That fungus is called Cladosporium sphaerospermum, and some scientists think its dark pigment – melanin – may allow it to harness ionizing radiation through a process similar to the way plants harness light for photosynthesis. This proposed mechanism is even referred to as radiosynthesis.

With screenshots of your systems sent and analyzed by ai

How do they know about these prints?

I run an old Roomba that’s offline. It works perfectly fine without being connected to anything. It’s a vacuum, not everything needs to be smart. I’ll upgrade at some point and not let the new device on the Internet either

Haha they just can’t help but try and shove ai into everything. Down our fucking throats

My typical reason is I need to sound less casual than I am in professional emails. Or I’ll ramble. I don’t copy paste but I’ll write an email in my normal tone, let the llm look at it and then fix it up. I’ve also used it to help me find new books when I’m in a draught. List ones I like and it’ll spit out suggestions. Today I couldn’t figure out a website issue so I copied and pasted the html and it generated a snippet of css for me that fixed the problem.

I personally don’t HATE ai but I don’t want it in my browser or email or anything like that. I have a local llm I use for random stuff all the time but I don’t need or want a company viewing everything I’m doing, adding buttons in places I’m likely to accidentally push, or training their shit on my dumb behavior. ai has destroyed much of the Internet already to the point that you almost need to use an llm in order to get any useful information during a search. Otherwise you’re just filtering through ai generated webpages with the highest seo possible.

Makes sense but it’s still annoying. Thanks for the heads up

Lemmy in general blocks posts from vpns which is total bullshit but I can still view with vpn

Edit: in my experience anyhow. Also added bold for bs

I don’t think having a server somewhere is necessarily a bad thing. If you choose to use that server it’s up to you.

I’m a big fan of mullvad

It might have been fluxer but I’m not positive. I’ve been looking at all of the options because I need an alternative so there’s lots of mixed info in my brain. I should have started a spreadsheet

Read the privacy policies too. I can’t remember which one I was reading yesterday but it read like they were going to monitor every word I said… All the while saying they are privacy advocates and based in Europe

Release the controller! Release the controller! Release the controller! Release the controller! Release the controller! Release the controller!

Yeah I’ve tried both. Stoat looks good and seems like the best option for similar organization but matrix seems better in terms of privacy. If matrix wasn’t so clumsy it would be hands down the best option.

You’re probably right. The only reason I would want that is because there are always leaks and data harvesting

Is there a new "default"platform everyone is moving to? I’m kind of surprised there isn’t an open source discord clone that comes with e2e encryption. I’m not tech savvy enough to understand the challenges involved I’m sure.

Matrix is good but not as simple as discord. Lots of users aren’t going to like it.

They lost me already. I’ve migrated away from base Firefox.

There are many stops between mint and arch. I’d personally point a new user towards fedora or maybe another Debian distro