I have been using duckduckgo too. I currently use Ecosia because while not private, you gain seeds (points) every day by using the search engine and then plant trees and fight against climate change.

I still use duckduckgo when searching anything private.

I have noticed people have changed the way they type since around 2016, when trump became president. The amount of people putting “Sad.” Behind a sentence is mindblowing. He gave so many people severe brainworms.

Exactly. And that is why i always feel like these “contact your representative” calls are useless. I will still do it, but it will happen. Maybe not now. Maybe not next time they try. But they will get it through.

Maybe if politicians did what the people wanted, they wouldn’t have to be afraid of an uprising against them… and if religious cunts would just stay in their churches and mind their own business…

I am so tired of this shit… every year they try to do this shit again. Every year we again have to convince them not too. Then a year later they try again.

They will keep trying until they win. Instead of focusing on important things, they just want to push laws for more control. Even our representatives should KNOW that people don’t want this.

I always wonder that. When we mass call and email to let them know they are wrong on something incredibly obvious. Do they go “oh wow we didn’t know you didn’t want us to know your private conversations or have a list of your favorite porn categories 😲😲😲”? They should already know this.

Honest question, but what makes librewolf BETTER? In firefox you can easily toggle off the studies telemetry bullshit in the settings. Librewolf is just firefox with those things ripped out right?

I cant even think of any legit reason to do this. To protect children? The government does not care about children. Its why so many suffer in poverty. Watching tits online is the least of their problems.

The only reasons i can think of is control. Forcing people to give up more information about themselves. Because knowledge is power.

I think they mean that if the standard OS was Linux instead of Windows, and therefore everybody had full control of their computers, that if windows was suddenly released and installed on all pc’s instead of Linux, people would still shrug and be fine with it.

Corporations just want you to keep using their shit. But for someone who has ADHD and is autistic, streaks and gamification can help me a lot to make something a habit.

Yeah, the white text on white backgrounds look pretty but is just not that easily readable.

I use Firefox on everything EXCEPT my Steam Deck. Firefox will not let you open the dropdown menu to exit, make videos fullscreen etc. And when a notification pops up, your firefox is now 100 by 30 pixels…

I wish they would fix it already…

I can use firefox in desktop mode but i don’t like having to switch to desktop mode and wait for everything. Then switch back to play something.

Also, its space themed which makes it automatically the coolest.

Wouldn’t it then help to run the smaller ones locally instead of using the big ones like ChatGPT?

I read that one called Deepmind or something in china took a lot less to train and is just as strong. Is that true?

What do people usually use LLM’s for? I know they suck for most things people are using them for like coding. But what do people use them for that justifies all the hype?

Again, please don’t think i am trying to justify it. I just don’t know super much about them.

That is sadly the truth with many things. People just don’t care unless it personally affects them. And even then it depends if it hits hard enough 💔.

I actually don’t know that much about LLM’s. I do know they require a ton of energy to train the models. But once those are trained, the smaller models especially, don’t require that much to run, right? I once tried to run a local one to see how much it took, and my gpu maxed out for a few seconds and the LLM spit out text and it was done. While when playing games, the gpu maxes out for hours.

Again, i don’t know super much about them as i have only used it a few times over the years to break down big tasks into smaller tasks for my AuDHD when i am very overwhelmed, and it was kinda nice for that.

The image generation stuff is pretty bad though from what i have read. Plus it steals peoples art. Fuck that shit.

Please do tell me if i understand wrong. Because i don’t want to contribute to a bunch of bad shit ruining the climate.

Ah i didn’t know about that. Thank you for the info. That does give a lot more context to the news article.

Exactly. Its ridiculous to ban this.

Is that true though? They don’t cite any studies. They just say “trust me bro”.

And isn’t most of that porn of people that WANT to be choked etc? And not the person doing the choking?

If i am wrong, please say so.

Capitalists will do anything for money. Nothing is off the table.

Because ofcourse he is… And half of america is cheering it on…