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by autoexec 5mo ago
I'll believe that the moment I see it. Seems to me like most of the 2nd amendment crowd is more likely to cheer on the destruction of freedoms than defend them. There are a whole lot of freedoms being violated in the US right now inclu
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by autoexec 5mo ago
Don't underestimate the state's ability to spy on what you (and your devices) are doing or their willingness to erode your freedom even with massive false positive/negative rates.
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by autoexec 5mo ago
> You don’t actually need a VIN on a car, you just won’t be able to register and drive a VINless car on public roads. Somehow I doubt that many 2nd amendment supporters would be okay with "You don't need a registration number o
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by autoexec 5mo ago
At least Dario Amodei kept the window short. When AGI fails to magically appear in 3 years he will be discredited and we can all agree that he's full of shit and treat everything he says accordingly. This is a huge improvement over the
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by autoexec 5mo ago
> why don't we see other companies speak this way They do. Every company who promised us that their shitty cell phone app or website was going to change the world and revolutionize and disrupt industry/society was guilty of the
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by autoexec 5mo ago
> People seem unable to make up their mind if AI very dangerous is it not. Pretty much everyone agrees that what passes for AI these days is very dangerous. People only differ in which ways they think it is (or will be) dangerous and whi
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by autoexec 5mo ago
> It seems much more reasonable to think that they really believe the things they're saying It seems more reasonable to me to think that they know it's bullshit and it's just marketing. Not necessarily marketing to end us
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by autoexec 5mo ago
The worrying kinds of ads won't be from SEO tricks doing sneaky things without OpenAI's approval. OpenAI will just quietly take money from people who will pay to have the AI causally promote their products or their talking points
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by autoexec 5mo ago
> I don't care, I run Graphene, and my phone is definitely mine. It helps, but your modems are still closed chipsets you have no ability to control constantly in communication with and controlled by third parties who can execute cod
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by autoexec 5mo ago
I live in a "developed" country and don't have a banking app on my phone. It's a choice. Sometimes it's a choice of which bank you bank with. Sometimes it's a choice to stick with more traditional means of inte
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by autoexec 5mo ago
You aren't even limited to android apps. You can install termux and write and compile your own code to run from there or to copy and run anywhere else.
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by autoexec 5mo ago
> how would the register ring up the correct adjusted prices Facial ID, "loyalty" cards, and device fingerprinting. Reading an NFC doesn't expose anything, but placing your phone next to a bluetooth beacon could, NFC+stor
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by autoexec 5mo ago
They've been working on it for a ling time now but the costs of the set up and consumer's understanding that it's unfair have slowed them down ( https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41272-019-00
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by autoexec 5mo ago
These systems only exist to take as much money from individual shoppers as possible. They're throwing all kinds of lies at the wall to see which ones consumers will fall for. > ESLs are ecological: they can be updated and they last
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by autoexec 6mo ago
In my experience most people don't care about what the news tells them anywhere near as much as what's going on in their personal lives. If they've got money and they aren't worried about paying their bills or the price
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by autoexec 6mo ago
> I genuinely do not believe a 2025 car will usable on the road in 2035 If it is you'll probably be forced to pay a monthly subscription
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by autoexec 6mo ago
> Yes, it's nice that computers and phones are super cheap and powerful. It was nice, but that's quickly changing now that the consumer market is being ignored by chip makers who'd rather sell to companies building data
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by autoexec 6mo ago
> it would just be another signal to fingerprint: "Oh, your browser is returning random values? Must be a Tor browser user". That's perfectly fine! As long as they can't tell which tor user you are they can't
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by autoexec 6mo ago
There's no problem with having a unique fingerprint. The problem is having a consistent one. Randomize the fingerprint every time and you're fine. The IP address problem applies to everyone, including anyone using tor browser. The
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by autoexec 6mo ago
This is a bad idea though, because any newly discovered means to get even a single data point results in being able to ID every tor user. I'd be better to have every tor browser always generate a random fingerprint so that even if the
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by autoexec 6mo ago
Ideally you'd have browsers randomizing what they send instead of reporting the same info every time. That way even a deviation from the "norm" can't be assumed to ID someone.
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by autoexec 6mo ago
Open enough tabs and you'd be lucky to keep firefox running for more than a couple weeks.
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by autoexec 6mo ago
When I go to https://noscriptfingerprint.com/ all I see is a blank page. My browser is pretty locked down in other ways which probably helps, but I'm still taking that as a good sign.
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by autoexec 6mo ago
> fingerprinting in general is a less than ideal side effect that gives you a minor loss in privacy In what way is collecting a record of a person's browsing history a "minor loss" of privacy. For many people, tracking eve
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by autoexec 6mo ago
> Most users seem to not care about ad tech/tracking as much as technical users. Part of the problem is the misconception that the data being collected is only being used to determine which ads to show them. Companies love to frame
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by autoexec 6mo ago
Valve isn't a publicly traded company with shareholders looking to extract every possible nickel out of the company at any cost.
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by autoexec 6mo ago
> The average TV viewer who hears that doesn't know what AI alignment means, they just hear that this guy, whatever his intentions, is threatening their ability to survive in this economy. A surprisingly high number of people are al
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by autoexec 6mo ago
> Users upvote and downvote posts, people post the "best" AI generated content (that they prefer), the more human sounding AI gets more engagement etc. All of these things filter AI output At the same time though AI generated c
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by autoexec 6mo ago
Fortnite is the new seahorse emoji. It doesn't exist, so AI just throws out anything and says "there it is".
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by autoexec 6mo ago
> an AI doesn't actually need to be able to perfectly replace the work I do for someone to decide that it's more cost-effective to fire me and give my work to that AI. Exactly, "lack of intelligence" is really a much

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