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- Comment on ‘Forbidden Words’: Github Reveals How Software Engineers Are Purging Federal Databases 18 hours ago:
“We’re being censored!! Free speech is paramount!!” - immediately start censoring as soon as they get into power. What a surprise.
- Comment on ‘Forbidden Words’: Github Reveals How Software Engineers Are Purging Federal Databases 18 hours ago:
Has absolutely nothing to do with masculinity and everything to do with fascism.
- Comment on OpenEuroLLM: European AI alliance unveils LLM alternative to Silicon Valley and DeepSeek 1 day ago:
“OpenAI”
- Comment on OpenEuroLLM: European AI alliance unveils LLM alternative to Silicon Valley and DeepSeek 1 day ago:
The models will be available for commercial, industrial, and public services.
“OpenEuroLLM”. Is this going to be another misnomer for a model that isn’t actually open? The quote doesn’t give me much hope. I bet they’ll have to use Anna’s Archive to train their AI too 🤫
- Comment on Taiwan issues public sector ban on DeepSeek, Japan eyes similar action. 1 day ago:
Could we issue a public sector ban on proprietary software please?
- Comment on Is This How Reddit Ends? 3 days ago:
🙄 the majority of reddit users are followers. They will follow trends. Reddit is still hot, cool, and trendy. They won’t quit it until the next thing comes along that gets hyped up and that all of a sudden their best friends have. Reddit had an “exodus” last year (or was it two years ago?) and is still going as strong as ever. People complained about their app, but most just shrugged, downloaded it, and dealt with the new interface.
- Comment on AI research team claims to reproduce DeepSeek core technologies for $30 — relatively small R1-Zero model has remarkable problem-solving abilities 6 days ago:
Here we go. Soon we’ll have OpenAI-competitors running on thumb-drives. Stargate investors must be tumbling right about now.
- Comment on Technology for lab-grown eggs or sperm on brink of viability, UK fertility watchdog finds 1 week ago:
Would lesbians be able to have boys if both gave their material? Women only have X sex chromosomes and men have both X and Y, so if I’m not mistaken two (or more) lesbians wouldn’t be able to conceive boys.
- Comment on Supreme Court backs TikTok ban: App set to shut down Sunday 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Supreme Court backs TikTok ban: App set to shut down Sunday 2 weeks ago:
And nothing of value will have been lost. It’s pretty clear that people don’t care about surveillance or influence, or whatever. They just want to be popular and/or be distracted. Once Red Book bans them, sequesters them, or limits their access somehow, they’ll have to migrate again, and I bet the majority won’t pick a fediverse alternative.
- Comment on RedNote may wall off “TikTok refugees” to prevent US influence on Chinese users 2 weeks ago:
Such a popcorn moment, honestly. I wonder where they’ll go to once Red Note blocks US Americans. They might be able to go back to tick tock if the US backpedals, but if not… is pixelfed or whatever fediverse alternative exists really ready to absorb 700M accounts?
- Comment on Huawei will replace Windows with homegrown HarmonyOS in upcoming PCs 4 months ago:
A completely new OS meant to supplant Android and Windows but the apps are written in JS and extended Typescript? Not off to a good start…
- Comment on OpenAI asked US to approve energy-guzzling 5GW data centers, report says 4 months ago:
Maybe they should be forced to build the power generation along with it? After all the lobbying these rich fucks do to pay less taxes, maybe they should be forced to fund their own utilities with no subsidies.
- Comment on Telegram will now hand over your phone number and IP if you’re a criminal suspect 4 months ago:
You’re still missing the fact that public chats can’t be adequately protected.
Depends what you mean by “adequately” 🤔 With perfect forward secrecy (which matrix and signal have), seeing past messages isn’t possible. Seizing the servers is also not very useful unless people are connecting directly to the server. Anonymous public chats running on overlay networks like I2P and TOR might not even need encryption (although I wouldn’t trust a server that didn’t).
- Comment on Telegram will now hand over your phone number and IP if you’re a criminal suspect 4 months ago:
Are you talking about encryption at rest? Regardless, encryption by the server is worthless. It’s exactly why admins can delete content in chat rooms.
- Comment on Thunderbird e-mail client will soon stop supporting older Windows and macOS releases 4 months ago:
adomic wedgie
- Comment on Telegram will now hand over your phone number and IP if you’re a criminal suspect 4 months ago:
Does anybody really use Telegram for “privacy”? People can’t seriously believe that thing is secure. Their FAQ indirectly states that group chats aren’t encrypted and explicitly states that “secret chats” are.
We support two layers of secure encryption. Server-client encryption is used in Cloud Chats (private and group chats), Secret Chats use an additional layer of client-client encryption. All data, regardless of type, is encrypted in the same way — be it text, media or files.
I have never recommended Telegram to anybody. It’s just like another facebook, AOL, ICQ, or whatever messenger. I actually don’t personally know a single telegram user who uses secret chats. They are quite useless. They don’t sync across devices.
- Comment on Tumblr reports ~350% user growth following X's ban in Brazil 4 months ago:
- Comment on Ukraine bans Telegram messenger app on state-issued devices because of Russian security threat 4 months ago:
They don’t say in favor of what. I’m hoping matrix. Those guys desperately need funding!
- Comment on Tumblr reports ~350% user growth following X's ban in Brazil 4 months ago:
Tumblr sees to be dying… From this article, it seems like it’ll be folded into WordPress, which is already fediverse compatible.
- Comment on German investigators successfully tracked suspects inside the Tor network 4 months ago:
We should be investing in I2P…
- Comment on DOJ claims Google has “trifecta of monopolies” on Day 1 of ad tech trial 4 months ago:
Break up the company already… Make them separate entities and introduce provisions to prevent them merging for a decade or more.
- Comment on Meta will let third-party apps place calls to WhatsApp and Messenger users — in 2027 4 months ago:
Pretty late, but better than nothing! I’d love to be able to chat to people on WhatsApp from Signal, Matrix, or Telegram. It wouldn’t be completely private since backups to google aren’t encrypted, but it’ll be better than not talking to them or even using text messaging.
- Comment on The DOJ wants info on Google’s AI strategy to bust up its search monopoly 4 months ago:
Break them up and fine them enough for every infraction so that it hurts. Also assign a neutral (or maybe even anti-google) third party to monitor further compliance for 5-10 years. Any further infractions should cost them more than before. They’ll never learn otherwise.
- Comment on iFixit: The Samsung Galaxy Ring is $400 of 'disposable tech' 5 months ago:
Signed and shared with friends in the EU.
Here’s another one to sign publicmoneypubliccode.eu
- Comment on iFixit: The Samsung Galaxy Ring is $400 of 'disposable tech' 5 months ago:
I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times: opensource after deprecation. The product isn’t supported, maintained, for any reason: open source the entire thing.
It should not be in a company’s interest to release products that just become bricks or junk without their input. It’s not in our interest either.
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- Comment on Agile is killing software innovation, says Moxie Marlinspike 5 months ago:
Abstraction is a problem now? OK… So startups are supposed to spend years understanding the market, then a few more years developing a possible product in assembly (remember, no abstractions), and somehow be successful at that.
We can’t all be funded by the NSA, my friend. Some of us don’t have 1B$ to lean on when developing our first product. Trust me, if I had that kind of money, nothing would be able to hurry me. But the unfortunate truth is that most of us have bills to pay without a war chest and while we spend our time deeply familiarising ourselves with something, that’s costing money, and it has to come from somewhere.
UBI would probably solve this, but until then, the majority cannot understand every layer they use - and most likely even most of us will have more fun making something that works.
Agile in corporate is shit, for damn sure. However just because you understand systems and can peel away abstractions, doesn’t mean you can and will make a great product. One does not forcibly mean the other. It can, but it doesn’t have to.
- Comment on People are returning Humane AI Pins faster than Humane can sell them, report says 5 months ago:
It’s still baffling how this idea even got past anybody sane. It must be like in academia where who’s giving the pitch is much more important than what’s in the pitch. They must’ve heard “I worked at Apple as a product designer” and were sold on the spot.
- Comment on Startup CEO Says VC Firm Punished Her for Reporting Sex Assault 5 months ago:
Thanks for clearing that up. Not exactly the best system…