The common colloquialism is that objective reality has a liberal bias. So either you train your LLM on “woke” science and facts, or it spits out garbage nonsense that is obviously wrong to even the typical twitter user.

Didn’t Elon breathlessly explain how the plan was to have Grok rewrite and expand on the current corpus of knowledge so that the next Grok could be trained on that “superior” dataset, which would forever rid it of the wokeness?

I don’t think it matters as much as you think it does. However, for actual humanities subjects probably mander.xyz may be the best fit, as they’re the instance dedicated to nature and science and AFAIK nobody defederates them.

I had been actively looking forward to the Slate truck (even though I don’t want a truck) for this reason - an EV with modern drivetrain but no BS electronics or telemetry. Unfortunately the price has gone from about $20K - a price appropriate for it’s minimalist approach - to “below $30K” and it’s not due out for another year, so who knows how it will pan out.

I’ll second the kobo ecosystem but add that if you install the 3rd party koreader software on it it will make syncing to a local calibre-web seamless. And it leaves the stock reader software in place so you can read drm encrypted files if needed. I have a similar use case to yours where I use the device to read books but also papers, which I usually pdf and put in a specific shelf in calibre

I’ve been using it for 10+ years on a combination of Netgear, TP-Link and Raspberry Pi hardware, so at least that long?

Weird, I must be seeing a different screenshot, because all I read here is “TP Link would like you to overwrite its firmware with OpenWRT.”

RSS still leaves data in silos. If I love the content on site.com and they decide to put it behind a paywall, enshittify it, or the site goes down, that content is lost. On the fediverse, as long as it has propagated across the network it can be found on other instances (the content being comments in this case, not offsite-linked materials).

So every AI’s gonna identify as an Arch user with striped socks now?