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Apparently owner of 4chan added /pol/ the day after meeting with Epstein. They called it a “great means of manipulation” IIRC. So I think there may be some truth to this. The whole Pizzagate thing may have been a way to make it seem like anyone who thinks the ultra-wealthy are child predators seem crazy

Yeah. I bought my kaptop second hand. When it still had windows on it, it was basically usuable because jt was so laggy. I installed linux and, badda bing badda boom, works like a charm. Its been my main computer for a fee years now

Honestly verifying the buyers age at the store is probably more private embedding age verification into the OS itself

Who are they (if you feel continue sharing)? It sounds like there’s a story here

Yeah the self-hosting thing is new, its really clunky and they dont encourage you not to use it. I think (?) they may have even discontinued it.

Its odd to me that Signal is supposedly the gold standard yet it breaks all these privacy 101 rules. Such as requiring you hand over your phone number to a central authority, not really allowing you to self host, and not posting an official app on fdroid. I’ve heard that portions of its official repo are not even open source (though I haven’t verified this for myself). XMPP sounds like the better choice to be honest.

It also might be a dealbreaker from a privacy perspective. It’s weird that Signal, which is supposedly the gold standard, has this requirement.

Why did you two opt for XMPP rather than Signal Messenger?

Why is that?

Yeah it always feels awkward getting people to celebrate me. Like “hey guys lets have a party where you give me gifts and celebrate my existence”. Seems weirdly presumptuous

You don’t have to get your friends involved, you can just do something nice for her. Just pretend that its Mothers Day or something

If you don’t want to celebrate your birthday, you can take the day to celebrate your mom. She’s the one who did all the work, after all. And I think pushing an entire human being out of your birth canal is worthy of some recognition.

I doubt they would bother going after a one person instance, even if it could be traced back to you

Nintendo has shown that it is possible to attack open source projects at the repository level

I’m out of the loop. What happened there?

Ok so I stand corrected. I guess it is possible but it just requires a lot of man power

we already see a phenomenon going on with Fediverse, and Web as a whole: invite-only and/or need-to-apply places

The need-to-apply model would be totally unscalable for traditional social media platforms because of the sheer number of requests that would need to be processed on a centralized. But something like this can work on the Fediverse because you can split the workload up between different instances

Okay I see the url now thanks. I didn’t know proton had an AI. Seems neat.

That link appears to be broken on my end.

I do too. But if someone really does want to use these tools then there are better and worse ways of doing it

It’s better from a privacy perspective. But yeah, you’d still ultimately be using ChatGTP at the end of the day so another model might be preferable

I recommend duck.ai as an alternative way of accessing ChatGTP. Is not a perfect solution but it’s better than accessing it straight from the OpenAI website