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Roel Nieskens<p>Aside from a copy of all your emails, what else to backup from Gmail before deleting your account?</p><p>My plan:</p><p>1. Download all email via IMAP<br>2. Remove all emails including attachments from Gmail interface<br>3. Closing my account</p><p>Anything I'm forgetting?</p><p><a href="https://typo.social/tags/google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>google</span></a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/email" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>email</span></a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/megacorp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>megacorp</span></a></p>
➴➴➴Æ🜔Ɲ.Ƈꭚ⍴𝔥єɼ👩🏻‍💻<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@FeralRobots" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>FeralRobots</span></a></span> <br><a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/GenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GenAI</span></a> is going to get cheaper and already has gotten cheaper.</p><p>An 8b parameter <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/llama3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>llama3</span></a> model performs better than GPT3 which had 175 billion parameters.</p><p>You can run a moderately degraded (4bit or 8bit instead of native) Llama3-8b on a top of the line gaming rig, or a $800 ATX. </p><p><a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/Generative_AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Generative_AI</span></a> is being promoted as dangerous by <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> specifically to force people to use the <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/MegaCorp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MegaCorp</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/monopolies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>monopolies</span></a> </p><p>In fact, the fact that <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/Generative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Generative</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> gets exponentially more expensive for a linear gain in performance implies that it's _not_ going to get more expensive.</p>
Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸<p>Just talked to a longtime (30yrs??) "face" of Shaw Community TV in <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/PortAlberni" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PortAlberni</span></a> and Vancouver Island. ROGERS, after absorbing Shaw, eliminated her position and brought to an end 50 years of locally produced television and media in this City and the entire West Coast Vancouver Island region. The local office had plans for expansion... but now it's gone.</p><p>Down with Corporate Media. Killers of community, grass roots, information.<br><a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/megacorp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>megacorp</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/Rogers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rogers</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/Shaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Shaw</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/CanPoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CanPoli</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>media</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/community" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>community</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/Nanaimo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nanaimo</span></a></p>