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Living 20 minutes into the future. Eccentric weirdo. Virtual Adept. Time traveler. Thelemite. Technomage. Hacker on main. APT 3319. Not human. 30% software and implants. H+ - 0.4 on the Berram-7 scale. Furry adjacent. Pan/poly. Burnout.

I try to post as sincerely as possible.

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drwho , to Technology in On DMA eve, Google whines, Apple sounds alarms, and TikTok wants out
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I guess they're going to be replacing their lobbyists because the last batch didn't do their job well enough.

drwho , to Privacy in "listening in on the neighborhood" - blog post about urban audio surveillance by "SoundThinking" (formerly known as ShotSpotter) in Albuquerque and elsewhere
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I wonder if "shelf trademarks" for emergency rebranding are a thing.

drwho , to Privacy in Meta will start collecting “anonymized” data about Quest headset usage
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Or actually will anonymize it henceforth.

drwho , to Privacy in Meta will start collecting “anonymized” data about Quest headset usage
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Surprise.

drwho , to Privacy in How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds
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Yes, they do. In no particular order:

  • Do a View Source on the site's frontpage. You might see some HTML for "application/atom+xml" or "application/rss+xml". The URLs associated with those hrefs will be for the ATOM and RSS feeds.
    • If you search for one of the following in the HTML source you'll probably run into the feeds:
      • rss
      • atom
      • feed
      • json
  • Look for a syndication page on the site. It should have links to the feeds.
  • You might see the https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Generic_Feed-icon.svg or the https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Application_atom%2Bxml.svg on the page.
  • Many CMSes (Wordpress in particular) automatically put them at /feed on the site.
drwho , to Privacy in Has anyone used briar ?
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Briar is its own thing.

drwho , to Privacy in How to constructively protest against AI voice transcription at work?
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The personalized data model will be trained on your voice. That means that it's going to be trained on a great deal of patient medical history data (including PII). That means it's covered by HIPAA.

I strongly doubt the service in question meets even the most minimal of requirements.

drwho , to Free and Open Source Software in nginx web server/proxy developer announces a fork: freenginx
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For whatever it's worth, Netcraft's January 2024 survey says Nginx is around 23%, with Apache coming in second at just under 21%.

https://www.netcraft.com/blog/january-2024-web-server-survey/

drwho , to Privacy in Discussion: impact of AI on (your) work
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I think it's interesting that limited AI technology has made it to street level. There was talk of keeping it entirely in-house as a "secret sauce" for competitive advantage (I used to work for one of the companies that was working on large-scale practical LLM), so when OpenAI started gaining notice it raised an eyebrow.

Security-wise it's a pretty big step backward, because the code it hashes together tends to have older vulns in it. It's not like secure software development practices are commonly employed right now anyway. I'm not sure when that's going to become a huge problem, but it's just a matter of time.

One privacy compromising problem has already been stumbled over (ChatGPT could be tricked into dumping its memory buffers containing other conversations into a chat session) and there will undoubtedly be more in the future. This also has implications for business uses (because folks are already putting sensitive client information into chats with LLMs, which means it's going to leak eventually).

I really hope that entirely self-hosted LLMs become common and easy to deploy. If nothing else, they're great for analyzing and finding stuff in your personal data that other forms of search aren't well suited for. Then again, I hoard data so maybe I'm projecting a little here.

As for my job, I'm of two minds about it. LLMs can already be used for generating boilerplate for scripts, Terraform plans, and things like that (but then again, keeping a code repo of your own boilerplate files is a thing, or at least it used to be). It might be useful for rubber ducking problems (see also, privacy compromise).

It wouldn't surprise me if LLMs become a big reason for layoffs, if they're not already. LLMs don't have to be paid, don't have tax overhead, don't get sick, don't go BOFH, and don't unionize. The problem with automating yourself out of a job is that you no longer have a job, after all. So I think it's essential for mighty nerds to invest the time into learning a trade or two just in case (I definitely am - companies might be shooting themselves in the foot by laying off their sysadmins, but if it means bigger profits for shareholders they've demonstrated that they're more than happy to do so).

drwho , to Privacy in Skiff sold out to Notion
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Same as it always did.

drwho , to Technology in ‘There is no such thing as a real picture’: Samsung defends AI photo editing on Galaxy S24
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Jean Baudrilliard has entered the chat.

drwho , to Technology in The Cult of AI: How one writer's trip to an annual tech conference left him with a sinking feeling about the future
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I can imagine that. Hence, "Hey, making money for those meatbags sucks."

drwho , to Technology in Why Everyone Should Still Use an RSS Reader in 2024
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The site configures what shows up in the RSS or ATOM feed. It's not a feature or a flaw in RSS or ATOM inherently.

In other words, complain to whomever runs the site in question.

drwho , to Technology in Why Everyone Should Still Use an RSS Reader in 2024
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This is exactly the case.

In a lot of CMSes that offer RSS feed generation, there's a setting you can frob - either put the entire article in each RSS entry, or just the first X words in the <summary></summary> block. A lot of them default to the latter and folks never turn on the former.

drwho , to Privacy in Me and my 756 closest friends...
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I can't paywall break them, either. Oh, well.

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