I don’t know what the authors are complaining about. All the AI is doing is trawling through a lexicon of words and rearranging them into an order that will sell books. It’s exactly what authors do. This is about money.

40%. That’s nearly a whole cheek.

lol There’s often a fair bit of waxing involved.

It says “no fully exposed” arse pix. What percentage of exposed derrière is acceptable? Asking for a friend.

Impressive.

As someone who has spent years extolling the virtues of Matrix/Element to family members I can assure you that there is no known rebuttal to the phrase “but I don’t care about privacy”. All it needs is to visit a site and sign up. No software required whatsoever. Good luck with GitHub and your ageing aunt or gobby nephew.

Or just download the full fat version from an overseas server run by the company making the product. Expecting the general populace to compile stuff is a little bit optimistic. We’re talking about a country where most people don’t know what a socket outlet is called or the difference between desktop wallpaper and a screensaver.

This is irritating. I use Nitter once a week to check if someone’s still alive. If I see them posting crap I know they’re still breathing.

Indeed. No such thing as bad publicity, etc. At least the iPhone-clutching masses on the morning commute will be reading about this now.

I just mentioned wefwef to my better half. She just sniggered at me and said “has the world run out of names?”

I think you’re probably correct.

I read about it yesterday and decided to give it a whirl. Still using it today. I’ll try it on my phone in a while.

Edit: Works a treat in Firefox on iOS. It’s a keeper.

Yep, Teddit works well for me because I don’t have a Reddit account. It’s quick and privacy respecting. I think I may have found it through the Privacy Redirect extension for Firefox.

Unsure if this is off-topic for this thread so feel free to delete if that’s the case.

/r/firefox now looks like this.

I’m not using ChatGPT at all.

Don’t worry, your utopian vision of streets full of closed shops and associated tumbleweed will be here soon enough.

Anyone that buys anything from Amazon is also part of the problem. Support your local bookshop while you still can.

Everything is economically unviable until the day that it is. Years ago someone I knew used to collect used photographic developer/fix from film labs for no charge. He had a warehouse full of it. One day it became viable to recover the silver from the dev fluid and he was set up for life.

Only you know that.

Calm down, mate, it was a humorous exercise.