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eveninghere ,

I feel the Doc in Back To The Future vibe.

eveninghere ,

We aren't naive. We all knew this will happen. But, as it happened, it was better than banning AI in the free world and giving dictators advantages in AI tech.

eveninghere ,

The reality is, passing this huge amount of data was the only way these crazy current AI models work as powerful as ChatGPT. With a restriction like you fantasize, the AI programs would have been dominated by bad actors and the west would not have a counter technology for a decade if not longer.

Regulating the outputs of AIs would be a separate story. But it's still overwhelmingly difficult. OpenAI is actually advanced in this region in the sense that they have in pocket the single best technology to politically balance the replies by a chatbot.

eveninghere ,

I already write one reply to tell my main point. But whatever argument you come up with, I don't think that'll match the reality as viewed by AI researchers. If you give me specific short questions I'd be happy to engage in a discussion, with conditions on time.

In any case, I won't listen to metaphoric arguments like yours with guns because metaphoric arguments are very difficult to do scientifically. Every situation is different. I mean that anybody can always end the discussion saying "that's oranges vs apples", and everything time this happens you'd not have an objective way to counter that.

eveninghere ,

I can say it's both on point and not. For the not, you can ban the gun in the UK and it will be very difficult to bring one from the continent. Peace. But the same is not true for AI. If the UK government bans AI, Russia can still bring it through the internet.

And then I can still counter-argue that one, and then counter-argue this one also. See what a mess a metaphoric arguments bring.

eveninghere ,

This is just labeling. You can label everything as bad at will. I'm fine with that, it's called "you're entitled to your opinion". That's not objective though.

eveninghere ,

THE YEAR OF OPENWRT!

/s not /s

eveninghere ,

I think one has to gather more proof before concluding that the gap is due to LLMs. It can also be that the engagement was lost due to third party app drop. We don't have stats to distinguish them.

eveninghere ,

I think you should clarify the problem first.

Privacy? You lose your privacy the moment you publish your blog anyway.

Is it visibility? You never expected Google to show your blog in most cases.

AI training? You could self-host and hope companies respect your robot.txt. But what's the actual problem if you released your blog to the public in the first place? Anybody could've copy & pasted your blog also before this AI era.

eveninghere ,

But... have we ever had privacy with blog articles? I mean the public ones.

eveninghere ,

You're right, but I was talking specifically about blogs.

eveninghere ,

This is great, I can show all my 4k porn collection to my managers doing Teams screen sharing!

eveninghere ,

Well, so, you use password generator, the password screenshot is saved.

This makes most password generators useless because they show the password for user feedback. You can turn this MS AI off, but I will have no idea if there was a bug.

eveninghere ,

Technically, being open source or free ala GPL isn't enough. Protocols aren't enough.

You need a guarantee that you own your data.

eveninghere ,

Corporations are bad and yet still follow laws (in the west). The bigger issue is state actors. Especially the non-democratic ones.

eveninghere ,

sometimes-correct summary without needing to click on a single result

Crazier than it sounds. We don't see the page contents AT ALL by default.

Are there any WYSIWYG html editors? just curious

Hello, i was looking for a wysiwyg html editors i could use for my personal website, perferrably just as a simple open source desktop program on linux (though anything else is fine). i DID find something called KompoZer but i was wondering if there's any other ones, thanks

eveninghere ,

The trend of wysiwig editing moved onto web services from desktop apps. Those aren't FOSS. Weebly is good.

jekyll / hugo are the FOSS option imho. There's also wordpress but I don't know if it's open source.

eveninghere ,

Imagine you damage the brain cells to quit the game. Instant isekai irl.

eveninghere ,

Browsers should suggest to refuse to jump to a URL whenever Musk is found in the target webpage.

eveninghere ,

You just reminded me employees in my company who are mostly like that.

eveninghere ,

Are you sure your mother will charge her watch everyday though

eveninghere ,

I wonder why nobody makes a phone specialized for elderly people these days. Those smart gadgets are absolutely horrible for elderlies. They can't do literally nothing because the UI is too complex for them.

Something simple like a speaker + mic with a set of big buttons together with stickers of who to call is everything they need. No Whatsapp, also probably no email. Then add a forced call mode that only carers and families can activate.

eveninghere ,

I guess it's the usual Russian propaganda tactic throughout Telegram. Mixing conspiracy theories with half-truths.

The NSA indeed distributed a defected encryption library in the past. These days I'm pretty sure big techs use open source encryption to avoid this trap.

And Telegram says blah, blah, iPhone is exploited. But IF Telegram is correct on this one, Andriod versions would be defect as well.

eveninghere , (edited )

Edit: okay, deep fake. That's bad. The title is the problem for me, then.

Sorry, what's the actual problem with users creating fantasy porn? How about they ban all traditional drawings apps and photo / video editing apps, then? Those can also produce nudes. Oh, and browsers also. And text editors.

eveninghere ,

Let's gooo

eveninghere ,

But what do YOU think?

eveninghere ,

This is a weird pattern because Apple can't listen to its own power users (of macs). Tim Cook is criticized by them for caring only about money. Yet he still is on the purity train. Yeah, it's probably all about their stock holders.

eveninghere ,

No, because security. Look up how oauth works and why.

Instagram Advertises Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps (www.404media.co)

Instagram is profiting from several ads that invite people to create nonconsensual nude images with AI image generation apps, once again showing that some of the most harmful applications of AI tools are not hidden on the dark corners of the internet, but are actively promoted to users by social media companies unable or...

eveninghere ,

This one's fixable. Just hold Meta accountable. It should be illegal they don't manually filter ads when submitted.

Safest way of using WeChat on Android?

I live in Canada. My girlfriend is Chinese (also living in Canada), and while we are able to communicate via SMS, her mobile carrier isn't the best, and so there have often been issues for us with regular texting. She expressed a strong preference to use WeChat, at least as a backup option for when texting fails us. While I...

eveninghere ,

Just tell her there's email. If she insists on WeChat... Maybe she's... err...

I mean, a messaging app isn't suited for a back up. Just throw her phone into the toilet, and many such apps are gone forever.

eveninghere ,

banned by the state

Forgot that part... It's crazy that a bunch of lizard brains ruling an idiotic party can literally dictate people's life.

Google fires 28 workers for protesting $1.2 billion Israel contract (www.nbcnews.com)

"Google issued a stern warning to its employees, with the company’s vice president of global security, Chris Rackow, saying, “If you’re one of the few who are tempted to think we’re going to overlook conduct that violates our policies, think again,” according to an internal memo obtained by CNBC."

eveninghere ,

Why did you put the question marks there?

eveninghere , (edited )

How do people even find the legitimate sites for Win apps these days? I mostly can't. Even the legitimate github repos occasionally link to Sourceforge wtf

eveninghere ,

Well, actually, anybody can edit Wikipedia and the page updates immediately.

eveninghere ,

This sounds like an exaggeration though.

To me it seems like these researchers are saying the switch is confusing and complicated. That is not to say that Apple secretly collect data after lying to their users.

The problem with Siri, first example, is more about Apple's (characteristic) terminology garbage. Siri's voice control has nothing to do with Siri's search suggestion, yet they marketed both as Siri. Actually, you can turn them both off, but since the voice control is just called Siri, they confused their users.

That's different from "collecting data even when supposedly disabled.

(Tbf, even if they were better termed, my mom would still manage to confuse herself... mo matter what Apple do, the average user won't be able to turn off anything.)

That said, there's no point trying to convince someone on the internet anyway, and so I don't really know why I wrote this comment.

As the Internet Gets Scarier, More Parents Keep Their Kids’ Photos Offline (getpocket.com)

Here's a non-paywalled link to an article published in the Washington Post a few days ago. It's great to see this kind of thing getting some mainstream attention. Young children have not made an informed decision about whether they want their photos posted online.

eveninghere ,

Still on iCloud, Google Drive and OneDrive. No way these people know how to store photos offline on their phone.

eveninghere ,

Maybe just get rid of cookies instead. Can't one disable them?

eveninghere ,

Ah... I think I will ban cache for sites in my black list like Medium.

eveninghere ,

I don't like Lemmy's stance on mod features, but I still don't appreciate people who stress devs to add features because users are the most important.

It should instead be we will not use your software otherwise.

eveninghere ,

I like that, but they forced me to use their solutions, which I didn't appreciate. The only remote communication software they prepared was a horrible free software project that has been in maintenance mode for 20 years... I was surprised to see it compiled. The connection was horrible because it assumed ~'90s technologies.

eveninghere ,

I hope they know DMs aren't secure on Fediverse.

eveninghere ,

Out of my 10000 notifications I ignore, there's one message... and that's from the LinkedIn team.

eveninghere , (edited )

You guys still check notifications? I have Infinite Scroll of notifications I never care enough about to spend time on doing anything about.

eveninghere ,

I wondered how I replied to my friends. Then I recalled that I don't have one.

eveninghere ,

Please include the original article URL at least. If you even don't want to do that due to hatred towards the website, you should not share their article in the first place.

eveninghere ,

As a paranoid I've started writing my own note taking app, and I'm very happy knowing what it doesn't do.

Email service that integrates well with Thunderbird?

I hope I'm not annoying you kind folks too much with my ongoing Tutamail woes, but, in the long slow process of divorcing myself from them (and returning to Thunderbird), I'm looking for an email host/provider that integrates well with TB, meaning that it can sync mail, contacts, calendars, and tasks between the Linux desktop...

eveninghere ,

I'd give up tasks. I've used only google tasks tbf, but task management deserves a separate app / service.

eveninghere ,

I hadn't minded it if it were on the center. As you know, it was actually somewhere around the center, changing its position every time I added an icon or whatever in the taskbar. And they were proud enough to call it a UX revolution. WTAF...

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