Have you considered sharing the configuration as a CSV?

As for installing chirp, I’m pretty sure that it’s packaged for Ubuntu in the repository, rather than attempting to install the latest version from the source.

That depends on how much you value privacy, it’s not a question I can answer.

At the rate Microsoft is going, by the time we set up a community on Mars, everyone will have migrated to Linux 😁

Given its history and ongoing lawsuits and investigations, I think that you might want to reconsider your perspective on privacy.

Privacy is like a chain, the weakest link is the end of it.

In my opinion, while there are serious concerns about Google, they pale into insignificance when compared with META.

I’d be less worried about the Play store and more worried about WhatsApp, but that’s just me.

Let me ask you this.

If the LLM instance doesn’t talk to anyone, you’re right, but there seems little point in building an instance that talks to nobody.

This leaves us with an instance that does talk to other instances, presumably responding to posts, making its own and subscribing to communities. This already costs money for each “touched” instance.

At that point the administrator of an instance that doesn’t want to federated with the LLM instance, has to defederate from it, updating their instance and then still getting access requests from the LLM instance when it attempts to do the reply, post, community thing as described before.

Even us discussing the phenomenon right now takes server resources across the fediverse.

In other words, as I said, there is always a cost to everyone.

I understand.

My point didn’t state that all instances would be affected equally, just that there’s an effect everywhere.

All of them.

You don’t need to go to Mars to deal with timezones … plenty of people right here who have absolutely no idea that half the planet is dark at any one time and still schedule global events in their colloquial timezone rather than UTC.

If you care enough about privacy to not have the Google Play store installed, what on earth posesses you to have WhatsApp anywhere near your phone?

Microsoft … the poster child for Linux migration

If it’s free, you’re the product.

I’m convinced. Time for a career change. Where’s the Forest Ranger jobs?

I think that unless you have some way to enforce accuracy, it’s meaningless and AFAIK automatic detection tools are no better than chance and to my knowledge, getting worse.

An AI bot operator isn’t going to tag their material as [AI], more likely than not they’d attempt to use [NOT AI].

I’d also point out that while lemmy doesn’t (yet) support hashtags, any “tagging” would probably benefit from using the existing method using a #tag.

Ultimately, you need to ask yourself, is undeclared AI that goes undetected by the community a problem, or the new “normal”?

I’ll note that I’m not a proponent of Assumed Intelligence and think that when the bubble bursts we’re going to be in a world of hurt, but with a little luck the billionaires will have lost their shirts in the process.

There’s nothing to host.

Create an iCal file and import it into your calendar application on your phone.

Which field day are we talking about? There’s amateur radio activity across the planet and events pretty much every day.

Unbreakable Encryption … so … Snake Oil then?

While this video is austensibly about Incogni, you’ll soon discover just how much it’s about VPNs and who owns them.

https://youtu.be/JFI1CfnDJxY

I think that this is symptomatic of a much larger issue at Mozilla, leadership, or rather, lack of leadership. AI, tracking, privacy, funding, the list of crazy coming from there appears to be just ballooning.

I see no evidence that they deal with actual bug reports, no evidence that they care about users and no clear path being forged, unless they want to enshitify their business, in which case, that appears to be going swimmingly.

… and Microsoft Windows continues its unbroken winning streak as the best advocate for migrating to Linux …

Vent away!