I’m not sure what you’re asking. There is microG that spoofs Play services to apps. That’s been around for several years.

You can also find open source push notification apps on f-droid. Some of those might require a self hosted server, while for example Sunup uses Mozilla’s server.

Whether those work on your device probably depends on your ability to root it 🤷

Ugh, that’s disappointing. The screendumped list of arguments that “leftists are per definition pro-AI” is reductive and cherrypicked. I guess they can get into the sea with the rest of the “AI” bros.

To be perfectly clear, I don’t think the copyright system is anywhere near perfect, especially not the way it has been expanded to benefit corporations rather than actual creators. But it is really the only available legal protection against the gross ethical infringement on human artistry that the “AI” corpos have committed to tran their models.

I’m as black and red as they come — as well as an artist and arts teacher — and that litany of BS arguments does not represent me in the least. I would and have made art without certainty of compensation. That doesn’t make my art or anyone else’s up for grabs to create piss poor replacements for our skill and craft.

“GenAI” is not a threat to human creativity in itself— it only reproduces lowest common denominator results from the material it’s trained upon. But the fact that indiscriminate morons actually think those statistically miscalculated songs, texts or images are as good as what people make? That’s the real existential crisis.

“Federated” — why? My immediate questions are: What purpose does federation serve in this context? How are song lyrics like Mastodon updates or Peertube videos?

Federation is great for some purposes, but not for all.

I started degoogling because of Google’s more and more transparent business plan of data surveillance. I’m not comfortable with “paying with my information” because of the uncountable (and frankly unimaginable) ways that information can be applied by third parties without my knowledge.

“AI” is one example which wasn’t even on the chart when I started degoogling, but we can all be certain that Google and partners use any language sample available on Gmail and G drive to train theirs. This is the company that casually registered private WiFi networks in the course of mapping their Maps street view. They’ll harvest everything they can.

At heart, I don’t trust corporate mega-monopolies to take care of our best interests as online citizens, and as a European I’m super sceptical of becoming subject to less safe legislation (US, Chinese or whatever) that doesn’t offer me protections that I have or expect at home.

By not using Google (or Meta, or Amazon, or X) I can deliberately pick and choose individual services — or host them for myself — rather than hedge everything on the benevolence of one corporation that doesn’t give a shit about their users.

As I understand, it’s no small task to build or maintain a working search index. There’s a reason it’s mostly been huge, corporate entities that take on the challenge, and why smaller search providers tend to rely on preexisting ones.

So I applaud Qwant and Ecosia on their initiative, but also understand that it may take a while before it bears fruit.

Literally. I make and teach art, and everything starts with a tool that will leave a mark on a surface. Tablets are a step removed from that, but “genAI” isn’t even close.

How the hell does using a drawing tablet correspond in any way, shape or form to using a generative “AI” that leeches off actual artists’ skill, talent and labour?

No, don’t try to argue against that question. Internalise it, and understand it.

anyone know what their plans are exactly in terms of switching away from bing?

They are working with Ecosia to build their own, shared search index, rather than be reliant on the corporate ones.

I don’t think you sound confrontational, but neither do I consider my internet searching particularly advanced. A lot of my searches are exactly what you describe, and a lot is trying to find a good research rabbit hole to go down. Call me curious.

I’m just sceptical, primarily of Google Search’s inroads into surveillance monetisation and effective monopoly. For the same reasons I am as critical of the other “market leaders” you mention; I don’t consider the ability to inspire brand loyalty in millions of consumers to sell crap products a quality 🤷

I’m more surprised that people still use Google search at all after the years of enshittification — first the SEO crap, then “personalized search” bubbles, and finally the “AI” idiocy. Even shouting questions down a wishing well seems more productive at this point.

TL;DR — after poor experiences with Mint and other Debian-based distros (on cheap laptops with fringe hardware), the writer had learned enough about the ins and outs of Linux that an Arch install was a piece of cake. They then conclude that Arch isn’t as deep techie as its reputation.

Personally, I’ve gone from years of Debian to EndeavourOS, and although it’s a more “user friendly” version of Arch I have to agree with their point. They just omit the benefit of the learning curve that comes with late hours trying to get your off-brand touchpad (or whatever) to work with a more conservative/stable distro and its selection of drivers.

Thanks for that. I worried it was something worthwhile that I’d just forgotten about in the mind-boggling meantime of “almost a year” since last update.

TBF, that lawn does look like cardboard.

It not only supports IPFS, it is “built on top of” it, according to the website.

This makes me wonder if it’s usable for regular web browsing or only IPFS sites. The latter would sort of make it a splinternet browser, and way less interesting.

Nightly, according to Rochko’s replies on Mastodon.

They were right, artificial intelligence is truly helping humanity progress beyond our limitations /s

What utter bullshit to waste time and energy on.

I see. That sucks.

Sharedrop is self hostable.

Other, serverless solutions are

• Warpinator
• Localsend
• Croc
• Syncthing (for the organised background syncer in your life)

Check out Github Pages on how to publish a site hosted in Github. I never did this myself, so take this as hearsay. Basically it allows you to publish a repo of markdown files to HTML pages without local tools like pandoc.

I did a quick lookaround for advice on setting up a wiki-only site, and I couldn’t find an easy answer. Have a look through this awesome-list for ideas and best practices.

Improved autocorrect and grammar check is literally the only acceptable use of “AI” that I can think of.