The words in the middle are the key difference, though:
Communities are groups
Communities involve (i.e. are not) topics
Communities involve (i.e. are not) individuals
The social structure of Lemmy is fundamentally centred on groups, and that’s what makes it distinct from other fediverse platforms, even if there is some interoperability
Not in, like, the “there’s nothing there” way, but in the “there’s no substantive economic, social or geographic reasons to treat it as a cohesive region” way
Not yet, it’s on my list, but my local library doesn’t have a lot of Chomsky
Name a more iconic combo than lemmy.ml and criticising something they haven’t even read (watched in this case)
This is just straight up wrong. Additive noise is an extremely common - fundamental, even - part of data anonymisation.
https://sdcpractice.readthedocs.io/en/latest/anon_methods.html
It’s like saying “if you have to use randomisation to encrypt data, then it means the data can be decrypted. randomisation is irrelevant”
Yeah, just create an entirely new, incompatible extension engine from scratch for this one feature specifically!
Ah, I missed that alt text specifically is local, but the point stands, in that allowing (opt-in) access to a 3rd party service is reasonable, even if that service doesn’t have the same privacy standards as Mozilla itself
To pretty much every non-technical user, an AI sidebar that won’t work with ChatGPT (Google search’s equivalent from my example previously) may as well not be there at all
They don’t want to self host an LLM, they want the box where chat gpt goes
There’s plenty of situations where even a contextless generated alt-text is a huge improvement on no alt-text at all
Mozilla isn’t in charge of the extension API, it uses Chromium’s WebExtensions API
The alternative is only supporting self hosted LLMs, though, right?
Imagine the scenario: you’re a visually impaired, non-technical user. You want to use the alt-text generation. You’re not going to go and host your own LLM, you’re just going to give up and leave it.
In the same way, Firefox supports search engines that sell your data, because a normal, non-technical user just wants to Google stuff, not read a series of blog posts about why they should actually be using something else.
Non-profit doesn’t mean you don’t make money, just that the money you do make doesn’t go to shareholders but instead back into the company
You had me for a moment there
How is turning it off an improvement over lockdown? I was under the impression that the security impact is basically the same
Oh no, not them removing a vague vibe in place of an explicit policy on transphobia.
What an absurd reason to defederate a server
I’ve heard very good things about wireguard-easy to simplify the config and management, too
You can just move on, no need to let us know thanks
As far as I’m aware, twitter has actually been a lot smaller in terms of users than you might imagine from its influence.
It has a relatively low number of active users, but the fact it’s designed to be a centralised public forum (rather than users being selective who can follow them like Facebook) means it is/was very attractive for businesses, celebrities and politicians.
Eh, I think there’s definitely some legitimacy to doing a virus scan for applications with unrecognised signatures
Not everyone knows how to (or even can for many apps) manually verify the authenticity of their apks
And plenty of non-technical people will just install random shit from the internet without thinking
A xit?
I propose we use it like “I’m taking a xit”
Lula Brazil is very different from bolsonaro Brazil