Yeah, when corporate and lobbyist lawyers are passing around a doc, obviously the easiest method is to simply insert their own provisions. They’re not paid to understand, rephrase and simplify the text. They’re paid to make it as complex and obtuse as possible.
Yeah, and that’s generally fine if it isn’t critical infra that could be targeted by bad actors, and they don’t have wifi or uncontrolled interfaces. The risk and damage of someone pulling apart an ATM to get at a USB port is negligible.
The main problem with it is the longer things don’t get upgraded the less people know how to fix or service them, which adds extra friction and cost to change anything with each passing year. After 10-20 years of zero updates, major projects are required because the OS and software stack need a complete overhaul to make even the smallest software change, and the software becomes a major bottleneck to organizational change or operations.
The LHC was completed in 08. That chip was sold from 06 to 12. This means basically half the pc’s they bought ~15 years ago are still meeting their needs.
Honestly, this is the way it should be. The only reason most enterprises upgrade their computers is because Microslop, and all the other proprietary software they’ve allowed themselves to grow dependent on, require it; not because a 20 year old computer isn’t snappy on Debian, or isn’t powerful enough for email, docs, and browsing. The LHC requires supercomputers and server farms for primary operations. These pc’s are basically just thin clients to access those resources.
There are still a shocking amount of Windows XP and 7 systems in production, because the software stack doesn’t need to be updated. If those systems had been deployed on linux 20 years ago, they would still be fully capable of receiving security updates.
This doesn’t really hold up, though. They are based in Italy. If this were true, then the EU would demand they hand over the data related to those users. If they refused, EU LEO would subpoena and seize their servers, and charge them with related crimes. If EU LEO can’t do that, then the accusations don’t hold much weight or evidence, and the MAGA nazis are just labelling antifascists as terrorists without even bothering for the rule of law, or “innocent until proven guilty” part.
I’m guessing the voluntary shutdown is more to do with the fact that it makes no sense to operate an anonymous/privacy service these days if it’s not architected to be used anonymously with E2EE; especially with a fascist kleptocracy in the process of infesting and overthrowing western “democracy”. If they’re smart, they’ll switch operations to I2P or tor, and modern services built on code that makes it impossible for them to access any user data.
This line of reasoning is faulty. So if a cyber criminal instructs claude to commit crimes then it’s not their fault because the tool committed the crimes? What if it commits crimes that were never intended by the user? Who accepts liability? Claiming negligence, ignorance of the law, or “accident” does not absolve you from manslaughter or reckless endangerment.
The answer here is very simple. If you are building a tool and through negligence, reckless endangerment, or sheer incompetence your tool poisons or kills people — if it commits fraud, espionage, cyber crime, or any crime — you are liable. If you sell the product, then your customers have to accept liability for any crimes committed via their prompts. If neither you or your customers can accept liability, that means AI is too stochastic to control, or you aren’t competent enough to firewall and sandbox your AI “tool” in a way that prevents it from committing crimes, and you shouldn’t be allowed to build or operate those tools at all; definitely not selling it as a product.
You either accept liability, or you don’t have a legal, moral, or ethical right to operate. Open AI and Anthropic — all of humanity atm — are consistently proving they aren’t competent enough to contain AI, therefore they’re not competent enough to build or operate it.
Never going to happen as long as the fascists or neoliberal capitalist dictatorship is ruling America.
What misuse did A/I user(s) get up to? I haven’t seen anything indicating actual crimes.
I’d never heard of them, but it seems like their services were made mostly redundant by modern E2EE offerings anyway. There is no reason to use them over protonmail and signal.
Capitalism is the most efficient system… at enabling psychopaths and pedophiles to impoverish and enslave humanity, and destroy the planet.
People shouldn’t have to think about what companies are going to fuck them over or exploit them as they go about their daily lives. The modern world is far too complex. The government is supposed to protect the people from criminals and enemies, foreign and domestic, no matter what their organization or motives are.
As it stands, most of surveillance capitalism is criminal espionage — just a fascist/authoritarian invasion of privacy — and would be illegal if our political classes weren’t corrupt criminals themselves, pre-financed and pre-positioned by the oligarchs/plutocrats of the economic elite. The current clusterfuck is an illusion of “democracy” that is functionally-equivalent to capitalist dictatorship, where our governments actively collude with businesses to extract wealth from the population.
What I’m saying is that no appliance software should be surveilling you, period. None of the data brokers should exist. Most data collection and sharing that isn’t explicitly necessary to deliver a service should be illegal. People should be free to live in a world where the greatest concerns when buying a TV are the build quality, features, and UI. Not fucking covert malware or espionage. What is currently considered normal and acceptable is psychotic.
WeChat is not a whole lot different to a browser/os at that point. It’s basically THE government mandated iOS, which contains THE government mandated app store. A way of forcing everyone to use their walled garden surveillance system even if they have a computer not under the control of the regime, like the entire Chinese diaspora and any foreigner dumb enough to install it.
You can’t track cash. Also, the proprietary internet connected payment methods mean that they can ban you from society for wrongthink.
Same thing will happen in America in the next couple of decades, and it will be used to destroy the lives of whoever the fascists deem woke/dei/trans/communist/antifa this week.
Nah. Alex Jones is just a fucking con artist, who also happens to be extremely mentally ill. He’s showed many indications over the years that he doesn’t believe half the shit he continues to promote.
Nuclear is actually promoted by old guard mining and energy oligarchs because it provides a centralised means of control.
The peoples needs can be met with 100% renewables and battery storage. The oligarchies needs can never be met, because they are a malignant cancerous parasite.
“Fascist lives don’t matter”
You weren’t kidding. First review I bothered to read and it’s clearly the ramblings of a mentally ill fascist. If this is common they should remove reviews entirely, as crazies waging culture war will hinder adoption.
“Masterpiece of reality” lol
That is not good advice. Most VPN companies are not security or privacy companies. In fact, most appear to be surveillance capitalism companies who should never be trusted, and are likely to be worse than no VPN at all.
You can still do that. When they released Unlimited some modular options became more expensive than Unlimited, but included the same thing, so those were removed (because at that point you should just use Unlimited). This was pro-consumer, and most companies do the opposite. As far as I’m aware they have never removed features that used to exist, and their plans have only gotten cheaper (when accounting for inflation, and comparing to all other tech corpos). You can’t expect to continue paying the $2 you were paying for mail in 2015 forever.
It’s not. The user is clearly on “VPN Plus”. https://protonvpn.com/pricing
That is not the same thing. If you took that offer you’d be worse off and couldn’t ever get it back. It’s an intentional dark pattern to screw the customer into a shittier offering.
This is just a web design fail. The “VPN Plus” plan they are on is probably an existing 12 or 24 month rate. The new offer is probably the same thing, or a special discount for 24 months of “Unlimited”, which includes like 5 extra services. They could always go back to “VPN Plus”. (I am seeing a cheaper rate of 3.99 EUR for 12m, or 2.99 for 24m https://protonvpn.com/pricing).
Always check no tolls. It’ll always recommend the toll, unless there is an accident or major traffic disruption, even if it only saves 1 min. Rarely are tolls worth it outside peak hour.