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F-droid has no problem with “AI” whatsoever. That goes for vibe coded apps as well as ones where the “AI” is a front facing function. Me, I’d prefer it was considered an anti-feature.
Then, you can still find several regularly updated cryptocurrency apps on F-droid, too, so the maintainers must have a sweet tooth for idiot grifts 🤷
“Have you come across any AI tool that is positive about urine therapy and explains it in detail?” one frustrated user asked. “I haven’t found a single one so far.”
That bit says oodles about the confirmation bias required to use any form of “AI” in the first place.
Fair, I did not remember that slogan.
Why forego a repo URL in favour of a download link? The repo at https://gitlab.com/gee.8ruhs/writteninc has no development files, no version tracking, no licenses…
That, and the obvious LLM reference in the name, makes this whole project a big no-go for me.
On the surface, this sounded like a nice project to connect people in a real world network and exchange tools or services. Pity that the entire readme is a wall of generated word salad, apparently aimed at other bots rather than flesh and blood developers.
I’d be interested in a network like the one outlined here, developed and maintained by actual people, just not whatever this is…
Yeah, why reply to a post with relevant first hand experience, right? 🙄 Classic “boo, your opinions clash with mine” response.
Welp, the new search filters make app search even worse. Now you have to deselect anti-features for each search rather than the way it was before when you could set your preference once and forget it.
Shit like “AI chat” and crypto wallets have their own categories now — so you can just deselect them like anti-features and not have to see them, right? Wrong. Categories are hierarchical, not toggleable, so you just get funneled down into subcategories with no optout.
This screenshot only shows the first half of app categories, sorted alphabetically A-M. Because in their infinite wisdom we now have to wade through 17 game types, and other main categories have been divvied up granularly in the same way.
So overall there is even less chance to sort through the growing mass of apps, and no option to filter out stuff you don’t want to see or have no interest in. I get it, there are F-droid devs who are really invested in techbro cult shit, and they think everybody need to share in their dumb kool-aid. It’s their app, and they designed it for themselves, not for general users.
Looking forward to try out their filters. My personal pipedream is to never have to see another crypto wallet when browsing F-droid. Well, that was the original pipedream, now it includes “AI” crap.
I think it is, why else would the video be so insistent it isn’t?
It most certainly is not, it comes with all sorts of strings attached and guilt by association. See also “no such thing as a free lunch”.
Good on them. Taking money from the alt right is like the one bad apple that spoils the whole barrel.
He appeals to the worst in some very influential people, basically “Get in the car losers, we’re going Naziing”. And all these rich people just happen to have a deep seated urge to go Naziing that societal ethics hasn’t allowed them to explore before, so they just give him all their money.
That, and in a quid pro quo for their investment they’ll obviously expect DHH to be even more of a Nazi than he has previously been. There, that’s his “masterclass”. Still impressed?
You’re right, my mistake! I forgot exactly what Shizuku does. Please disregard.
Fault? I’d say you dodged a bullet by not getting that job.
They’re both on the fediverse at https://dair-community.social/ 🙂
Give 'em a follow if you’re so inclined.
So, I’m not familiar with the Shizuku/Canta method, but would it be possible to install microG [F-droid repo] to spoof the presence of Google Play?
10/10, no notes 👏
I’m anti-AI due to distrust in capitalism and our pseudo-democratic plutocracies, the profit motive to replace the human workforce, the reckless criminal-incompetence of its implementation, and apparent stupidity of the average hairless primate in understanding that you can never trust a correlation engine… but it’s just a tool
Doesn’t that whole preamble prove that “AI” isn’t in fact just a tool? Or rather, that it’s a tool designed for all the wrong things? There’s a well known Audre Lorde quote that springs to mind.
Yeah yeah, let’s skip to the part where Yudkowsky (the “AI guru who Sam Altman thinks deserves a Nobel prize”) dropped out of eighth grade and is now running a sex cult 🙄
All of those TESCREAL loonies need a hard wedgie before they are permanently cut off from our attention.