Signal, the messenger that lags code sumps for a year so they can get a leg up with insider knowledge of their own cryptocurrency?

OK, now think how nontechnical people will not be able to do it. They will be tied to Google/X-corp for all credentials, even government ones. Waiting to be banned if their social credit is too low.

And going through the world without care for it or your fellow humans with unethical decisions is also devoid of empathy

Why do you got a family of 4 if you knew how the world was? Why do you think that making bad decisions absolves you from making unethical decisions? At least acknowledge the lack of ethics.

We all believed? What?

It’s not business oriented, it provides a unique ID attached to the machine, cryptographically proven.

Next step is to use that unique ID to identify you on the internet and digital life. Ending all privacy.

You think this is far fetched? Kernel-level anti-cheat for games already does this and bans the machine from playing that game ever again.

Thing is, people were saying this about US people since the 80s, that they are functionally illiterate besides their job tasks. Let me guess, you are american…

This is explained in the “the rules for rulers” video from cgpgrey, which condenses the book “the dictators handbook”.

If you have an asshole that does a bad job for a handyman, you will learn to fear the fixes.

It’s not the regularity that is the problem, is the people delivering the fixes. Change manufacturers and software providers. I promise you there is software that is reliable, doesn’t get worse over time, respects your freedom, and treats you like a human being instead of a conduit from your bank account to theirs.

You can enjoy software and computers actually.

His install is broken because Windows breaks the dual booting, and Microsoft has refused to fix it for a decade already…

Anybody can use copyrighted works under fair use for research, more so if your LLM model is open source (I would say this fair use should only actually apply if your model is open source…). You are wrong.

We don’t need to break copyright rights that protect us from corporations in this case, or also incidentally protect open source and libre software.

Let me guess, you went to uni in the U.S.A.?

That assumes though that the definition of web browser and its needed stack stays static.

What happens if we all browse the net primarily via VR then? The line is blurry, so is Mozilla org.

They do have active protection; education. Under attack since the dawn of time.

If you think big tech doesnt cut corners and offloads the work to the users you are in a bubble; there’s software that is secure, performant, pretty, doesn’t break on its own, and doesn’t have an obsolescency clock ticking inside. Oh, and doesn’t spy on you dismantling society by the minute.

That’s already done, but IIRC it enters in effect in 2027

Artists are on a gift-based economy. They gain status by giving away works. If you are the best artist in the world but don’t make an effort to share your works, you are irrelevant. The more they give away the more they are recognised. Even if they give them away via pirated works. See: movies, songs that everybody knows and resonates with. Status is their currency, not money.

The status then allows them to obtain more money than other people, incidentally.

CEOs are on a market-based economy, they sell goods and services for money. They don’t sell their status. The goods and services they sell are not theirs, but created with the stolen sweat, blood and lives of the people that work for them, which get a minuscule share of the profit for the amount of life they put onto it.

In gift-based economies such as the ones of artists, open source developers, fashion, cultures without scarcities of the specific resource that makes the economy (such as small plentiful tropical tribes, communes, etc), the status is the currency.

Thanks for sharing! This is an incredible comparison.

Exactly. All of that things that Germany has, meanwhile Spain is not even a federation. Yet it has the same level or more of autonomy on its regions than a federation.

By name it is not a federation (define federation…) Yet Spanish autonomies enjoy more autonomy than some federal states.