earthling

This came to my attention recently via someone I follow on Mastodon. I haven’t set time aside yet to set it up and try it out but since I heard about ChatGPT, etc, I thought this would be an excellent use of the tech.

No, that can’t be right.

If you’re in the US,

Don’t talk to the police.

https://youtu.be/d-7o9xYp7eE

Yep. Everyone in the thread asking this question seems clueless to me. Macros are already a threat. I can’t imagine what a shitshow full on python would be.

Can you expand on how you got blocked? First time I’ve heard of this.

Y tho?

What is there to teach? It’s conversational. If you can write coherently, you can use GPTs. Someone in the English department should leverage “AI” hype to get more funding.

Those people need to pull their head out.

It should be on the government to post this information on a public government website. It should be on the people to go read it.

I do believe governments should be looking at alternative alerting options though. They should take the recent API rate hikes by Twitter as a bright red warning that they should never have relied on private companies like this for important alerts.

Meta started blocking news on its Facebook and Instagram platforms for all users in Canada this month in response to a new law requiring internet giants to pay for news articles.

Look, I hate Facebook as much as the next guy but you have to admit, Canada doesn’t have much to bitch about. They did this to themselves.

Facebook doesn’t want to pay for news articles so they decided not to have news at all. ¯\(ツ)/¯

Huehuehue

This is the correct answer.

I run several containers that offer up http/s and they obviously can’t all use 80/443. Just adjust the left side of that port setting and you’re good.

That plus a reverse proxy for offering these services up over the public internet, if you choose to do so, is a killer pair.

Was what I always recommended until recently since their axing port forwarding.

Nothing bad to say privacy-wise but I’m using it to torrent.

Just learned about this myself. Damn this sucks. They were the best IMO.

Between here and the debates on mastodon/Calckey it seems there’s a lot of fear their data will be scraped without understanding that Meta (or any corp) can do that without setting up an instance. The other is not wanting all that meta crap in their feeds… but that’s solely up to the people they follow. Lastly is the EEE, but ActivityPub is an open protocol so there’s no stopping them from using it any more than stopping them from using http. And preemptive blocking by some instances will do nothing to stop them from using it either.

This is all so well put. Much better than I was able to communicate.

ActivityPub feels like plumbing to me in the way that TCP/IP feel like plumbing. Meta, Google, etc all use the same plumbing - so what?

I’m trying to think about how they could ruin the fediverse but can’t think of anything. If they contribute to the code, it must be open source. So it’s either shit and isn’t included/no one adopts their changes or it’s actually good and makes a better service.

I agree with you on the privacy front - if they want to gobble up data, they can do that now without their own instance. If LLMs want to scrape the fediverse for data there’s no stopping them either.

There’s plenty of “I want nothing to do with them” here in the post but I’m not really understanding the risk. This isn’t an approval of Meta as a company - I just want to understand what people believe the risk is.

Makes no difference to me. Those who believe they have privacy just because Meta and others don’t yet have their own instance are mistaken.

The ongoing strike, spurred by Huffman’s plan to charge fees to third-party apps that serve up Reddit content, was supposed to last for 48 hours.

Not just charge fees… Exorbitant fees. Outrageous fees.

If Huffman wanted to target these much higher costs to LLMs, they could have instituted an approval process for 3PAs which got charged sane API fees while they charge much more for LLMs. I’m no dev but I think they could tell the difference between the two by just analyzing the API traffic.

But they aren’t doing that. Maybe LLMs were the primary target but they sure aren’t even trying to keep 3PAs around.

I’m working on archiving and then removing my data from Reddit. I then plan to post that content in relevant… I want to say subs but that makes no sense anymore. I guess relevant magazines?