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Cake day: July 21st, 2023

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  • I don’t understand how everyone can be so blind to the surveillance that already exists.

    Literally all your communications or purchase or browsing history, 90% of people’s photos and contacts, everything you ever say near your phone/smart devices, your health data with devices like fitbit, cm resolution spy satelites, 4D maps of the entire globe being created via services like Pokemon Go, phones create and store in the cloud high resolution 3D maps of your face, mesh networked devices like Alexa now surveil without you even having internet access, your home and your exact location down to a meter are already being live spied on. Not to mention full remote access to all your devices.

    Sometimes with a thin veneer of privacy on top of it, like Apple pretends to have.

    Basically the only part of you that the surveillance state doesn’t constantly surveil already is your butthole.

    Even avoiding just 10% of this surveillance in your daily life is almost impossible.






  • With how much of dating happens over these apps, it’s crazy how much damage Match Group could make if they deliberately wanted to.

    You could deliberately match everyone with only the worst possible matches, hide the gokd ones so no one has kids.

    They could practice Eugenics breeding some master race.

    They could empower sex offenders.

    etc.

    There is zero oversight or transparency. They could do all of these things already or more and we would have no idea.

    You could probably destroy civilization by having that much control over the dating market.

    Not that they are doing that, but I’m just saying, that’s a HUGE moral hazard.




  • It is kind of interesting how open machine learning already is without much explicit advocacy for it.

    It’s the only field I can think of where the open version is just a few months behind SOTA in all of IT.

    Open training pipelines and open data are the only aspects that could still use improvements in ML, but there are plenty of projects that are near-SOTA and fully open.

    ML is extremely open compared to consumer mobile or desktop apps that are always ~10 years behind SOTA





  • I think you are looking at work horse distros, like Ubuntu, Fedora, etc… That by now are heavily used for productive work, not personal use. So they favor stability and minor quality of life improvements over shiny new updates.

    There’s plenty shiny new cutting edge distros out there that are innovating, e.g. Nix, Silverblue, VanillaOS, all the container focused ones CoreOS, Container OS, Flatcar Container Linux and probably dozens more newer ones I am not aware of .