Many features seem to come like 5-7 years late. Somewhere around 2016 Apple had finally added so many of the basic features to the iPhone that I could actually start considering it a realistic alternative to Android phones. Before that, there were always several serious deal breakers. Nowadays, things are actually surprisingly tolerable. It took like forever to get there, but now the phone actually does all the basic things.

Why would you need to summarize notifications? Usually each notification is just a short sentence, so there’s hardly anything you can do to shorten them further. Summarizing websites is far more useful though.

Thanks for the interesting summary.

It really is true what they say. Post something wrong, and soon enough someone will correct you. Maybe you could even think of this as a clever way of crafting an effective question.

Using a 100% de-googled Android would be best, but it comes with some serious compromise, so this option isn’t for everyone. The second best options are also pretty good and quite practical in comparison.

It really depends on your situation and the kinds of threats you’re trying to mitigate. If you need to have a spyTV, spyPhone, a spyPad or something similar in your life, using DNS filtering may be an appealing option. Ideally, you would have zero iOS or Android devices in your household, but life isn’t ideal.

How about a NextDNS subscription? You can use that to filter out a bunch of creepy tracking, ads and other stuff. Ideally, you would only use devices and software that don’t do any creepy stuff, but the world is what it is, so using a custom DNS is a good idea.

Turns out, I have an old dumb FullHD TV that should be ideal for this experiment. So, if I watch a YT video on 1080p, I should be able to see compression artefacts that are invisible when using a higher resolution. How is that supposed to work anyway, given that the browser knows the output resolution? Will it just download a higher resolution video, drop every other pixel, and display the rest?

I haven’t noticed anything. Would you do me a disservice and explain what I’m missing in my blissful ignorance. Make me see something that can never be unseen.

I’m not touching an app owned by Meta. If people want to message me, they can use Signal.

Turns out, this policy has weeded out lots of useless conversations from my life. So, I see it as a win.

Consider setting up a content blocker in your browser. This way, all elements that match a specific keyword, get removed.

Thanks. That was a good summary, and I appreciate that you brought up threat models.

People should think about what kinds of threats are worth their time and money. If that list of threats contains something where a VPN can help, you should totally consider getting a VPN. If your threat model doesn’t include things like that, VPN might not be the solution you’re looking for.

Brining up trust was another good point. People should think about how much they trust their ISP or some VPN company. Obviously, you can’t trust every VPN company out there, but where you draw the line is closely connected to your threat model. For example, if you are a journalist in dangerous country, picking the right company is a matter of life and death. If you are in a safer environment, your threat model is probably very chill by comparison, so you might be fine with some less secure options.

Oh, that is very spicy! I can’t wait for the lawsuit that brings up this argument.

I’m pretty sure the number of Lemmy users who like Chrone is very small. It feels like most people here already use Firefox or some related browser.

Deceptive marketing and straight up lying is so prevalent that people have all sorts of wild ideas about VPNs. That’s why it’s high time someone cleared things up.

VPN: essential or snake oil?

Soon we’ll find delivery robots trying to pull some amazing stunts, all thanks to the sacrifices of some daring Pokemon Go players. Good times ahead 🍿

Thanks. Seems like a really freaky situation. Must be something with the training data. My guess is, this LLM was trained with all the creepy hostility found on Twitter.

History repeats itself.

Some Old Thing (software/website/service/whatever) becomes bad, and people get really upset. Initially, many say that SOT is going to die. Techies switch from SOT to New Great Thing. For a while, techies at NGT celebrate and pat each other on the back for making this brilliant move.

Meanwhile, normies at SOT continue to use it. They hate it at first or even complain about it, but eventually they get used to how bad SOT is. Every now and then, they hear about NGT, but they just can’t switch because reasons.

After a few years it’s clear that, SOT hasn’t died yet, but also continues to have quite a few users too. Some people end up using both, while a small group of people vow to never touch SOT ever again. SOT and NGT both continue to exist, because apparently there are enough users for both.

I’ve seen these things happen so many times, that it’s about time to point out that there’s a pattern. Just look back at any tech controversy over the past 30 years and you can see it usually follows this pattern pretty well.

They could just run the whole dataset through sentiment analysis and delete the parts that get categorized as negative, hostile or messed up.

Twitter is another possibility. The LLM could have learned how to write like a bubbling barrel of radioactive toxic waste, and then just applied those lessons in longer format.