Notices by tyil (tyil@fedi.tyil.nl)

The #Chromium update that drops #WebExtensions v2 is finally here. A sad day for the open Internet.

@kattekrab@aus.social So what do you seeI see a corporate funded hype for a technology that isn't real, and likely won't be real for a long time. LLMs are not "AI", as they possess no intelligence whatsoever. Corporations push it in whichever way will be most appealing, and the majority of the human population really likes the idea of AI, and does not have the technical skills to understand it is not AI. They've spent a lot of money on it, and they want to make a return, which is why its pushed so aggressively.

From my closer circles, who are technically competent, I see much more push-back. Part of that is due to the horrible experiences they get from scrapers, obviously. But those of them that did try all come to the same conclusion too. LLMs are fine to be used in the same way a new intern can be used. Some very simple tasks that you already know how to solve can be handed off to it, but you'll always have to re-read it to be sure they didn't subtly fuck it up.Are you all in? Avoiding? Other?For now I'm avoiding, since the creation of LLMs is absurdly harmful to the open Internet, and usage doesn't provide any significant benefit. Since I already avoid proprietary software where I can, avoiding LLM integrations is, so far, pretty doable. The main place where I do see LLMs being pushed where I'd rather not see it, however, is online search, and I've noticed its become noticably worse over the past few years because of it.

@WeirdWriter@caneandable.social I thought you were actually arguing in good faithI am, hence I actually explain my position rather than letting you go on a belief about it assumed on no knowledge whatsoever.I didn't say anything about outright banning themThat's true, you did not use those exact words. "Some small ways are making them obviously uncomfortable, and or outright unwelcome" however, does strongly imply that you want them to be gone from wherever you are, in whatever way possible. Even though you're not using the exact same words, it is quite clear what you mean. Talking about arguing in good faith, huh!

Either way, if you're not interested in learning about other viewpoints, there's no point in trying to discuss anything with you.

@WeirdWriter@caneandable.social They don't like the indieweb and open web for the same reasons you and or I do.Why do I like the open web?

Because it allows everyone to voice their opinion. Not just people who happen to agree with the current popular narrative. Not just people who happen to agree with my narrative. Everyone. Limiting who and what can be voiced online only serves those who wish to control others. That includes especially people who's opinions are otherwise censored.

While I may not agree with everyone all the time, I strongly believe that without disagreement, we can never expand our minds to viewpoints we never considered. If you wish to remain in your own little bubble and never learn how or why people get to certain ideas, that's your prerogative, albeit very shortsighted in my eyes.

If you never learn how or why people get to opinions you disagree on, you will never understand what the underlying reasons were to reach that opinion, and you will never be able to persuade them to your side. Or perhaps, their reasoning was valid, and you were wrong all along. This could happen, and has happened to me, various times.

I don't actually care much for why people want openness and the ability to share information. I understand that without it, the world will be off worse for everyone. If you don't agree with someone's opinion, that's fine and fair. But if you are against people being able to be open about their opinions, you are, by the literal definition of the word, a fascist.

@rubenwardy@fosstodon.org @Gina@fosstodon.org having a far right mod is not goodIs he actually "far right" or is he just not in complete agreement with what you consider the acceptable political opinion?It doesn't matter that moderation is a group thing and auditableI think it does. The whole point of it being a group thing is to ensure one fringe political stance won't interfere with the freedom of others. There's great value in having a diversity of opinion, even.the reaction from other servers and users is incredibly toxic, and the move to defederate so quickly without any actual harm is damaging to the fediverse as a wholeThis is what people on the fun side of the #Fediverse have been telling everyone for years. But because they are considered "far right", "nazi", "fascist", or any other of the popular means to indicate disagreement, they are defederated anyway without any means to appeal or otherwise change the outcome.

@WeirdWriter@caneandable.social It isn't a secret that fascists, and their enablers, love the open web, open source, and even open technologyThat's rather odd, "fascists" in your view love openness and distributing information and power in the modern world? The definition of the word "fascism" is "A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, a capitalist economy subject to stringent governmental controls, violent suppression of the opposition, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism". Having information and software be open and usable however one pleases goes directly against calling for "government controls" and "violent suppression of the opposition".

You, however, call upon "your" people to remove "the other" people in any way possible, make "the other" people feel unwelcome, force them even to find other avenues.

Before trying to call everyone you disagree with a fascist and trying to unperson them, next time consider buying a mirror and taking a good look first.

@xgranade@wandering.shop That might not happen!lmao imagine if someone would actually and unironically believe this won't happen.the best time to prepare is before it happens.By not using Discord at all. All proprietary software works like this. It is the end goal of proprietary software to fuck over the users. If you're using Discord you didn't learn from literally every other proprietary application that came before it.

@rin@post.ebin.club Microsoft fucking over yet another open source project? Who could've seen this coming!

@Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com @AlSweigart@mastodon.social I tend to go for AGPL-3.0 myself.

@AlSweigart@mastodon.social Always, without exception!

@lizzy@social.vlhl.dev @dwarf@borg.social Its a mistake that free software is that far down your list. In the modern age, software has a lot of power, and if you freely give it away to corporations to fuck over the entire population, you won't get very far in achieving anything. They'll slowly but surely take away any possibility of protest. Just look around on mainstream media to see this happening already.

You can roleplay about "muh capitalism" and "muh bourgeoisie" but neither of those things mean much. Greed and corruption occur regardless of the existence of a bourgeoisie and regardless of whether the government operates on a system of capitalism. Hating on these concepts only serves to make sure the people abusing whichever system is in place get away without accountability. Hold these abusive people accountable, regardless of whatever system they're abusing today.

@lizzy@social.vlhl.dev @dwarf@borg.social If you praise them when they don't do it right, of course they will continue fucking over their citizens. Don't accept half measures, speak up against this kind of bad decisions. Let the politicians know they're fucking up, and let them know constantly, until they actually do it right.

The government should fear its citizens, not the other way around.

@lizzy@social.vlhl.dev @dwarf@borg.social If the proprietary corpos want to be served, they can pay for it themselves, no? Seems kinda silly to have taxpayer money serve companies using the software to fuck over taxpayers.

@sun@shitposter.world I guess my cats are geniuses too by today's standards

@lizzy@social.vlhl.dev I just looked it up and while I was just thinking "how useless" at first, I am now convinced it is a needlessly complex downgrade to cd.

@opensource@social.overheid.nl Mastodon is zelfs vrije software, niet alleen open source. Dit betekend dat de software ook altijd vrij en open moet blijven, ook als je dit in je eigen projecten wilt gebruiken. Hierdoor kunnen bedrijven het niet opslurpen en misbruiken om mensen hun software vrijheid af te nemen!

@Karlitschek@mastodon.social Politicians don't "understand" anything about technology, which is the whole problem. You don't become a politician because you understand actual problems, but because you're good at, well, politics, not understanding and/or solving real problems.

Other than that, if you want freedom and democracy, I'd highly encourage you to consider free software, rather than open source software. The latter is nothing more than a marketing strategy by big businesses to not have to pay for high quality developers, whereas the former is software that protects the freedom of its users.

@arh@blackstar.cafe To be more precise, Gentoo GNU+Linux

@tomminieminen@mastodontti.fi @leeloo@techhub.social @Ruth_Mottram@fediscience.org Microsoft can push the price low enough that there really is no economical alternativesSure, if you only care for the short-term financial aspect and absolutely nothing else, it could be argued as "a reason to buy Microsoft", but I wouldn't call it "economical". Saving 10 bucks today to burn 1000 bucks tomorrow isn't economical.

@Wuzzy@cyberplace.social #Gmail is already mostly a spam service. The majority of email my servers get from #Google servers is bog-standard phishing attempts or other forms of scam mail. Its absurd that Google rejects email from legitimate self-hosters because they're supposedly a source of spam mail, but lets their own service spam up the Internet with no restrictions.

Self-host your email, don't give mega-corporations any more power to abuse!