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AI assistants are the archnemesis
of data privacy.
Because AI models are inherent
data collectors.
They rely on large data collection for training, improvement, operation, and customization.
More often than not, this data is collected without clear and informed consent (from unknowing training subjects or from platform users). This data is then sent to and accessed by a private company with many incentives to share and monetize this data.
By using these platforms, we are encouraging them to collect even more nonconsensual data on everyone. This is an important social responsibility to consider. Choose carefully.
@Em0nM4stodonEm 
Once it is in the model you don't get to remove it either. You might be ok with Facebook hovering up your data and your family's data now, but when your spouse dies in the future all their data is still in the models. Other people can "resurrect" them, or at least aspects of them.
Le saviez-vous ? Émis du monde entier, des appels téléphoniques incessants sans destinataire précis arrivent à Murbach en Alsace 🤨. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murbach
@Em0nM4stodonEm When Google Android uploads your nude pictures to the cloud it also trains on them. You can ask Google to remove them from the cloud, which they may do, but they are never removing them from the model. They don't know how to remove a single picture without rewinding the whole model back to the last version before it was added. And they aren't going to wind back months or years of training data for your single photo.
@chrisp @Em0nM4stodonEm Yeah, really glad I put the brakes on Google Photos. No more phone backups, all 20 years of shots moved to an encrypted, privacy focused app (Ente.io), then those same pics deleted from Google (trash too!).
Working on email currently: Gmail --> Proton Mail.
Photo caption: a picture of me, an average Fediverse user, using the Fediverse in a chill and normal way.
"man ports" gives many useful hints about installing FreeBSD ports.
Dallas guarding Dad from evil dog out in living room.🤣🤣🤣🤣
#cats
#CatsOfMastodon
#CatsOfFediverse
나 대수기하 싫어
Apple made a whole TV series about the plumbus?
I'm on the fence about whether I should use CancellationError as the standard way to model cancellation. It's incompatible with typed throws, and it's not really integral to the language. It's an ad-hoc error Task.checkCancellation throws, and that's about it.
When I get married and have kids, I'll be a cool dad and let them study whatever they want, whether it be programming languages, proof theory, or category theory.
Dallas guarding Dad from evil dog out in living room.🤣🤣🤣🤣
#cats
#CatsOfMastodon
#CatsOfFediverse
Photo caption: a picture of me, an average Fediverse user, using the Fediverse in a chill and normal way.
体調あんま良くないから今夜の作業はギブ…
寝るぅ
이번여름에 한국가면 뭔가 건강검진해봐야겠어
Democrats should regulate interchange fees for credit cards to bring down the cost of living. Seems like one of the lowest hanging fruits out there.
The web is dying because of AI. Anything you look up now, you can’t find any reasonable results that are not reams of AI generated slop text.
@torgoDaniel Appelquist The default search engine in my browser is Wikipedia
Milk-V Titan: A $329 8-Core 64-bit RISC-V mini-ITX board with PCIe Gen4x16
Link: https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/01/12/milk-v-titan-a-329-octa-core-64-bit-risc-v-mini-itx-motherboard-with-a-pcie-gen4-x16-slot/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46588159
Parkour!
うちの子アルヴィの耳ぴこアニメーション 清書版
前回よりぴこぴこ感が出てるんじゃないかな？
#OC
AI assistants are the archnemesis
of data privacy.
Because AI models are inherent
data collectors.
They rely on large data collection for training, improvement, operation, and customization.
More often than not, this data is collected without clear and informed consent (from unknowing training subjects or from platform users). This data is then sent to and accessed by a private company with many incentives to share and monetize this data.
By using these platforms, we are encouraging them to collect even more nonconsensual data on everyone. This is an important social responsibility to consider. Choose carefully.
The web is dying because of AI. Anything you look up now, you can’t find any reasonable results that are not reams of AI generated slop text.
@artemis AI?
i think these are real...?
열심히 찾던 이유는 내 속에
The web is dying because of AI. Anything you look up now, you can’t find any reasonable results that are not reams of AI generated slop text.
왜 이렇게 귀엽게 부르는데
RE: https://mastodon.social/@tess/115917420473692099
If I had a nickel for every time this happened to me today, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but agfhahahfjakahahdhakldkfjkahfhfagkfjfjj
It is definitely one of my favourite games of all time.
This game had such a big impact on me, I often recall this being the highest scoring N64 game in all the magazines, and I think it is well deserved.
My only complaint is I wish I could skip some of the lengthy dialogue sections 🤣
GHOST IN THE SHELL (1989)
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:npjlo3nj7rpeisck676njzf4/post/3m76e34yoq22e
Tiny Apocalyptic Time Tip 🌐✨
If you too feel uneasy about
the state of the world,
and you too worry about losing access to one of the greatest knowledge treasure of the internet,
Know that you can download an
offline copy of Wikipedia!
Here's how 📚👇
1. Download the free and open source software Kiwix (this will be your reader): https://kiwix.org/en/applications/
2. If you want smaller versions of Wikipedia, you can download them within Kiwix.
Within the app, go to "Categories" in the menu on the left, then browse to a topic/version you want. Scroll to the bottom for Wikipedia mini, for example. Click on it then click "Download" on the right 
3. Once you have downloaded a database, click on "Opened" on the left > database you want to search > "Open Main Page" on the right.
4. You can use the Search field on the upper-right to find topics like on online Wikipedia! 🔍
5. If you want the full English version of Wikipedia (110GB), you might want to download it from the torrent file instead. Install a torrent client of your choice (I use Transmission).
Then, go to this page, click on "Download - 109.89 GB" blue button on the first result (size may vary overtime), then select "Torrent file": https://library.kiwix.org/#lang=eng&category=wikipedia
6. Once you have the torrent file, open it with your torrent client to start the download. This is BIG! Be patient! 📦
7. Once the download is completed, open your Wikipedia `.zim` file with Kiwix!
8. Magic! 📖✨
Extra Tip: You can download many other awesome knowledge files from the Kiwix Library! Personally, I also got the iFixit knowledge base! ⚒️ 
@Em0nM4stodonEm I'd like to share that I use OSSDict on Android, which can use a lot of dictionary files, including Wiktionary and Wikipedia.
https://github.com/farfromrefug/OSS-Dict
https://github.com/itkach/slob/wiki/Dictionaries
Can someone plug the NAS back in?
RE: https://mastodon.social/@tess/115917420473692099
If I had a nickel for every time this happened to me today, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but agfhahahfjakahahdhakldkfjkahfhfagkfjfjj
Statement by Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, UK
Link: https://www.bundesregierung.de/breg-de/aktuelles/statement-by-denmark-finland-france-germany-the-netherlands-norway-sweden-and-the-united-kingdom-2403016
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46669945
Making a mountain bike data acquisition system
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/18/making-a-mountain-bike-data-acquisition-system/
Looks like we'll be getting near-record lows* around the end of this week. Oh joy.
* Around -30; wind chill in the mid -40s.
"Is that Celsius or Fahrenheit?"
Yes.
自創作特設サイト「鉄道省京原事業部」開設についてのお知らせ
https://natumi.tkngh.jp/article/?id=ffd51dbf-3dc4-4c1f-93f1-26c294f8e92d
自創作についての変態すぎるサイトをつくりました 
@catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
What if we... 👉 federated 👈?
@northJason Parker (he/they)
can I intewest you in switching to Winux???@catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch)
Want to know how companies are guessing your age? Read all about it in our guide to age assurance technology. https://eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/so-youve-hit-age-gate-what-now
有百分之四十五的保守派共和黨人士認為最高法院傾向自由主義，只有百分之九認為它很保守；而傾向自由主義的民主黨人則正好相反：百分之四十八認為最高法院偏向保守，只有百分之十五認為它走向自由主義。
很顯然的，這些數字應該足夠讓我們思索。其實我們對於司法公平性的評斷，並不是根據事實。
Stefano Marinelli
jnkrtech
竹鳥すばる
Andreas Freise
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