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Fediverse alternative to Pinterest?

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You look for a images

You get recomanded other similar images (thus engaging to a pleasant, but dangerous endless scrolling)

You can pin you images on "boards" (for instance I have one for fashion, illustration, etc)

There's probably a workaround to make something similar available online, but I didn't look info it do far

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Proton left Mastodon...

due to limited ressources

Is it that hard to post the same thing on various social media? Maybe it is, I wouldn't know. But that sounds like a shitty excuse.

It looks like they're not up to date on X tho, hopefully they drop that shit. And they're on Bluesky, which, if not Mastodon, is a little bit better I guess.

I really don't get the hidden idea behind leaving Mastodon.

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EU Search engine incoming: Ecosia is teaming up with Qwant to build a European search index

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I don't know how far in the rabbithole I am, but at this point I feel like it's nearly impossible to find a company that doesn't have dirt on it in one way or another. There are alternatives in some domains, but for search engines, it's really narrowed down to Brave (which also have some not very nice people in it) and Duck duck go, which uses Bing. Which is basically pointless to me, not even talking about using UE products, for me, the best way to get some fresh air is to have companies that have their own search engines (so, not Bing or Google, this is why I don't use alternatives like Starpage or Searx) There's Mojeek, yes, but last time I used it, it was...really bad. I still encourage them tho! I'll give it another shot now.

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I'm using AI and I feel terrible now

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I did, but that's not really the subject. I'm not taking GPT as a therapist by the way, I may have been misunderstood because english is not my first language. But I'm not sharing mental health things with it.

In any case, I think the problem I'm feeling can be real for many people that are not in mental state anyway. But I totally see why you would say that, thanks.

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Bluesky users debate plans around user data and AI training

Molly White, who writes the Citation Needed newsletter and Web3 is Going Just Great blog, described this as “a good proposal,” and said it was “weird to see people flaming BlueSky for it,” since it’s not so much “welcoming in AI scraping” but rather “trying to add a consent signal to allow users to communicate preferences for the scraping that is already happening.”

That being said, yes, not great

We probably can't escape Ai everywhere, let's face it But most people won't care like they didn't care about their data in general before AI

I'm already using Mastodon in parallel, but I must admit I couldn't find a lot of people to follow...maybe gotta look harder, but I have to admit it doesn't seem as easy as it does on BS

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France is about to pass the worst surveillance law in the EU.

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Ok so I'm going to get hated for that, but trust me, this is just me being naive and knowing nothing about many subjects. But so, as much as this law can get into excesses and seems really bad, and I clearly don't want it, is it possible to balance the debate and say, objectively, that this can actually be help to help stop narcos which are getting a bit out of hand? Again, I'm leaning left, but I like to see both sides, I think nobody is ever 100% wrong, so I'm wondering what people think about it.

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I'm using AI and I feel terrible now

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I am definitely leaning on AI quite a bit lately. I ask and check sources now and then tho.

Side thinking, but I'm ot sure how we'll see this problem in the future, when/if AI is "guaranteed" to basically never get things wrong. It's the same with GPS/Maps software, since you're talking about it. I've always been way worse than average to situate myself in space (? sorry, bad english probably), and GPS helps me immensely, me and my anxiety (and even then, I still manage to get stressed and miss things sometimes lol), it's basically right most of the time as far as I know. Now IA being "always right" (let's simplify) would have other consequences entirely, since it touches way more aspects of what we do as humans.

Not sure what to think from here, but yes, I'm definitely checking sources for important things, and restraining myself to not type every request I'm looking for into a chatbot.

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Elon Musk and Donald Trump Baki Chapter | Know Your Meme

Baki is an exaggerated, grotesque, manly, gore version of martial arts Its style is also very odd but you can tell Itagaki is good, it's a choice (even tho he had to evolve to this level, he already has strengths even in the weaker beginnings)

I guess you could call it fighting porn. Up to you to see if that's yout thing, but since it reads pretty quickly, you can try for a few volumes.

It's got flaws and is clearly not for veryone, but I love it. So much fun and personality.

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Those seem like good advice, but when I was saying dictate, I was just talking about sending my requests to the chatbot app via microphone, not writing. I tend to be super adhd-y, forget things, be overwhelmed, get into sideway things, and having a quick way to ask this or that, while thinking out loud, is kinda what helps me. But yes, in a way, some sort of journaling, trying to focus and slowing down would help me.

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I'm using AI and I feel terrible now

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Thanks In a way I did still change a lot of habits. This on the other does feel like giving up a huge fight and making my brain think that I actually don't care about privacy/Foss at all, I'm usually not a "all or nothing" type of person, but it's a bit hard to wrap my head around this time