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Chance favors the prepared mind.
~ Louis Pasteur
Your points are valid, but I look at AI as an unavoidable trend in the tech space, which is why I experiment with local models. I’d rather understand how they work (and how to protect oneself from them) as I believe avoiding them isn’t really possible in my field.
Thus far, the local models I’ve worked with have gotten a C- on coding, but an A+ on bullshit. I think the tech still has a long way to go before it lives up to the hype, both negative and positive.
Ok, this part is pretty cool:
Thunderbird Assist will also be available. This experimental feature, developed in collaboration with Flower AI, offers optional artificial intelligence functionalities for users who want them while also addressing privacy concerns head-on. On devices robust enough to handle AI models locally, Thunderbird Assist processes everything on the user’s own machine.
However, for users on less powerful hardware, the development team has integrated NVIDIA’s confidential computing to keep any remote processing secure. Rest assured, those who prefer to skip AI services can continue using Thunderbird without these extras.
I’ve been unwilling to touch cloud based AI, much less expose my emails to it as there’s no guarantee of privacy, but being able to run a local model allows you the functionality without the risk. Haven’t used Thunderbird in years, but this is tempting me to give it another shot.
Thank you sir - I’ve posted an edit with a credit to your astute eye.
It apparently scrapes everything on the public feed. So when I subscribed to users on Mastodon server A from Wordpress, DMs from Mastodon server A going to Mastodon server B became visible.
I had a separate account on Mastodon server A to confirm that I couldn’t see these DMs as Mastodon user on server A, and that the Wordpress scrape was grabbing messages normally not meant for public view.
This was using the ActivityPub plugin for Wordpress about six months ago.
EDIT: I should be clear that I was as surprised as the other commentators that the DMs weren’t encrypted and that I could see them at all through a 3rd party software. I did NOT see DMs between local users - only cross-instance.
They would have to hack the individual servers to get at the DMs, because they’re encrypted in transit. All the public stuff is trivial to scrape.
Nope, ActivityPub DMs are not encrypted between servers - if it’s on the feed, it’s public- or at least it was as of six months ago. I found this out when I attached a Wordpress site to a Mastodon instance and suddenly found i could read anyone’s DMs to users on other servers. Totally unencrypted. I actually paused development and working with ActivityPub because of it.
This doesn’t mean that messages to users on the same server are necessarily exposed, but the potential is there if you don’t have a filter for local publishing only engaged on your Mastodon instance.
Thanks for the list. Unfortunately, they list “Fediverse” which likely means they’re scraping ActivityPub. They’re also going after your Steam account, Twitch, YouTube, and porn.
In other words, this is so much worse than the headline makes it out to be.
Surprisingly, Reddit is NOT on the list.
EDIT: I was wrong - thanks to Da Cap’n for the correction.
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Haven’t done it myself yet, but here’s the docker install guide… seeing what your username is and all…