- Comment on Kagi search engine won’t bill you next month if you forget to use it 4 weeks ago:
It’s not about privacy.
But I can address that first. It’s hard to argue that Kagi can be trusted with your data in my opinion, because they - unlike DDG and Startpage handles payments from you. So they know exactly who you are and what you search for. You have to trust them when they say they don’t log. This in itself is enough for me not to use them.
Beaides that the main problem is that Yandex is a Russian company. Russia is currently invading a democratic peaceful independent nation.
A lot of countries including my own are sanctioning Russia and Russian companies. I feel that indirectly supporting a Russian company is contributing to the Russian war economy. The sanctions are there for a reason, to hurt the Russian economy, so that they are pressured to stop the war.
Kagi has a choice and they have decided to stay on the wrong side of history. They have multiple explanations online, but none of them is sufficient in my opinion. Staying “apolitical” is a political choice when there is an agressor.
- Comment on Kagi search engine won’t bill you next month if you forget to use it 4 weeks ago:
FYI: Kagi uses the Russian search engine Yandex as well and have no plans of changing it.
Mentioning it, as to some it might be an issue indirectly financially supporting a Russian company.
Just search for Kagi Yandex and you will get plenty officiak sources
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- Comment on I took the term "Tree Skirt" literally 1 month ago:
Come on, is that really a necessary comment? Sometimes thoughts can stay inside your head, you know.
- Comment on They weren't wrong in the first post though 1 month ago:
Privacy guides are a great resource for finding services
- Comment on Gridfinity creator gives his thoughts on Reddit, post-shitpost 3 months ago:
Just watched the one where he explains the headup display. So cool, I really like the thought of self-made custom wearable tech as well.
- Comment on Gridfinity creator gives his thoughts on Reddit, post-shitpost 3 months ago:
Wow, that was awesome! I haven’t seen any of his videos before. Makes me want to get a 3D printer
- Comment on Is it okay to take drugs to make yourself a better person? Does it make a difference if "better" is mental or if it's physical? 4 months ago:
Yes.
Some people have to use pills their entire lives. I take some for my disability. They make me more patient and less excited/stressed. They also reduce episodes in which I might harm myself or do things I regret. I am not my disease. I am me, and the medicine is like using crutches for my mind.
I can not solve my issues by talking to a therapist, so medicine is a requirement.
I find it kinda idiotic not to accept medicine that will make things better for you. It’s irrational. I don’t blame you for feeling it this way, I am not sure if this is a gendered issue, but as a man I took it quite hard when I had to start taking meds, it was as if I had a weakness and was less than my peers. “Men are supposed to be stoic and tough” (I have since changed perspective)
Take your meds, no-one will give you a medal or appriciate it if you don’t. You are also not weaker if you take them. It just makes life easier, like a good bed or a good home. Is having a good home a weakness? “What? You can’t survive on the street? You pussy!” /s
See the irrational way of thinking? Any comfortable choice can be called some form of weakness. So then the queation becomes: Why choose to have difficulty when nobody gains from it?
- Comment on Purposely leaving small amounts of crypto on your device is like leaving a few dollars in the console of your car. It lets you know if your property has had it's security breached. 4 months ago:
Basically using a cryptowallet as a canary. Cool idea
- Comment on Norwegian government to set 15-year age limit for using social media 4 months ago:
I am not sure if this is true, maybe I am misunderstanding something. I use GrapheneOS and can use all banking services in Norway just fine. GrapheneOS does have a translation layer or something like that for Google Play Services, is that what you are thinking of?
- Comment on Norwegian government to set 15-year age limit for using social media 4 months ago:
Can you elaborate a bit on the google and apple servers for authentication? My impression was that this system uses its own platform.
- Comment on Norwegian government to set 15-year age limit for using social media 4 months ago:
Everyone in Norway has one, well like 99,99% or something. It is a requirement for banking.
It is used for all banking services in Norway. When you get your own bank account at 13 or something you also get BankID.