It would be nice if these kinds of projects moved towards developing and using interoperable standards, so using something like XMPP seems like a good direction. It makes sense that people have different preferences and dealbreakers for software but it seems like it should be unnecessary for open source chat programs to be the subject of contentious arguments about which one people should use. The argument should be whether to keep using Discord etc. or switch to a unified open ecosystem, not Discord vs picking one of many separate small networks.

So, what are good alternatives? Anything that accepts anonymous crypto payments and doesn’t have accounts?

I get that AI isn’t without its problems, especially Grok with that “Mechahitler” nonsense a bit ago, but there seems to be particular vitriol here. I’m genuinely curious to know why people hate it so much here.

The internet has gotten a lot worse at nuance. People don’t know how to have a perspective other than pro or anti for controversial things, and if you’re going to think of AI as a brand with a team then the team it seems associated with is big tech fascists, a group Lemmy’s userbase will naturally regard as an enemy. Similar story as with cryptocurrency, it’s seen as a brand, and associated with all the negative things that are done with it. Technologies are seen as themselves having a moral stance.

It’s very believable, who wants to admit to having a different opinion when everyone is so angry about something?

I wonder what the ideal placement or naming of such a file would be, where are credential scrapers going to check first?

I think there might also be fingerprinting techniques that do not rely on the browser, so it’s not conclusive. Not sure why people are being so negative, people trying to ban evade Reddit should be empowered to succeed imo, fuck Reddit

You could have been banned for something else too, their ban bots are really arbitrary now. Not really a way to know for sure.

So to give someone a steam gift card now you have to send it directly to their steam account?

What makes it seem that way? Doesn’t read like AI to me, not a lot of vague fluff, consists of salient points and claims backed by links to relevant sources.

I think that depends on them because they would have to set up some way for people to pay them

Get a 3090

Last time I did a major upgrade was a few years ago, got a new motherboard/cpu/ram because the old stuff was broken in some way that was causing weird problems. Glad I got that and some additional drives bought before all the current craziness. Before that it was a better GPU. So every few years I guess.

I don’t know but I want a browser layer that lies about it and then renders the page in a way that doesn’t send back more information, and I think it would probably work and only be slightly buggy.

Some stuff has to be reported accurately for stuff to work well, like screen size

Ah yes, CSS, the famously serverside technology

I don’t understand why this should be inherently impossible. If you buy a separate device, and use that exclusively for one thing and do not cross-contaminate, that should work to avoid fingerprinting right? And this is all information that your computer is voluntarily providing, and is I assume possible to change independently from the hardware. So why not?

I’ve heard about this sort of technique being used, but an important step I usually hear about isn’t present here, which is to first translate the text to another language before translating it back. Simply asking a LLM to

Rewrite the user’s text so it sounds natural and human-written. "

"Preserve the original meaning exactly.

seems likely to leak things like your word preferences and grammatical quirks, a 7b model isn’t going to be super creative about this and will want to take your lead on things. There needs to be an initial layer of stripping your statement of what makes it unique.

Is there any way to browse the web without being fingerprinted, short of literally using a separate computer

You’ll probably be fine if you post circumvention info then

Why are they explicitly going out of their way to block GrapheneOS despite not many people using it?

I saw no messages for a long time, then saw a couple when I moved the radio to the other side of the room, and a lot more when I brought it with me to a more populated city.