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  It's not just the fediverse, the tide against widespread LLM use is turning in real life To be fair, yes, I'm just another person on the fediverse for all of you, but for me, this is the reality I live in. I've always wondered about all the AI hate around here, and if this is just a fediverse thing, but realized recently that it's not. In fact, people are generally getting tired of constant LLM and genAI use. I've already noticed people getting turned off by AI flyers more...

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  Jesus fuck, it's worse than 4chan. Like it's a competition.

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  Source? This just confirms my preexisting biases a little too much.

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  While I don't want God in schools in that sense, either (other than teaching about the world's different religions and belief systems, for instance), one of the central parts of most religions is morality. Are there many churches that gloriously fuck it up? Yup. But there are also many churches that do it pretty well. So in the end, there are plenty of churches that _do_ probably improve morality. They're just generally not the ones that make the headlines.

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  OK. I was abused by a woman. And know of many cases of abusive women (men too, but we've already decided in this context that all men are dangerous, so that's beside the point). So this means all women are dangerous, too?

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  > no spam possible Only contacts can message you. Yes, it technically almost eliminates the possibility of spam, but it also means you explicitly have to exchange data first. So, no "here's my email address, you can send it to me there", no "do you have XYZ's address", no "I lost access to my previous address, this is my new one". I realize all of these scenarios can be seen as risks, but they're still important in day to day life and will be a major...

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  We already had acid rain but you fuckers had to make a stink about it.

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  What the hell is going on there? Why??

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  Yes and no, Fairphone has actually managed to reverse engineer some of the drivers for its old phones to provide android upgrades years after the component manufacturers have dropped support. The Fairphone 2, for instance, received a little over 7 years of support and 4 major version upgrades, skipping one on the way. For the Fairphone 5, they've promised 10 years of software support, and judging by their track record, I believe them. They also open source as much as they can and even give i...