I can confirm this is not just in the land of burgers. Back in the war from October to December, I fleed to Germany and went to school there, and the stuff I saw where absolutely disgusting: kids were using ipads (ibads) given to them by the school, the computers ran windows on them, and every time even a single task came up, they would directly resort to artificial unintelligence. When the “ceasefire” started and I finally went back to Lebanon, most of the kids were using Artificial unintelligence to write their essays as well. I don’t blame these kids, they don’t know better, they don’t know how artificial unintelligence is trained from the stolen work of the people, they don’t know what non-free software is, and they don’t know how these devices/software are tracking their every move. It’s up to the school’s to teach them such and schools are doing a terrible job both in America and internationally.

Agreed Thank you for your comments

How does tuning the data with randomness lead to biases stereotypes and hallucinations?

😂 I too would like to punch Sam Altman. Serious talk though, you’re right, I haven’t thought about how hard it would be for the actual people getting replaced, but at the same time, automation is much faster and efficient, so isn’t there like a middle ground?

Suckles DWM is amazing. No bloat at all. There is only 1 config file, and you edit it with pure C like a gigachad. Like all suckles software, it strictly obeys the Unix philosophy, and it has been the cause of the most lightweight set ups that are also cool hacker-looking

What he means is that he doesn’t hate A.I because it simply doesn’t exist. There is no intelligence in any of the so called “A.I” since all it’s doing is a combination of stolen training data + randomness

Nice, if you need any tips on switching to GNU+Linux don’t hesitate to DM me. Also, if you are on a newer mac the hardware doesn’t allow for you to switch to another os due to apple’s locked down nature

Thank you for clearing things up for me. I have read every comment and I am amazed by how many aspects I missed

While I haven’t thought about that before, now that I have, I totally agree. Ty fir sharing your pov :)

No there is spyware down to the hardware and bios level, but it does limit the data collection. Also if you’re going to switch to GNU+Linux and sill use the same non-free software it wouldn’t really make difference.

1984

Yea lmao

If they mean what I understood, that this is the first time they have hit since the ceasefire, then is pure bs. I live in Lebanon, and not only do they still strike, but they also constantly fly MK drones and war planes above us to break the sound barrier for phycological torment. The ceasefire merely limited the number of times they do it. Our government, of course, is silent, and we still have a political system in where only Christians are permitted to be president even though more than half of the population is Muslim, which results in presidents that neglect places like the south. How corrupt.

Edit: Didn’t even need to wait 30 minutes to hear an MK drone

Welcome :)

You make amazing points, and I completely agree with you. I will continue to use Jami since it’s good enough for me to talk with my friends. I mean now the only replacement which is not a replacement just another thing I use to chat is GNU Emacs. I hope the development speed and motivation increases and please do inform me if you found an alternative

If it’s not fully free, I don’t trust it. I don’t understand how someone in a privacy community doesn’t understand how much a few lines of code can track someone so easily no matter how much of the program is free software.

Yeah, this is just the reality of unpaid free software developers, they don’t have the recourses to work on every single bug as quick as a paid developer, but that doesn’t justify not reporting bugs and working with the developers to fix them. Like you said, Jami is grest ethically so why not make it great function? Also, don’t you have a computer and a phone? Test on those. I don’t own a phone, so I can’t test the phone, but I do gladly test on my laptop.

Great, but it relies on signal’s servers, so it’s centralised. Also, Moly merely removes proprietary parts from Signal, but that’s a workaround (same thing for linux-libre kernel, it’s free software, but just a workaround which is why I’m looking to help with HyprbolaBSD). I’m not coming here to say Molly isn’t an improvement, but being centralised and relying on a non-tully-free program’s servers is a huge red flag for me :)

That’s not the full picture. That’s exactly the problem I was highlighting. The issue isn’t whether some of the code is “FOSS”, it’s about whether all of it is. If even small parts remain proprietary (as you mentioned), then we can’t verify what those parts are doing. And those parts could theoretically significantly affect the data collection. Also, I didn’t make up a lot of stuff. The Signal Foundation themselves have confirmed that certain UI and build components are not fully libre. As the GNU project puts it, if part of your system is closed, then you’re trusting a black box, no matter how well-lit the rest of it is.

And we should report problems and fix them ourselves to make it better