I wonder if renowned professors and academics are on average more ethical or the same as then.
You hear things like OP and think “Yeah there is a good reason why we stopped treating professors as authorities to consult on anything”. Just how many people must have known and just silently accepted this atrocity.
Speech has been turned into a commodity, and thus easily controlled.
Signal requires to use phone number, which in many countries is legally required to be tied to your personal identity. Like the SMS provider must have a copy of your id card. You’re basically naked to the CIA when using Signal. Even if not like in the US they presumably mass collect SIM and location correlations for ID. For the life of me I do not understand how anyone can promote that shit.
So the “honeypot” of Signal is that the mainstream promotes it as IF it was a privacy focused app when it’s very glaringly obviously is not. So the effect is that it prevents market space and attention for other apps actually focused on privacy without requiring ID to sign up. It’s a bit like introducing sterile insects to prevent the spread of unwanted pests (= actually secure communication).
They are perfect for torrenting though. The kind of activity 3 letter agencies don’t want their spying to be disturbed for.
Who is the third from the left?
PS: Sorry that was politically incorrect, let me rephrase my question: Who is the second from the far right?
There are too many forks already lol. And none of the forks have the features I want anyway. It’s also expensive.
Thanks, yeah seems it was a mistake. The CEO / founder is I believe a libertarian, but at least he believes in something, like privacy.
Is there an article about this?
It’s kinda shocking, an article written by a scholar with a PhD in history without geopolitical slant. Reading an article without intellectual pain? Woah! Not that journalism ever was that great, but it kinda feels like a lost art today.
They wrong him like one of those alt-right philosophy bros, as if they could somehow make him make sense.
<sad modem noises>
And local and under your control. As a “second brain” that isn’t sentient but intelligent to assist you AI has great potential. In a few years we’ll probably have the models and new hardware to run good enough models locally on cheap enough hardware.
But by then they’ll have drummed enough support for “muh copyright” to buy legislation for AI licensing and make all AI models have to pay a license fee to… “someone”. Like that poor writer who had his work illegally read by an AI. So then no open source models can exist and they have the monopoly. Big win for the little guy lol.
At least China is pushing to expand production capacity.
So in my country it’s pretty “limited” because of that. You’re allowed to use a dash-cam as long as it doesn’t permanently record. ONLY if there is a crash or a crime you may press the “record and keep the last X minutes” button. I mean that is how most dash-cams function anyway. And you can’t publicly share it without consent of people you filmed or blur their faces and tags. So a legal framework already exists that protects citizens privacy while still allowing to collect video evidence.
Hmm… of course next step would need to be to have dashcams that have a sensors that encrypt and authenticate the video using a random key, to have a higher confidence that you haven’t generated AI footage showing the other person at fault.
I mean I would like a dashcam that records front, my face and out the rear window. But it has to be under MY control.
I’d never buy a car with a camera I can’t control. No doubt they’ll soon turn it into some subscription shit or spy on you.
It’s kind of like survivorship bias: The ones who rise to the very top must be the most ruthless and biggest pieces of shit. It’s like taking 20 trials to rise to the top, and to succeed each trial fucking others over and only concerning yourself with your advancement is beneficial. It only leaves the worst.
There is a good article about how it happened: The Man Who Killed Google Search by Ed Zitron
Yeah they just don’t care any more. Like about anything. I’m not sure how much about Ahmadinejad was propaganda but afaik he was a pretty hardcore Islamic conservative, so couping him into power would just make everything worse. But Trump and Netanyahu are simply insane.
Just FYI: It’s not the network provide we have to worry about in my country. That is specific to the USA I believe.
Here they have “headhunters” that make a contract with a rights holder, torrent a file, write down the IP of someone who uploads a video to them, then legally request the name to the IP and send an invoice for about $2000. No three warnings or anything. And they are very good at sending legal officials to impound any of your valuable stuff in case you don’t pay.
Even other “illegal” activity like calling Israel an apartheid regime or supporting palestine or insulting your head of state might get you flagged by a three letter agency, but they won’t use official legal channels. There is a protection of the herd with VPN.