puppinstuff
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- Comment on Mozilla's new open-source Gmail alternative puts your privacy first 5 hours ago:
Yes but if one use hundreds of Proton or Fastmail-generated email masks it’s a big switching cost.
- Comment on Mozilla's new open-source Gmail alternative puts your privacy first 7 hours ago:
I just don’t have the energy to play email host hopscotch. Every capitalist CEO is going to stay something I don’t agree with eventually.
While completely disagreeing, I can tolerate Proton leadership having a preference towards the political party that imposes less red tape. But after the decade of the month it’s been the dude will probably reverse his opinion now that his money is in danger.
- Comment on Mozilla's new open-source Gmail alternative puts your privacy first 7 hours ago:
Pretty much. I don’t want to wake up to find out my email stopped working because a rapist wrote a new executive order after his Big Mac-fueled fever dream.
- Comment on Samsung’s latest stick vac can alert you to calls and text messages 3 days ago:
I want companies to make robots to vacuum for me. I don’t want them to make my own drudgery time more “convenient”.
Nobody: “Now my boss can text me any time of day even when I’m doing housework!”
- Comment on Zen browser had a backdoor enabled by default 1 week ago:
So disappointing. I just transitioned my personal browsing from Arc to Zen Browser because it was the closest vertical tab experience I could find. Now I hope one of the other browsers will figure out and implement good drawer-based vertical tab UI.
- Comment on Something's wrong with denmark 2 weeks ago:
Quatre-vingt douze isn’t incredibly onerous when you use it in practice.
- Comment on China announces plan to label all AI-generated content with watermarks and metadata. 2 weeks ago:
Having some AIs that do this and some not will only muddy the waters of what’s believable. We’ll get gullible people seeing the ridiculous and thinking “Well there’s no watermark so it MUST be true.”
- Comment on GeoCities in 1995: Building a Home Page on the Internet 3 weeks ago:
TimesSquare/Alley was the place to be for gaming news. And webrings were more useful than search engines.
- Comment on Looks like Instagram wants some of Discord's market. 3 weeks ago:
When Discord enshittifies to the point it shows ads in chat, Instagram will be ready to swoop in and capture the market with the same shitty ads.
- Comment on US immigration service wants social media handles of visa applicants 4 weeks ago:
It’s not an unreasonable request. If the shoe was on the other foot I’d want to be screening every American coming to our border to check if they were active on topics like annexation or shudder cyber truck enthusiasm.
- Comment on Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg talks succession — ‘I don’t want to pass it to a committee’ 4 weeks ago:
That’s cute. He thinks people will still be using WordPress when he retires as he continues to alienate customers and developers week after week.
- Comment on Least terrible domain registrars 4 weeks ago:
I’ve been happy with Hover for several years. They don’t bug me and they’re owned by Tucows so they’ve got decades-old staying power.
- Comment on New Terms for Firefox from Mozilla 5 weeks ago:
Well shot if Firefox goes I guess we’re back to carrier pigeons and smoke signals.
- Comment on Proton will no longer post on Mastodon 5 weeks ago:
I hope they come back. These other platforms are getting enshittier and enshittier by design.
- Comment on Ukraine: Zelenskyy offers to quit in return for NATO entry 5 weeks ago:
Zelensky isn’t facing down prison and treason sentences on their way out. But he would have to avoid Russian tea service in his retirement.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 1 month ago:
I’d say he’s headed for his billionaire bunker but he likes golf too much to follow the scared dictator playbook.
- Comment on Can I ethically use LLMs? 1 month ago:
I eat meat, too.
- Comment on Can I ethically use LLMs? 1 month ago:
In the same way as people can be okay or not with eating meat, I think it comes down to individual values.
LLMs have consequences to climate, labour, and (if you don’t disclose in some situations) how others perceive your creativity.
For me, I would have no problem asking and AI agent to speak to a colleagues AI agent to automatically find a mutually acceptable time for a call or meeting.
I would not use AI to compose a best man’s toast or funeral eulogy from scratch.
The quote about “I want AI to do my dishes and laundry so I have time for more creativity, I don’t want AI to do my creativity so I have more time to do dishes and laundry” applies to me.
- Comment on Why are there so many graybeards in FOSS? 1 month ago:
It didn’t start grey but then I read the issues tracker.