It’s mentioned at the end of the blog post, but reading “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy”, by Gil Durán is a great book if anyone wants to understand the fucked up minds of these tech billionaires.

Never underestimate the power of ”protecting the children”. We are still fighting against Palantir and ChatControl 2.0 despite it getting constantly voted down, they are finding loopholes and dirty tricks to bring it closer and closer. They really want to feed all our chat data to Europol crimeAI. It’s been going on for years now and that came about through lobbying reasonably sane (but clueless) politicians with ”think of the children”.

This is a disturbing warning from Kim Dotcom

It’s disturbing anyone should be listening to this fraud of a man. Receipts first. Then we can listen.

Been using Ente for a long time. +1, they are excellent!

Yeah, Mozilla Org is the non-profit and Mozilla Corp is the for-profit that develops Firefox and gives their CEO’s million dollar golden parachutes. Unfortunately these days even the org is overrun with AI bros.

I tend to like systems that give the user tools to moderate their own feed and content they see. Then it’s up to me to decide what I want in my timeline and what I don’t want. This can be a bit heavy on the system though, especially if you don’t have lot of metadata and have to rely on full-text search blocking. Seems to work on Mastodon though.

This then leaves only certain moderation tasks to the server admins (automating CSAM scanning/reporting) - and filtering out content that breaks the server ToS.

Back in the days, Slashdot had a system where you could “opt-in” as a moderator, and this would randomly give you “mod-points” every now and then. You could use your points to up- or downvote posts and comments. I quite enjoyed it and it didn’t feel like I had to apply for a 2nd job (which is the case with lot of other moderation systems)

Sounds like you’re not enjoying your work too much, so applying elsewhere, even if it’s just to test the market is not a bad idea. Should always be doing this anyway, every couple of years to know where you are compared to rest of your peers.

You naturally do not say or mention this to your current colleagues. You leave your notice only after you’ve signed the new contract. You should always leave gracefully, without burning your bridges (no matter how tempting that might be), because you never know. Might need to use them for reference one day.

Play the game.

Why do you need AI model for this? Seems wasteful compared to normal search

We’ve seen this movie already

Capitalism makes every innovation into a grift

So we’ve finally landed in the reality of the billionaire class vs. rest of the world.

Now you just need a broken toilet and two copies of Outlook (non-functional).

Yes, it’s by design. You should probably read this https://mullvad.net/en/browser/mullvad-browser

Why would I want to get rich?

So your requirement with cellular calling (eSIM) is already fairly restrictive and depends on which market we’re talking about. Where I live (.se) you get to choose between Apple and Samsung and since Apple was out of the question, you’re stuck with Samsung.

Not entirely sure if your second requirement with long battery life can be fulfilled. You’ll be charging the watch every day, probably more often if you take calls on it.

There’s some rumors that Garmin Forerunner/epix will get eSIM support, but that will be also carrier dependent.

These wearables are pretty complicated high end devices, I wouldn’t really give them to elderly parents who stuggle using a normal mobile.

I think it might be better to look into other tyoe of devices like pager systems from caregivers, if you’re worried about health issues.

That’s not quite right. Mastodon does not have any privacy at all and it’s not safe to treat it as privacy platform.

What makes Mastodon worth using is the federated model and lack of commercial engagement algorithms.