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Why is a supposed cybersecurity professional surprised that Windows is spying on them???

I feel like a broken record at this point. AIs are trained to give you an answer that LOOKS good at first glance, not one that is good. Unsurprisingly, this has resulted in a disturbing ability to completely mislead people and lie about what a great job it’s doing. So no surprise it’s “covertly underperforming” - all AIs inherently do that.

Secondly, aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, the ‘thinking’ output is not a good means to understand what an AI is doing. Because AIs do not “think”, they do not understand, they do not have intention, nor can they reason, they just output a bunch of words related to other words its going to spit out. OpenAI drinking their own koolaid.

The technology I really need is one that filters all AI-related content from my perception so I can stop balking at peoples’ AI-related deliria.

True dat

While everyone I disagree with is also a boogeyman run by foreigners, one perhaps might stretch so far as to concede that state governments often have legitimate need of computers

Steam has established a massive monopoly, the only reason they’re winning so hard is they’re not over-abusing it… yet. Steam users are already being overcharged en masse, and sued for it.

Yes, as software goes, it works well for now. But I will roll my eyes out my skull when they inevitably abuse the fuck out of their platform-locked users and Valve supporters complain like that outcome wasn’t written on the wall for many years.

It may be one year away, it might be ten, it might even be thirty. One day people will complain loudly that all the games they bought on Steam are effectively unplayable and they should get a refund, I will shrug and say “well yeah, we did tell you”, and I will be dismissed. But I’ll feel very correct, and that… isn’t much of a consolation either. The world is frustrating.

Careful, sounding a bit tankie there.

Utterly doomed licensing. I mean rule #1 of a clean-room reimplementation is to not openly admit you’re ripping off another product.

Secondly, as others have said, “AI did it” is not a clean room. Otherwise I can make the next pokemon game and just say that I got AI to reinvent the word pokemon and to generate all the pictures of pikachu therefore I’m good.

Thirdly, the amount of horrible AI verbiage makes the documentation alone awful to read, I have no temptation to try this.

I mean you only need duckduckgo it, but here’s an example link covering it, here’s the original paper bragging about how RedHat lets the US DoW do much more murder.

The U.S. Air Force and its mission partners are fielding new mission capabilities … to compress the kill chain. … Red Hat® Device Edge embeds captured, analyzed, and federated data sets in a manner that positions the warfighter to use artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) to increase the accuracy of airborne targeting and mission-guidance systems.

I’ve enjoyed Fedora for some time, but I may follow suit, more due to RedHat’s DoW and “kill-cycle” work in Israel than anything else. Would be nice to use an OS I can actually contribute to without at least directly aiding genociders.

I ain’t listening to that. Using more water when cooking rice is shown to help leach out poisonous contaminants.

How about you ban datacentres, golf courses, and vanity lawns instead of advising me to eat more poison. Or fixing water infrastructure so we’re not leaking 3bn litres of water a day? Or implementing a grey water standard, which can cut household water usage by a minimum 20%? Of course, over half of all water is used in agriculture, maybe we could finally look at implementing efficient farming practices? Maybe we could reforest areas to prevent water loss and keep people cool, thus both increasing supply and reducing demand?

Nah, just eat poison and don’t wash.

I didn’t criticise the guy beyond the humorous observation that he worked at companies known for writing rubbish software. I already contribute to more functional protocols, thanks. No need to be an arse about it.

CIFS / Samba? You mean that thing I have never ever in decades of work seen consistently work properly?

a longtime IBM engineer while since 2018 is employed by Microsoft

Right, that tracks.

I mean in all seriousness I’m sure it was useful for some people so RIP. I shall selfishly hope this means we move onto something a bit more functional.

Android is already a Linux kernel. There’s incredibly little barrier for vendors to start selling a Degoogled Android phone, it would be very simple.

We’re in this ecosystem because the profitable manufacturers are busy profiting from you being locked in - pleading for manufacturers to make “open” phones is an unfortunately vain endeavour. Legal intervention is the only way this might get fixed, but governments also like you being locked in because it makes surveillance super easy, so…