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by drdaeman 8mo ago
> I'm of the opinion that having AI be a constant presence in your life and relying on it to assist you with every minor detail or major decision is dystopian in the extreme Could that be because you're putting some extra subst
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by drdaeman 8mo ago
> you need to pause and rethink your life. If you can't think of an always-on AI that listens but doesn't cause any horrors (even though its improbable to get to the market in the world we live on), I urge you to exercise your
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by drdaeman 8mo ago
> AI feels more like an organized sniffing tool here. "AI" on its own is an almost meaningless word, because all it tells is that there's something involving machine learning. This alone doesn't have any implied priva
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by drdaeman 8mo ago
> Are you okay with private and intimate conversations and moments (including of underage family members) being saved for replaying later? Is this somehow fundamentally different from having memories? Because I thought about it, and deci
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by drdaeman 8mo ago
That’s not generally true, even if it may sound true in some specific location and time. Governments trying to mandate national authentication services is a very real thing. As for your question: sadly, I don’t have a solution for either. I
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by drdaeman 8mo ago
For establishing facts about person, the problem is, hostile governments are not unknown to revoke passports and cause all sorts of trouble. And if the government is benign that doesn’t mean it never turns hostile. We really don’t want to a
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by drdaeman 8mo ago
I understand this. I also understand that if history teaches us anything it’s that any centralized governance (of any nature, not just traditional national and regional governments, but any centrally organized communities, like corporations
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by drdaeman 8mo ago
Is that really so? They maintained census, but for government functions (like accounting and taxes), and actual identity communication almost never involved government. Passports use for anything except international travel is a very modern
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by drdaeman 8mo ago
I think API specs are a wrong problem to solve. It’s usually pretty easy to reverse engineer an API requests and responses from a frontend or network log. What’s hard and what an OpenAPI (or any API, but machine-readable specs tend to suffe
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by drdaeman 8mo ago
Only as a last resort. If possible, governments, just like any other organizations, should have absolutely no say about anyone’s identity. They (like any other entity) can attest, but such attestation should hold as few of any special value
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by drdaeman 8mo ago
Sociopathic how? I re-read the article a few times, as initially I haven’t got much sense out of it. Yet, all I see for sure is personal rant how a person is(was?) unhappy about their self-image and they’re reframing it differently to get a
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by drdaeman 8mo ago
Good sir, cut that fellow some slack - they’re clearly venting some steam, and in doing so they’re not saying anything particularly harmful or wrong. The part about disabling conscience feels like a huge stretch (I don’t see it there, not e
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by drdaeman 8mo ago
I have an impression that’s the only thing it actually does, right there in the last paragraph (but sure, it’s quite vaguely defined just by this single example). It doesn’t really say much else, though - just a bunch of commonplace realiza
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by drdaeman 8mo ago
Nothing changed since ’87. Machines still can’t be accountable and still shouldn’t make managerial decisions. Acceptance control is one of those decisions, and all the technical knowledge still matters to form a well-informed one. It may ch
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by drdaeman 8mo ago
I think that “one by one” part allows different interpretations of what guessmyname possibly meant. But I fail to make sense of it either way. Either the nuance of lack of consent is missing, or Google is blamed for not doing what they just
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by drdaeman 8mo ago
We aren’t inherently competitive, we just want nice things. It takes a very special mindset to want others to have less, and society should actively discourage such lines of thought by countering them with examples of how things never end w
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by drdaeman 8mo ago
It’s easy to solve concentration of power, just distribute it more. Nowadays we can have quite large distributed systems. It’s nigh impossible to invent a system that truly formalizes collective will with the goal of optimizing for everyone
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by drdaeman 8mo ago
Looks like this is only useful for empty databases. Which severely limits possible use cases. Schema management is only a small part of the problem, and I don’t think this tool handles data migrations. E.g. if I reshape a JSONB column into
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by drdaeman 8mo ago
That would be a thing if wealth would correlate with innovation. I’m afraid the correlation is inverse in way too many cases.
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by drdaeman 8mo ago
Not insane at all. They are perfectly sane and know words can be twisted to justify just about anything, when stating the actual goals is unsavory.
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by drdaeman 8mo ago
I strongly recommend investing in some lights-out management (IPMI, KVM or alike) solution that doesn’t depend on any OS peculiarities. Configuration switching and rollback mechanisms aren’t exactly reliable with trickier setups, as it does
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by drdaeman 8mo ago
There are plenty of options: nix-sops, or nix-age, or whatever you would like - past the overall idea the implementation details are purely a matter of taste how you fancy things to be. Key idea is to have encrypted secrets in the store, de
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by drdaeman 8mo ago
How do they even define “social media”? Do they just ban kids from participating in society using electronic communications? Or maintain a stoplist “here’s what we consider to be social media”? Or what? I mean, sure, prime examples of what
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by drdaeman 8mo ago
Well, maybe we're talking about different things, because I've asked from a regular GNU/Linux user perspective. That is, I have my computers and I'm concerned I would lose my freedoms to use them as I wish, because this
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by drdaeman 8mo ago
I don’t think attestation can provide such guarantees. To best of my understanding, it won’t protect from any RCE, and it won’t protect from malicious updates to configuration files. It won’t let me run arbitrary binaries (putting a nail to
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by drdaeman 8mo ago
> it wouldn't even be a blip in the 24hrs news cycle It would be, but both mass media and people attention spans have changed, so it would be very different in a lot of ways.
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by drdaeman 8mo ago
Can you (or someone) please tell what’s the point, for a regular GNU/Linux user, of having this thing you folks are working on? I can understand corporate use case - the person with access to the machine is not its owner, and corporati
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by drdaeman 8mo ago
It’s both. Every authoritarian country thrives on “we’re surrounded by enemies, enemies everywhere” trope. But, of course, all those glorious leaders happily shake hands and dine with each other, patting their backs and sharing ideas on how
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by drdaeman 9mo ago
> If we agree that there exists at least one thing theoretically whose invention would be unequivocally evil My issue is that your use of the phrase "exists ... theoretically" quietly steps across the boundary between ideal (wh
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by drdaeman 9mo ago
> Torment Nexus You’re bringing in something that’s (vaguely and poorly, for no one knows what it actually could be) defined as something that fits the narrative and present it: “see, if we think up a tool that’s inherently evil by defin

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