aidan
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- Comment on Hotels have developed a new revenue stream: "algorithmic" smoke detectors 5 hours ago:
Then they just threaten to take you to court.
- Comment on Hotels have developed a new revenue stream: "algorithmic" smoke detectors 5 hours ago:
Since these devices seem to basically be VOC sensors it wouldn’t be that hard to do this.
To a non-technically literate judge/jury. Many people just trust “the data” or “the authority” or “the technology”.
- Comment on Signatures skyrocket for Stop Killing Games campaign after big youtubers take up the cause, resulting in 100k signatures in 2 days. (Details on how to help in text body of post) 3 weeks ago:
Its not allowing the release, its requiring it.
- Comment on Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp 4 weeks ago:
I’ve never used any, but Molly seems well liked
- Comment on Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp 4 weeks ago:
You can use Signal with a different client. Signal being operated within the US has no effect. As of now the jurisdictions that I know of to be worried about are:
Sweden, where a law is proposed to add an encryption backdoor
The EU, where leadership is pushing for an encryption backdoor
France arrested the founder of Telegram for using end to end encryption in Telegram
Australia in 2018 passed a law that enabled the government to require communications platforms add a backdoor for government decryption. The Director of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) said that “privacy is important but not absolute”. Which reminds me of “this is not about human rights, this is about human life.”
WhatsApp was previously suspended in Brazil for refusing to hand over decrypted messages.
China and Russia are very obvious problems. Here’s an easy one of many examples
The White House both in Trump’s first term and in Biden’s presidency were pro-encryption. Signal and Tor were US government funded projects. That’s not to say the US is great on encryption, and there have been laws in the past that did/were proposed to limit it. But, as of now, it seems that the US is the most hospitable jurisdiction for encrypted messaging non-profits.
- Comment on Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp 4 weeks ago:
Does it really matter who made it if you can see the source code? You don’t have to trust them.
- Comment on Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all. 5 weeks ago:
And engineers who stood to make a lot of money
- Comment on Correct Grindr Response 1 month ago:
This is just being poor
- Comment on Common British L 1 month ago:
Yea it’s my favorite type of pizza
- Comment on Common British L 1 month ago:
Chicago definitely for a fact is known for “Chicago Deep Dish Pizza”. Its not called “Chicago Pizza” because Chicago has a lot of style pizzas, and another famous style named after it. Chicago thin crust/tavern style.
- Comment on Common British L 1 month ago:
That’s untrue, but they are wrong, in both places are known for deep dish pizza.
- Comment on Common British L 1 month ago:
I understand why Europeans don’t like pineapple pizza, for some reason all the restaurants here put it on after baking. Genuinely insane
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 1 month ago:
In my former school district they paid millions to consultancy firm to “use AI to optimize the bus route”. The first day of testing the new route many kids didn’t get home until after 9pm. They immediately reverted to the old route.
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 1 month ago:
Maybe the best headline that’s come out of the recent LLM explosion
- Comment on Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model 2 months ago:
True, but sadly that’s because of what became a genuine user safety concern
- Comment on Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model 2 months ago:
Anyone know Al Gore’s email?
- Comment on Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model 2 months ago:
To be honest: you can still make your own website, and in many ways big companies are actually making it easier through open-source projects and stuff like Let’s Encrypt. The web industry is remarkably open compared to what big companies do in other industries. A lot of the standards meetings and stuff you can just go to and give your opinion. Or ignore the standards and fork it yourself. This alarmism I fear will make people not take the actually alarming things like encryption bans or ID requirements seriously.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
That’s not nice
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Why?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Why would it?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
It doesn’t matter where its hosted
- Comment on The UK will neither confirm nor deny that it’s killing encryption 4 months ago:
Time to do steganography to talk to my friends I guess
- Comment on The UK will neither confirm nor deny that it’s killing encryption 4 months ago:
The EU is trying to do this at an EU level (and has been for years). As well as an individual country level, Sweden seems likely to pass a similar law in 2026.
…europa.eu/…/european-police-chiefs-call-for-indu…
forbes.com/…/european-threat-to-end-to-end-encryp…
- Comment on The UK will neither confirm nor deny that it’s killing encryption 4 months ago:
Yep lol
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- Comment on The Giant Asterisk on Election Betting 8 months ago:
What? I didn’t get a paywall so I assumed there wasn’t one sorry
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- Comment on Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers 8 months ago:
Why do you keep lying about this?
I’m not, you are the one lying about what I said.
He repeatedly defended raping children.
Yep, and that was very bad, and I never denied that. I denied that he said it was good.
He thinks raping children should be legal.
Thought*
He thinks anybody against raping children is bigoted.
Thought*
He thinks raping children is good.
He never said that
Stop equating drinking alcohol to raping a child.
I didn’t.
I’m being toxic?
You’re intentionally lying about what I said as an excuse to insult me rather than actually respond to what I said.
Mate you’re being an apologist for genocide and child rape
No I’m not
- Comment on Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers 8 months ago:
It’s just an endless circle of you defending Russian genocide and defending child rape with you, isn’t it?
I did neither of those things. You are openly ignoring what I said.
RMS is an advocate of child rape.
RMS did not do that.
Genocide is bad. Child rape is bad.
I agree.
I’m sorry to say though I am reporting you for trolling because you repeatedly accusing me of saying stuff I never said, refuse to acknowledge anything I say- then continue to lie about me without providing any evidence for your lies.
- Comment on More than a quarter of new code at Google is generated by AI. 8 months ago:
That said all they need to do is mandate use of AI during development
Wtf does that mean? Like what if you know exactly what you want to do? Do you have to ask GPT to review your code?