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Precision, nuance, and up to the moment contextual understanding are all missing from the “intelligence.”

During setup, Atlas pushes very aggressively for you to turn on “memories” (where it tracks and stores everything you do and uses it to train an AI model about you)

I wonder, do memories really train a model about the user? Or are they just shoved in the context window strategically? Possibly selected by a small performant model in the background based on relevance to the current context window?

Training millions of mini models on people would be really interesting, and I don’t think I’ve noticed anything saying that is happening, yet. Even tho it seems like a logical idea.

I don’t consider the PDS stuff to be fully federated. That’s just keeping your data on a different server, as far as I understand it. To be federated it needs to be a full interoperable server like mastodon, or lemmy.

You should also be able to host a non federated instance, or one with limited federation.

If they have moved past that, and I can open a server and have people sign up for accounts, then I stand corrected.

Yeah 😔

Feels like Bluesky’s federation promise.

I always mourn the loss of native apps. There are always so many downsides. And they harm platform consistency, etc.

Don’t get me started on Discord not supporting the native spell check. The built in spell check is terrible.

It’s all gambling when playing with those numbers. And economists build stories that sometimes are just ways to justify it.

I was excited about the one cable future back then.

Thanks for the details!

I wonder how often they clean stuff up like this. That crossed my mind earlier, I’m sure there is a bunch of “dormant” software that could be cleaned out or made optional in some way.

But the making it optional idea is easier said than done. Especially from a standpoint of discoverability and usability.

It’s interesting that this supposedly goes back to Windows 3.1 and the original release…

Sounds like an inbuilt self inflicted back door on encryption to me!

Back doors are always bad!

It’s gonna be a bad time when a nation state presses a button to cripple our digital infrastructure.

It seems hopeless at this point. It’s all just hyper complicated and profitable security theater.

Linux being a sexuality is a myth!

That’s a fantastic start!

Disney bought into a long history of Fox animated properties being lax in infringement enforcement online.

But this is a whole different level. That’s where I agree with you.

It sure sucks that USB-C is such a mess. I was promised an end to messes with USB-C.

How does one even do that in a conversation centered on such things? These are conversations with the bot. So it’s analogous.

Does it just refuse to interact? Does it just info dump and list all sides of the issue exhaustively?

I’m sure I’m working under a weird limited view, but it just does not seem possible to do this without things being awkward, or, without it being designed around its own agenda.

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Oh no.

I remember bootlegs being common for certain genres at used DVD stores back in the 2000s. I pointed some out once, and the clerk was like “whatever man.”

Back then it was anime and esoteric stuff. It makes sense to me that TV show box sets would be a target for bootlegs.

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