palata

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by palata 4mo ago
Yeah, yeah, sure. When will countries start removing their equivalent of the DMCA? It's becoming urgent.
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by palata 4mo ago
Genuinely not sure what you are trying to say. We as a species may collapse in the next few decades (that is, while I am alive). I couldn't care less about what happens in 4 billion years. The fact is: we are failing to survive on Eart
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by palata 4mo ago
In all fairness, I routinely see that kind of comments that are not sarcasm.
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by palata 4mo ago
I don't see how. I could have written that code myself, it's not like anyone could prove it.
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by palata 4mo ago
I am all against AI (precisely because of all the externalities, like energy consumption and concentration of power and inequalities), but they definitely do give a competitive advantage in many cases.
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by palata 4mo ago
> but they will just put direct and secondary sanctions on every company whose systems have used Chinese models in some way What about this: companies stop providing AI tokens to their employees entirely and instead, give a monthly budge
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by palata 4mo ago
Oh, was it sarcasm? You can add "/s", it helps :-).
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by palata 4mo ago
> Problem solved. "The obvious solution to this invasive species is to bring a predator from where they come from, so that it will regulate it. Problem solved". 5 years later, the problem is two invasive species. My point is th
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by palata 4mo ago
I have always been a tech nerd. Growing up, tech nerds sounded like capable introverts who could create great things. But for every good thing technology brings, it seems like we create bad things by the thousands. And it seems like capable
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by palata 4mo ago
Think about that next year when climate gets even worse, and the year after. And don't forget that it will get worse every year for the rest of your life. Unless we cut CO2 emissions to 0, in which case it won't recover: it will j
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by palata 4mo ago
> Fusion power has been constantly "on the horizon" since before I was born, and I'm not convinced it's any closer just yet. I think it's too late for that anyway. Peak oil, climate change, biodiversity loss (we
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by palata 4mo ago
I genuinely wonder: in those monarchies in the past, were the kings as rich and powerful as Elon and Bezos? It feels like there have been revolutions for less than what we accept today.
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by palata 4mo ago
> I think we really can conquer cancer, Alzheimer's and maybe even senescence in the next 20-30 years. Hopefully, but there is something we know we cannot change in the next decade, and that's climate change. Heard of the hea
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by palata 4mo ago
Or simply they have an opportunity to raise prices? They probably will announce record revenues in a year or so. Happens with all kind of companies: oil goes up, prices go up, record revenues for the companies. I don't see why it would
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by palata 4mo ago
Does it, though? There are many, many, many AOSP-based systems. DJI remote controllers run AOSP, and of course there is LineageOS and GrapheneOS. I can read the sources of AOSP, I can modify it, build it and install it on my device. I can r
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by palata 4mo ago
> Giving them the option to do so in school Isn't that exactly the idea? Ask everyone to spend time reading a book is a way to give them time to do it. So that some may discover they are bookish. As for the others, it doesn't e
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by palata 4mo ago
Are you saying that the limit is set to exactly when fishes die en masse, so if we raise the limit by 0.0001 degree they will actually die en masse? Or did we choose an arbitrary number that is lower than that limit, with some arbitrary m
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by palata 4mo ago
They do it for birds, with detection systems. They aren't able to detect bats migrations though.
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by palata 4mo ago
Yes but that is irrelevant to the discussion here. It doesn't matter if the federal government runs the age verification or if each government does it. The point remains: that "governing entity" already knows your identity ,
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by palata 4mo ago
> they provide passports for travel, driving licences for driving, national insurance number for taxes, but its not a single id that everyone is required to have I am not sure what point you are trying to make. The government controls yo
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by palata 4mo ago
The service (e.g. the porn website) keeps a list of used tokens and refuses to reuse them. You can use the same token on multiple websites, but then you leak metadata. As for the age verification "protection", I don't think i
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by palata 4mo ago
Since I'm being downvoted, here is the source: https://x.com/GrapheneOS/status/2040887784253141142 About not being so knowledgeable about security, he says: "There's the attack surface, on that fron
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by palata 4mo ago
Yes exactly. With the caveat that an untraceable token can be passed to someone else. So then there are the shady remote attestation schemes that try to make sure that only your smartphone can use that token that was generated for you, and
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by palata 4mo ago
> No, it isn't technically possible Of course it is. Read the sentence again: > The government still gets to know what you're doing online. How is that privacy? It is technically possible to achieve that without the governme
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by palata 4mo ago
I am not sure how that is relevant, rather than nitpicking. In the EU, there is no concept of EU ID, each country is responsible for their own. Still, there is a governing entity that is responsible for your ID and controls it. Unless a US
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by palata 4mo ago
> there is no single government id in the UK at the moment, they currently do not control my identity Wait, so you live in a country where there is no government that can provide an ID? How does it work when you travel abroad? Do you hav
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by palata 4mo ago
> When people say "open source" in this context Do they? My experience is that often they don't know what "open source" means in the context of software or that they don't know that the system they were crit
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by palata 4mo ago
> that's not really possible in digital space It is, with zero-knowledge proofs. > That's not easily provable though. It's exactly like end-to-end encryption: normal people cannot verify that it works, but they can use
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by palata 4mo ago
You can. Or maybe I don't get what you mean? It's possible for the government (or any entity, but when it comes to ID it feels natural that the government owns it) to verify your age (by verifying your identity) and give you a tok
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by palata 4mo ago
> /e/OS, whose CEO claims security hardening is only for criminals (pedophiles) and spies That's true, there is a video interview where he says that they are not so knowledgeable about security, and anyway they don't

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