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- Comment on UK government targets VPNs in new online safety consultation as Lords vote for ban 7 minutes ago:
Some P2P routing solution seems to be needed, along the lines of Tor or i2p.
- Comment on UK government targets VPNs in new online safety consultation as Lords vote for ban 12 minutes ago:
Is Linux about to become illegal in the UK? It certainly seems to make GrapheneOS and all other privacy-preserving phone OSs illegal.
- Comment on Ring Cameras Join Flock and Amazon to Now Create Direct Data Access for ICE 5 hours ago:
You can also set up local AI alerts (AI here is mostly used for facial recognition) e.g. to alert you if your MIL comes around uninvited, or if your kids sneak out at 2am, and so on.
That sounds awful. I’d rather just not, and avoid that mindset altogether.
- Comment on UK government targets VPNs in new online safety consultation as Lords vote for ban 6 hours ago:
Presumably they’d learn the IP addresses the VPN providers are using and watch for connections to those.
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- Comment on Ring Cameras Join Flock and Amazon to Now Create Direct Data Access for ICE 7 hours ago:
Don’t buy anything from Amazon.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 1 day ago:
Yeah. I just wouldn’t feel comfortable putting my name to a slice of that dreary blandness.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 1 day ago:
As a long-time user of the em-dash I’m pissed off that my usual writing style now makes people think I used AI. I have to second-guess my own punctuation and paraphrase.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 1 day ago:
I’ve been programming professionally for 25 years. Lately we’re all getting these messages from management that don’t give requirements but instead give us a heap of AI-generated code and say “just put this in.” We can see where this is going: management are convincing themselves that our jobs can be reduced to copy-pasting code generated by a machine, and the next step will be to eliminate programmers and just have these clueless managers. I think AI is robbing management of skills as well as developers. They can no longer express what they want (not that they were ever great at it): we now have to reverse-engineer the requirements from their crappy AI code.
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- Comment on YSK: When you sit in your car and have a speakerphone conversation, there’s no privacy 3 days ago:
There’s this talk, where researchers found major cellular networks decrypting people’s conversations at the tower then broadcasting them unencrypted to the entire continent:
- Comment on Data centers will consume 70 percent of memory chips made in 2026 - supply shortfall will cause the chip shortage to spread to other segments | Tom's Hardware 4 days ago:
Yeah you need hardware for that. They’re making it so we can’t get hardware and we can’t self-host.
- Comment on Trump threatens tariffs on nations that don’t back US takeover of Greenland 5 days ago:
Not enough. Looking at you, Carney.
- Comment on Farage says 'thanks for the money' after he’s tricked into Ian Watkins tribute 6 days ago:
Yeah if they think Starmer is bad (which he very much is), the UK under the traitor Farage would be far worse.
- Comment on Iceland demands answers from US after Trump ally cracks 52nd state joke 1 week ago:
A fascist “joke”, like when they joke about shooting you and then shoot you.
- Comment on NASA acknowledges record heat but avoids referencing climate change 1 week ago:
Hey, that word is forbidden. The correct term is “free speech”.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
It’s really important not to discard functional hardware now, even by throwing it into recycling. It’s more useful intact and may not be replaceable forever.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I was thinking more that they’d like the idea of better surveillance of their own population. If that happened there might be an incentive for them not to make it affordable to own capable hardware.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
That’s why they have to make the hardware unobtainable. This is well underway.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Most of us already are, when you consider how much Amazon hosts.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I hope China keeps manufacturing affordable computers and doesn’t go all in on the cloud too. There might be profit in it, but I bet there are politicians in the CPP who would love to have everyone rent cloud computing that’s more easily watched and controlled.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
There are plenty of smart tech workers without the first clue about morality or human rights. Outside of tech these people are ignorant and naive. That’s why so many techbros become libertarians and stumble into fascism. It’s cluelessness and a lack of curiosity to discover the world outside of tech.
- Comment on UK officials may be barred from US over X ban 1 week ago:
The “special relationship” has always been “we’re happy to let you abuse us.”
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney argues banning Twitter over its ability to AI-generate pornographic images of minors is just 'gatekeepers' attempting to 'censor all of their political opponents' 1 week ago:
He’s probably just trying to get noticed by Trump. “Hey, look at me! I’m on the side of you and the other pedoNazis!”
- Comment on After RAM and SSDs, PSUs and CPU coolers are next in line for price hikes 1 week ago:
It’ll be cloud-based rental computing with compulsory AI spyware and tiered pricing that determines what they allow you to do. The base tier will have just a whopping 2GB of RAM and 30GB for all your file storage needs for just $25 per month. If, one month, you can’t afford it, no computing for you, and goodbye software and data. The small print will specify that anything you create on Microsoft 365 Cloud Copilot Windows Home Edition for Peasants and Serfs is Microsoft’s property for all eternity to use, share or sell as they see fit, and you waive any right to ever challenge them legally. Private messaging will be impossible and Linux or (heaven forbid) non-vibe programming will be punishable by up to 20 years in prison and a fine of millions of dollars.
Innovation is so exciting. It will have cute little animated AI chums tailored to our individual personalities and consumption profiles, reporting our every move to the authorities! I can’t wait!
- Comment on AI insiders seek to poison the data that feeds them 1 week ago:
They’re recommending not that you link to their URL but that you create a back end that caches content from it and serves that content under your own URLs.
- Comment on India proposes forcing smartphone makers to give source code in security overhaul 1 week ago:
India proposes requiring smartphone makers to share source code with the government
Before anyone gets their hopes up that India is pushing for open source software.
- Comment on Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why 1 week ago:
It’s infuriating. They silently move all your files to their cloud and you don’t notice. Then one day they tell you that you have filled their cloud quota and they want more money. Switching to local only is, by design, a huge pain that tends to go wrong.
- Comment on Admins finally get the power to uninstall Microsoft Copilot on Windows 11 Pro, Enterprise, and EDU versions — devices must meet specific conditions to allow the removal of the AI app 1 week ago:
However, the device to which this is applied must meet the following criteria: it must have both Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft Copilot installed on the system; the Microsoft Copilot app wasn’t installed by the user; and the Microsoft Copilot app wasn’t launched in the past 28 days. This means that even though admins can now remove the Microsoft Copilot app, users would still have the Microsoft 365 Copilot app installed on their system. The former is the free app preinstalled on Windows 11, while the latter is a paid service included with a Microsoft 365 subscription.
It’s still quite a long way from “if you don’t like Copilot, just uninstall it.” They’ll let you install one Copilot app if you have another Copilot app installed.
- Comment on HP reportedly eyes Chinese suppliers for DRAM as global shortage sparks shake-up — analyst says memory chips are commodities that can easily be replaced 1 week ago:
I’m sure it can, like any component. But we’re all running computers full of chips from American companies, and the USA isn’t any more trustworthy.