Let him have it. Pocket never was the kind of tool I'd use to save and organize info I find online. But if anyone else is worried sick about this here are some easily browsable alternatives: https://alternativeto.net/category/books--news/read-later/
Frankly, reading more of others' experiences with them, this reminds me of the disinformation campaigns the far right political parties have been paying for in Europe. It's not that these people even defend a particular ideology when interacting with others. They don't mind contradicting themselves as long as every new shitshow creates easily spreadable lies, manipulates people's emotions and undermines their enemies' trust in each other.
I had been seeing and muting tons of hate speech (even explicit calls for torture and murder) posted by Hexbear users but didn't want to take the easy path of blocking a whole community or instance. I don't wish to believe everyone registered there is like that. Today I got banned and labeled reactionary for calling out in a single comment that one of their user's "background check" on a French gamedev was equivalent to those done at US airports. I had it coming I guess? 🤔
Get Spam Blocker from F-Droid and if you like it and want a bit more filtering that's also compatible with the app check out Phoneblock.net. I was going to add that you might need to translate the site but it seems to be available in more languages now. 🎉
Thumbs up from me too. I'm always eager to hear/read from people who aren't shy but rather open and reasonable about their beliefs, whatever those may be.
I'll just add that I've had absolutely no benefit, just time wasted, when using the most popular services such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Copilot. Yes, sometimes it gets a few things right, mostly things that are REALLY easy and quick to find even when using a more limited search engine such as Mojeek. Most of the time these services will either spit out blatant lies or outdated info.
That's one side of the issue with these services, and I won't even get into misinformation injected by their companies. The other main issue I find for research is that you can't get a broader, let alone precise picture about anything without searching for information yourself, filtering the sources yourself and learning and building better criteria yourself, through trial and error. Oftentimes it's good info that you weren't initially searching for what makes your time well spent and it's always better to have 10 people contrast information they've gathered from websites and libraries based on their preferences and concerns than 10 people doing the same thing with information they were served by an AI with minimal input and even less oversight.
Better to train a light LLM model (or setup any other kind of automation that performs even better) with custom parameters at your home or office to do very specific tasks that are truly useful, reliable and time saving than trusting and feeding sloppy machines from sloppy companies.
Since it's a Medium article, if it's not paywalled by the author anyone can either close that popup and continue reading with the intended formatting or edit the adress from medium.com to scribe.rip for a cleaner reading experience.
Other than using Wordpress or building a static site wherever free hosting is available, Medium's offer for bloggers is still pretty solid if you care for their additional features and ease of use. If only they had ActivityPub integration... 😔
Suggestions are welcome, as I'm evaluating my options to migrate a Medium "magazine" somewhere else. Write.as sadly doesn't cut it.
Gen AI should be an optional tool to help us improve our work and life, not an unavoidable subscription service that makes it all worse and makes us dumber in the process.
Detun3d @ detun3d @lemm.ee Posts 16Comments 108Joined 2 yr. ago
My man. 👌