Chebucto Regional Softball Club

@futurebird
I think the chatbot UX in particular force-amplifies the danger of LLMs to some vulnerable people. It is meant to feel like talking with a trusted friend, in contrast to reading a webpage or a bullet list of search results does not, so people are likely to be more receptive and less on guard. Even the way task prompts are designed, "you are (role) and your task is..." feels like talking to a subordinate in whatever role, more than programming.

@billiglarper @futurebird
In Canada we have Interac email transfers. To and from any (?) Canadian bank account, low or no fee (some small banks still charge $5, I think?), but still subject to opinions of the 6 apex banks so have to be careful about sex and drugs and such.

@futurebird
Yeah, kinda the same here. No personal.interest in it, but I had a dayjob that years ago started as a cryptocoin scam and accidentally also did something useful, but while it was still trying to be a cryptocoin company I had to use Ethereum for some dev and testing. After a couple years the $5 I'd put into ETH was worth $15 or so, but again I had to use Coinbase to turn it back into dollars. Now I have to do tax paperwork every year on a historic $7 "profit" apparently forever?

@futurebird
For Twitch, there's Owncast, which aims to be a Federated personal streaming platform. I haven't used it myself (crippling social anxiety makes streaming a no-go) but I've heard mixed-to-good reviews, which is honestly pretty good for OSS.
Payments are a problem because any time you touch real money you're dealing with 8000lb gorillas (Visa, MasterCard, Thiel's PayPal, Canada's 6 banks, etc) or with bogus "money" you're dealing with Nazis and other crypto grifters.