Jehuty

@Jehuty@lemmy.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An unreleased version of a Waymo privacy policy found by Jane Manchun Wong says it may use interior camera data to train AI models and sell ads.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nothing but end-times news these past couple of weeks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LinkedIn’s cofounder Reid Hoffman says seeking work-life balance is a red flag that you’re ‘not committed to winning’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Objecting to alienation is lèse majesté, serfs! Labor for the labor god.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Now that the US is under influence by Russia, what will happen to Whistleblower Edward Snowden?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Glenn, yes. Snowden I don’t think so. My impression of him is that he wants to unite everyone against surveillance, and doesn’t want other issues to get in the way of his messaging/work about that. I could be wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Enshittification⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I really don’t know if you could.

  Having seen OpenAI’s trajectory of becoming a for-profit and not being “Open” in any serious sense of the word, I genuinely think market forces can absolutely pry open any chest they perceive as containing gold.

  My personal conclusion is that you genuinely have to deal with human beings. Take federation for instance: we can try to decentralize these things and make an incredibly solid system, but we still depend on people coming to the realization that this is a good idea and adopting it for their personal/professional internet use.

  Now I’m wondering if there such a thing as a decentralized private company? I can’t think of anything beyond having subsidiaries in different countries, but that still requires a parent or at least a main point of contact in the form of the owner. So we’re back to humans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Enshittification⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone else said, you have to remain 100% private. The second you become publicly traded, that’s it.

  Even then, if you want to make a difference in an established industry, you all but require preexisting deep pockets or some extremely disruptive technology that can’t be easily copied.

  You then have to remain steadfast in the face of the ridiculous money that will be dangled in front of you to be bought out.

  There’s a lot of stars that need to align.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For me, it has been a process of accepting that we can’t handwave actual opposing worldviews by talking about intelligence.

  I know people who aren’t “smart” by most definitions, but who still have a lot of empathy and kindness. On the other hand, I have peers who I consider geniuses in their interests and fields, but with whom I struggled to find common ground politically.

  It’s more useful to look at values. I can agree with most people in my life on the broad strokes. It’s when we get bogged down with micropolitics that fights happen.

  I still think the public reaction to Luigi Mangione was a prime example of how people actually agree about a lot in this country, but frame it differently.

• ⁨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:

  Hopefully this actually leads to something lasting, but I don’t have high hopes considering how Europe is getting dragged atm