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4·2 days agoPre-internet, there would be no doubt that the California courts would have specific personal jurisdiction over a third party who physically entered a Californian’s home by deceptive means to take personal information from the Californian’s files for its own commercial gain. Here, though Shopify’s entry into the state of California is by electronic means, its surreptitious interception of Briskin’s personal identifying information certainly is a relevant contact with the forum state.
Established norms for things like privacy and consent should have carried over into the online space. They didn’t, unfortunately - maybe this is because people viewed the Internet as “not real life,” but it is now clear that was a huge legal and cultural oversight.
15·4 days ago2021: “Facebook’s internal research found its Instagram platform contributes to eating disorders and suicidal thoughts in teenage girls, whistleblower says”
(Whistleblower is correct.)
Israel is a useful state to strengthen the American grip abroad (it carries out American interests without an American label) plus it’s the perfect testing grounds for unethical surveillance (and worse) on the people both within and outside its borders
I’m sorry, I forget that these articles (which are fully accessible to me thanks to “registration” and IIRC browser cookies) are not necessarily visible elsewhere. There’s a helper bot in another community, I wonder if it’ll work here too
This article wasn’t posted by Hotznplotzn, so I knew Russia and China weren’t behind it
You still need to do some GitHub navigating, but you should be able to pull this off by using a Mozilla Corp project.
- Download the latest giant file on the release page:
https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile/releases/latest - As recommended, rename the file extension to “.exe”
- Just double click and the instructions say if it works, it’ll open a browser.
- Download the latest giant file on the release page:
The post got removed a year later, by Reddit filters?
wtf
That website is a Google website, so definitely click with care!
And I don’t think that’s AI slop, but it’s something about as insidious: Corporate Newspeak. It’s been thrown through multiple layers of disingenuity and legal evaluation before ending up on that blog.
I can see the full picture just fine, which is what other people can see if they peruse your post history: it’s all anti-China stuff of any quality (increasingly low).
If you’re saying the stuff I find the article makes it sound terrible, touche, I guess. Those parts of the article are terrible. And it stands to reason that the parts of the article I’m not technically familiar with, are terrible in ways that I’m just not smart enough to figure out.
I don’t like China, I don’t like AI, but those preferences stem from caring about human rights generally, and privacy specifically. That’s my agenda.
Like I’ve said several times before, you’ve scraped the dregs of anti-China “news” online and probably bypassed a ton of stuff that would have actually been interesting here.
This opinion piece, in particular, is extra jingoistic and practically assumes the USA deserves control of not just computing technology worldwide, but also control of time itself.
Reuters reporting confirms that High‑Flyer pivoted from equity markets to artificial intelligence research in 2023, building two super‑computing clusters stuffed with Nvidia A100 processors before US export controls came into force.
On Capitol Hill, the discovery set alarm bells ringing. Washington had barred Beijing from buying the world’s most coveted AI chips, yet here was a Chinese firm running a model of near‑GPT‑4 heft on hardware Washington thought safely out of reach.
So the US got upset at a Chinese hedge fund company that managed to purchase things legally and then build a product that doesn’t need any Nvidia processors to run anyway.
Boo-fucking-hoo. A Chinese capitalist company did capitalism better than the United States. It did more open AI than OpenAI.
Nvidia insists it obeys US law, but lawmakers are now drafting “chip end‑user tracing" legislation to brand each accelerator with an immutable provenance tag.
And these additional regulations are just a net negative for privacy
The House Select Committee… accuses the firm of “spying, stealing and subverting" by siphoning petabytes of conversational data… Through a technique called model inversion, adversaries can reconstruct fragments of that training data. In practice, that means Beijing could fish out a US senator’s embargoed speech or an Indian bureaucrat’s budget note and feed the text into targeted influence campaigns long before it ever reaches the public domain.
In other words, literally everything OpenAI did with the “public” web. But the author doesn’t seem to care about the unethical funneling of data, just the Chineseness of where it ends up.
Hopefully I don’t need to explain how goofy these examples are, either.
I mentioned revocation of consent explicitly in reference towards Reddit and OpenAI. But even if I hadn’t, a phrase like “that won’t even help” itself isn’t helpful unless you’ve scoped out full knowledge of the other person’s threat model. Case in point, you assumed anyone’s only possible threat would be Reddit, without considering it could be random jackasses.
Regarding potentially making information unavailable to the general public: touche. Sometimes, though, that can be an unintended side effect. Or an intended one. The Reddit blackout was one such case.
It’s a way to explicitly revoke consent, make things more difficult to find for the general public, etc.
No problem, I found and changed two Twitter links. It’s probably easier to save the videos of evidence that way, too
Matrix has been struggling with the “fast” part of the equation for a long time, and it’s more complex, technical, and visually overbearing than Discord.
For just one example, servers. In Discord, a “server” is the second level of hierarchy just below the app itself. Underneath that there are channel groups, then channels. The structure is simple, and a hierarchy is simple.
In Matrix, a server is something that runs an instance, and instances crosscut channels and channel groups. It’s no longer necessarily clear which server “hosts” a channel, or how to correctly refer to it when inviting friends, or how mechanisms of censorship might work if someone gets kicked out of an instance, or federation is disrupted, etc.
Compared to pretty much anything else that’s offered to end users? Yeah
I’d like something like a TV. Not what’s being sold in most stores these days. But something like what was being sold a couple decades ago, which was basically a glorified giant monitor with speakers and a variety of hookups for both old and new hardware you’d manage yourself
Privacy? Activism?
AI?
General tech?
- https://www.wired.com/ - at least you’ll find better articles
- https://www.techdirt.com/
- https://www.theregister.com/
I don’t see any inherent problem with the two things you say are problems: neither DoH, nor the idea that a browser can override default settings.
I’m not a fan of defaulting to Cloudflare, but this seems more like a case of picking your poison. Somebody’s going to get a crack at the domains you’re visiting, are they not? It seems better to encrypt these queries than to allow a middleman to intercept them.
Regarding override default system settings, is this really a problem? I prefer browsers that give people extra options, and I would find it worse if they suddenly took this option away.