The thing that pisses me off the most is that they are disingenuous almost to the point of lying in interpreting that survey's results. They say that 75% of users are interested in GenAI, when actually what they asked is whether people have used any GenAI at all in the recent past. And that still doesn't mean they want GenAI in Proton. That's a pretty significant sleight of hand. The more relevant question would have been the first one on what service people want the most. In that case only 29% asked for a writing assistant, which is still not the same thing as a full LLM. The most likely answer to "how many Proton customers want an LLM in Proton Mail" seems to be "few".

They're insufferable commies who keep attacking other parts of the Fediverse by... uh... commenting on posts and... ehm... responding aggressively to bigoted content. They've got all these sick ass stickers that we don't and they keep flexing them in our replies which drives me crazy.

Their instance is an authoritarian distopia where queer people feel safe and they don't waste time debating the same wrong liberal talking points every time. Also you can just call someone a dumbass if you disagree with them: a totalitarian nightmare.

Worst of all they go around straight up bullying other Fediverse users: right now I'm locked in a bathroom stall that a Hexbear user shoved me into. I've been here for an hour missing my maths class, and I've had to drink the toilet water. My tummy is starting to hurt. Stay away from Hexbear users...

a long form nuanced take

interesting, however have you considered pee pee poo poo

Truly a worthy contribution to the discourse, thank you...

ActivityPub doesn't just push everything on a server to every federated instance like a fire hose. In the first place, as Masimatutu@mander.xyz said, it only feeds your content to an instance if somebody on that instance follows you, which you can set to require your manual approval. Your posts could also get pushed if somebody else boosts your post and they have followers on the other instance.

However, if you set an instance block, none of your posts get sent to the instance, period. They would have to resort to scraping. In other words, if you don't want to give meta your data, just set an instance/domain block.

[...] I set up a cloud service where my VPN service would be located on Amazon’s web services, a reputable and widely trusted cloud provider. [...] After about an hour, I set up a VPN that worked flawlessly. The best part? Not only is it free to use [...]

Sorry, what? Last time I checked AWS VPSs were very much NOT free to use, and I'm pretty sure the lowest tier is still more expensive than your average VPN.

Also, this article seems to be arguing against its own points: "you probably don't need a VPN, but I have one anyway"...

Backed by who?

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), a Silicon Valley venture capital firm with a recent history of questionable investments...

God I hope this is a bit

Legacy COBOL code is largely used in critical systems like those of banks and airlines. What could go wrong with having that code rewritten by stochastic parrots who get programming answers wrong half of the time?

This is a wildly sensationalized headline, bordering on just false.

The real story is that US government employees regularly misspell email addresses using the top-level domain .ml (Mali) instead of .mil (The US Military). This means that the domain administrator can read those emails. For now the administrator is some Dutch guy; the Malian government cannot read the emails.

I guess even the BBC is throwing out its last shreds of journalistic integrity at this point...

Which other web services support Markdown formatting and also single line breaks? Reddit, for example, didn't...

Since AFAIK the main reason for this choice in standard Markdown was to make the raw .md files more readable, I can see how this isn't necessary in Lemmy. I still see two reasons not to change this though:

• Effort: forking and maintaining a markdown rendering library just for lemmy would take a ton of effort for a pretty small usability improvement. The dev team is already small and overloaded with work, this doesn't seem like a good use of their time.
• Consistency: each website having its own flavor of Markdown syntax would be pretty chaotic for users. Right now you can learn basic Markdown once and use it on Reddit, Lemmy, Github, etc. If every website did it their own way you'd have to remember all the little differences, it would get messy.

This is not a missing feature in Jerboa, it's a design choice in the Markdown syntax. It's done so that one can break up long lines in the .md file without affecting the rendered page. Markdown is a standard, and Jerboa uses an existing tool to format posts. In order to make this work for Jerboa the devs would have to break compatibility with Markdown and create their own rendering tool. They're most likely not going to do it, and I don't think they should.

That's not a problem, though, because you can already create single line breaks in Jerboa, using standard Markdown. All you have to do is add two spaces at the end of your first line, where you want your line break to be. So, if I write down:

This is a line<space><space>
This is another line

this gets rendered to:

This is a line
This is another line

There are other ways to create line breaks in Markdown:

• Using an HTML <br/> tag
• Using a backslash \

but they're not supported by all renderers. For example: the <br/> tag works in Jerboa, but not in the web UI. Double space works for me in both.

Or just https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/24/rent-to-pwn/

He has a mirror of his blog on his own website without paywall. Not sure why he still publishes on Medium too, visibility I guess...