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95·7 days agoI’d feel safer with Chinese electronics in all honesty.
Don’t let recency bias cloud over your judgement.
Yep and that’s not a good thing. Makes idiots such as Doug look good and people are more likely to overlook his past actions because we have a new idiot in town.
11·7 days agoWhat /s ?
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I even have an account and have access to the article.
If you sign up they let you read it for free. But yes archive link is good to provide as most will not bother to sign up
1·8 days agoGraphene said other phones don’t meet their security requirements.
21·10 days agoActually forgot to link it 🤦
It’s a site where you ask questions and people (hopefully experts) answer. That was the main idea behind it. But it was filled with garbage, unhelpful answers and it just went downhill.
Also yeah the fact that Reddit is more popular than Youtube is really weird to me and I don’t quite believe it.
How the hell is Quora more popular than youtube … huh ? Who in their right mind still uses Pinterest and Quora???
2·12 days agoIf you hear ai generated convos they sound pretty brain dead (unresponsive, no idiosyncrasies) so far.
Idk… I think they’re getting pretty good. A year or so back I tried notebooklm’s podcast feature with 2 people I was shocked how realistic the generated sample was. But maybe you’re right this does seem a level up.
Habits die hard
I see. I suppose when you connect to the P2P network people can see your IP and some metadata of the queries you make?
Fascinating. So why you don’t use the P2P network and instead only have a local one?
12·16 days agoThe mechanisms underlying ZKPs pose an existential threat to everyone’s digital rights, not just kids. The idea behind ZKPs is that you are issued a “token” that vouches for your age every time you log in, creating a constant link back to the entity that verified you. The issuer of the tokens these AV schemes rely on could track every time that credential is used, creating a dangerous trail of metadata on any user they wanted to target. The issuer itself could be pressured by authoritarian governments to remove a user’s access to a service, essentially removing that person’s access to the internet entirely. Without oversight of who has authority to implement and operate these systems, this approach centralizes critical internet infrastructure in the hands of very few actors.
But that’s not how EU age verification actually works, no ?
You verify once and then can use that token offline, and there’s no recontacting the issuer once you log in / sign up (at least supposedly).
Kinda confused me at the start, I guess they’re strawmanning here a bit of what COULD happen.
at least it won’t require passport for signing up anymore lol
The popular Chinese alternative to YouTube, Bilibili, with around 376 million monthly active users, has confirmed plans to expand more aggressively outside China. The company has relaunched its international app for Android and iOS, and removed the previous requirement for overseas users to provide identity documents such as a passport.
Bilibili is also expanding its international presence with hiring in markets including Japan, the United States, and Europe. A new X account aimed at global creators has said that Bilibili is “going global” and that the US and Chinese versions will offer the same content
Decent alternative, although probably most non-technical people won’t bother, let’s be honest. Does it work well for you? I don’t quite understand the bigger picture of how it operates.
Wait … EndeavourOS? That’s arch linux, a PC operating system. Did you confuse something?
Samsung hardware
Fairphone sustainability / repairability
Pixel / GrapheneOS privacy
Chinese prices
Dream phone of mine.
I get the appeal of this, but I feel this is part of a broader problem of relying on AI for problems that already have elegant, simple solutions. Like relying on LLM’s to tell you what was the last google doc that you viewed is just not sustainable and creates bad habits. Soon people will ask what was the last tab I was just in, instead of using a keyboard shortcut and or having proper tab management.
Imagine using it for your code editor, instead of using the built-in functionality of jump-lists, marks, fuzzy finders and so on… Or switching to an editor that has these things. What file was I just in? Where did I just write this function?
“When asked, the AI even double checks if the document was shared in a group chat with his coworkers.”
How about learning to just use search?
I think it’s helpful to separate the problems of the technology itself from all the BS that big tech companies engage in when developing and pushing it.
Say you only use small, open-weight models that are hosted locally in a data center that is conscientious, environmentally clean, has strict data privacy policies and doesn’t pull the bullshit big-tech do.
You use them minimally and responsibly, you don’t over-rely on them. Is there a problem in that case?