macallik

The layer of disassociation is present w/ humans speaking different languages too though, right? My point is that once we can understand each other, we are all building on what already exists

they are appropriating what already existed and saying it in another way.

Isn’t this humanity in a nutshell? Standing on the shoulders of Giants, etc.

I quit my job to start the year and I’m currently doing a sabbatical year. I’m apathetic about the idea of eventually honing in on a specialty to learn when I re-enter the workforce because I’m unsure how sustainable the skills I learn will be in demand for.

The only thing I can think of is expanding my base level understanding of LLMs. My bet is that they will become the foundation with which future projects are launched in the same way that elementary school is the foundation for basic reading/writing/comprehension skills.

Yeah I like it over Mastodon as well. The UI/UX feels more modern. The only downside is that the majority of the Twitter-alternative fediverse is on Mastodon, so I have to run 90% of accounts through ‘search’ to follow them.

The article does touch on some of the main instance’s issues towards the bottom too I just found out.

If nothing else, the article is great for a breakdown of the features of Firefish. I’ve been a user for 2-3 months and didn’t know a lot of the info covered.

On a related note, I was on firefish.social but it was very buggy for me after a while. Thought about throwing in the towel but eventually realized that it was instance specific.

I have since migrated to calckey.world (Calckey -> Firefish instance that didn’t change its name) and the experience has been buttery smooth.

It’s completely markdown which is future-proof and easily portable to other software

This is going increasingly off topic.

1. Yes wikipedia does have ads every time they fundraise
2. I use libredirect to complete privacy-focused searches across various front-ends, from YouTube to Reddit to Wikipedia, and my searches are distributed across various instances, so no, a single random third party is not getting all of my searches.
3. ‘The point’ is to share an article on the guy who owns Brave. I’ve provided additional context about wikiless as requested, but if you need more context moving forward, please do a google search.

It’s a free, open source alternative Wikipedia front-end focused on privacy.

https://github.com/Nangjing/wikiless

Basically you search wikipedia w/o tracking.

The owner is the guy who created JavaScript and is funded by controversial right-winger Peter Thiel

Good insight. We must protect @bug at all costs.

7 years support for (new & future) Pixels & 10 years of support for Chromebooks. WATTBA

I agree re: malicious compliance. Also leading w/ the web price knowing that the majority of their base uses mobile devices to connect

m/TheyDidTheMath

It feels like every other post on privacy and technology is someone pushing the (paid) search engine Kagi nowadays…

The lure of far right themes are globalized admittedly

• Hates migrants
• Ravaged by a drug crisis
• Glorifies the past as a ‘simpler’ time (even while acknowledging that this time had apartheid)

From MAGA to South Africa to Eastern Europe

Mines too. Glad it’s happening tho to circumvent the e-waste from those that aren’t as aware/adventurous.

I think the issue is that you are hypothesizing what you think you’d like, while ignoring all the real life examples that show things can go astray. For example, you talk about the benefits of not having a million little kings w/o acknowledging that the one kingmaker can make the head of groceries his inept brother-in-law who pockets half of the funds.

Instead of responding to people why you like totalitarianism, how about you show reference a historical example that was beneficial to a society?

I listen to a LOT of podcasts and their chemistry is unrivaled. It’s popularity has made both of them ‘go-to’ sources for tech as of late and so they often get scoops/interviews on top of their banter as well.

To the uninitiated, Firefish is to Mastodon what Kbin is to Lemmy

There’s a general selection bias in the fediverse, and the idea of decentralizing power is pretty communistic and also pretty beneficial to people who feel oppressed (transgenders).

Most new waves have a strong bias when you think about it. For example, crypto has a strong tilt towards Libertarianism and deregulation