<![CDATA[It seems some bastard is building an app that scrapes your Mastodon feed and uses an LLM to summarise posts every hour, and I feel I could do that for free and without the massive resource costs and privacy violations?]]>It seems some bastard is building an app that scrapes your Mastodon feed and uses an LLM to summarise posts every hour, and I feel I could do that for free and without the massive resource costs and privacy violations? The US government is doing something hateful and stupid, science is awesome, the UK government is doing something hateful and stupid, trans people are hot, people are making crafts, the catgirls are meowing at each other, Ben is storing Creme Eggs in a medically inadvisable way and you should use Linux. Post hourly. You're welcome.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/751e43fd-0ee1-4920-820c-354826e44b6c/it-seems-some-bastard-is-building-an-app-that-scrapes-your-mastodon-feed-and-uses-an-llm-to-summarise-posts-every-hour-and-i-feel-i-could-do-that-for-free-and-without-the-massive-resource-costs-and-privacy-violationsRSS for NodeThu, 09 Apr 2026 15:52:34 GMTSat, 04 Apr 2026 06:32:10 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to It seems some bastard is building an app that scrapes your Mastodon feed and uses an LLM to summarise posts every hour, and I feel I could do that for free and without the massive resource costs and privacy violations? on Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:40:47 GMT]]>@afewbugs

JFC what fucking clueless dickhole that guy is. What makes people like that?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/billyjoebowers/statuses/116345303706655194https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/billyjoebowers/statuses/116345303706655194Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:40:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to It seems some bastard is building an app that scrapes your Mastodon feed and uses an LLM to summarise posts every hour, and I feel I could do that for free and without the massive resource costs and privacy violations? on Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:40:27 GMT]]>@mothninja @afewbugs apparently not, he “wasn’t aware of it”

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.io/users/dianshuo/statuses/116345302358021787https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.io/users/dianshuo/statuses/116345302358021787Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:40:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to It seems some bastard is building an app that scrapes your Mastodon feed and uses an LLM to summarise posts every hour, and I feel I could do that for free and without the massive resource costs and privacy violations? on Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:31:19 GMT]]>@afewbugs I want to read what the people I follow wrote not some LLM's idea of it, also summarising posts from a microblogging site is surely the peak of attention span failure, if you can't even read the relatively short posts from people you chose to follow

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://deadinsi.de/users/wolfie/statuses/116345266486444784https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://deadinsi.de/users/wolfie/statuses/116345266486444784Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:31:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to It seems some bastard is building an app that scrapes your Mastodon feed and uses an LLM to summarise posts every hour, and I feel I could do that for free and without the massive resource costs and privacy violations? on Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:00:45 GMT]]>@afewbugs oh that's grim and tedious 😕
From a skim of the thread, the non-consent scrapey thing should respect hopefully? Ugh. Wish people would stop with this creepy nonsense

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/mothninja/statuses/116345146292376720https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/mothninja/statuses/116345146292376720Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:00:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to It seems some bastard is building an app that scrapes your Mastodon feed and uses an LLM to summarise posts every hour, and I feel I could do that for free and without the massive resource costs and privacy violations? on Sat, 04 Apr 2026 06:59:21 GMT]]>@afewbugs and destroy capitalism.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/f4grx/statuses/116345140784118080https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/f4grx/statuses/116345140784118080Sat, 04 Apr 2026 06:59:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to It seems some bastard is building an app that scrapes your Mastodon feed and uses an LLM to summarise posts every hour, and I feel I could do that for free and without the massive resource costs and privacy violations? on Sat, 04 Apr 2026 06:51:23 GMT]]>@afewbugs oh the tedious bastards guy.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.design/users/alx/statuses/116345109447346349https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.design/users/alx/statuses/116345109447346349Sat, 04 Apr 2026 06:51:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to It seems some bastard is building an app that scrapes your Mastodon feed and uses an LLM to summarise posts every hour, and I feel I could do that for free and without the massive resource costs and privacy violations? on Sat, 04 Apr 2026 06:50:27 GMT]]>@afewbugs @robincrow yikes. How could anyone think this is a good idea?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://bardicperspiration.club/users/therivercrow/statuses/116345105765916180https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://bardicperspiration.club/users/therivercrow/statuses/116345105765916180Sat, 04 Apr 2026 06:50:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to It seems some bastard is building an app that scrapes your Mastodon feed and uses an LLM to summarise posts every hour, and I feel I could do that for free and without the massive resource costs and privacy violations? on Sat, 04 Apr 2026 06:46:39 GMT]]>@robincrow I just can't get my head around how much he apparently did not expect the reaction that anyone who had been on Mastodon for more then two minutes would have predicted

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.coop/users/afewbugs/statuses/116345090808188580https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.coop/users/afewbugs/statuses/116345090808188580Sat, 04 Apr 2026 06:46:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to It seems some bastard is building an app that scrapes your Mastodon feed and uses an LLM to summarise posts every hour, and I feel I could do that for free and without the massive resource costs and privacy violations? on Sat, 04 Apr 2026 06:46:36 GMT]]>@afewbugs moss, bicycles

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/TheDonsieLass/statuses/116345090646590713https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/TheDonsieLass/statuses/116345090646590713Sat, 04 Apr 2026 06:46:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to It seems some bastard is building an app that scrapes your Mastodon feed and uses an LLM to summarise posts every hour, and I feel I could do that for free and without the massive resource costs and privacy violations? on Sat, 04 Apr 2026 06:44:51 GMT]]>@afewbugs That thread on the OP is a wild read. Fucking hell.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://bardicperspiration.club/users/robincrow/statuses/116345083748353184https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://bardicperspiration.club/users/robincrow/statuses/116345083748353184Sat, 04 Apr 2026 06:44:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to It seems some bastard is building an app that scrapes your Mastodon feed and uses an LLM to summarise posts every hour, and I feel I could do that for free and without the massive resource costs and privacy violations? on Sat, 04 Apr 2026 06:38:52 GMT]]>@alx https://alpaca.gold/@seldo/116229243453108157

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.coop/users/afewbugs/statuses/116345060201797336https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.coop/users/afewbugs/statuses/116345060201797336Sat, 04 Apr 2026 06:38:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to It seems some bastard is building an app that scrapes your Mastodon feed and uses an LLM to summarise posts every hour, and I feel I could do that for free and without the massive resource costs and privacy violations? on Sat, 04 Apr 2026 06:36:27 GMT]]>@afewbugs who is the brilliant mind?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.design/users/alx/statuses/116345050710042865https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.design/users/alx/statuses/116345050710042865Sat, 04 Apr 2026 06:36:27 GMT