That’s the plan. Attack subject that are traditionally seen as taboo/sensitive/whatever, then extend. CSAM content, porn in general, even random bulletin board with cringey content these days, are used as the entrypoint. You target those, people are wary about defending their rights because of the flagship topic, so laws are changed to put some extra layers of tracking, surveillance, etc.

Step two is claim whatever site/service the current government dislike falls under an imaginary category that allows using these layers of surveillance. And these are extra hard to remove once put in place, because nobody wants to break their surveillance toy.

It’s never about the porn, it’s never about the kids, it’s never about our security when a proposal shows up and talks about breaking encryption, privacy, etc.

Stuff we want: protecting kids, having privacy.

Stuff these proposal do: break privacy, don’t care about kids (or anyone else for that matter).

Seems pretty simple to me. Again.

He would pay someone to do it for him, then claim he did it by itself, fumble doing it again on camera, an complain people are harassing poor baby musky and storm off.

Ah, you used logic. That’s the issue. They don’t do that.

I hope some people are keeping track of all this, to keep them ALL accountable, and put safeguards in place so that it won’t happen again. I also hope there will be something to build on next US election.

If people are ok with authoritarian regimes, let’s use that as an opportunity to strong hand transparency and trust into them. I was always against that stance, but the fucking shitfest we’re seeing there? Yeah, no more of that. Force laws that prevents unlimited power when you can instead of hoping the next madman will play “fair”.

The end result is the same though; if the bar is set to “be vaccinated against a minimal set of preventable disease”, and either people are happy to not be, or worse, because there’s always a worst option, we start seeing more cases of people falsely claiming to be vaccinated while they’re not, other countries might start tightening the grip.

…how would we know that some vaccination certificates are bogus? I have no doubt that some people would be bright enough to travel while having measles or whatever. It already happened, and increasing the amount of people in this situation is unlikely to heighten their awareness of it :(

Weren’t they saying good thing about vaccines a few week ago? After saying they were useless? After saying they were efficient? After saying they caused whatever? After saying they weren’t against them? After saying they caused cognitive decline in kids? After saying they did not have an opinion? After saying they would not use them?

If a massive amount of people were not put in harms way by this senile sick idiot, it would be hilarious to make a montage of their interviews flip-flops.

Browser. website. basically the same experience without weird and/or shit integration into anything, share resources with the browser that’s open anyway, works fine, and allow easy customization because it’s a webpage anyway and you get to mess with the CSS/HTML/JS if you want to.

It could be aggressively persistent without sounding like a psycho, too, no? I mean, I have no frame of reference, but I sort of assume that constant reminders would work as well as constant belittling reminders. Maybe I’m wrong.

Come to think of it, an application threatening, shaming, and guilt tripping you into coming back might not be the healthiest thing ever.

I see some problems here.

An LLM providing “an opinion” is not a thing, as far as current tech does. It’s just statistically right or wrong, and put that into word, which does not fit nicely with real use cases. Also, lots of tools already have autofix that can (on demand) handle many minor issues you mention, without any LLM. Assuming static analysis is already in place and decent tooling is used, this would not have to reach either a human or an AI agent or anything before getting fixed with little resources.

As anecdotal evidence, we regularly look into those tools on the job. Granted, we don’t have billions of lines of code to check, but so far it’s at best useless. Another anecdotal evidence is the recent outburst from the curl project (and other, following suite) getting a mountain of issues that are bogus.

I have no doubt that there is a place for human-sounding review and advice, alongside other more common uses like completion and documentation, but ultimately these systems are not able to think by design. The work still has to be done. And can’t go much beyond platitudes. You ask how common the horrible cases are, but that might not be the correct question. Horrific comments are easy to spot and filter out. Perfectly decent looking “minor fixes” that are well worded, follow guidelines, and pass all checks, while introducing an off by one error or suddenly decides to swap two parameters that happens to be compatible and make sense in context are the issue. And those, even if rare (empirically I’d say they are not that rare for now) are so much harder to spot without full human analysis, are a real threat.

Yet another anecdotal… yes, that’s a lot. Given the current hype, I can only base my findings on personal experience, mostly. I use AI-based code completion, assuming it’s short enough to check at a glance, and the context is small enough that it can’t make mistakes. At most two-three lines at time. Even in this context, while checking that the generated code matches what I was going to write, I’ve seen a handful of mistakes slip through over a few months. It makes me dread what could get through a PR system, where the codebase is not necessarily fresh in the mind of the reviewer.

This is not to say that none of that is useful, but if it were to be, it would require extremely high level of trust, far higher than current human intervention (which is also not great and source of mistakes, I’m very aware of that) to be. The goal should not be to emulate human mistakes, but to make something better.

Please. I had a cassette with built-in storage, that could play in a cassette deck player AND had an headset jack plugged in for music on the go.

The more Ukraine do that, the less everyone else have to do it. Good.

And what if there’s no photograph of myself online?

He’s jealous?

I’m not sure… as my current washing machine don’t have one. It’s a top-loader. I do see washing machines with a round door, though. Maybe the difference is that the whole door is the glass part, so there’s no seal to make with the rest of the “door” part, but that’s not satisfying.

I’d be curious to ear from an expert about this.

I’m self-hosting my mails; no need for another third party that will decide whatever whenever. The major difficulty is the decades of things that are reliant on the old one.

And I just said that google works fine for search, despite people claiming it’s on the decline, broken, unusable, etc. That’s not to move toward qwant, who are no less shady, burn money (sometimes coming from public money…), and despite wonderful claim of an autonomous index, completely stop working when Bing is down. As far as recommendations for search engine goes, google (and Bing for that matter) are far less disingenuous. All usable search engines these days are backed by the big ones anyway. Something like https://openwebsearch.eu/ would be a better alternative, assuming it follows on its promises.

The two thing I use most, by far, from Google, is gmail and basic search.

Gmail, I’m looking to move away from it now, but I currently have every little addition to it disabled. Basic inbox and tags, no automatic filtering, no categories, no nothing.

Search, my browser is set to open the “web” tab with the query, no transformation, no summary, no “for you”, no AI garbage, no “we thought you wanted video so there’s only video in the replies”. It still works fine.

Basically, none of what they added for years… maybe decade at this point, had held a glimmer of interest from me. It feels like this trend will continue. I just want something very basic that works.

Knowing how “fun” it is to make a truly watertight window, even with low pressure, matching both cold and hot and detergent and whatever’s flying in there, I’m glad there isn’t a glass pane to view into the dishwasher.

Also, I’m usually doing things that are not reliant on seeing what’s happening in a dishwasher when it is running, so the cost effectiveness would not be great there.