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Proton Mail goes AI, security-focused userbase goes ‘what on earth’ (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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we appear to be the first to write up the outrage coherently too. much thanks to the illustrious @self

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (4 children)

god these weird little fuckers’ ability to fill a thread with garbage is fucking notable isn’t it? something about loving LLMs makes you act like an LLM. how depressing for them.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

To think that when sneer club/techtakes migrated to lemmy, I was pretty sure we would not be getting a lot of incidental traffic to the communities. Just about as wrong as you can be.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Where was it prior? @earthquake @self

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

previously we were r/SneerClub and r/TechTakes on Reddit. we’ve also got a local archive of old r/SneerClub posts which I’m currently redesigning to fix the, ah, everything about its web design

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

the dorks that come in and dumbpost are fun for the first few interactions, but, damn, they get annoying fast

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I bet they go to react conferences

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

snrk

brava.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

high willingness to accept painfully inexact responses
high tendency to side with authority when given no information
low ability to distinguish "how it is" from "how it seems like it should be"

Meta:

default expectation that others are the same way
indignant consent-ignoring gesture if they're not

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

"I said good day, sir. good day!" [walks through revolving door]