Cherry
@Cherry@piefed.social
- Comment on School pool barricaded as repairs contract ends with work unfinished 5 days ago:
Name and shame the directors. Let’s see I they like being in the cold.
- Comment on UK economy showing signs of 'zombie apocalypse,' says think tank 1 week ago:
I love the UK mentality of oh fuck it - given that nobody has anything they don’t really have anything to lose!
Viva la revolution. Never thought I would love the French as much as I do lately.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I left a few years ago. I didn’t get banned but I did remove my content.
It’s an adjustment. It’s a lot slower, and you have to play with your filters to get your viewing right for you.
There’s not a lot of niche forums like over there or support groups say for example the stremio Reddit. But it’s building and it’s a lot more genuine.
It takes time to build and you are now part of figuring how and where you can contribute. It is a night transaction and you have to stop and remind yourself it’s not Reddit, it won’t be Reddit and you left there for a reason.
I feel like a real grown up now 🤣
- Comment on Artist Behind Viral 'Beast Jesus' Restoration Dies at 94 1 week ago:
I always love this story. I have always been a fan of art, in particular classical. I know people are horrified what happened but I always feel art chapters a time a moment a feeling and she did was a really unique moment and result.
I appreciate that it was a work of an artist and that has been lost with the alteration. But there are so many artworks like this. I also actually like her artistic style. I get annoyed at people questioning the merit. Art is in the eye of the beholder and should not be marked as lesser because it a master did not paint it.
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 3 weeks ago:
I’d like a AI feature that bounces back on any ads or intrusive crap including propaganda. But AI is being pushed by the same people so if it happens it won’t be genuine and it will just evolve to give the illusion of not being pushed.
FF, any browser, any social media platform , I can select ‘I don’t wanna see this’ or go adjust settings to disable but nah, an update later and it’s back, or it comes back under another form.
It’s still manipulation. And I can’t trust it to manipulate ever.
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 3 weeks ago:
It’s worth a try. It’s only a few min to do. My extensions seem to be all from Mozilla and working fine.
The only real difference is it has a bit of a classic FF apathetic and seems to highlight who’s abusing privacy. I can click that off but I like it.
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 3 weeks ago:
I jumped to LibreWolf this week. Really like it, it looks acat and feels the same. But I trust it more.
Been a FF user for over 10 years. - Comment on Are Apple Gift Cards Safe to Redeem? 3 weeks ago:
Digital Russian roulette was a great way to describe it. People shouldn’t be held hostage on the whims of Apple faceless system. We pay for our products. Taking them away after they have been paid for, and with no genuine reason is theft.
- Comment on It Only Takes A Handful Of Samples To Poison Any Size LLM, Anthropic Finds 4 weeks ago:
Good use for my creativity. I might get on this over Christmas.
- Comment on It Only Takes A Handful Of Samples To Poison Any Size LLM, Anthropic Finds 4 weeks ago:
How? Is there a guide on how we can help 🤣
- Comment on India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app 1 month ago:
Sell your non I treated with phone to an Indian. You’ll both be happier.
- Comment on When you get right down to it, cereal is just cold breakfast soup 1 month ago:
What slop
- Comment on Why have so many people stopped posting on social media? 1 month ago:
Hmm I am just a temporarily embarrassed hyper capitalist influence…am I not?
- Comment on Why have so many people stopped posting on social media? 1 month ago:
The thing is in the early days you had some control. Now you don’t.
But by the settings have been removed and our personal content has been squirrelled off to be regurgitated for tech bots narrative. Anything someone might see now It’s not the real shared me. It’s a Frankenstein’s monster virtual version of me where only my ability to sell something or convey the current message gets through to others. Because that’s all that is of value to them, not what is of help to me. I started censoring a long time ago as I suspect many other did.
But if anyone wants to know I had eggs at bennys for breakfast and they were OMG (insert orgasm face) they are so well priced too, get down there asap and get some before benny meets an untimely end. Don’t forget to subscribe for more money saving breakfasts. /S
- Comment on Why have so many people stopped posting on social media? 1 month ago:
This place feels a low key where you can share conversations. It feels somewhat genuine.
I don’t feel l am being marketed too or being used as a tool here.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
No that many artists have gatekept entry.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I have to admit I get frustrated of the wealthier artists who started their careers singing of revolution and peace, yet gatekeep entry to the business and don’t speak up against the stuff that’s happening in the world. They just sit in glass houses.
- Comment on Amazon is cracking down on illegal streaming on its Fire TV Stick 1 month ago:
I wonder how many that is in %. Got to be a good chunk who side load. They ain’t gonna suddenly convert and set up prime subscriptions.
- Comment on How the Web Became Unreadable 2 months ago:
I always saw it as a pendulum swing in retaliation to the neon naughties and Web 2.0 web design trends.
- Comment on How the Web Became Unreadable 2 months ago:
But it has to pop…make it pop and grab the reader! They need to SEEEEE the offer and hand over their money. Bigger please, make it bigger and pop even more. We don’t need white space!
- Comment on "What is the oldest country in the world that still exists?" is a Ship of Theseus problem. 2 months ago:
Thanks for the update. Education is always an over option to being downvoted.
I was being ignorant just remembering badly.
- Comment on "What is the oldest country in the world that still exists?" is a Ship of Theseus problem. 2 months ago:
I think you need to define a country. My perception would be a place when a civilisation consisting of more than 3 regional groups to share the same common rules, and it clear boundaries and a name.
- Comment on "What is the oldest country in the world that still exists?" is a Ship of Theseus problem. 2 months ago:
Isnt there evidence the First Nations came from Indonesia? Or Polynesia?
- Comment on Facebook and Instagram ad-free subscription arrives in the U.K. 2 months ago:
Don’t use Facebook but got hit by this on insta today. About time I ditched it anyway. Ain’t paying and I feel like agreeing gives them free rein to use data about me detrimentally.
- Comment on Self Hosting Guide 3 months ago:
Jumping on this and will be starting slowly. I have a newish laptop…that has a broken screen. Alternatively I can pick up a new one. I also have a bunch of portable hard drives.
I have terrible internet (cable) with the phone line sitting at a spot in the hall where I could keep a small dedicated cupboard. So I was thinking something connected by Ethernet.
I want to ideally use it for downloading content and streaming it to devices around the house. Likely firestick or an alternative tv box.
Secondly I would use to stream music to my iPhone outside the house.
Any guides or starting points would be welcome.
- Comment on Ethical alternatives to Spotify 3 months ago:
I love sailing.
- Comment on Ethical alternatives to Spotify 3 months ago:
I moved to Qobuz. It costs a little more but that is something you have to accept for the ethical choice.
Unfortunately it’s not working for me. Many of my songs/libraries have not moved over well, can’t be found or have changed version etc.
The bigger issues for me are the terrible CarPlay functions of the app. It’s non existent. If I am travelling I need to see and search fast and easy.
And I continually have to select Bluetooth when playing music, if the app drops out or I lose connection I can’t just pop on my phone and again select Bluetooth. It needs to recognise CarPlay and just switch.Finally I it drops out and jumps a lot for me. Interruptions every 10 songs or so just isn’t great.
I wish it would have worked but it didn’t.
I’m moving away from music streaming. - Comment on Big Tech: Convenience is a Trap 3 months ago:
I have been chatting through convenience with my kids.
As an example music streaming. I have spent the last 15+ years paying for it, to generally accumulate a song or two extra per month. Switched from Spotify due to their warmongering. Tried an alternative. More expensive and the app is terrible for the car. Tempted lately to go back to an iPod and some sailing. At this stage it really does look like an option. It’s not the most convenient but balance out privacy, price and usability.
I feel like I am going backwards as I simply don’t know what’s coming and I can’t trust the services I pay for in several capacities.
- Comment on Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ 4 months ago:
And then after all that have to read a page full of ego and and thinly veiled sales waffle just to find the tiny bit of info you are looking for.
You have to give up too much time and privacy to get little back. It’s not the internet we knew. It’s a hyper monitized sales board.
I miss being excited about what online would unfurl for me each day.
- Comment on If what they taught us about checks and balances was a lie maybe what they taught us about civil disobedience was a lie too. 4 months ago:
No it was designed to look like it works. Smoke, mirrors, placation they amount to fancy words for lie. Governments and Capitalist leaders have been getting bolder and bolder and are not only saying it but trying to act like they deserve the ability to control the masses.