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Cake day: July 3rd, 2023

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  • “Today, AI is the voice in the drive-thru that can’t hear our orders. It’s killing the livelihood of creative workers. It’s the thing you have to do at work, whether you like it or not. It’s making search engines unusable. It’s a justification for corporate layoffs. It’s plagiarism. It’s killing information access. It’s taking credit for the work of visual effects artists. It’s a serial liar. It’s harming our critical thinking and memory skills. It’s mecha-Hitler. It’s the really annoying popup. It’s wealth inequality. It’s a crutch for the loneliness epidemic. It’s the industrial polluter. It’s the scammer faking your voice for predatory phone calls. It’s the military-industrial complex. It’s the book that could kill you. It’s exploiting social media algorithms with fake content.”





  • I like the article, but agree with so many of the comments here as well.

    Ultimately I think one thing I’d love for would be a way to simply provide services (like Immich) for people but where the client is end to end encrypted, and neither the user nor the service has to worry about the how.

    Example: how can I share an Immich with my family and friends, but where I don’t have access to any of their data. I.e. what signal does, but immich or any other service. I want to share my server with friends/family, but I don’t want access to any of their data. It isn’t a lack of trust, it’s that I don’t want that as even something they have to worry about

    That same concept then extends here to community hosting. If we can solve the problem for a few, it should be scalable to many.


  • Thank you for the detailed reply! Yeah I realize now Mestastic.Org has everything I need.

    Planning to prolly get:

    A rak wireless kit for a local repeater on my roof powered via PoE, and then a TTGO TEcho for my personal device.

    I know that I should just get the latter and play with it first, but I live high on a hill with a great vantage point of the city so feels like a disservice to the community if I don’t also host a repeater.

    One thing I’m curious about, is if I use it via poe, can I also send messages via the repeater? I.e. locally from my network initiate a message through my repeater?

    I would want it in repeater mode so it would forward any message even ones I don’t have the encryption key for.









  • My point wasn’t that the switch was or wasn’t flipped, but that, do we know there isn’t a bug or electrical failure that caused the computer to think it was flipped when it wasn’t.

    Idk it seems very unlikely given how carefully designed aircrafts are, but so many things are less “control by wire”

    though airplanes do seem to retain that safety still… but Boeing’s recent decade with the new max planes def leaves me with some doubts of their quality and design decisions.