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[–] [email protected] 73 points 8 months ago

You might think that things have changed over the years, but I was around in 1995 and I can assure you this looked exactly as ridiculous then as it does now.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

AI that is used to monitor cameras and identify our faces to track everywhere everyone goes: Why would that concern you? Do you have something to hide, citizen?

AI that might be used to generate agitprop, competing with conventional advertising: HOLY SHIT we need a new international treaty right away!

[–] [email protected] 67 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What's the difference? They both speak Swahili, right?

[–] [email protected] 52 points 8 months ago

I have two reactions: 1. The headline is rather silly. 2. There's no way this little script, although it might conceivably be useful to someone, needs to be a youtube video.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago

Well okay, since it's up to me: Let's have free software. Fully free Linux on every phone, including all "firmware" which has gotten awfully soft lately. No more proprietary driver blobs for ethernet controllers or cellular modems. No more proprietary DRM modules. No more "smart" consumer goods that come without source code. The free software revolution has gone pretty well in some respects, but we need to finish the job and put an end to all that garbage.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

XFCE works for me, but I've heard that LXDE is pretty good too.

[–] [email protected] 76 points 8 months ago (5 children)

It's a bank! It's a dating app! It's a video hosting service, a town square, a shopping mall, a floor wax AND a dessert topping! Why go anywhere else? Just stare at the middle of the big shiny X until it makes sense!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

I wonder how disastrously bad things will need to get before it finally breaks through into public consciousness that maybe putting surveillance cameras everywhere was a bad idea. I expect we'll find out in a couple of decades.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

It is often heard from non-native speakers and will probably be understood, but in the absence of other context it will be perceived as slightly odd. Perhaps it's on the way to being widely recognized as fully "correct" but I don't think it's there yet.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 8 months ago

"full-disk encryption" is the search keyword you're looking for

[–] [email protected] 30 points 8 months ago (3 children)

He's wrong on both points.

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