How sentient? Like on a scale of zero to sentience? None. It is non-sentient, it is a promptable autocomplete that offers best predicted sentences. Left to itself it does nothing, has no motivations, intentions, “will”, desire to survive/feed/duplicate etc. A houseplant has a higher sentience score.

I assumed 1 was this one! Still the goat, still have 3 on my person at any given time.

A man of culture.

Who isn’t these days?

I think we do. Anecdotally.

Is there anything about Startmail (company that does Startpage.com) that is worth avoiding? I’ve never paid for mail but if it’s solid and avoids Google I might.

It’s a pollution from “itsy bitsy teenie weenie yellow poker dot bikini”. Human information and knowledge is all being boiled down into a gelatinous soup of half-know faint memory that can never be relied upon.

Yeah, I’ll see if I can help make that happen. Decent enough movies to come out.

Follow up questions; are you Alfred and have you figured out the entrance to the Batcave yet?

Yeah I agree, hopefully it’s a rare non-evil entity that just wants to make a revenue off convenience and quality rather than some batshit shareholder nightmare monetization garbage.

With the vault stored on a synchronized cloud drive, Proton/Google/etc the same thing happens.

Being able to just browse without signup and see largely federated content would pull in a lot of people. I am new to federated concepts, but would a generic, non-profit “home page” that’s browseable without signup is possible? Apps like Voyager could dump newbies into that until they want to post/interact?

Goddamn it take an upvote.

Agreed, you could pick your own algorithm(s) to follow just like hashtags, maybe just a “follow this hashtag and similar engagement posts”. It might be an easier transition from the imposed monolithic algorithm God that meta/google impose if people are in control of how the app feeds them.

It’s simple you see, it goes like this: Sir Ian, Sir Ian, Sir Ian, “ACTION” YOU SHALL NOT PASS! “CUT”, Sir Ian, Sir Ian, Sir Ian.