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%

I want loitering munitions with face detection, all targeting Putin, his oligarchs and their families.

Your Instagram or TikTok?

Because mine is full of TikTok reposts and AI slop

I bought a Venta LW25 and couldn’t be happier. Simple and functional, good old German engineering

Most likely Claude, it’s pretty much the best at the moment

The main problem with LLMs is that they’re the person who memorised the textbook AND never admit they don’t know something.

No matter what you ask, an LLM will give you an answer. They will never say “I don’t know”, but will rather spout 100% confident bullshit.

The “thinking” models are a bit better, but still have the same issue.

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? 🧐

Yea, it’s been broken for weeks. You can’t search for new artists at all.

It got sorta fixed a while ago and now I can search for artists, but adding them doesn’t work. Their metadata server crapped out months ago and they’ve been fixing it ever since, should be done soonish. Or not.

Fixed Lidarr: https://github.com/blampe/hearring-aid

And Radarr: https://github.com/blampe/rreading-glasses

Basically they replace the broken closed source metadata server for both with a working one.

The author is also in talks with Readarr to take over the project.

Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.

Also lots of Iranian scientists ate ice cream, is Cloetta behind the assassinations??

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