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Problem is that the EU will even go further here and tries to implement that everyone is forced to id themselves despite the regular problems.

I heavily doubt these people are open to self-criticism in any way. They have their program and are set to implement it.

They will complain that their kids get threatened online and then demand id verification for everyone. Basically, they cannot and will not take responsibility for their own actions.

You bought it, so why shouldn't manufacturers not try to collect some dough for maintenance as well.

> one staffer wrote on an internal EC staff forum that “I don’t understand the added value here

Usability problems aside, I do think the issue of using a messenger that for official government business hosted in a foreign nation is a hard to understand concept and that should be apparent for non-technical staff as well as technical one...

We heard that nations aren't necessarily are sending their best to EU institutions...

Perhaps I am wrong and he complained about the internal tool using its OneDrive integration to host files are something like that.

I think those that defended freedom of speech were in fact very consistent as they argued from principle. It is projection again, since people now complain that the argument "you have a right to free speech but no right to a platform" didn't think that position through to the end and now it bites them back.

And the ACLU has consistently have separated from defending freedom of speech and now is more or less a different institution. It isn't synonymous with most liberal positions on freedom of speech anymore.

Some argue the commission still has democratic legitimacy through national governments. In my opinion that is simply not the case for several reasons.

I think the vagus nerve is often implicated and probably highly stressed by keyboard warriors from neck to arse.

Did it the day before yesterday with a fresh win11 image from Microsoft (no rufus magic or anything). You can press shift + f10 and run a command I don't remember. It restarts the install process and lets you create a local account while it still patches the system before the first start (no fiddling with internet connections required). At least that still works.

At least for an install in vbox under Mint :)

I also like the compatibility telemetry that uses all my CPU. Seriously, this is a problem since late Windows 7 or early Windows 10 I believe and I have seen so many systems wasting resources and running hot in summer for no reason at all.

Not only is this unwanted spyware, it is extremely inefficient spyware.

For the Windows look and feel, I recommend Mint + Cinnamon. It took me about 15min to not miss anything on Windows and was shocked how I had forgotten how clean a system can be.

Mandatory Windows accounts can still be circumvented with a console command for Win 11 installations, but the overall enshitification package just got worse and worse.

Cinnamon is X11, but it works very well.

Yes, it is far worse because it gets personal far more quickly with non-anonymous users. People don't feel exhausted by 4chan, it is mostly the comparison to others on "legit" platforms.

And to be frank, there is value in 4chan. Nobody would feel compelled to believe obvious bullshit some societies and cultures impose on its members. This shit needs a counterweight. That isn't 4chan of course, but any free platform.

Personally I think we should build something that makes verification unfeasible instead of building something slightly less worse.

Toxic culture was always there but it really took of with social media where users often have zero shame to self-identify. There are anonymous communities that are far more friendly than the common insta group. "My brain" is perfectly fine with anonymous users.

And yes, anonymity should be the default because otherwise the alternative is that you need to identify. If not, most users would stay anonymous because it is simply the smarter decision with the exception that you seek exposure.

I disagree that this is a solution. Being dependent on life long medication isn't a trivial problem and transmission must still be seen as serious.

But of course it should be available to all that need it.

We probably need honey pod fake OS systems that boots up if not properly handled displaying some stars & stripes as background image and having the US national anthem playing for any sound the OS is trying to play.

I wonder how they would feasibly ban it. They could do so with some infrastructure offering to run it, but ultimately you would be able to run your own private instance. What am I missing here, how would the ban be implemented?

I expect this to be just posturing, but still

Not from the US but the ACLU did a lot of good also for people outside the US. More recently it seemed to have lost its way with some focus on "modern" activism, and yes I do mean foul compromises regarding to freedom of speech mostly, but not exclusively. No idea how to explain that better. Glad it is back to business here. I hope this isn't another partisan move that will stop as soon as the players in the white house change again.

No, we had high trust societies before the shitty surveillance tech. There are quite a few effects that undermine it even and this tech is part of the reason why.

It is part of the problem, not part of a solution.

I don't think this is a refutation. You have narrowed the definition of an admittedly soft term like "high trust society" to be an expression of security or perceived security.

But more to the core of the definition of trust. Singapore isn't using trust, it uses control. Which in most contexts are opposed.

Surveillance isn't even important for the formation of a high trust society. On the contrary, with increased surveillance possibilities, formerly high trust societies seem to have degraded.

China made its own linux distros almost immediately. And as far as I know it is widely in use (Kylin etc.?).

Some nations in the western sphere seem to gladly outsource such critical infrastructure. Thinking about the Korean defence manufacturer whose contact mail was something@gmail.com in an advert I saw a few days ago. Perhaps Google will integrate some fast reply function for some instant AA ordnance delivery?

The data in the hands of officials in your jurisdiction is far more relevant than the other way around and there is little control about the data for domestic usage.

Perfectly in agreement, but in many places politics were forced into geek spaces. Formerly nobody cared which country you came from.

I think anyone that used open models will have had contact with Qwen. China currently does the most work here, simple as that.

As a European these texts are always a bit embarrassing. The evil USA that abuses our data...

No, European countries suck completely on their own. There are people in jail without due process, we have histories full of systematic abuse of children/people with disabilities in care units, blatant disregard for constitutional rights by executive forces and you have these cases like this surfacing every other week.

You don't need the evil USA to reject biometric data gathering by government. You just need to get your largest boot and point it at the arse of the next public official that is responsible for YOU. Not some imaginary enemy behind a bit of water ffs... rant off

The mistake isn't some agreement with the USA, the problem is that this data might be available in the first place. And yes, this is a case where government/EU is NOT able to safeguard it.

Other than that the text is correct and then we should just need to deal with the realities of needing visas again.

> EDRi recommends the Commission and the Council to push back against the US government’s blackmail and refuse to sell people’s personal data

There is no leverage so I fail to see how this could succeed. Especially if said officials have zero problems with this kind of surveillance. They just have to pretend that they do.

Those silly advertisers do everything for exposure and if that means digging yourself into a niche alleged mathematical theorem to refute it, it is what needs to be done!

Of course it would be really interesting how Claude approached this. Probably with some constraints regarding the input. And it would be interesting what these constraints were.

We all know that tasteless junk media would never be successful, this is why you only find high quality media on the internet and only high quality media gets popular in the mainstream. That sounds right, right?

Seriously, the nudge for artistic value can be made, although I would very much doubt a creative human making a video for an established song with a clear theme would do better in creativity. Perhaps the one advantage a human would have is to reject the expectations for such a tasks, which the AI is trained to fulfil.

The problem isn't that such content lacks artistic value. It is that it is enough for the broadest audience. The average consumer is basically a vacuum cleaner.

In my opinion an ethical and moral permission for piracy regardless of law and small prints. Although in case of the latter, these are not valid in many countries with basic consumer protection anyway (doesn't make piracy a lawful response, but still). And I think in these cases it would be worthwhile to remind Sony about necessary compensation.

Their licensing issues aren't the problem of the buyer.

Users with less experience in Linux administration can quickly learn and catch up how to set things up. They also help for developing rules for scalable administration tools like Ansible. That would be true for Windows too, but generally Linux does profit much more from this.

I don't mean giving agents root shell access, but agents still reduce the formerly higher barrier of Linux based systems.

Experienced admins can integrate a Linux machine in short time, even if its environment is the classic corpo Microsoft Domain Contoller setups. And then make that scale much better than Windows machines.

> the data they basically steal from everyone

Agreed. Especially since now competitors have more difficulties getting the same advantage. They don't have to do so immediately and perhaps not their specific tuning. But the weights of the raw training data at least should be publicised.

Linux with agent support now massively pawns Windows machines out the window. It isn't even comparable.