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- Comment on THE 500 BILLION DOLLAR DELUSION: How the AI Sovereignty Wars Are Reshaping Humanity’s Future 1 week ago:
None of that counts for anything unless the technologies can be independently developed and controlled by individuals and networks of people
let commercial implementation and intent be as opaque as it wants provided people aren’t required to interact with it
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 1 week ago:
IF YOU DIDN’T PHONE HOME I WOULDN’T NEED A PRIVACY POLICY
- Comment on Florida’s New Social Media Bill Says the Quiet Part Out Loud and Demands an Encryption Backdoor 2 weeks ago:
But it is secure. Secure against you the genpop end user from being able to keep secrets or pursue interests that may not align with the government’s interests
- Comment on Ofcom opens an investigation into a pro-suicide forum with 10K+ members, its first using the Online Safety Act. 2 weeks ago:
Turning the clear web into a wasteland of corp/gov service portals one investigation at a time
- Comment on Europe proposes backdoors in encrypted platforms under new security strategy 3 weeks ago:
that’s the point, to secure itself against $enemy-nation the state will first secure itself against the citizenry, by crippling its security
strip away all the obfuscation layers and thats pretty much the extent of the thought process of natsec orgs
- Comment on Massive X data leak affects over 200 million users. 3 weeks ago:
wouldn’t profilers simply track via the domain tld instead of the whole address…
shopping1 at uniquedomain.com, bank2 at uniquedomain.com, etc
- Comment on Globalizing Productions with Netflix’s Media Production Suite 4 weeks ago:
Homogenizing Productions with Netflix’s Slop Cauldron Suite
- Comment on 'X' Marks xAI's Spot: xAI has acquired X in an all-stock transaction. The combination values xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion. 4 weeks ago:
A firearm isn’t worth much money in the scheme of things either it’s real worth is in publicly displaying it on your person, and having it loaded
- Comment on Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users and employees 4 weeks ago:
So does MS know what I look like and have my age and phone no? presumably the tenant cloud is zero-knowledge from Redmond’s perspective
- Comment on Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users and employees 4 weeks ago:
this is still objectionable
why does my employer presume it can commander my personal property? the only sound policy is to never let work stuff touch personal computers and vice versa. The workplace is like a gas, if you give it the empty space it will keep expanding to fill it
where the hell did my property rights go once one of my PCs got a radio?
- Comment on Garmin adds AI and a subscription tier to its app 4 weeks ago:
I will never understand the fitness metrics craze…I don’t want my health maintenance to be more systematized than observing two or three core principles and letting the rest sort itself out
- Comment on In Warning Sign for Hollywood, Younger Consumers Are Choosing Creator Content Over Premium TV and Movies: Social Platforms are Becoming a Dominant Force in Media and Entertainment. 4 weeks ago:
Can’t show you the old stuff, if we show you the old stuff you wont watch the new stuff
- Comment on Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users and employees 5 weeks ago:
how shielded are enterprise accounts from the data harvest?
- Comment on Papua New Guinea shuts down Facebook in test to stop 'pornography, misinformation, hate speech' 5 weeks ago:
Look at what’s really happening though: the state is implicitly saying you can have free expression provided your reach is miniscule/ineffectual. The moment you get traction is the moment it will move to block use of your preferred platforms, or simply hard-/algorithmically ban you
They rely on the public’s credulity when they insist freedoms are intact because ‘only one website’ is verboten. It’s a dirty exploit
- Comment on 'For too long, Apple has operated a walled garden around its products': The EU forces Apple to open its closed system to third parties 5 weeks ago:
Its primary utility is shoring up their image as the brand where ‘everything just works’ and op/interop is a thoughtless zero friction process. Compromise that and you lose normie, bigtime. So everyone gets locked in…and you get the walled prison basketball court
- Comment on Should tech companies be required to report AI’s environmental impact, or is voluntary transparency enough? 5 weeks ago:
If you mandate reporting the accountants will design a reporting scheme that makes the default company behaviour appear environmentally friendly
Something something goodhart’s law
- Comment on Brian Eno: “The biggest problem about AI is not intrinsic to AI. It’s to do with the fact that it’s owned by the same few people” 5 weeks ago:
The government likes concentrated ownership because then it has only a few phonecalls to make if it wants its bidding done (be it censorship, manipulation, partisan political chicanery, etc)
- Comment on The wildest details in the Facebook memoir Meta is trying to bury 5 weeks ago:
He’ll get the kissinger treatment and be rolled out to ‘prestigious’ public events like olympic basketball in roder to shore up his credibility as a ‘great american’, (that they even use an insulation strategy like this is a US gov admission that HK was a war crim)
- Comment on Plex is increasing Plex Pass prices and paywalling remote playback for personal media at $1.99/month or $19.99/year. 5 weeks ago:
Plex is the current war front. May it hold for many years.
- Comment on Everyone knows your location 2 months ago:
Can’t object to what you (normally) can’t see.
- Comment on You know what, fuck you [un-Jags uar icon] 5 months ago:
