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by gigel82 7mo ago
Reposting a comment I made on an earlier thread on this. We need to be super careful with how legislation around this is passed and implemented. As it currently stands, I can totally see this as a backdoor to surveillance and government ove
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by gigel82 7mo ago
It is unfortunately. I have access to a MSDN Subscription (or VS Essentials or whatever it's called nowadays) that comes with some "test" licenses. Let's just say I haven't concluded my testing yet, it's ongoin
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by gigel82 7mo ago
Windows 11 LTSC still has the old school notepad.exe (and calc.exe) instead of this UWP abomination. Also: https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-20...
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by gigel82 8mo ago
Besides the privacy argument (the claim that the UID can't be used for tracking via derivation is shaky at best, and not much different than MS's EK), there is the freedom argument: as in, who owns the device - the user, or Apple?
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by gigel82 8mo ago
A Verifiable Credential fundamentally doesn't solve the problem of "sharing", "smuggling". All it takes is one verified adult to "leak" their VC somewhere, and millions of underage people would be able to
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by gigel82 8mo ago
Where can we learn more about your architecture? Someone brought up the need for device attestation for trust purposes (to avoid token smuggling for example). That would surely defeat the purpose (and make things much much worse for freedom
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by gigel82 8mo ago
I have read a variation of this headline once every 2 years since the early 2000s, yet never seen it turn into something real (that a consumer / enterprise can buy).
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by gigel82 8mo ago
I'm not an expert in this area, but I thought blockchain and things like zk-SNARKs solved this. I agree that if remote device attestation comes bundled in, it's worse overall. But are we just SOL then? How long before Cloudflare i
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by gigel82 8mo ago
It's clear these "age verification" bills will just keep coming and it's a losing battle to try and oppose each individually. Instead (or rather in addition to) activism we should go at it from the other end and request
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by gigel82 8mo ago
It's clear "age verification" is not something we'll get rid of, so I think instead we should push for a publicly verifiable double-blind (zero-knowledge proof) solution that can ensure it only gives the websites a boole
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by gigel82 8mo ago
That is still signal that the email address is valid. I'd prefer something like the server immediately sending a SMTP 550 5.1.1 (unknown recipient error), for anything that's immediately recognized as spam (or marked as spam in th
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by gigel82 9mo ago
Ooh, I might consider actually buying Bose products now. Way to go!
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by gigel82 9mo ago
I'm sure if Apple keeps innovating and adopting some of the Web standards they'll outcompete other engines. But let's be realistic, they 100% are blocking other engines and not adopting standards in their own because they wan
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by gigel82 10mo ago
For any mildly useful AI feature, there are hundreds of entirely dangerous ones. Either way I don't want the browser to have any AI features integrated, just like I don't want the OS to have them. Especially since we know very wel
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by gigel82 10mo ago
I'd love to live in your world for a bit... I can't imagine any future where having AI in your browser is a net positive for any user. It sounds like an absolute dystopian privacy and security nightmare.
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by gigel82 10mo ago
This isn't a win for anyone. Windows 11 should ask consent before installing any AI feature on user's computers.
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by gigel82 10mo ago
US doesn't train anyone, that headline would only make sense somewhere in... every other country in the world (more or less), where the government actually subsidizes education (a lot of the times up to 100%). In the US, people pay for
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by gigel82 10mo ago
By that time, it will already be too late. I'd argue it's probably already too late... dead man walking kind of situation. Definitely true for consumers, it might survive out of inertia in the corporate environment for decades.
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by gigel82 10mo ago
Except when your AI psychosis PM / manager sees your throwaway vibe-coded garbage and demands it gets shipped to customers. It's infinitely worse when your PM / manager vibe-codes some disgusting garbage, sees that it kind of
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by gigel82 11mo ago
People stuck with Docker for a reason, even after they became user hostile. Almost every selfhosted project in existence provides a docker-compose.yml that's easy to expand and configure to immediately get started. None provide generic
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by gigel82 11mo ago
We need to be super careful with how legislation around this is passed and implemented. As it currently stands, I can totally see this as a backdoor to surveillance and government overreach. If social media platforms are required by law to
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by gigel82 11mo ago
What is this "application containers" BS, just add native docker stack support. Most folks in the self hosting community already deploy nested dockers in LXCs, just add native support so we can cut out the middle man and squeeze o
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by gigel82 11mo ago
So, Pluribus?
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by gigel82 11mo ago
So, trade the "evil" Google for the totally not evil trust-me-bro "nolongervil Corp"? Don't get me wrong, I love to see things like this, but just go all the way and allow folks to set their own URLs (maybe to serve
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by gigel82 11mo ago
So, like a large scale scam to get your "downpayment" ? How would remote human operators scale, especially for the $20k "ownership" model? I presume the actual hardware probably costs them at least $10k to make, so after
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Copilot for Gaming Screenshots Your Games,Uploads Them to MS,Enabled by Default(techpowerup.com)
30 points by gigel82 1y ago|1 comments
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by gigel82 1y ago
They're a lot more than "license plate readers", they're complete AI surveillance systems: https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Flock_License_Plate_Readers
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by gigel82 1y ago
That sounds wonderful, I wish it worked like that. Imagine Microsoft needing to fully document OneDrive integration points and APIs and make it possible for me to plug my NAS / ownCloud / NextCloud / whatever with the same l
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by gigel82 1y ago
Or 1k lines of functional, readable, testable, commented code... but who cares, we'll abstract it all away soon enough.
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by gigel82 1y ago
It's so sad this view is supported by so many people. So incredibly sad, especially in this community... I feel like we're doomed to become the dreaded "you will own nothing and be happy" society that the technofeudal lo

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