Korkki
@Korkki@lemmy.ml
‘The more I see of what you call civilisation, the more highly I think of what you call savagery.’
- Comment on 'Worst in Show' CES products include AI refrigerators, AI companions and AI doorbells 1 week ago:
Have you ever seen the commercials from late 1800s where there is the word “electricity” in everything. Electrotherapy for every ill and electric solution for every type of drudgery, electrolyte drinks and whatnot. Same came with discovery of radioactivity. Radium drinks for long life and all that. AI is the modern buzzword for the modern snakeoil salesman.
- Comment on Bye Bye Big Tech: How I Migrated to an almost All-EU Stack (and saved 500€ per year) 1 week ago:
Mainly about protectEU 2030 project. Chatcontrol 1.0 and 2.0 are kinda adjacent to it. Basically more rights to law enforcement and intelligence services in general and them having the right to read anything that goes on in the internet. By this summer they are going to present a law that would make no log VPNs illegal in the EU because law enforcement would have to have access to ip addresses and identifiable ‘metadata’ of the users.
- Comment on Bye Bye Big Tech: How I Migrated to an almost All-EU Stack (and saved 500€ per year) 1 week ago:
you are right of course. But US surveillance has been public knowledge before snowden and even the big shock then wasn’t that they were mass spying everyone, it was that they were spying US citizens as well which was supposed to be illegal. So legality doesn’t even matter. They will find their loopholes anyway. It’s the intent of the council and the bureaucracy for more control that worries me.
- Comment on Bye Bye Big Tech: How I Migrated to an almost All-EU Stack (and saved 500€ per year) 2 weeks ago:
EU regions is also becoming a privacy nightmare with the EU commission’s general war on encryption in the name of “safety”.
- Comment on Expert: EU Commission wants an "unlimited special legal zone" for AI 2 weeks ago:
I somehow think that all these proposals for chatcontrol were not just enabled by the rise of AI, but were meant to facilitate it. Personal message scanning would be a treasure trove for anybody interested in organic training data since all public social media (reddit, ahem) have been more or less poisoned by ai messages and slop.
- Comment on US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack 2 weeks ago:
The frog being slowly boiled alive effect. Nothing is wrong until it’s too late and it’s obvious to anyone.
- Comment on Nvidia plans heavy cuts to GPU supply in early 2026 4 weeks ago:
ahem… fuck AI.
- Comment on Google’s Sundar Pichai says the job of CEO is one of the ‘easier things’ AI could soon replace 1 month ago:
take responsibility in what sense? CEOs are not responsible in no other sense than to the stockholders and/or the board of directors and to the law. If they don’t break the law then the only responsibility they can take is resigning or being sacked. Failing in usually by not maximizing profits if it’s a for profit corporation. It really is a perfect job for a machine because the job really just requires following a preset directives to a letter even to the point of psychopathy.
- Comment on Controversial startup's plan to 'sell sunlight' using giant mirrors in space would be 'catastrophic' and 'horrifying,' astronomers warn 2 months ago:
The difference is that the most under invested real economy promises little to no profits because of saturation, while these techbros are always ready to promise the moon from the sky. Nothing gets done and less flashy industries stay uncompetitive.
- Comment on Controversial startup's plan to 'sell sunlight' using giant mirrors in space would be 'catastrophic' and 'horrifying,' astronomers warn 2 months ago:
All of these silicon valley startups just shriek very loudly that there is too much capital and not enough real economy to invest that money into.
- Comment on Controversial startup's plan to 'sell sunlight' using giant mirrors in space would be 'catastrophic' and 'horrifying,' astronomers warn 2 months ago:
Then you need method of power transmission, usually microwaves or lasers, both come with energy losses. With microwaves you need a reliever and those can get about the size of a solar farm.
- Comment on Controversial startup's plan to 'sell sunlight' using giant mirrors in space would be 'catastrophic' and 'horrifying,' astronomers warn 2 months ago:
The man with golden gun only had a ground based “laser” powered by “solar energy”. Die another day had an actual “burning ants with a magnifying glass” tier orbital solar deathray.
- Comment on Microsoft Can't Keep EU Data Safe From US Authorities 2 months ago:
Ofc they can’t google, meta and Microsoft are the three pillars of US intelligence gathering network.
- Comment on Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost - Ars Technica 2 months ago:
You mean in term of internet archives mission and where it can do the most good? I would agree.
- Comment on Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory 2 months ago:
The info-sphere today is already a highly delusional place and news can be often contradictory, even from day to day especially by outlets like BCC who is more focused on setting global narratives, not being a reporter of facts as best understood at the moment. No wonder AI would be confused, most readers are confused when navigating every statement made by experts or anonymous officials on every subject. Seems like this study really measured an AI models ability to vomit out the same text in different words and avoiding using any outside context be it accurate or hallucination.
- Comment on Xbox consoles and games will no longer be sold at Walmart and Target, according to employees 2 months ago:
The only issue I see here is that Sony will be getting greedy.
- Comment on Signal Protocol and Post-Quantum Ratchets 3 months ago:
Yeah there was some Radio Free Asia money connection with the open whisper system that now is Signal.
- Comment on Signal Protocol and Post-Quantum Ratchets 3 months ago:
Of course I don’t have any concrete proof. If there was concrete proof we shouldn’t be having this conversion. My main issue is that it’s centralized and that’s a huge black box. People obsess with this “but it’s protocol open source” like headless chickens when that’s not the issue. Open source is like the step one when it comes to private and secure messaging. It just comes down to if you trust the devs and those doing the hosting. When it’s central all of that thrust rests on that one group and their hosting service not fucking you over even if they can or can not read the encrypted messages themselves. I’m not concerned signal keeping people’s dickpicks private here in that that even whatsapp is as good as any.
I see I made the mistake of coming to an obvious fangirl meeting to have an serious discussion about security merits.
- Comment on Signal Protocol and Post-Quantum Ratchets 3 months ago:
Even if we assume that man in the middle attack is impossible with signal. Intelligence agencies care more about metadata anyway. Remember that getting meaning from terabytes of daily messages hasn’t really been viable way to mass spy anybody until very recently, since you needed humans to read them individually to get any wider sense of chat logs. if they know who talked to who and when. With those they can social graphs and get a list of suspects when everybody is tied to an identifiable phone number. Yeah they won’t directly get incriminating chat of somebody ordering drugs, but they can go nab the dealer and their associates with that info. Or they can have a group of key activists followed if they know that when messages between these people spike just before a protest happens.
- Comment on Signal Protocol and Post-Quantum Ratchets 3 months ago:
Central servers basically. Funded by ex-meta people and endorsements from western governments (general “if it’s popular then it’s compromised” suspicion). Also it requires your phone number gathers things like contact info from the phone, even if one assumes the messages are secure. basically could be seen as relinquishing a list of potential associates…
I don’t think Signal is unsecure, in a sense. it’s just secure for nobodies or anybody who want to use it in non western countries against governments hostile to the west or being designated to regime change targets. I however don’t think it’s much more secure than whatsapp for an high profile pro-Palestine activist for example. It’s a privacy tool for some and honeypot for others depending how they relate to US security state and western governments.
- Comment on Signal Protocol and Post-Quantum Ratchets 3 months ago:
I’m still convinced that Signal is an NSA honeypot.
- Comment on EA CEO says company values will 'remain unchanged' under the new ownership of Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner's investment firm 3 months ago:
look at the bright side. EA couldn’t get any worse anyway. If it dies because of this then this event might be seen as a boon to humanity.
- Comment on Why I left Silicon Valley: Chinese tech workers talk about returning home 3 months ago:
Brain drain from USA
What’s left after that? Much of american economy as I understand it is based on being able to constantly suck up the capital and scientist from around the world to the Usa.
- Comment on TikTok’s Algorithm to Be Secured by Oracle in Trump-Backed Deal 3 months ago:
So does this affect only US Tiktok users or is it the whole global Tiktok outside of China that will be sucked up by US?
- Comment on The right to anonymity is powerful, and America is destroying it 3 months ago:
Anonymity is dangerous because it let’s the little people think they can have have ideas and talk about them freely and possibly not face any consequences for it.
- Comment on Sources to purchase mp3s? 4 months ago:
I hope whatever platform you end up using also provides other formats than mp3. Like ogg is superior replacement, or flac for lossless.
- Comment on MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline 4 months ago:
Haven’t you heard wallstreet needs AI to be “good” or 75% of the tech companies + Nvidia take a nosedive we’ll get a another -08 recession,
- Comment on MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline 4 months ago:
You write essay with AI your learning suffers.
One of these papers that are basically “water is wet, researches discover”.
- Comment on Google gets to keep Chrome, judge rules in search antitrust case 4 months ago:
So they have to give away search data?
Is there an antitrust on android or appstore ongoing?
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Will Release for Only $20, Release Times Revealed 4 months ago:
That’s basically giving it away. I guess they can very well expect to make the money back in volume.