I recently listened to the vergecast episode about all of MS's recent announcements and was genuinely shocked to hear recall being compared to, more or less, the local caching that already happens while you use your computer (+ the normalized big tech tracking). My gut reaction was that that's kind of an insane thing to think and I'm glad I'm being vindicated on that point.

Ah my favorite actor, Patrick Szwaye

AI+8k+5G

Free as in freedom, not necessarily free as in beer

IIRC bookwyrm lets you search openlibrary for books if they're not known by your server or some well-known instances like bookwyrm.social

And most importantly, no witnesses

If they really have been working on it since it was teased a few years ago, then I have to assume it will just be Skyrim: Again (Again)

It's a shame that it probably won't even be that much of a visual improvement, if Starfield is any indication

Getting revenge on Microsoft by tightly integrating Microsoft's LLM stuff 😎

Calling that a "score" seems like a bit of a stretch

As an admin of a small instance, the privacy stuff is pretty secondary to the moderation headache Threads' traffic would surely induce. mastodon.social by itself produces enough crap that I've silenced them, I can't imagine that Threads will be any better and indeed assume it'll be much worse in that regard.

Besides that, I think there's a difference between having data publicly available and voluntarily sending it straight to a data broker. Either way I don't think you should need much of a reason to tell Facebook to fuck off and I find it kind of strange that people seem so hesitant about it ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

It's caused by refraction of the sun's light by the atmosphere