Homo Homini Lupus Est

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Cake day: October 1st, 2023

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  • Great mate. As for search I suggest searxng. Either selfhosted or one of the many instances. It just anonymizes your queries and aggregate results from many possible searches in one.

    Phones I’d suggest some Linux phone or, irony admitted, a pixel with grapheneos.

    For DNS a self hosted pihole is the tits. Runs on a tiny raspy if you don’t have a home-server.

    I do have one phone with google. But only for all my banks and depots. Totally anonymous account, separate isolated WiFi, it has no idea who owns it or where it is. Sadly those banks consider a google phone I carry around all day “safe” and a PC with an emulated android “not safe”. And no bank ever could explain why.

    But I have time to be that paranoid.



  • Might be not wrong to preach where the sinners are, but as a google-fanboy why would i even click on such blasphemy? 🤷‍♂️

    Yeah, me too. But I host my own mail since forever. Since google ditched their “don’t be evil”-slogan I avoided them bastards. “Just a search-engine, nothing else” yeah lol sure… I didn’t even buy their stock back then, knowing they will now start to earn. Although I surely didn’t expect THIS.




  • If I had to live there, I’d simply piss off. You already have the benefit of speaking English (well, some kind of 😁), so you easily get around anywhere in the EU, as most of us at least understand it.

    Except the vast parking spaces, guns and cheap housing you would not miss a thing. We even have your great bbq-sauces 😊

    Nothing here is perfect, but in comparison to the USA it kinda is.

    The whole move can’t be more expensive than a mild illness.

    If you simply can’t or don’t wanna emigrate: just close your eyes, ignore all media and try to believe in that it all will be better again. Somehow. Which is probably harder than emigration.

    I don’t wanna mock you bro, but I have no better ideas. Being “awake” from the american dream (RIP Carlin!) but having to live there must be horrible.












  • I didn’t say the don’t work. They’re just mainly useless. For coding? Nice for quick prototyping, seeking alternate approaches or such. Real code? Rarely working and in the end you spend more time fixing stuff than it initially saved.

    For everyday research? It’s helpful sometimes, but mostly plain wrong. That one sure isn’t inherent of LLM but the data it feeds on.

    For what it’s great is translations, summarizing stuff or a nicer web search. And my own locally run for the smart home. For that it’s a blast. Like “close gate, open front door, turn on all lights at 50% in a lush shade of green, and turn on the coffee machine”. Absolutely awesome.

    But paying for that? And even like 30 moneyz? No way. Don’t get me wrong, I fucking love all tech and LLMs are kinda a dream coming true. But it’s still not really there. My last session with Claude ended in the “AI” giving up and asking ME how I solved it. Only to then admit my answer would be useless as it is forgotten anyway after that chat 😁

    I have no political agenda and surely don’t lack experience. I don’t even see LLM as an enemy. I wish it was actually intelligent and really helpful/timesaving more than 50% of the time.

    Not questioning generative powers for video or image or sound. They’re awesome there and totally timesaving and extremely helpful.

    And I’d also argue that the “average person” to whom it is very helpful is easy to please with any answer to their everyday questions. Especially if presented in the usual asslicking way based on total and absolute confidence.