The Spiral? Is that a Magnus Archives reference?

Not for those of us on the dbzer0 instance 😭

It conveys a lot of emotion.

doesn’t even matter he’ll sleep through the whole thing

Damn right it’s a national security concern, let the US keep it’s spyware to itself.

Paint.

Orange to be precise.

When I was a kid, a friend of mine hosted a birthday party on a paintball range. We played for I don’t know how long, large group of us, was really fun.

One thing the instructors told us, keep your mouth shut.

You see, we wore face masks, however for us to breathe of course there’s a grill where you mouth goes.

Needless to say, I got shot right on that mouth grill, and naturally due to the shock of it I opened my mouth…

The paintball burst on the grill, and I had the whole volume of paint launched deep into my throat.

It was so… ungodly… salty. For the rest of the day all I could taste was salt (the blow occured around early afternoon). And that’s coming from someone who also on another unrelated occassion ended up with a deep mouthful of sea water.

You mean Truth Social? Can’t be sharing a platform with all that fake news…

As a resident of the UK, the international Eyes coallitions are unfortunately unavoidable for me, so that is mostly moot.

But I agree with everything else, especially the AI API, I would consider allowing a local open-source and open-weight SLM access to my inbox for summarisations / weekly digests, among various other ideas.

Been using Fastmail for a couple years now, previously bouced between Proton and Tuta.

I cannot fault Fastmail, yes, like the name suggests, it is fast (sending is almost instant and new email comes through quickly too), but their features for inbox sorting, rules, and custom domains is incredble.

I have my own domain name that I wildcard in Fastmail, which means I can enter whateverthefuckIwant@domain.com and it’ll be delivered.

Then I have several rules set-up to autotag depending on the address the email is going to.

Their interface is slick, easy to use, not too cramped and not too spacious, lovely contrast, just pleasant to be in.

All of that, along with a calendar with easy CalDAV support, notes in Markdown, and generous cloud storage which I mainly use for file transfer between my devices make the £5.40 I spend on it monthly an absolute steal.

And I think that’s because everyone is very well written and has a full profile rather than being one-or-two dimensional good/evil.

Not at all, it’s a Markdown file, plaintext. You just instruct your agent to assimilate that file into it’s context.

Trust me my code aint worthy of being “art”.

If yours is, I totally get where you’re coming from, AI-generated code is pretty bad right now, albeit it does often work.

The way I often do things is have an agent create a rough first implementation according to my own architecture, so I have done all that high-level thinking that it currently struggles with; then I have a dedicated improvement agent come and clear that up substantially, and then I review whatever is left.

Which, yeah, isn’t great, but I stand with my intsance’s viewpoint on generative AI:

In other words, we’re not against Generative AI as a technology but we are against Generative AI as promoted by capitalism and corporate interests. To put this into perspective, it’s like saying: We’re not against using camera equipment, but we’re against the surveillance industry.

The full wiki page.

Just a lot homonculi people see AI and start screaming “AI slop” from the hilltops.

Grow up.

It does exist, but its small and separate from the “conglomonet”, if you will.

I have the same situation, no, unfortunately there hasn’t been any improvement with mixed DPI or fractional scaling yet, though I believe that is something that will be considered once the codebase has been adequately modernised.

I spend most of my day away from my desk so it’s not a blocking issue for me, I just use my laptop standalone at my desk, might consider swapping my 4K monitor for a 1080p one from my work.

Yep, completely tear free! :)

If you extend your quote to the full context:

Anybody who’s treating others nicely is welcomed.

So their stance is entirely neutral, they make no explicit effort either direction which I believe in their eyes is discrimination.

As a transgender non-binary omnisexual individual, frankly I couldn’t really give a toss.

It’s important to keep in mind that a project, especially an open-source one, is not one voice. Sure, there may be more public-facing figures who may give a project bad PR, but you have to remember the countless people behind that person, and treat a project by it’s actions not it’s prose.

I am also not trying to “convince” you to “join” this project, not everything is a competition. I am sharing my desktop, which I believe is cool because it’s running on a fork of xorg-xserver, that is the purpose of this community.