We should not be using GitHub, absolutely, but primarily for decentralisation. In terms of training AI, they will find Open Source wherever it is and use it. They will also no doubt train on paid for / private repos too. I would guess the most useful source of data is people using copilot. I am in the process of setting up pycharm with some locally hosted AI. It will not be as good but gives me peace of mind that sensitive data is not sucked into some AI cloud with unpredictable consequences. View quoted note →

At most we might get an aggressively edited list, much like with the Twitter files, if they have anyone they no longer need or want to sacrifice. View quoted note →

You pay for the convenience of using Apple products with your freedom... and it is not that much convenience. Mostly habit and inertia. View quoted note →

Have you heard the term 'human terrain'? Refers to warfare in the realm of our thinking and psychology which is ongoing. View quoted note →

Nationwide UK just sent me an email that they will be crediting my account (and 12 million others) with £50 because they acquired Virgin Money. They decided to spend £60 million on what exactly?

I love Linux for the control it gives me. Every day I have to start my fiat job with a boring, repetitive overly complicated process which also randomly fails sometimes. I just spent an hour to automate it. Screw the time saving, the pleasure I get from watching it whizz through tasks I hate is priceless. So I could not stop myself from shitposting about it, sorry 😅

Trump does not care about free speech. He is looking forward to signing into law the 'Take It Down' bill so he can censor his critics.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Trump Calls On Congress To Pass The “Take It Down” Act—So He Can Censor His Critics

We've opposed the Take It Down Act because it could be easily manipulated to take down lawful content that powerful people simply don't l...

Amazon is introducing new restrictions on kindle ebooks. You should be able to still download them until Feb 26 2025. Additionally it has edited at least one book whose author is dead (so without author approval).

Consumer Rights Wiki

Odysee

Amazon revokes the concept of owning books, can edit books you already bought; PIRACY IS THE ANSWER!

https://wiki.rossmanngroup.com/index.php?title=AmazonKindleremovesdownloadfeatureofpurchased_books

The MAHA press conference hits hard. Finally some real questions asked.

X (formerly Twitter)

Senator Ron Johnson (@SenRonJohnson) on X

The entire MAHA press conference with Del Bigtree is well worth watching. Truth is about to be revealed.

Looks good. I tend to keep bluetooth off for privacy reasons though. View quoted note →