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When I asked about Tiananmen Square events it answered with a correct historical context. Or who looks like Winnie the Poo. Haven’t used the app but colleagues that tried found it censored. Not sure those “journalists” did any actual investigation.

You can find it out yourself. Download ollama and deepseek locally, turn off network connectivity and ask it about Tiananmen or other potentially censored information.

https://interconnect.substack.com/p/was-zuck-right-about-chinese-ai-models

Use Ollama to run deepseek locally. No censorship, no data leakage, can be run without network connectivity.

It’s not clear what split between bots and humans is but I’m gonna be bold and assert that bots comprise the majority of engagement. Those pesky inventions shouldn’t be allowed to write our holy language, they created nothing, contribute nothing and regurgitate the same verbiage slop. And ever more present in everyday life like in banking or other services.

This seems more human, idiots and all alike, agreeing or not, most comments seem from actual people. There’ll be a time when human engagement will be exploited at a premium as corpos seize and try to monetise ever more of the human experience. Federated platforms will be the bastions of human connectivity, these or other similar platforms without a profit motive. I’d rather engage with people.

Happy to have contributed with some value out of my application and exchanges!

I see. Not aware on what happens on each instance. I guess their house their rules. Always another instance to join or can create your own.

By censorship do you mean curated content? I’ve my own filters that I apply and have no concerns with instances having their own criteria. There are also legal boundaries such minimum age criteria, content type, etc…

I signed up on the browser. The error message I see is below which is scarce on details. ¯\(ツ)/¯

And thanks for taking time to reply, appreciate it.

Thank you for confirming. As a new instance applicant, no information was provided on the rejection reason and was left with uncertainty.

Apologies for not fulfilling the requests. From my perspective, I’m on lemmy to avoid a corporate environment. However, the requests seemed a bit too corporate, akin to a cover letter to a job application (why I’d like to join the instance and which communities I’ll participate in). Also don’t feel like sharing personal information about my username.

If the intention is to weed out problem users there’s a way of checking a user’s post and comment’s history.

None of this matters, you’re free to accept and deny at will and I simply fedback my experience.

Tried registering with lemmy.ml but it seemed the weight and burden of my user was too much to deal with. Registration denied with no justification so it seems this instance is not welcoming new users.

Successfully registered with Lemmy.zip instead and they seem welcoming of Lemm.ee refugees.

All of this stuff uses up a lot of space, around 200MB, which is greater than the standard root partition size in Openwrt. I run it on an x86 box (PC Engines APU2) and the internal SSD is 16GB. Every update I needed to expand the root partition size to be able to fit all the packages previously installed. I now build my own images with expanded root partition to avoid the hassle.

This is what I use. Openwrt with a USB HDD attached to it. Radicale2 deals with caldav stuff. Samba4 shares the HDD over the network. Zerotier gets me connected to the home network when out and about. Syncthing on my router and phone. When I charge my phone it automatically backs up my pictures and documents folder into the HDD. Separate offline copy of the HDD every few months for backup. Not as fast or dedicated as NAS but cost effective solution. Openwrt solves most of my networking needs.

Well, I want ice cream and a pony. Maybe two ponies.

Stock market is woke /s

Not long until MAGAs call the stock market woke.

I’m with you on that. However, some places in Asia are moving that way. Signs on shops with cashless payment only. Only a matter of time before it moves to Europe.

https://www.seoulz.com/moving-towards-a-cashless-society-in-south-korea/

The point is also in which direction do you think this will move? More app dependency or less? There’ll be a point in time where cash won’t be allowed and payments are by QR code bank transfer. Some parts of the world have places that completely excluded cash transactions. Once people can’t buy basic goods without an app it’ll be too late to start caring about app-led population exclusion.

“very less”… The Engineering Leader, Mentor

The communist leader of northern Venezuela is mandating how to conduct your business, how to write, how to speak.

Party of small government, rule of law and free markets.

Add WhatsApp to the list

This was the 80s, health and safety be damned. People would build wooden cars with ball bearings from washing machine for wheels. It was a basic wood plank from fruit boxes hacked together with some nails. We’d hit the steepest road (yes, with cars occasionally), climb to the top and zoom down the steep descent. Ended in a 90 degree turn which meant that using shoes for braking didn’t always work and some folks would hit the pavement and be launched. Kids as young as 6 to teenagers would all join in. No adult in sight. Ahhh… good times!