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But then you need to use cloud services to sync with your family/roommates/etc. Not everyone lives alone.

Shopping list, digital post it notes, etc.

People have been sticking important things into fridge doors since there are fridges.

So, if say, Saudi Arabia’s CERT tells them to block a list of reporters accounts, they will gladly do it without demanding any evidence?

So, in summary, Proton will block any account, without any evidence, just because a random CERT says so.

The good dæmons compete with pathogenic bad dæmons, and are essential for the computer’s health.

Currently it works just as frontend for git, but it theoretically supports other backends too. Allegedly Google has their own experimental internal cloud+db based backend for big monorepos.

DB is the definite proof that German efficiency is a lie, but tourists using urban transports in big cities will usually have a good experience. Even the public transports in Berlin have got their shit together in the last few years, even if S-Bahn/DB are still a level below BVG.

If you work in tech in Europe, lots of people are already on mastodon.

That’s the thing, Software Engineers have choices.

Yes, all big companies will do some dubious things.

But then you have big tech that does all those dubious things and is also breaking democratic institutions everywhere with a sledgehammer.

And then you have Palentir, which are literally Hollywood movie villains.

At this point they are light years of their livelihood depending on it. There’s no way they don’t notice where the bombs are falling, they had plenty of time to look around and have decided they don’t care.

They have two types of people:

• Software Engineers and Computer Scientists that don’t care who gets hurt as long as they get to work on their interesting problem. I call them the Wernher von Braun club.
• The ones that are also prospective customers

The Venn Diagram might be close to a circle.

I wish more CEOs would pick up more buzzwords like “Blameless Post Mortems” and SRE, and less buzzwords like “AI” or “web 3.0”.

You are thinking about dignity and imagining a British aristocrat drinking tea from a fine porcelain cup with the pinky held up while plotting world domination. That’s the vernacular meaning of dignity.

In the context of human rights, dignity is the natural right of every single person to be valued and respected for their own sake, and to be treated ethically.

You don’t infringe it by saying that your government is being managed by incompetent or immoral people. You infringe it when you say women belong in the kitchen and not in the office, or that black people are naturally inferior to white people, or that gay people don’t have right to love who they love, etc.

The same way your right to wave your hands ends before they reach other people’s faces, free speech can’t include speech infringing on other people’s dignity (in the legal/philosophical sense).

Regulating speech within this frame is as bad as stopping a bar fight by dragging the instigator away.

I’m on page 12 and I already saw a false equivalence between human learning and AI training.

Because neural networks aren’t known to suffer from model collapse when using their output as training data. /s

Most billionaires are mediocre sociopaths but Elon Musk takes it to the “Emperors New Clothes” levels of intellectual destitution.

Next time just shoot an movie industry exec, the sentence will be the same. /s (mandatory: don’t actually shoot anyone please)

The same legal terms might mean vastly different things in Germany and the US. This is often the case in arbitration and warranty clauses.

EFF’s lawyers don’t have the legal expertise to help a company based in Germany.

I’m betting on Google destroying Google instead.

The main limitation is the VRAM, but I doubt any model is going to be particularly fast.

I think phi3:mini on ollama might be an okish fit for python, since it’s a small model, but was trained on python codebases.