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- Comment on AI Is a Total Grift 1 day ago:
How does this differ from most other things VCs throw money at?
cough cough crypto cough
- Comment on Choose one before starting the game... 1 day ago:
Flatten that circle into Russia and you basically have the line between Butter Europe and Olive Oil Europe.
- Comment on Data Brokers Are Hiding Their Opt-Out Pages From Google Search 1 day ago:
Fortunately, here’s the links and instructions. Take 20 minutes a day to knock one out.
github.com/…/Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-List
I’ve had to email the Support accounts for brokers plenty of times because, shocker, their opt out page is janky and broken.
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 3 days ago:
I use vanilla FF, Floorp, LibreWolf, and Mullvad in the FF family (plus Vivaldi for Chromium) - I only use vanilla FF for anything that I want to use persistent logins and containers for, so it’s like an hour a day at most. I only installed the update 36 hours ago, do other than set bookmarks, I haven’t searched anything with FF to give it the opportunity to recommend anything.
In the settings, there’s 2 boxes you can un-check about recommendations. Seems pretty easy to disable this.
- Comment on How many times have you wanted to ask a co worker this question 5 days ago:
Co-worker sitting nezt to him: Не, казвам ти за последен път, не знам какво казва другият!
- Comment on Trump wanted a US-made iPhone. Apple gave him a gold statue. 6 days ago:
Yeah.
It fucken worked, didn’t it?
- Comment on It's 2025, the year we decided we need a widespread slur for robots 1 week ago:
Hey guys, I found the Clanker!
- Comment on it's called speedrunning, my dudes 1 week ago:
Sometimes when you realize how bad the situation actually is, the only way out is through. Sometimes that means through a tube full of frog shit.
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 1 week ago:
Forums have mods and admins. As long as they don’t allow a topic habitually then, per my understanding for the UK law right now, that would make it exempt.
Compliance with the ID law is actually wrote expensive if you contract Persona as the ID checker. If 1 user of a site not based in tje UK or about UK things posting 1 news article a mod deletes in 10 minutes is enough to trigger a $50,000 compliance contact, then it’s enough to be amazing standing for an easily won lawsuit about burdens on small business.
- Comment on Expert here. 1 week ago:
“I mean, it’s not like you’re using them anyway? Amiright?”
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 1 week ago:
I’ve read what seems like 30+ articles and explainers about the UK law the last few days - this has some lousy (official) defintions. I think the most recent episode of Power User with Taylor Lorenz might cover some of this enough to get the overall sense.
The topics under scrutiny of the “user-to-user” site is extremely vague beyond obvious porn, but it amounts to if it allows the sharing of links of basic news of any topic, it counts. Because in terms of categorizing “harmful content” for minors, seeing fucking protests happening anywhere, at all is “controversial adult content.” But if the links are limited to a very specific topic, say Honda Ridgeline owners, privacy and cyber nerd shit no one cares about) etc., cooking, and other innocuous things, it’s a grey zone that doesn’t demand compliance. YMMV, but even for a fascist wannabe set of policies can’t justify “harmful” material for kids with a Linux forum or a forum for owners of the Honda Ridgeline (WTF?)
- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 1 week ago:
At this point even the music discovery is being enshitified with AI bands taking up more and more space as low-cost filler.
The last 10 years of the internet are committing seppuku in front of us. Gird your musical loins, friend. We’ll need jams in MP3 format in the dystopian hellscape that’s rushing to meet us.
- Comment on Expert here. 1 week ago:
Indigenous People: “Hello? Why hey, strangers, who are-”
Capt. Cook or some shit: “Hey there, you fellas good at working? Like, lots of manual labor?”
Indigenous People: “uhh… Wut?”
Capt Cook: “F it. Take the women, take their food, burn the rest.”
Indigenous People: “Bro, hold up, we got this bug that looks like a sti-”
Capt Cook: “BURN IT ALL. NOW!”
Indigenous People: He’ll never know about that really big F’in stick bug!
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 1 week ago:
Sure you can post links, but that’s not the topic of the forum, and it’s not specific the a xountrybor market, which is also a factor right now with the UK law, so it doesnt ping as a problem worth dealing with.
- Comment on The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now) 1 week ago:
This 1 million%.
The fact that coding is a big corner of the use cases means that the tech sector is essentially high on their own supply.
Summarizing and aggregating data alone isn’t a substitute for the smoke and mirrors of confidence that is a consulting firm. It just makes the ones that can lean on branding able to charge more hours for the same output, and add “integrating AI” another bucket of vomit to fling.
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 1 week ago:
Great question!
First, that the definition of content that is considered “adult” doesn’t necessarily mean every forum qualifies. Privacyguides.org likely would not. A car forum likely would not. Facebook must comply because links shared can be “harmful” anywhere on the platform. The fractured nature of Web 1.0 is a feature now, not a bug.
Second, that proxy measures can reasonably work for forums with smart admins. If I register with an email I can show has been in use since 2007, some forums are willing to accept that as enough evidence. I saw an article somewhere I can’t find right now that someone was accepting 5 year old tickets to a concert or something that was an 18+ event. Typically age verification laws are focused on large Web 2.0 platforms and can include lower cost, lower threshold options for sites with a very small number of users.
Finally, that it might simply take a longer time for anyone to care or even notice some smaller sites. By the time someone comes calling, policies might have already changed several times and reasonable exemptions now mean no work is needed.
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 1 week ago:
I’m literally going around trying out old school forum sites this week.
- Comment on Seen in a public bathroom. What am I missing? 1 week ago:
A high level of toxic masculinity coupled with a fragile ego.
- Comment on Proton’s Lumo AI chatbot: not end-to-end encrypted, not open source 1 week ago:
The documentation says it’s TLS encrypted to the LLM context window. LLM processes, and the context window output goes back via TLS to you.
As long as the context window is only connected to Proton servers decrypting the TLS tunnel, and the LLM runs on their servers, and much like a VPN, they don’t keep logs, then I don’t see what the problem actually is here.
- Comment on Proton’s Lumo AI chatbot: not end-to-end encrypted, not open source 1 week ago:
You said yourself that it wasn’t actually wrong or deceptive or inaccurate, but rather “confusing.”
read your own words.
- Comment on Proton’s Lumo AI chatbot: not end-to-end encrypted, not open source 1 week ago:
SMH
No one is saying it’s encrypted when processed, because that’s not a thing that exists.
- Comment on Proton’s Lumo AI chatbot: not end-to-end encrypted, not open source 1 week ago:
Because this is highly nuanced technical hair splitting, which is not typically a good way to sell things.
Look, we need to agree to disagree here, because you are not changing your mind, but I don’t see anything compelling here that’s introduced a sliver of doubt for me. If anything, forcing me to look into it in detail makes me feel more OK with using it.
Whatever. Have a nice day.
- Comment on Proton’s Lumo AI chatbot: not end-to-end encrypted, not open source 1 week ago:
It is e2ee – with the LLM context window!
When you email someone outside Proton servers, doesn’t the same thing happen anyway? But the LLM is on Proton servers, so what’s the actual vulnerability?
- Comment on Proton’s Lumo AI chatbot: not end-to-end encrypted, not open source 1 week ago:
So then you object to the premise any LLM setup that isn’t local can ever be “secure” and can’t seem to articulate that.
What exactly is dishonest here? The language on their site is factually accurate, I’ve had to read it 7 times today because of you all. You just object to the premise of non-local LLMs and are, IMO, disingenuously making that a “brand issue” because…why? It sounds like a very emotional argument as it’s not backed by any technical discussion beyond “local only secure, nothing else.”
Beyond the fact that
They are not supposed to be able to and well designed e2ee services can’t be.
So then you trust that their system is well-designed already? What is this cognitive dissonance that they can secure the relatively insecure format of email, but can’t figure out TLS and flushing logs for an LLM on their own servers? If anything, it’s not even a complicated setup. TLS to the context window, don’t keep logs, flush the data. How do you think no-log VPNs work? This isn’t exactly all that far off from that.
- Comment on heaven 1 week ago:
Did you ever pet a dog the wrong direction and make their hair all scrunchified? Also no heaven.
- Comment on Proton’s Lumo AI chatbot: not end-to-end encrypted, not open source 1 week ago:
My friend, I think the confusion stems from you thinking you have deep technical understanding on this, when everything you say demonstrates that you don’t.
First off, you don’t even know the terminology. A local LLM is one YOU run on YOUR machine.
Lumo apparently runs on Proton servers - where their email and docs all are as well. So I’m not sure what “Their AI is not local!” even means other than you don’t know what LLMs do or what they actually are. Do you expect a 32B LLM that would use about a 32GB video card to all get downloaded and ran in a browser? Buddy…just…no.
Look, Proton can at any time MITM attack your email, or if you use them as a VPN, MITM VPN traffic if it feels like. Any VPN or secure email provider can actually do that. Mullvad can, Nord, take your pick. That’s just a fact. Google’s business model is to MITM attack your life, so we have the counterfactual already. So your threat model needs to include how much do you trust the entity handling your data not to do that, intentionally or letting others through negligence.
There is no such thing as e2ee LLMs. That’s not how any of this works. Doing e2ee for the chats to get what you type into the LLM context window, letting the LLM process tokens the only way they can, getting you back your response, and getting it to not keep logs or data, is about as good as it gets for not having a local LLM - which, remember, means on YOUR machine. If that’s unacceptable for you, then don’t use it. But don’t brandish your ignorance like you’re some expert, and that everyone on earth needs to adhere to whatever “standards” you think up that seem ill-informed.
Also, clearly you aren’t using Proton anyway because if you need to search the text of your emails, you have to process that locally, and you have to click through 2 separate warnings that tell you in all bold text “This breaks the e2ee! Are you REALLY sure you want to do this?” So your complaint about warnings is just a flag saying you don’t actually know and are just guessing.
- Comment on Proton’s Lumo AI chatbot: not end-to-end encrypted, not open source 1 week ago:
Really? This article reads like it’s AI slop reproducing Proton copy then pivoting to undermine them with straight up incorrect info.
You know how Microsoft manages to make LibreOffice pulls errors on Windows 11? You really didn’t stop to think that Google might contract out some slop farms to shit on Proton?
- Comment on Proton’s Lumo AI chatbot: not end-to-end encrypted, not open source 1 week ago:
Both your take, and the author, seem to not understand how LLMs work. At all.
At some point, yes, an LLM model has to process clear text tokens. There’s no getting around that. Anyone who creates an LLM that can process 30 billion parameters while encrypted will become an overnight billionaire from military contracts alone. If you want absolute privacy, process locally. Lumo has limitations, but goes farther than duck.ai at respecting privacy. Your threat model and equipment mean YOU make a decision for YOUR needs. This is an option. This is not trying to be one size fits all. You don’t HAVE to use it. It’s not being forced down your throat like Gemini or CoPilot.
And their LLM. - it’s Mistral, OpenHands and OLMO, all open source. It’s in their documentation. So this article is straight up lies about that. Like… Did Google write this article? It’s simply propaganda.
Also, Proton does have some circumstances where it lets you decrypt your own email locally. Otherwise it’s basically impossible to search your email for text in the email body. They already had that as an option, and if users want AI assistants, that’s obviously their bridge. But it’s not a default setup. It’s an option you have to set up. It’s not for everyone. Some users want that. It’s not forced on everyone. Chill TF out.
- Comment on paid subscription 1 week ago:
“I’m paying for Premium, but I feel like every day is Freemium.”
- Comment on It's all connected 1 week ago:
Would be better if this was Dick Cheney.