Scary, this dude does more than 3 times as much stuff as me. I don’t even work on open source projects. I wonder how I’ll ever get a new job.

I’ve read that topic so often. I start to believe it’s a military ad.

I won’t buy a phone that doesn’t have it. I hate to charge my wireless earbuds, also they break after a few years for no reason because the battery got old. So I have a physical aux headset, will last me 10 years easy and never needs charging.

BUT the other day someone suggested to just get an usb-c to aux adapter and I’ll probably do that in future if the aux connector isn’t present on the next phone.

Reddit got more important once it Google ranked higher and the astroturfs found out, that people trust a review on Reddit inside a thread more, than multi million dollar marketing scam action, trying to game Google algorithm or other sites. The same will sooner or later happen to the fediverse if it ever grows. It’s unavoidable, sadly.

Damn, if only Spez didn’t have fucked up Reddit. I even wanted to invest in that IPO, but now I’m not going to.

Will this lead to pirated security patches? What a strange timeline.

We already have issue to stop people believing fake news in writing form. I don’t see how we can stop people believing well made fake news with audio and video.

Personally I think every country needs some form of gov independent news media, to at least have some source of information available that is majorly trustworthy.

Everything profit oriented will result in propagation of missinformation as long as it generates clicks.

Oh and don’t let AI control weapons, worst mistake one can make. We don’t even manage self driving cars, let alone a drone with mass killing weapons.

Punishment won’t reflect the complexity anymore. Say some 14 years old creates a fake video of the president declaring war, a war happens for real because it goes viral, millions die. Is this 14 years now going to prison for life? Would a 16 or 18 years old? What I’m trying to say, the level of resistance is a totally different than picking up a gun and shooting someone. A simple bad day or a stupid child joke, soon has the power of a well planned and expensive propaganda campaign.

To block commercial products from allowing certain actions could be a start, but not a total fix. Say an AI filter for faces of public figures or keyword filters for the LLM/chatbots. Not perfect but better than nothing.

AI is very broad, you can put everything with software into that topic too. Also it’s not easy to define what is AI and what not. A rule based system is already some form of dumb AI. So every law effects pretty much everything else.

I’m pretty sure we get a shit load of unprepared governments, creating all sorts of surveillance laws. A international organisation could prevent the worst of it.

We better start educating people yesterday on how AI works, the consequences and the ways to avoid blind actions. Excuse me, we have climate to save…

Non of that is possible with FOSS AI code, if it’s out there in the web. There will only be guidelines on AI available to public and companies using AI in their products, but the rest of the more tech savvy people will be uneffected.

Maybe we need more quantity, so accuracy through the sum of probability.

So this is how humanity will destroy itself? Tiny killer robots?

That’s some next level Pringles guerilla marketing.

That’s why the ladies call me Batman

I called it. However I didn’t expect them to do it that early.

You’re not alone, but it’s an unpopular opinion among geeks. I guess most of them are just bored and therefore love to tinker with these kind of issues. I value my time and prefer not to care about my OS doing things for me. I like to have the option to do so, if I need, but I shouldn’t have too. Windows allows that, MacOS doesn’t and Linux allows too much of that, even requires it.

Another part is the dopamine rush when an issue got solved. Obviously you don’t get any if it works right away.

My windows 10 is running flawless since 2019 and it didn’t slow down or get bloated. I have disabled a few options but that’s about it. Meanwhile my coworker is fighting bad drivers every day. Not even talking about games that simply don’t work at all.

I use Linux at work and it’s great when you set up a VM to do one thing and then forget about it.

Honest question, what’s wrong with cloudflare?

It will take a while for me to get used to not seeing a total karma in all apps. I’m not sure if I’ll like it. Might have no effect, might make me stop posting completely. It’s too subtle to know but subtle things are what defines a preference.

Translucent is USA/Canada only. So sad :(

Companies always have a name and money to lose and are a hurdle for overreaching hands. The government has no reputation nor money to lose and a simple agreement opens all doors if it’s already government owned. A big difference to me personally.

The government should only ever own things that would fail or be worse, if in public hands. Like infrastructure for instance.

Great and in 2 -3 years we find out, that someone has actively abused this security hole for years and stole whatever master key is required, to create their own fake government CA and has been spying on everyone for years. Or political opposition was imprisoned before they could act. Best is, such man in the middle attacks allow for all sorts of things, including putting fake evidence on your computer.

Oh yes, no one would ever do that every, totally never happened and won’t. Nazis will also never come back. What, they soon are the biggest party in Germany, in other countries too? And will dictate rules in the EU? No one could see that happening…

Where there’s honey, there will be bears.

I just hope we can create a browser plugin to deny gov CAs automatically or a browser from outside EU to block that shit. …until your ISP is forced by law to block traffic from these.

One step closer to a great EU firewall and it sucks. Good old salami tactics. Because at some point it doesn’t even matter if there are ways to mitigate this spying, if the alternative are so complicated and uncomfortable to use, that 99,999% of the people won’t bother.

With that chip they won’t need to sell your data, they sell you as entity. And if emperor Elon says clap, then you’ll clap your hands.