“Meet me in the middle, says the unjust man.
You take a step towards him, he takes a step back.
Meet me in the middle, says the unjust man.”
ganymede
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the other wonderful irony?
(basically) the only thing a computer can do is math.
so it's doing a SHITLOAD of math, to do a terrible job, at doing some very basic math.
bravo!
afaict the topic of the article seems to be focusing on trust as in privacy and confidentiality
for the discussion i think we can extend trust as in also trusting the ethics and motivation of the company producing the "AI"
imo what this overlooks is that a community or privately made "AI" running entirely offline has the capacity to tick those boxes rather differently.
trusting it to be effective is perhaps an entirely different discussion however
feeling like you've been listened to can be therapeutic.
actionable advice is an entirely different matter ofc.
just want to add, it's not the zoomer's fault. they were intentionally raised in ignorance because its apparently profitable
fuck the corporations who've deliberately turned our living computers into soulless commercial brainwashing surveillance machines
Or they’re just adding improvements to the software they heavily rely on.
which they can do in private any time they wish, without any of the fanfare.
if they actually believe in opensource let them opensource windows 7 ^1^, or idk the 1/4 of a century old windows 2k
instead we get the fanare as they pat themselves on the back for opensourcing MS-DOS 4.0 early last year (not even 8.0, which is 24 years old btw, 4.0 which came out in 1986).
38 years ago...
MS-fucking-DOS, from 38 years ago, THAT'S how much they give a shit about opensource mate.
all we get is a poor pantomime which actually only illustrates just how stupid they truly think we are to believe the charade.
does any of that mean they're 100% have to be actively shipping "bad code" in this project, not by any means. does it mean microsoft will never make a useful contribution to linux, not by any means. what it does mean is they're increasing their sphere of influence over the project. and they have absolutely no incentive to help anyone but themselves, in fact the opposite.
as everyone knows (it's not some deep secret the tech heads on lemmy somehow didn't hear about) microsoft is highly dependent on linux for major revenue streams. anything a monolith depends on which they don't control represents a risk. they'd be negligent if they didn't try to exert control over it. and that's for any organisation in their position. then factor in their widespread outspoken agenda against opensource, embrace, extend, extinguish and the vastly lacking longterm evidence to match their claims of <3 opensource.
they're welcome to prove us all wrong, but that isn't even on the horizon currently.
^1^ yes yes they claim they can't because "licensing", which is mostly but not entirely fucking flimsy, but ok devils advocate: release the rest, but nah.
yes they lost the battle, now they're most likely aiming to win the war.
remember back when we didn't listen to famous people's opinions outside their field of expertise?
A lot of Microsoft-oriented developers still don’t understand the free software movement, and have been trying to twist it into something they can comprehend since it started four decades ago.
avacado
ah fair enough. i think that was the initial confusion from myself and perhaps the other user in this discussion. i didn't realise your use cases.
it's always a fun topic to discuss and got me thinking about some new ideas :)
cool, sounds like you have most of the principles down.
what i didn't yet see articulated with chat-e2ee is how the actual code itself verifies itself to the user in the browser? it sounds to me like it assumes the server which serves the code is 'trusted', while the theoretically different server(s) which transmits the messages can be 'untrusted'.
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so many classics listed already, some others...
the one where a civillisation downloads their lives into picard. whole ep you're wondering wtf is with picard this is slow as he lives some dudes life, then the reveal is amazing it's so full of positivity and warmth - appropriately titled "the inner light". hats off for capturing positivity so well onscreen (for some reason an elusive skill)
when picard defends data's rights as a sentient being