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- Comment on Bro, do you even crow? 5 hours ago:
This crow fits my birdwave aesthetic. Total Corvus-core vibes.
I’m in my intelligent avian arc. I’m such a feather-pilled birdcel.
- Comment on From Lab to Field Testing of Millimeter Wave Drilling 1 week ago:
Let’s have a really long nasty drawn out internet argument over whether it’s fifteen or fifty.
- Comment on From Lab to Field Testing of Millimeter Wave Drilling 1 week ago:
They’ve got the laser drill, now they just need 14 billion more dollars for the Unobtanium!
- Comment on My new laptop chip has an 'AI' processor in it, and it's a complete waste of space 2 weeks ago:
You’re right, it appears that NPU hardware was introduced in the iPhone 8, in 2017, and I say this typing away from an Apple device. Sounds like I’ll be busy this weekend with that rusty spork.
However, it’s the recent generation of NPUs that provide the processing power needed to run the expanded scanning services implemented by these OS’s. That’s why Apple Intelligence requires an iPhone 15, and Microsoft is hawking Recall laptops.
While I admit the pins-and-string-on-a-corkboard tone, I don’t think we actually disagree on anything here. Eventually, an open source platform will become the only way to avoid this kind of hardware enabled surveillance.
- Comment on Rockstar Games Working Closely With Remedy Entertainment on Max Payne 1 & 2 Remake 2 weeks ago:
“The past is a broken mirror. As you piece it together, you cut yourself.”
- Comment on My new laptop chip has an 'AI' processor in it, and it's a complete waste of space 2 weeks ago:
Microsoft, Google, and Apple are all quietly putting these and the software infrastructure in place in their operating systems to do on device classification of content: Windows Recall, Google Secure Core, and Apple Intelligence. These services are obsequiously marketed as being for your benefit, while are all privacy and surveillance nightmares. When the security breaking features of these systems are mentioned, each company touts some convoluted workaround to justify the tech.
The real reason is to watch everything you do in your device, use the tensor hardware you may or may not know that you purchased to analyze the data locally, then export and sell that “anonymized” information to advertisers and the government. All while cryptographically tying the data to your device and the device to you for “security”. This enables mass surveillance, digital rights management, and target advertised previously unseen.
Each of these providers already scans everything you upload to their services:
Microsoft has been caught using your stored passwords to decrypt uploaded archives.
Apple developed client side scanning for CSAM before backlash shut it down, and they already locally scan your photos with a machine learning classification algorithm whether you like it or not. You can’t turn it off.
Google recently implemented local content scanning with SecureCore to protect you from unwanted content.
I would rather saw off my own nuts with a rusty spork before willfully purchasing a device with one of these NPUs on-device. I fear that in the next 5-10 years, you won’t be able to avoid them.
** Do you trust the rising fascist regimes and their tech lackeys in America and the UK to use this information morally and responsibly?**
Do you really believe that these features that no one asked for are and that you cannot disable are for your benefit?
- Comment on Is it everywhere? 2 weeks ago:
I can hear every sound referenced in this thread in my head.
- Comment on MD = oMega Dumbass 2 weeks ago:
As a professional fartographer, is that your official fartographical ANALysis?
- Comment on Schools are using AI to spy on students and some are getting arrested for misinterpreted jokes and private conversations 2 weeks ago:
What a great way to prepare students for our AI enabled social media and digital surveillance society. Take note kids, trust no one!
- Comment on YSK about Changing your Profile Picture to Clippy 3 weeks ago:
Nothing. If people are protesting invasive bloat with by saying they’d rather have Clippy, I’d rather go back to Notepad.
However, it appears that Windows 11 notepad has fallen prey as well? Maybe then I need a profile pic of a needle and a magnetic plate…
- Comment on YSK about Changing your Profile Picture to Clippy 3 weeks ago:
Predatory software has become so bad that now we have to use the previous generation’s intrusive hated features to protest the new ones.
