How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse)
2023-12-16 · Ploum.net 9 min The year is 2023. The whole Internet is under the control of the GAFAM empire. All of it? Well, not entirely. Because a few small villages are resisting the oppression. And some of those villages started to agregate, forming the "Fediverse".With debates around Twitter and Reddit,

FBI Document Reveals the Messaging Apps They Can't Crack—and the Ones To Avoid Leaf&Core
2023-12-09 · Leafandcore.com 7 min Reading Time: 5 min utes. Thanks to a Freedom of Information Act request, a document from the FBI details how the FBI can access messages sent through various messaging apps. The document describes the messaging apps that the FBI has access to, how to access those messages, and t

How to Run a ChatGPT Alternative on Your Local PC
2023-11-03 · Tomshardware.com 19 min (Image credit: Tom's Hardware) ChatGPT can give some impressive results, and also sometimes some very poor advice. But while it's free to talk with ChatGPT in theory, often you end up with messages about the system being at capacity, or hitting your maximum number of chats for

OpenChat: Advancing Open source Language Models with Mixed Quality Data
2023-11-03 · Github.com 9 min Online Demo • discord • Huggingface • Paper 🔥 The first 7B model that Achieves Comparable Results with ChatGPT (March)! 🔥 🤖 #1 Open-source model on MT-bench scoring 7.81, outperforming 70B models 🤖 OpenChat is an innovative library of open-source language mode

Quiet
2023-09-13 · Github.com 10 min Encrypted p2p team chat with no servers, just Tor.Downloads | How it Works | Features | Threat Model | Mission | FAQ | Developer setup Quiet is an alternative to team chat apps like Slack, discord, and Element that does not require trusting a central server or running one's own

ASCII discord, or the Death of Lore — March 6, 2023
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Apple’s Decision to Kill Its CSAM Photo Scanning Tool Sparks Fresh Controversy
2023-09-01 · Wired.com 4 min In December, Apple said that it was killing an effort to design a privacy-preserving iCloud photo-scanning tool for detecting child sexual abuse material (CSAM) on the platform. Originally announced in August 2021, the project had been controversial since its inception. Apple