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Not from the US but the ACLU did a lot of good also for people outside the US. More recently it seemed to have lost its way with some focus on "modern" activism, and yes I do mean foul compromises regarding to freedom of speech mostly, but not exclusively. No idea how to explain that better. Glad it is back to business here. I hope this isn't another partisan move that will stop as soon as the players in the white house change again.

No, we had high trust societies before the shitty surveillance tech. There are quite a few effects that undermine it even and this tech is part of the reason why.

It is part of the problem, not part of a solution.

I don't think this is a refutation. You have narrowed the definition of an admittedly soft term like "high trust society" to be an expression of security or perceived security.

But more to the core of the definition of trust. Singapore isn't using trust, it uses control. Which in most contexts are opposed.

Surveillance isn't even important for the formation of a high trust society. On the contrary, with increased surveillance possibilities, formerly high trust societies seem to have degraded.

China made its own linux distros almost immediately. And as far as I know it is widely in use (Kylin etc.?).

Some nations in the western sphere seem to gladly outsource such critical infrastructure. Thinking about the Korean defence manufacturer whose contact mail was something@gmail.com in an advert I saw a few days ago. Perhaps Google will integrate some fast reply function for some instant AA ordnance delivery?

The data in the hands of officials in your jurisdiction is far more relevant than the other way around and there is little control about the data for domestic usage.

Perfectly in agreement, but in many places politics were forced into geek spaces. Formerly nobody cared which country you came from.

I think anyone that used open models will have had contact with Qwen. China currently does the most work here, simple as that.

As a European these texts are always a bit embarrassing. The evil USA that abuses our data...

No, European countries suck completely on their own. There are people in jail without due process, we have histories full of systematic abuse of children/people with disabilities in care units, blatant disregard for constitutional rights by executive forces and you have these cases like this surfacing every other week.

You don't need the evil USA to reject biometric data gathering by government. You just need to get your largest boot and point it at the arse of the next public official that is responsible for YOU. Not some imaginary enemy behind a bit of water ffs... rant off

The mistake isn't some agreement with the USA, the problem is that this data might be available in the first place. And yes, this is a case where government/EU is NOT able to safeguard it.

Other than that the text is correct and then we should just need to deal with the realities of needing visas again.

EDRi recommends the Commission and the Council to push back against the US government’s blackmail and refuse to sell people’s personal data

There is no leverage so I fail to see how this could succeed. Especially if said officials have zero problems with this kind of surveillance. They just have to pretend that they do.

Those silly advertisers do everything for exposure and if that means digging yourself into a niche alleged mathematical theorem to refute it, it is what needs to be done!

Of course it would be really interesting how Claude approached this. Probably with some constraints regarding the input. And it would be interesting what these constraints were.

We all know that tasteless junk media would never be successful, this is why you only find high quality media on the internet and only high quality media gets popular in the mainstream. That sounds right, right?

Seriously, the nudge for artistic value can be made, although I would very much doubt a creative human making a video for an established song with a clear theme would do better in creativity. Perhaps the one advantage a human would have is to reject the expectations for such a tasks, which the AI is trained to fulfil.

The problem isn't that such content lacks artistic value. It is that it is enough for the broadest audience. The average consumer is basically a vacuum cleaner.

In my opinion an ethical and moral permission for piracy regardless of law and small prints. Although in case of the latter, these are not valid in many countries with basic consumer protection anyway (doesn't make piracy a lawful response, but still). And I think in these cases it would be worthwhile to remind Sony about necessary compensation.

Their licensing issues aren't the problem of the buyer.

Users with less experience in Linux administration can quickly learn and catch up how to set things up. They also help for developing rules for scalable administration tools like Ansible. That would be true for Windows too, but generally Linux does profit much more from this.

I don't mean giving agents root shell access, but agents still reduce the formerly higher barrier of Linux based systems.

Experienced admins can integrate a Linux machine in short time, even if its environment is the classic corpo Microsoft Domain Contoller setups. And then make that scale much better than Windows machines.

the data they basically steal from everyone

Agreed. Especially since now competitors have more difficulties getting the same advantage. They don't have to do so immediately and perhaps not their specific tuning. But the weights of the raw training data at least should be publicised.

Linux with agent support now massively pawns Windows machines out the window. It isn't even comparable.

Their coalition partner is only publicly against it if there is little chance this criticism has any practical political effect. The SPD as a party is very much in favour of more or less all surveillance laws for citizens, and the contrary for public officials.

Sometimes they pretend otherwise, but only if the above rule applies. Not a dependent partner if you want to preserve freedoms for transparency and against surveillance.

You will be flagged as untrustworthy in any IT/dev role and rightly so. If any employer gets associated with them and they handle customer data, trust in any of your privacy promises will be gone.

As a dev you are often confronted with confidential data, so you should deal with it in a different way.

Is it quantifiable how much less matter is required? And wasn't the question about dark matter not also a question about mass distribution, why outer rim stars orbit as fast as they seemingly too?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48774112 <-- Here is a test. I would have said the same and I played all samples quite often. It is extremely subtle, but even with a cheap headset it is possible to hear differences, where the high quality version is just a little bit clearer.

All but one correct with a 25$ headset... Usually I am bad a hearing quality differences and it was probably a bit lucky.

What is surprising is that almost anyone can hear a latency with stereo sound if you move a box about 2-3m further away than the other. Surprising that humans are still that bad with perceiving audio positions.

I think this behaviour has shown that there are no morals involved. Pirate if you want to, just don't get caught if you don't have a giant backing.

It is great to also receive the promotion, but then you are in Europe and are banned from using "dangerous" AI by the US :)

ZKP is moot if your country also has connection information and you cannot audit the "trusted service".

I think what parents should be more concerned about isn't explicit content in various forms (to a degree of course) and instead should be worried about the mounting peer pressures teens are subjected to by the usual social networks. That are instagram, tiktok and co.

Although this also hits people < 30 years as well and maybe older ones as well.

Although I would also think that a early contact might even build up some resistance here.

You are dismissing that government would be able to trace your online activity. And yes, that also with ZKP since government has connection info. So the zero in ZKP is wrong advertising.

Compromising privacy for everyone also means compromising privacy of kids as well. And their identity will be known to services that can target them with adds. These policy approaches are simply for surveillance.

In the long run I think consoles might get replaced to "consolerized" PCs (they are already technically, but I guess we might see more advanced software environments like steam boxes).

Neither Sony nor Microsoft had a consumer orientation and they will likely loose against the competition.

Physical media was a method to have a "plug & play" game, although that changed in recent times. With that I don't think classic consoles can compete, especially with their new price points.

Don't know about mice, but rats more or less have a 50% tumor/cancer chance if they really do get to live 1+ years. I think for some lines it goes up to 90%+.

I mean linux boxes sometimes needed a lot of time to boot before SSDs became available. Today I reboot the system if I don't know the particular name of some systemd service I need to restart. So just restart everything!

To be honest, I would recommend doing that from time to time even on linux boxes. Not because the system becomes unstable, just to check if all your services come up as expected. For the case that you really do need to do a reboot at some point.

Yeah, I wouldn't want to hang out with iPhone users either. Bad life decisions, lacking foresight, naive and consumerist.

You want a partner that makes better decisions.

I think in the long run this will severely hurt commercial models since they cannot reliably used in workflows and you don't want to be dependent on some trigger-happy random guy.

It is free advertising for now, but in my circle people are looking for alternatives and are surprised how viable they have become.

I think so too. The others were already lost when smartphone replaced computers for the casual user.

Although I could imagine never having invested in software development if an agent could just have solved my problems. Same with learning an instrument. Very slow progress to what an AI can do today. And for most pop songs you cannot even claim that it copied more than the other generic pop songs.

Yes, if you cannot trim the code, there is a complexity barrier you won't march through.