A 50-something French dude that’s old enough to think blogs are still cool, if not cooler than ever. Also, I like to write and to sketch.
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France and, yep, depending the bank (I have multiple), they all push you to use the app but some will not even allow you to open an account without the app. Even traditional banks will push hard to use the heir app, I mean.
Digital ID is not mandatory yet, but using online services can be a lot simpler using some sort of IDying and, at the very least, one better have 2FA, or something better, configured on the phone for any type of access that is worth securing.
Fuck that, if I’m allowed to say so.
They can’t track what is not there to begin with.
Also, I don’t want my life to be easier (is constant charging and updates and upgrades really that easier?), I want my life to be meaningful.
edit: rephrasing.
Just read the article, and don’t engage in whataboutery, or in asking questions that distract from the topic.
Thank you for reminding how to not waste my time, really.
I hope you won’t mind my question.
The main issue with Deepseek is about censorship and privacy as the review suggests.
I don’t use AI myself and have not read the article, but isn’t there censorship and privacy issue at play also with every single non-Chinese AI out there?
I mean, can I ask one of those non-Chinese AI to make me, say, a pornographic image based on some famous person, or would it refuse? Could I ask a non-Chinese ‘how can I make a bomb powerful enough so I can blow This or that (whatever one would not legally own)’, or ‘How should I mount a coup to take hold of power in my country?’ or would it refuse to answer any of that? And then, subsidiary question, would any of these questions be reported to legal authorities?
Their solution is not working at all.
That is unless their sole and true objective is to have us all live in cages? Because that’s exactly where this is going.
We’re so lucky to live in democracies where our elected representatives don’t try to do a very similar thing by, say, weakening encryption and forcing the use of backdoor.
Have you an idea on what instance you want to migrate already?
I have had a real fine experience with sh.itjust.works (and with the French Jlai.lu, but this one is focusing on French language ;)
As long as enough people are willing to use and to rely on those apps/services, no matter how good the reason(s), those companies win and they (will) screw all of us.
I told those companies they should go fuck themselves the day I quit using them
Not between. I use both as separate encrypted emails so people using one or the other of those encrypted services can easily reach me if they want to. I also used to use PGP with my own domain email but no one never used it, so I gave up on that.
not at all.
Quite a few of the tools I personally decided to use aren’t listed but a big +1 for this cool blog post nonetheless :)
I’ll let anyone decide what’s best for them. My opinion is that journaling does not need to be the most active community (it’s not a practice relying on short term/constantly changing trends, for some like me it’s a lifelong habit) but it does need to have enough activity to feel welcoming enough… which something it looks like I did not manage to initiate, so far. I would also say I consider journaling a very specific way of writing I would not wish to see it mixed with a more ‘public-focused’ type of writing. Also, we’ve seen more than a doubling (x3 maybe?) of the subscribers in the 6 months or so I started posting content. To me, that’s saying there is a real interest for a dedicated community. And imho, with a little more patience, it may start to feel more lively.
But like I said, it’s up to anyone to decide what they want to do it, and where. I’ll keep an eye on the journaling community for the time being and hopefully I’ll be able to quickly resume regular postings if no one else wants to do it, because like I keep saying: it’s not my community, I don’t own it. I’m just its janitor, trying to make it welcoming and get more people to visit and… use it ;)
Maybe !keepwriting@lemmy.world (not that it’s that much active either looking at it now)
That’s a Lemmy issue, I’m afraid. We’re not that many. And niche communities are the most impacted by that.
For personal reason, I had to stop my weekly post in our Journaling community. So, even though we’re still getting new subscribers (nearing 600) there is not much new content/comments being posted. I don’t know for how long I will too busy to post myself I hope others will keep occasionally posting ;)
I think I like the idea but shouldn’t we worry it would make it harder to use? I mean, people are lazy… if they are forced to hesitate each time they want to vote for a post or a comment, they’ll simply find a shortcut which probably means they’ll go for the biggest/first button they can click. Something like that.
Also, I’m not sure vote will really change any deep trend (which by the way is one of the reasons I steered away from other social media). If people really want to share memes and low effort content can we really prevent it?
And people do wonder why my spouse and I refuse to own a tv…
(Going to talk about arabs here, for example.) Since most arabs on reddit complain about how all pro-palestine content is heavily censored and how it’s consistently enshittifying. But i mean this might be diminishing returns, but at the same time i find it insane that there are only 6 (afaik) arabs meanwhile there are whole instances for french/german/chilean/italian/etc
Maybe all what’s needed is for someone to start?
I [think] i get along okay with everyone else,
I certainly don’t, but I’m old(ish) and grumpy :p
i do miss having other arabs to talk to on lemmy. This isn’t too big of a problem, but would be nice to solve :-)
I would not blame you for trying ;)
What do you think would be the response?
If I was invited to change my habits, my first question would be: why? What could I do I can’t already do on reddit? Or for what reasons would I want to do the same thing on that Lemmy-thing? Imho, you should prepare some reasons for them to be willing to change their habits and give Lemmy a try. Without that, you’re seriously reducing your chances.
Pessimistic-me would also think focusing on ethnicity/country or anything along those lines would immediately open the door to endless issues and quarrels between users considering one must be living in the country, other saying one should be of such or such origin or whatever else, while others say it should be enough to have been born there, or to to have been living there at one time. But, hey, that’s just pessimistic-me.
What communities would we do?
That’s up to you, obviously. I wouldn’t do any because I don’t care much about ethnic/origin/nationality (or gender or faith) and I can’t recall any time I felt closer (or further away) to anyone because of such reasons. I care a more about what’s brewing between that person’s ears and depending what’s brewing, I will feel closer or not so close to them ;)
It’s a personal choice, based on personal priorities.
Thx once again. Great video, well worth listening to.
I see at least three issues: the extra cost, the extra layer of complexity it introduces, and the almost complete loss of autonomy it creates. Exactly like with public transits in many places switching to digital tickets instead of paper ones, save that it’s much worse when it concerns our ID and personal security/authentication.
That would not be an issue at all if there was no requirement/expectation to use any phone or device of any kind to begin with. To me, that’s the real point worth considering but it’s also a point very few are actually willing to consider because ‘technology is always the solution, never the issue’ ;)