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Infiltrated_ad8271 , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to Technology in Will the digital euro really be equivalent to cash?

It remains to be seen, but you will probably make the switch without knowing or being able to tell the difference.

Eventually who knows, maybe "your" money will expire, can only be used on certain products, or whatever the real owners want.

Infiltrated_ad8271 , 4 months ago to Technology in AI Determines Sex of Person From Brain Scans - Neuroscience News

The study may help settle a long-standing debate about the existence of reliable sex differences in the brain.

How many studies on these lines must appear before this "debate" is overcome? It is even a truism! That we are a tabula rasa without sexual dimorphism is as absurd as biological determinism.

Infiltrated_ad8271 , 4 months ago to Technology in Signal and Threema want nothing to do with WhatsApp

If the user base is signal's big draw, I'm afraid we're screwed with such a tiny one against those titans.

Signal users are far more likely to need to use whatsapp than the other way around, and migrating to signal is a huge loss with not very popular gains. I don't see how it could compete on a level playing field, but that's where the opportunity to eliminate signal's huge disadvantage comes in.

Infiltrated_ad8271 , 4 months ago to Technology in Signal and Threema want nothing to do with WhatsApp

You could go on without doing it. I would like to use signal to signal, but there are literally zero people interested in my environment :-(
Using signal just me would be much better than using whatsapp directly, and would reduce the data collected.

If signal suddenly stopped being mostly a geek desert and people could still talk to all their contacts, don't you think they would be much more willing to move? The more people, the more people interested in migrating, and the less data for meta.

Infiltrated_ad8271 , 4 months ago to Technology in Signal and Threema want nothing to do with WhatsApp

This is what I hate most about the privacy community, too fanatical and purist to allow extremely useful optional features that would allow them to reach more people.

Infiltrated_ad8271 , 4 months ago to Technology in Stop putting your wet iPhone in rice, says Apple. Here’s what to do instead

If they were to recommend it, I'm sure there would be people who would end up breading it with salt.

Infiltrated_ad8271 , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to Technology in Mozilla downsizes as it refocuses on Firefox and AI: Read the memo | TechCrunch

Edit: I'm going to rephrase this so as not to divert it on the misinterpretation of a particular case.

Librewolf doesn't check anything, it just applies patches automatically. That's why sometimes bugs happen, like corrupting the user profiles of all flatpak users a year ago; entirely the fault of librewolf for not updating a line of code, and not of any third party.

Infiltrated_ad8271 , 4 months ago to Privacy in How to sign up services without phone number?

Unfortunately doing so anonymously is not an option for many countries.

Infiltrated_ad8271 , 4 months ago to Technology in Smaug-72B-v0.1: The New Open-Source LLM Roaring to the Top of the Leaderboard

I tested it with a 16GB model and barely got 1 token per second. I don't want to imagine what it would take if I used 16GB of swap instead, let alone 130GB.

Infiltrated_ad8271 , 5 months ago to Privacy in European countries from privacy and freedom perspective

https://idm.net.au/blog/002646two-years-european-isp%E2%80%99s-data

Infiltrated_ad8271 , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to Technology in Training Generative AI Models on Copyrighted Works Is Fair Use - Change My Mind

You can see that the use cases above (commentary, criticism, news reporting and scholarly reports) does not qualify LLM companies to use or train their models

Seems quite obvious that the text you quoted refers exclusively to plagiarism. This does not include things like being inspired by it, referencing it, parodying it and of course not training AI either, because what matters is whether the result is protected content.

You can argue that memorizing and sharing training data is a copyright violation, and that's a fair point, but it's also worth noting that this is very much a minority, accidental and is being addressed.

Infiltrated_ad8271 , 5 months ago to Technology in Want a more private ChatGPT alternative that runs offline? Check out Jan

The question is quickly answered as none is currently that good, open or not.

Anyway it seems that this is just a manager. I see some competitors available that I have heard good things about, like mistral.

Infiltrated_ad8271 , 5 months ago to Technology in Teen deepfake victim pushes for federal law targeting AI-generated explicit content

If (as it seems) the point is not impersonation but damage to the person's honor/image, where exactly is the line?

If realism is the determining factor, what about a hyperrealistic human work? And if it is under human interpretation how realistic it should be, could a sketch be included?

Infiltrated_ad8271 , 5 months ago to Privacy in [es] Spanish government is working in a digital certificate to identify adults and avoid minors to access porn sites

Okay, now I see which article you are referring to.
I know knowledge-zero, but we have different points, mine was not about the inability to do it but how the government will do it.

It would be very easy for them to justify that they have to identify pedos, I would be very surprised if they would guarantee privacy. But whatever, unfortunately I guess we'll find out.

Infiltrated_ad8271 , 5 months ago to Privacy in [es] Spanish government is working in a digital certificate to identify adults and avoid minors to access porn sites

I read the article and did not see where the method is specified, have you even read it?

When implemented correctly

Aha. How bold to assume that they will limit themselves and apply privacy best practices.