I did, not for the first time, but it did not work. It passed, despite a majority voting against it (314:276), because it was not an “absolute majority” (361 votes). What a farce.

What the fuck do we do now?

Yes, an explicit No to AI, also LibreWolf said the same, no AI, that means that every fork will have AI disabled

Now i have an itch to go reread Dungeon Meshi

Because one hallmark of the techbro mentality is not understanding consent

The point is that by fighting back they cannot get any more accurate than that, which helps, even if it’s incomplete and imperfect.

There’s also the spite angle, because fuck them, i am not gonna give them shit if i can help it!

Basically this. The project head might be a bit too paranoid, bellicose and problematic, but at this time a phone with GrapheneOS seems to be by far the safest way to have a smartphone, and the project head’s personality might be a part on this as their stated objective is to be able to resist state-level actors, you likely need someone who’s more than a bit “out there” to have the right mind for this

I have family that believes this and LIKE having ads, so yeah… 😓

Which is useless for non-local stuff

While i like the idea, this flag gives instant super-creepy vibes, i would NOT like to use it unless it’s for a bad guys faction in a game or story or something like that

First i hear of it, is there some sort of diplomatic situation that leads to this?

Well, there’s a niche genre of so-called “Dungeon Core” books, usually a subgenre of the also niche LitRPG genre, where the main character is just that, a dungeon, usually a former human soul that got turned into the core of a dungeon but not always, more books than i expected when i heard of it for the first time not too long ago, i guess that needed it’s representation on tabletop RPGs

I understand they have gone deep into LLMs, so take that into consideration

Oh yeah, the Debian vs. JWZ XScreenSaver spat, that was royally stupid and led me to stop using it altogether

“Right about a lot of things but fucking insufferable” is an apt summary of JWZ

Oh yeah, same thing, by that day we should be already running whatever else we choose, or we will likely go to Teams 😬

Jami seems to be designed as a drop-in Skype replacement, even with account management for corporations, we are in a similar boat and that was the top alternative that rose up in checks but we’re still far from decided

The GDPR ensures there’s no mailing list you cannot unsubscribe from, if they won’t let you it’s not a good thing

Note: The “Key Verifier” one is supposed to be tied to E2EE on Google chat platforms or something on those lines, although you shouldn’t be using those and go for a safer chat instead though

Here’s some info on why Brave is to be avoided