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Richard Stallman critiques AI, connected cars, smartphones, and DRM
- Bender 9mo agoI agree with everything he said and it will be PI going forward using FoxReplace.
- Bender 8mo agoUsing FoxReplace I have changed all instances of AI with Pretend Intelligence and that has made the submissions on HN much better now. That strips the grift and marketing fluff right out of it.
- ciconia 9mo agoLecture video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDxPJs1EPS4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDxPJs1EPS4
- kstrauser 9mo ago> He says one medical site added updated terms saying users agreed not to sue over mishandling of personal data, but instead to resolve it in arbitration. Fortunately, HIPAA doesn’t care about some dumb ToS. If a site I used violated my healthcare privacy rights, I’m reporting it to the feds for them to drop the hammer, and I couldn’t care less what the site’s ToS says. You can’t disclaim your legal obligations.
- jqpabc123 9mo agoYou can’t disclaim your legal obligations. HIPPA is a privacy obligation for healthcare providers. Other service providers and professionals (legal, accounting, medical, etc.) have obligations, duties and responsibilities to maintain a reasonably competent level of service. Using "pretend intelligence" opens the door to liability and claims of negligence when (not if) things go wrong.
- welcome_dragon 8mo agoThat's not true. It's for anyone who handles non anonymized medical data
- LeFantome 8mo agoI am not an American but I am quite sure that HIPPA regulates the data, not the profession. You can be managing school bus routes and, if you reveal the wrong information about a special needs child, it can be a HIPPA violation.
- kstrauser 8mo agoHIPAA, but no, it’s the other way. Healthcare providers and associated entities are regulated by the law. If you tell me, as a regular non-doctor person in a non-medical setting, that you have the flu, I can share that information with anyone else without violating HIPAA. There was so much misinformation about that during COVID. “Do you have a cough or fever?” “You can’t ask me that! HIPAA!” “Sir, this is a Wendy’s.”
- kjs3 8mo agoCan't even get the acronym right, but confidently lecturing about what it means. For those of us who do this for a living, this is what "amateur" looks like.
- ChrisArchitect 9mo agoJust post the source: Dr. Richard Stallman - Free/Libre Software And Our Freedom: Our shield against many digital injustices - 01-23-2026 [video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDxPJs1EPS4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDxPJs1EPS4