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I am still a Brave user and like that they are very responsive & conversant on Twitter (although I don’t like to go there often), but …

just yesterday when I was trying to authenticate an email confirmation for social media without success through url, when I looked at the Brave shields, not only google tag manager sitting in there but also fb! Brave is also in a relationship with fu-book for its browser AI service Leo that uses the Llama LLM. It claims not to be sharing user data , but the business relationship has crept into the defense shields that cannot as far as i can see be turned off independently (like ublock origin etc). Either sheilds are on or off.

Luckily I refused to bite the bullet and may try my luck on firedragon etc where the trackers can be turned on and off independently.

I will always have a warm spot in my heart for Brave’s tools that have gotten many users through the worst abuses of privacy this century, and I sympathize with their needs to make payroll, but in their thirst for bringing on normies they look willing to burn their core user base.

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Lolrofl: Stargate project should only benefit OpenAI

Related:


AI fail of the week:


Ooops:

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I have been using DeepSeek and been loving it!

IT IS A MASTER AT ELISP! helped me replace a whole Emacs package for a custom made for me by myself (only 99% helped by DeepSeek) :slight_smile:

EDIT: … replaced He for It … It is not sentient … it is not sentient … it is not sentient, i must remember!

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They know exactly how powerful it is and don’t want their users to look behind their backs and see the sun which creates the shadows they scroll through

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Funny thing is, it could actually backfire on them by enticing a whole new generation of computer users to try Linux. We all know what happens when teenagers are told not use booze or drugs because they’re bad.

Mr Robot may yet get his revenge on EvilCorp. :robot:

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It is really weird…

Some 10 or 20 years ago… I might get it, but now? Its not like Linux is that unknown niche operating system anymore!

I have such a problem with this on so many levels, not including the public tax theft to fund it and using AI to completely circumvent the US constitution.

I don’t know, I’m not to worried about what China or Russia does. They haven’t done anything to me as far as I can tell.

I care about what Canada and the US does with my data (or any of the “5 eyes” countries for that matter) since I’m living in them.

If we told teenagers that it is cool to do drugs, booze, and both at the same time right from the begining, maybe made a public show of it on TV, perhaps they would just stay away from it and we would have less drug addiction in the world :man_shrugging:

Maybe the Garuda team should cash in on this, perhaps more people will try this OS now that its “hip” and “cool” to be against the establishment

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6 posts were merged into an existing topic: Off Topic Chit Chat - (Silliness factor 5)

Another question, what do you use to run DeepSeek?

What answer do you get when you ask what happened in Tiananmen Square in 1989?

Answer: Let’s talk about something else.

Demis Hassabis, a 2024 Nobel laureate, is one of the most important AI scientists in the world. Here, he explains what is next for AI – and what he thinks of DeepSeek.

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Facebook blocks Linux content

Facebook blockiert Linux-Inhalte - LinuxNews.de (German)

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DeepSeek R1. #ki #ai die gerade tech-bros wie #altma
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#zuckerberg #musk ins schwitzen bringt, weil sie open source ist (MIT License - the best kind of license), in allen unabhängigen tests mindestens genauso gut, wenn nicht besser, abschneidet und, was vor allem großartig ist: Das Training ist effizienter (billiger, weniger energieintensiv) und funktioniert auch ohne die #nvidia Prozessoren, die den Chinesen vorenthalten werden, um sie als Konkurrenz auszubooten.

by @a_s_tarantoga@mastodon.social
Deepseek R1. [#ki] (https://det.social/tagen/ki) [#ai] (https://det.social/tagen/ai) The straight tech-bros like [#altman] (https: // det .Social/Tags/Altman) [#zuckerberg] (https://det.social/tagen/zuckerberg) [#musk] (https://det.social/musk) sweat because she is open source (With License - The Best Kind of License), at least as good in all independent tests, if not better, cuts off and, what is above all great: the training is more efficient (cheaper, less energy -intensive) and works without the [nvidia ] (https://det.social/tagen/nvidia) processors that are withheld from the Chinese to boot them as a competition.

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I thought I would just share this with everyone. It’s a long discussion about the american politics and philosophy of AI.

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Ooops again: Entire Georgian country population exposed in a massive data leak


This is what car manufacturers know about you and your vehicle (German):


What “Integrated electronics” can do, “Apple” can do too:

All Mac laptops since 2022, all Mac desktops since 2023, and all iPhones / iPad Pro / iPad Air / iPad Mini models since 2021 are affected by these new SLAP and FLOP attacks.



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A post was merged into an existing topic: Off Topic Chit Chat - (Silliness factor 5)

The solution to this problem is…

  1. Install yt-dlp,sudo pacman -S yt-dlp
  2. type cd Videos
  3. type sudo yt-dlp -R inf <youtube link>
  4. Open Videos, and witch the video
  5. Delete video when done watching

See…no more adds :sunglasses:

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3 hours of podcast is too much for me right now. I’ve bookmarked your post. Thanks.