Interesting side note: if discord was e2e encrypted, how should they take action on anything?

If a group decides to swat a server and they can’t review themselves, how should admin moderation work?

(Yes this isn’t the current situation, but I’m on the toilet and it intrigued me)

I didn’t know what that was yet… but probably.

I had one of the SanDisk flash drives that had some launcher thing on it and I had a password for some reason on it.

In high school, a classmate tried to guess it, 3 times and I lost everything on it forever, since it stupidly locked forever after 3 tries.

I had software projects from back then that I can never get back… including a web browser. I could have had the next Firefox…

If you’re out there, Liz: I’ll never forgive that.

Technical question: How would posts federate if private?

I’d argue it’s a mountain thing. I think they helped it get to a great place… then decided to make more billions by making it worse.

You go up, you go down.

Even if you defederate they can harvest the data… I mean it’s an open protocol.

This whole comment is ridiculous. People are happy to pay for a better experience (for them). You can do/say whatever you want. So can I. So can he. Things in the world aren’t free. There is a continual narrative that everything should be FOSS. In a perfect world: sure. In our world we need money to live.

I’m happy to pay for the ad free version of sync. And happy that the profits go to the app maker to do whatever he wants.

Making up fractions like 1/3 is useless and arbitrary at best. You have no idea how much he makes or even what 1/3 would mean.

Edit: If instances block these apps, it defeats the purpose of an open fediverse. … also sounds just like reddit.

I imagine how the check folks is related to local legislation.

Those AI systems will happen either way. Take the EZ-Pass example. It wouldn’t surprise me if they want to use facial recognition to cross reference the driver with the plates on the car to find a kidnapper.

I understand that this stuff could be used for… evil … but acting like they can be stopped from being developed is like saying no country should make nukes. We still make nukes… and this tech. The only ones who don’t do it are the ones who fall behind.

You can slow it down maybe but you can’t stop it.

People say the same thing about AI like chatgpt: we should slow it down or pause it till yadayada. Anyone who ‘pauses’ is just hiding results longer.

Honestly living in a world with great facial recognition could have benefits. Would be cool to be able to shop without needing my wallet or phone and have it charged to me automatically based off my face. My Google Photos has facial recognition and I think it’s a great feature… I wish it worked even better.

Yep! The credit agencies are very likely to get your data when applying for a credit card or loan or etc. So they have basically everyone at some point. Honestly the only other info Zuck has on me is random photos from 10 years ago.

I guess I don’t care about lots of data things normally. Honestly at this point I care more about the Elon V Zuck fight.

There is no semblance of privacy anymore. Most people need a bank account or a credit card. Boom someone has (some of) your data.

In the US, at that point, credit agencies also have (some of) your data.

Even in something like Lemmy, someone could easily scrape all the data about what you post/do/etc. At some level almost everything you do is public to some extent.

Edit since I thought of something else: Even if you drive in a big city: something is tracking your license plate. In NYC they do it for EZ-Pass, and in the Bay Area they do it for Fast-Trak.