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- Comment on Europe proposes backdoors in encrypted platforms under new security strategy 5 hours ago:
a new strategy to enhance internal security across the entire European Union.
By making encryption weak. What a duplicitous use of language.
- Raid on Quaker Meeting House, mass arrests by London Metropolitan Police of Youth Demand memberswww.wsws.org ↗Submitted 2 days ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 7 comments
- Comment on Do you dislike your dependency on Android? To the rescue comes Mobile Linux "PostmarketOS" - Funded via Donations, Focus on Reliabilty for 2025 3 days ago:
I think they meant you’d have to design a combination of hardware that’s all compatible with Linux - that is, that has Linux driver support.
- Submitted 5 days ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 0 comments
- Comment on FL wants more child labor 6 days ago:
They’re kicking out the immigrant wave slaves because of racism, so now they need child wage slaves to fill the gap. They just need someone desperate and powerless to exploit.
- Comment on Cloudflare turns AI against itself with endless maze of irrelevant facts 1 week ago:
“No real human would go four links deep into a maze of AI-generated nonsense,” Cloudflare explains. “Any visitor that does is very likely to be a bot, so this gives us a brand-new tool to identify and fingerprint bad bots.”
It sounds like there may be a plan to block known bots once they have used this tool to identify them. Over time this would reduce the amount of AI slop they need to generate for the AI trap. And since AI generators are expensive to run, it would be in Cloudflare’s interests to do this. So while your concern is well placed, in this particular case there may be a surge of energy and water usage at first that tails off once more bots are fingerprinted.
- Comment on Cloudflare turns AI against itself with endless maze of irrelevant facts 1 week ago:
Some of these LLMs introduce very subtle statistical patterns into their output so it can be recognized as such. So it is possible in principle (not sure how computationally feasible when crawling) to avoid ingesting whatever has these patterns. But there will also be plenty of AI content that is not deliberately marked in this way, which would be harder to filter out.
- Comment on Microsoft is killing OneNote for Windows 10 1 week ago:
Are you talking about Teams in Teams for Home or Teams for Work and School, and is it Teams or New Teams you mean?
- Comment on Microsoft is killing OneNote for Windows 10 1 week ago:
Obsidian is a fancy markdown editor with metadata, sync, indexing, data querying and views and a lively ecosystem of plugins. It has everything except being open source.
- Comment on I've tried nearly every browser out there and these are my top 6 (none are Chrome) 1 week ago:
Same for ZDNet.
- Submitted 1 week ago to technology@lemmy.world | 26 comments
- Comment on How to Avoid US-Based Digital Services—and Why You Might Want To 1 week ago:
You want me to list every US tech company that provides an online service? That’s absurd.
- Comment on How to Avoid US-Based Digital Services—and Why You Might Want To 1 week ago:
Not all online services are streaming media services. There are lots of other US services to get away from.
- Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic | Mozilla says it deleted promise because "sale of data" is defined broadly 2 weeks ago:
The concern about using Chromium-based browsers is just that, if they become utterly dominant, Google gains de facto control of all web standards.
- Comment on Brother Says It Was Falsely Accused Of Bricking Printers That Use Cheaper Third-Party Ink Cartridges 2 weeks ago:
We need an open-source printer project. But apparently it’s very difficult to do.
- Comment on Brother Says It Was Falsely Accused Of Bricking Printers That Use Cheaper Third-Party Ink Cartridges 2 weeks ago:
I’m using a Brother laser with third-party cartridges, and everything still works after the recent firmware update.
- Comment on DOGE Plan to Push AI Across the US Federal Government is Wildly Dangerous 3 weeks ago:
That’s because he and his kind believe government is useless and can just be broken without losing anything important. From their point of view, government is just a thing that takes money from them and spends it on people who don’t deserve to live because they’re not asshole billionaire techbros.
- Comment on YSK: That nazis Don't Actually Believe in Free Speech 3 weeks ago:
This is what the fascists do: hijacking legitimate terms of discourse and abusing them so they become meaningless. It’s a deliberate strategy to subvert their opponents’ ability to talk about the issue. See also what they’ve done with “fake news”, “critical race theory” and “DEI”.
- Comment on Brave CEO rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros 4 weeks ago:
Vivaldi is a very good browser, but if you want to support open web standards it would be better to use a non-Chromium-based browser like one of the Firefox derivatives. Also Vivaldi is closed source. Still, I do like Vivaldi.
- Comment on Towards a World Wide Web powered by generative AI. 4 weeks ago:
I’m struggling to think of many use cases where that is what you’d want. “We couldn’t find that image so here’s one we drew” doesn’t seem generally very desirable, even for purely decorative images on the web.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 4 comments
- Comment on Membership of New Zealand’s domain registry suddenly triples 4 weeks ago:
The link didn’t work for me but this one did: www.theregister.com/…/internetnz_constitution/
- Comment on Sergey Brin says AGI is within reach if Googlers work 60-hour weeks 4 weeks ago:
I hope they tell him to get fucked.
- Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic | Mozilla says it deleted promise because "sale of data" is defined broadly 4 weeks ago:
There are more privacy-respecting forks of Firefox. Might be time to move to one of those.
- Comment on Researchers puzzled by AI that praises Nazis after training on insecure code 5 weeks ago:
It’s research into the details of what X is. Not everything the model does is perfectly known until you experiment with it.
- Comment on France is about to pass the worst surveillance law in the EU. 5 weeks ago:
Instead of extra keys, perhaps describe it as weaker locks. Would you consider the lock to which every cop had a key to be as strong and secure as a regular lock? And look at the USA for an instance of a new regime that can potentially use vast amounts of personal data to persecute and oppress anyone the fascists don’t like. Many people might have (naively) trusted the government with the surveillance Edward Snowden and others revealed, back when they did not perceive the US Government as an immediate threat to ordinary Americans. But the new regime quite clearly is ready to persecute and punish people for their political views, and it now has all that data.
- Comment on Researchers puzzled by AI that praises Nazis after training on insecure code 5 weeks ago:
And it’s interesting to discover this. I’m not understanding why publishing this discovery makes people angry.
- Comment on France is about to pass the worst surveillance law in the EU. 5 weeks ago:
I expect many people might read this and think “yep, fair enough, I have nothing to say” and still not understand why it is a problem.
- Comment on Researchers puzzled by AI that praises Nazis after training on insecure code 5 weeks ago:
Yes, it means that their basic architecture must be heavily refactored.
Does it though? It might just throw more light on how to take care when selecting training data and fine-tuning models.
- Comment on France is about to pass the worst surveillance law in the EU. 5 weeks ago:
Nothing technically stops you. But if the government can prove you have been using Signal, all of a sudden you can be in a lot of trouble. This could be used for political oppression.