it says “most of”

But the good kinds that actually work and help people are

I like to think of myself as a pretty tech competent person but I do tend to buy pretty high end hardware when I do replace a computer every 8+ years or so. I feel like it will likely last me longer and I won’t have to change computers again as soon.

We do not have the death penalty, it is banned in the charter on human rights and abolishing it was a requirement for joining for those countries which still had it on the books, although it was more or less phased out in all European countries by the time that happened.

But ironically heart and horse meat are normal in a bunch of places too

As we saw in this story from a few months ago, yes, absolutely, manufacturers will stoop to the level of disabling devices which are prevented from exfiltrating your data. I’m pretty sure I’ve heard of TVs doing the same with the network modules but I’m too lazy to search for it now.

Where in their comment does it say “exactly zero users”? Oh right, it doesn’t

I get all that, I just mean you can’t just ignore the social reality. Like you said elsewhere in this thread, Linux is barely cracking 3% of the desktop market. Can you run an LLM locally? Of course. Do people do it? No, except a couple of hardcore enthusiasts. That is an issue which can’t just be cleanly separated from the technology itself and has to be taken into account when discussing it.

Also, weapons are tools.

A hammer can be used for good or bad but a shrapnel bomb can only kill and maim; not all tools are multivalent like that, some are realistically only used for evil. Additionally, divorcing discussion of a tool from the social context like this is blinding to the real consequences. We don’t have small scale LLMs running on personal machines (even if we could, that’s not how it is now), we have them at industrial scale controlled by a few billionaires. It’s purely fantastical thinking to say that just because you could imagine a world where they’d be used for good, that actually means anything.

You clearly haven’t read it, since he lays out clearly the exact steps that would be required.

Many online banks and money services can do this. I have an account with one whose main purpose is transferring money to my home country to pay my student loans and for money while traveling, but they also offer these digital visa cards. Wouldn’t consider it “private” in any serious way but it’s probably less bad than paypal.

Hey, I’ve never been accused of being AI before, neat! Let’s go with too dumb to read ;)

could totally see it becoming an issue. Especially with copycats and such

What exactly would be the “issue”, even if there were “copycats”, with everyone having a place to live?

Hahaha, you got me in the first half

It’s an American/British English difference

Not happy, just resigned to reality

He’s just never tried to say something which wasn’t allowed

I didn’t see anything to see that these aberrations indicated anything about a type of phone? They’re unique for each lens…

Most of the modifications to aosp in graphene are security improvements, so it’s at least somewhat better than any other android

perhaps in a century, contemporary programmers will find it bizarre that C used the equal-sign to mean assignment rather than equality, when the <= arrow would more accurately describe assignment

Maybe they’ll find a better symbol than the one we already use for less than or equal to.