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“Lie” implies they have some kind of agency. They’re basically a Plinko board.

Not buying a car made after 2018.

Not buying electronics made after 2025.

Simple as.

I’ll figure out a way to bypass this or switch to Linux entirely.

And then probably end up in a camp.

It’s data collection like you mentioned in your original post, and it uses the same sort of approach to ingesting that data as an LLM does for text.

As for a valid use of LLMs: Natural language searching (with cited sources) is a use case that it’s already doing. This is especially useful in highly technical fields where the end users have the expertise to vet responses but there’s way too much data for a human to parse.

But one big LLM trained on everything isn’t that.

Another one that makes sense is having an AI monitor system stats and “learn” patterns in them, then alert a human when it “thinks” there’s an anomaly.

You mean I can voluntarily not participate in society?

BRB installing Linux everywhere.

lol okay

I hadn’t even thought of those. Are Samsung fridges going to verify my age?

Adding that nonsense to enterprise Linux distros will be hilarious to watch.

And Steam can just sell blank hardware and let you install some distro you find on the Internet. Streetlight did that with one of their albums.

And what happens when someone forks fedora and removes it for their own machine. Who’s the manufacturer then?

Linus Torvalds is the closest thing Linux has to a manufacturer

Glasses are like lingerie: They’re not for during, but before

I’ve heard that the term “son of a gun” has a similar origin.

See, when a sailing vessel would visit port all the whores would row out to meet it. They’d be hauled into the gun ports and… ply their wares.

Since they didn’t know who in the gun crew was the father, their boys were “sons of a gun”

They make record players that use lasers so they don’t slowly wear down the grooves

A lot of times encryption “at rest” is just encrypting the partition the DB is sitting on. There are options for encrypting the database when it’s in use, but if you don’t set up the right access controls the on-the-fly decryption can have it show up as plaintext.

The best option for this is to do the decryption/encryption in the application, so even if they get the DB credentials for the app user it’s still encrypted. One disadvantage is that you can’t do searches in the DB anymore.

Of course, all of these are in increasing level of difficulty and adding them after the fact becomes a more daunting task the longer you put it off.

I used to work at a “Big Data” company that sold browsing data to a ton of companies. One problem the dev team ran into was that the standard ad-blocking plugins that they’d install on their machines also blocked our stuff, so my support team would have to inform them of bugs.

Lots of fun stories from that job.

They tried that but as spam filters got more prevalent people would miss things.

Then you have the threads where some replies to all and then everyone else replies to all telling them not to reply all.

I think it’s a great use for the fediverse. Government institutions have their own mastodon servers.

I missed out on a lot of communication for my kids’ extracurriculars because they were only on Facebook and I don’t use it. It’s infuriating, but less infuriating than the other platforms that a couple of the groups used to attempt to communicate schedules and requirements.

It’s ridiculous that this sort of thing isn’t a solved problem. Schools need to communicate with parents in an effective way, yet none of the platforms I’ve used work well. I’ve been in tech for decades and I still have trouble with their shitty UI.

I’ve had a customer ask for me by saying “get us that guy who looks like Gilfoyle, he’s the only one who seems to know what’s going on.”

Though I am polyamorous, have been associated with the occult, have long hair and a beard, and wear rectangular glasses, so I can understand how they’d be mistaken.

I knew from the very first scene. Some company had just got bought so they had a big party and paid Kid Rock to play. But everybody was in polos and khakis and wanted to have quiet conversations and Kid gave up halfway through the first song.

I was at that party. It wasn’t Kid Rock, but I was at that party