Re: GPT-4o... Good gravy. I can think of no greater waste of time than talking to the bot on your phone. LLMs are growing on me as a means to obtain quick baseline info, but that's it.

grugq breaks down what I've always said about Telegram: it's like IRC, essentially. Or we might even think about it like Nostr, to a centralized degree. It's all public, and should be understood as such.

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Telegram is a social media platform, not a secure messenger. The primary use of the system is for groups, with one to one messaging occupying the s...

Getting serious about learning chess, realizing I'm about 30 years late.

Mandatory reading in the ongoing "Signal vs. Telegram" stupidity.

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Telegram has launched a pretty intense campaign to malign Signal as insecure, with assistance from Elon Musk. The goal seems to be to get activists...

Good morning, praying it's a great one for you all!

Agreed. My choice is to opt out. And that should be a choice open to all. View quoted note →

Feeling bullish on Nostr after the incorporation with Bluesky.

MLB Vault just posted an official copy of 2016 World Series Game 7 -- the only baseball game that ever made saline leak from my eyes.

To my knowledge, no perfumer has ever captured the true scent of man.

Bluesky bridge, eh. Nice.

That's why the FUD makes me suspicious of the ones posting it, more than anything. At the same time, though, it's reasonable to be concerned that someone on the Signal board has values antithetical to Signal's primary aim.

Agree with the sell order or not, TikTok is doing a really bad job of making their case.

Bummed that we didn't get a refreshed iPad Mini. The only one I find useful.

I find it amusing how, every year or so, we're served a fresh dose of FUD on Signal app, but nobody really talks about Telegram.

Test post, ignore.

A social network doesn't necessarily need to attract "normies" to grow in the long term. What it does need, though, is normie posting, topics not associated with crypto or the Nostr project.

White Sox are now 6-24, which makes them 97 losses away from history. You can either be just another bad team, or you can be the worst team of all time. #MLB

The NFL Draft is a scam, placed in late April to stretch out football's relevance. And it works, apparently.

The irony is not lost: TikTok hides behind "the constitution" and notions of free speech to protect their cash cow, while at the same time heavily censoring simplistic things like criticism of their product... or the Chinese government... all on an app not allowed in China. TikTok is brain rot, and even though it will likely be salvaged through sale, I wouldn't be sad to see it go. Meanwhile, I'm interested in what the government knows and isn't telling us about the nature of the app. We know it's incredibly invasive from a data collection standpoint, but what else is there? Any time both of our terrible political parties agree on something with so little front-facing disclosure, my ears perk up. As it stands, the most troubling thing about this censure is that our government officials aren't concerned about the terrible consequences of privacy-invasive data collection, so much as they are which country siphons the data and is in control. If they were truly friends of the American people, they'd enact better privacy laws to protect the people from the companies stateside who track our digital lives (and then sell the data to the CCP, among others). In reality, it's about control. The federal government has every major American company in their back pocket, and can call upon them at any time to do their bidding. If there's going to be a targeted psyop via social media, you'd better believe it's going to be as American as apple pie. In the end, maybe this the only motivation both parties needed.

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