In fact, I burn my Lemmy accounts after about a year and start fresh, specifically to avoid any accidental buildup of info that could be used to dox me. I even use red herring info in my “personal” posts.

This is the way.

Thanks for all you do. I appreciate your efforts!

Exactly why I host my own. Not under this username though, because I’d get defed’d by most of Lemmy. LOL My stalkers don’t know my instance name or username there because it doesn’t interact with this username at all. haha

Everyone should own their own. To be clear tho, mine is totally a $5 VPS from a racknerd black friday sale held together with Docker Compose and prayers. But I only have 6 active users, who are all my friends, and I won’t allow more, so all good!

I didn’t think of that lol

Great write-up!

I hate to sound so cynical, but I think the topic is just too polarizing.

Totally agree with you. I actually have Lemmings that follow me around to downvote every single comment I make and talk shit any chance they can, just because I dare to use AI. That’s how lame they are and how polarizing the subject is. No amount of talking to them helps. The extremists on here are so fixed in wilding zone, that they just don’t want to stop until they see actual blood.

Even though like someone else said a few comments up, “Open source AI reduces demand for corporate AI,” the haters just don’t want to hear it.

In this very thread there was a guy saying we are fascists because we use AI and that we should die. Another guy said, “Fuck AI. The tool of the tech fascists has no place in freedom from tyranny.” When someone is like that, there is no reasoning. He got banned for is comments, but his account was only 17 minutes old when he made those comments. So he’s probably waiting to use a new username right now. lol

I also have an invisible physical disability. Nerve damage doesn’t exactly show to a casual glance.

I don’t wanna get off-topic, but I just wanted to say I feel for you. I did hard labor for many years, and I’m always worried this may happen to me. Everytime one of my fingers goes randomly numb, I freak out. Sorry you’re going through this, but thanks for being so open and honest about it.

Well this thread turned into a shitshow real fast. @CubitOom@infosec.pub are you seeing these comments before they get perma banned?

With these unhinged guys running around, you think I’m the bad guy on Lemmy? lolol What the actual hell… the dude is acting criminally insane in these comments! This person just said they wants us all to die. This is stuff we put up with every day. But I’m a fascist?!

I actually skew toward anarchism, but I’m not really very political. Which may be the reason that I don’t feel local AI goes against the spirit of it.

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Well, I guess you are seeing the shit we deal with daily. This shit is the reason some of us pull out our ban-hammers so fast.

His account is 17 minutes old. Probably the same guy who started an account this morning and got banned in PTB community, for saying the stuff.

For me, I can be against mass scraping, corporate control, bullshit surveillance, or using AI as a replacement for real human interactions without being against generative AI itself.

If someone runs a local model, trains it on public domain or willingly provided data, and keeps control of it themselves, I don’t think it conflicts with anarchism all. The bigger issue seems to be who owns the technology, where the data came from, and what it’s being used for. All issues that can be solved by running your own local AI model.

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Totally this!

I’ve gotten death threats and stalkers too.Some extremist users in the fediverse are very unhinged and have no life.

Blue :)

We just need to ban cars on half the roads.

So much this!

Good thing I’m finally car-free now! I even got a little rolly cart for my shop trips. Now if we can just get rid of all the other cams.

Like the millenials that still play Pokemons.

Which is weird too.

I’ve definitely outgrown most of the movies, toys, and videogames that I enjoyed as a child. The only people I know who play and love minecraft are kids of my friends. Even my daughter outgrew it, and she’s 15.

how old were you when you first started playing it?

So why would a 30-year old adult still be playing a game he played at 13? I understand 13 year olds playing it, I don’t understand 30-year olds playing it