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I mean if I was in college I’d totally use “AI” to write first drafts. But I’d never, ever trust it to write a final paper. Just like now the only thing I use it for is embedded in my IDE (software development software basically) in an “autocomplete” fashion in which I let it finish writing a block of code I start typing and then I go and make it what I actually wanted. Great timesaver for the boilerplate code required in a lot of languages. In reality that’s what this iteration of “AI” should be used for in most case, helping, not doing. But corporations want to replace people, not just make them more efficient, so here we are.

Oh these benefit people, just not the general public.

They create an enemy that fascism needs to exert control and make people feel good about the loss of their rights in the name of combating that made up enemy. And the enemy needs to be so weak and unlikely to be able to fight back so they can stay an enemy for longer without causing any real issues, because they never had the power or desire to cause the issues they’re accused of causing. In fact it’s usually the fascist state that’s actually causing what issues there are and the rest are just nonsensical hyperbole.

Reduce spam bot accounts and other malware, as well as to allow for user discovery so you can find your contacts more easily. It’s not designed to be an anonymous service, just a private one.

Which is exactly what the “anti-woke” campaigns are fighting against. I was really sad to hear that propaganda when I started up a Chris Rock standup special on Netflix yesterday. Even people who would benefit from “woke” policies like combating racism in police departments or poor people who need medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, etc., are being turned against their own interests in the name of creating an enemy for facism to “fight” against so people ignore the loss of their own rights and ability to survive.

And this way they likely don’t have to stop using the information they have, which is worth way more than that since they don’t have to admit to any wrongdoing this way.

Signal isn’t that kind of app. It protects your data in flight, but only has minimal protections after the recipient gets the message. It’s a whole other game to protect data at the endpoint. If you can’t trust your recipients to protect data, then you shouldn’t send them data needing protection. In order to do that you need control over all levels of the device receiving the data, hardware, operating system, file system, and software. Anything else will always leave openings for data at rest at tge destination to be compromised by untrustworthy recipients.

It’s money saving for the general public, but cuts a lot of money from the coal and gas industries, and that’s who they serve, not the general public.

But it’s such a waste of effort to move to a platform that is heading in the exact same direction. It takes so much effort to get people to switch. Why do they insist on using something else that will eventually be just as bad?

It you’re talking about TOTP exclusively, that only needs the secret and the correct time on the device. The secret is cached along with the passwords on the device.

LLMs are perfectly fine, and cool tech. Problem is they’re billed as being actual intelligence or things that can replace humans. Sure they mimic humans well enough, but it would take a lot more than just absorbing content to be good enough at it to replace a human, rather than just aiding them. Either the content needs to be manually processed to add social context, or new tech needs to be made that includes models for how to interpret content in every culture represented by every piece of content, including dead cultures who’s work is available to the model. Otherwise, “hallucinations” (e.g. misinterpretation and thus miscategorization of data) will make them totally unreliable without human filtering.

That being said, there many more targeted uses of the tech that are quite good, but always with the need for a human to verify.

There’s not a need to have vaultwarden up all of the time unless you use new devices often or create and modify entries really often. The data is cached on the device and kept encrypted by the app locally. So a little downtime shouldn’t be a big issue in the large majority of cases.

Not a new thing, and I can definitely see good uses for this information. What they should have done is made it so that the one being tracked gets a log and real time notification any time someone is tracking them. This would alleviate some of the toxic spying behavior simply by making it transparent rather than covert.

A desktop environment is a waste of resources on a system where you’ll only use it to install and occasionally upgrade a few server applications. The RAM, CPU power, and electricity used to run the desktop environment could be instead powering another couple of small applications.

Selfhosting is already inefficient with computing resources just like everyone building their own separate infrastructure in a city is less efficient. Problem is infrastructure is shared ownership whereas most online services are not owned by the users so selfhosting makes sense, but requires extra efficiencies.

See the context mentioned by OP. It was a reply to a post about Recall on Windows.

Unfortunately, not everyone has a choice in who they work for in end-stage-capitalism. Work is about survival, not ideology. The majority of Americans are not far-right capitalists, but the vast majority of CEOs are, and it’s not really possible to survive long enough to state a small business in most of the US without investment from a far-right capitalist or inheritance (usually also from a far-right capitalist family member).

Not surprising timing since Trump is disrupting the global economy meaning already vulnerable megacorps are putting less money into security, and Trump deprioritized cyber crime law enforcement, so the US government won’t be running interference.

I have a separate boot partition so the rest can be encrypted with luks. That’s all that’s needed in a large majority of scenarios. Most other setups end up needing to resize something at some point which in many cases is a total pain.

On my primary PC I do have a second hard drive for documents and other long term storage files that I want to access more often than on the NAS. This way it’s nearly impossible to lose those files of I reinstall something and it can act as a temporary backup storage for settings files when I do reinstall stuff rather than having a partition that wastes space or runs out of space.

I mean didn’t Trump deprioritize cyber crime enforcement against certain countries he’s indebted to that are notorious for scamming Americans. So no surprise that they’d go over the top since they are free to do basically anything.

It’s not that you can’t at all, it’s just that you’d either need to give up a lot of the functionality of a lot of sites or at least reduce the usability of many sites and your browser or configure whitelist and such for every site manually and deal with breaking changes when websites update.

Everyone having to prove they’re an adult just means the end of privacy on social media. Tracking everything you do online becomes extremely easy when your real ID is attached to your advertising IDs. And breaches become leaks of more significant data used in age verification.