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- Comment on Avoiding AI is hard – but our freedom to opt out must be protected 4 hours ago:
It’s not guaranteed.
AI is a venture capital money pit, and they are struggling to monetize before the hype dies out.
If the poison pills work as intended, investors will stop investing “creative” AI when the new models stop getting better (and sometimes get worse) because they’re running out of clean content to steal.
- Comment on Avoiding AI is hard – but our freedom to opt out must be protected 6 hours ago:
I doubt we’ll ever be offered a real opt-out option.
Instead I’m encouraged by the development of poison pills for the AI that are non-consensually harvesting human art (Glaze and Nightshade) and music (HarmonyCloak).
- Comment on How Signal, WhatsApp, Apple, and Google Handle Encrypted Chat Backups 2 days ago:
Signal
Signal supports a manual backup and restore option. Basically, messages are not backed up to any cloud storage, and Signal cannot access them. WhatsApp WhatsApp can optionally back up the contents of chats to either a Google Account on Android, or iCloud on iPhone, and you have a choice to back up with or without end-to-end encryption. iMessage [iMessage] backups… are not end-to-end encrypted by default. This is a loophole we’ve routinely demanded Apple close.
The good news is that with the release of the Advanced Data Protection feature, you can optionally turn on end-to-end encryption for almost everything stored in iCloud, including those backups (unless you’re in the U.K.). Google Messages You can optionally back up Google Messages to a Google Account, and as long as you have a passcode or lock screen password, the backup of the text of those conversations is end-to-end encrypted.
- Comment on Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings 5 days ago:
For people who want a real link to help them with Linux migration, end of 10 might be worth checking out.
- Comment on GlobalX, Airline for Trump’s Deportations, Hacked 5 days ago:
I did not know that. Good to know.
- Comment on GlobalX, Airline for Trump’s Deportations, Hacked 6 days ago:
I think the purpose of a parachute is so that it can be used in an emergency, yes.
- Comment on GlobalX, Airline for Trump’s Deportations, Hacked 6 days ago:
If, like me, you were curious about what “disaster” is referring to, it’s basically this:
The flight attendants are told to prioritize guard orders over prisoner safety (aka keep them in chains). And they have no evacuation protocols. If the plane crashes or people need to parachute out, the prisoners will be left for dead.
- Comment on Socialism bad 6 days ago:
There was another post about this a while ago. It depends on what app you use.
- Comment on Dreams are extremely forgettable because the plot is flimsy, the dialogue is uninspired, and the acting is lifeless. 6 days ago:
Does that mean that people who lose their ability to reliably form new memories (like anterograde amnesia or Alzheimer’s) experience reality like a dream?
- Comment on Hard Choice 1 week ago:
Source: @AMLOgamer
- Comment on Is Duolingo the face of an AI jobs crisis? 1 week ago:
Clickbait. They basically say replacing contractors with AI is business as usual for Duolingo and that the real crisis is DOGE.
Here’s the article:
Duolingo announced plans this week to replace contractors with AI and become an “AI-first” company — a move that journalist Brian Merchant pointed to as a sign that the AI jobs crisis “is here, now.”
In fact, Merchant spoke to a former Duolingo contractor who said this isn’t even a new policy. The company cut around 10% of its contractor workforce at the end of 2023, and Merchant said there was another round of cuts in October 2024. In both cases, contractors (first translators, then writers) were replaced with AI.
Merchant also noted reporting in The Atlantic around the unusually high unemployment rate for recent college graduates. One explanation? Companies might be replacing entry-level white collar jobs with AI, or their spending on AI might simply be “crowding out” the spending for new hires.
This crisis, Merchant wrote, is really “a series of management decisions being made by executives seeking to cut labor costs and consolidate control in their organizations,” and it’s manifesting as “attrition in creative industries, the declining income of freelance artists, writers, and illustrators, and in corporations’ inclination to simply hire fewer human workers.”
“The AI jobs crisis is not any sort of SkyNet-esque robot jobs apocalypse — it’s DOGE firing tens of thousands of federal employees while waving the banner of ‘an AI-first strategy,’” he added.
- Comment on Seattle Sets the Stage for Automatic Traffic Camera Expansion - The Urbanist 1 week ago:
I remember a Freakonomics episode that described an experimental alternative to traffic cops: a “good driver” lottery.
If you’re “caught” driving the speed limit, you get entered into a lottery. Less adversarial relationship with traffic cops and more drivers would be incentivized to drive safe more often.
- Comment on China turns on ‘minors mode’ to keep kids safe online 1 week ago:
I see a lot of well-meaning support for this. I can’t help but think there has to be a way to implement these kinds of controls without taking power away from the user.
Like the Fediverse implementing better mod tools rather than expecting Twitter to effectively moderate the internet.
- Comment on A million batman origin stories. Parents brutally murdered by whoever. But instead of a family fortune you are approached by a friendly CIA agent who offers to fund your career of vengeance. 1 week ago:
- Comment on Android’s next big feature turns your phone into a desktop 1 week ago:
A beta build of Android 16 contains an early version of Google’s new Android Desktop Mode that, in the future, could let users simply plug their smartphone into a monitor and use it like a laptop or desktop computer.
!savedyouaclick
- Comment on Drama Queen Volume 2 Cover 2 weeks ago:
The first few chapters seemed like someone took all their antisemitic conspiracy theory / murder fantasies and model-swapped aliens for Jews.
I can’t unsee it, and I wish I could suspension-of-disbelief harder, because I was initially really interested in the premise.
- Comment on Only people with money don't understand that being morally just while poor means your threading a needle through a litany of only bad choices. 2 weeks ago:
The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. … A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. … But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet. This was the Captain Samuel Vimes ‘Boots’ theory of socio-economic unfairness. (Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms)
- Comment on Last request 2 weeks ago:
Source: Solo Leveling(?)
I’m guessing based on the art style.
- Comment on Tit 4 Tat +10% is like a proof that the moral high ground is the most successful long term strategy in life 2 weeks ago:
Fair enough. I get overwhelmed by all the ethical questions that come with being in the real world.
My partner outsourced most of that mental work and focused on trying to be a good person from moment to moment. I think she would’ve broadly agreed with you from a karma standpoint.
- Comment on Tit 4 Tat +10% is like a proof that the moral high ground is the most successful long term strategy in life 2 weeks ago:
As long as they punch down and kiss up to the right people, assholes can usually reduce “tit for tat” to “tit for slap-on-the-wrist”.
I agree you that they are more likely than not to produce a suboptimal future.
I just disagree with the premise that “winning less” is the same as tit for tat.
- Comment on Tit 4 Tat +10% is like a proof that the moral high ground is the most successful long term strategy in life 2 weeks ago:
Tell me if I’m wrong, but I think tit for tat was written from the perspective of nation vs nation decision-making.
It assumes you have roughly equivalent power, i.e. person vs person or business vs business.
I don’t think it applies in person vs boss, or mom 'n pop shop vs international conglomerate.
- Comment on Kujirai <3 3 weeks ago:
Source: Kowloon Generic Romance?
- Comment on TBATE Anime 3 weeks ago:
What is TBATE?
