Auf meiner kleinen Ein-Personen Instanz hab ich die auch schon längst alle gelöscht. Vielleicht wäre es sinnvoll ein Bugreport / Feature-Request zu schreiben, dass man soetwas in Zukunft irgendwie archivieren kann. So dass es für die paar Leute, die das wollen noch existiert, aber überall ausgegraut wird oder aus den Ergebnissen entfernt wird. Und außerdem die Optionen zum posten oder abonnieren entfernt werden.

I’m not sure about anything useful. Best thing would probably be to install Linux and donate them to people in need. For experimentation, sure, set up a Beowulf Cluster, learn FreeBSD, Orchestration, Kubernetes, Ansible… Use them to test your microservice architecture software projects, software-defined networking…

I get a lot of ads everywhere. And trackers. On most of the news sites, social media platforms, my email provider, .places where I look up information, … The majority of the internet is commercial and financed through advertisements. With few exceptions, like personal/indie blogs and places like this one. I mean if you read just blogs and Wikipedia, you might already be alright. But that’s not how 99% of people use the internet.

Yeah, Youtube ads won’t be blocked by a DNS blocker. You need a browser plugin for that. I use Firefox, uBlock and Sponsorblock. That removes most of the ads everywhere, including Youtube.

Alright. I don’t share that perspective, but it’s your instance. Now you got one general complaint (and whoever agreed with me in the linked discussion, or defederated from lemmit.online for that reason), but that’s more on a meta-level. Thanks for listening.

One last question: Does the bridge (reliably) delete posts which got deleted on Reddit?

And what’s with the other point, that a lot of content is uploaded (illegally) by other people? (Copyright-theft, re-posts, circulating revenge-porn, old pictures that people want to get rid of, …)

I’m not part of that “community” myself. But I’ve heard some creators want to stay in control where which pictures of them are accessible and how long, etc. I mean we’re talking about amateurs here, not professionals. Their situation might change, i.e. life, getting kids, new partner… And they might want to quit entirely. They should be allowed, And not have their pictures kept around by third parties. Which isn’t possible if we copy them to several other places. And they have the copyright. They might even want to advertise for short periods of time, or reconsider and delete some pictures they’re not comfortable with (any longer). Or advertise in a well-defined community and not like “more exposure” than that.

And a big issue is copyright violations. Quite some pictures on Reddit aren’t uploaded by the creators themselves, but uploaded by other people, without the depicted person’s consent. For example stolen from OF, Discord… Or re-posted from some dude’s harddrive. We can’t just spread that around, either.

I think giving people exposure, whether they like it or not is bad when it comes to nudes and sex. And even more so if we can’t even tell if it’s been uploaded by them and with their consent.

Once it’s already progressed to a blame game, the answer is usually: it’s not constructive or productive (any more). You need to find another way to escape the dynamics. Once people are set on an opinion, repeating the same stuff doesn’t add anything. It just makes everyone feel worse. Usually for both parties.

Thx, that’s helpful.

Can you give us some more information on what’s false?

It means AI can recite information from a domain that PhD-level people are concerned with. This doesn’t mean it can draw correct conclusions, rephrase emails properly or do any heavy-lifting like come up with computer code beyond boilerplate templates and tech-demos. It’s mainly just hype. AI is useful. But not very bright as of today.

I think it’s a waste of time. It doesn’t really add anything. If you don’t want to lose your subscription in the unlikely event that your server/instance goes down forever, just use the export feature to make occasional backups. You can always create a new account after something happened. No need to invest that time otherwise.

You’re free to use sockpuppets though. Or if you’re moderating stuff or participate in instances/communities who don’t federate.

Uh, it’s going to take me some time to listen to a 90min podcast. I hope they even talk about wifi and bluetooth. Usually that kind of code and intellectual property is a completely different story than your usual microcontroller design. Thx for the link.

Why? Because it doesn’t have any Bluetooth to be exploited? Seems the boards have an Infeneon modem on top. Is that any better?

Well, it’s a mass-produced, embedded device, designed to do one specific task. I guess lots of the video related stuff is assisted by hardware and they usually strip down the embedded Linux to the minimum needed. Because every Megabyte of storage costs extra and they need to hit some 99,- or 89,- price point. Furthermore, they don’t want it to boot for 20 seconds, so these devices generally don’t contain any extras. Similar things happen on wifi routers, the ones below $100 usually contain similar amounts of memory (or less). At least the last time I bought one.

In doubt, their customer support is the first “authority” to contact.

Google the product name and Linux. If nothing turns up, you need to find the name of the SoC / processor and google that. Find out if it’s supported by Linux and what other people did to install Linux. You might need additional hardware though, like a serial or JTAG adapter and a soldering iron. Plus the required expertise. And I must warn you, that thing has 1 GB of RAM and 256MB(!) of flash storage. You won’t be able to do much with those specs. Like a slow FTP server or one small website or a few other tiny services which don’t use a lot of resources.

Sure, go ahead. Technically it’s not 100% correct. I mean lemm.ee wouldn’t be your provider, it’d be the people operating the server who provide the service to you… But I think it’s close enough. Only issue I can see is the term “provider” usually being used with commercial services. Like a cellphone provider or ISP. So I’m not sure if people start to think this costs $10 a month or something and is run by for-profit businesses… But we also use the word “provider” for free things, so I’m not entirely sure about that. But generally speaking I think we use different terminology because we don’t think of the Fediverse as a product.

Nice. Unfortunately, it’s sold out as of now.

I think Baikal or Radicale would be the usual contenders for that

Well, they learn from the training material and then they apply what they learned. That’s not exactly copying. Like me learning to code with textbooks and then being able to do it myself. LLMs are supposed to do something similar, generally they don’t reproduce their training material verbatim. But it’s complicated. And I believe we have some court cases and the legal system needs to find out how to apply copyright. Plus the big companies just steal stuff. It’s not like me buying the books for university, Meta just downloads all of them via bittorrent. Which is definitely illegal. But i think the difference between learning, copying, being inspired by something is more nuanced. And if something like “fair use” applies, there isn’t much an author can do. I guess LLMs are able to memorize stuff as well. And I don’t think that is okay. I’m not sure if we have examples of that happening, that’d make a copyright case a bit easier.