“This blogger” is Simon Willison, who has been doing LLM benchmarks and other LLM-related things since before it was cool

Not a random substack grifter

It definitely has specific blocks on what it will output.

And more is better so people get used to using them and skip the telcos and other stuff that can be tracked

Meshtastic requires bespoke hardware, it’ll always stay a marginal tool

This requires: an iPhone.

And someone will make a bridge from this to Meshtastic in a while anyway

This is nothing like the ones you list, this is local only no internet

And LocalSend

Briar doesn’t have an iOS client an never will

This doesn’t have an android client 😀

LLMs are shit at current events

Perplexity is kinda ok, but it’s just a search engine with fancy AI speak on top

Wrong 70% doing what?

I’ve used LLMs as a Stack Overflow / MSDN replacement for over a year and if they fucked up 7/10 questions I’d stop.

Same with code, any free model can easily generate simple scripts and utilities with maybe 10% error rate, definitely not 70%

Your Instagram or TikTok?

Because mine is full of TikTok reposts and AI slop

IIRC the judge said they could use the data for training, but specifically added that piracy is still piracy and he didn’t rule on that.

So Disney can just sue Meta for one trillion 😀

So if Meta is convicted of pirating books for AI training, they lose all internet connectivity? 🧐

On the other hand Meshtastic nodes can be solar powered and independent. You can easily build a big-ish mesh with a couple hundred western monetary units.

It also uses common frequencies with every single wireless weather display and garage door opener and wireless outlet.

Also HAM operators are required to not encrypt their traffic and are licensed/registered, thus easily found and their equipment taken away.

Neither is perfect tho

Meshtastic would work too. But it’s banned in many countries. Or specifically devices that transmit in a specific frequency

It’s like having your password set to “password”

So if FBI has an internal Lemmy instance we should start boycotting Lemmy?

It tries to do everything.

Think of a thing you want to do in Linux and there is a systemd plugin for it. It’s not the unix way

Has someone sued Meta for that and has the court given a precedent?

American law works on precedents, this will be one

It doesn’t matter it was the evil empire getting that result

Aqua, an OS X theme from before you were born