Or even better, open the on-prem AI portal and type something like "I just got a suspicious call from client X, but I am on a lunch break. Call him and use a fake video of me. Ask him if what he said is true..."
Section 230 is the reason for the current situation. It allows youtube to host many videos and the internet became centralized. Then they decide that they will censor someone or some topic they don't like.
If tomorrow they remove section 230, and youtube cease to exist as is right now and everyone starts to self-host it will become quite impossible to deplatform anyone.
Without Section 230, self-hosters have to choose between screaming into the void or playing Russian roulette. You'd either have just your own content that you'd have to self police, or have a comment section where anybody could post something "objectional" that you would be responsible for. Online conversations would effectively be over, right down to email providers once a chain letter gets going that says something the authorities don't like. Section 230 might enable some bad things, but then again, so does free speech. The cost is worth it.
My point is that it couldn't. Comments, regardless of where hosted, would be radioactive without S230. At best, we could vote on links, but there could effectively be no conversation because hosting it would be too risky.
I remember with nostalgia the mp3blaster. I spent years listening to it in my terminal. At one point I used only cli without graphical desktop on slackware and one of my TTYs was dedicated to it.
Turns out these times are forever gone - never to come back. The huge disappointment when I tried this on the first run to play a mp3 file from my local disk and it initiated outbound connection. Why a local CLI player needs outbound TCP connection to play a local file from my local disk?!?! The answer was in the source. It is called telemetry. Back then when I used mp3blaster we used to call this spyware, but the times had changed since then.
Back in the day I used to use mpg123. It's still available, but most of the time today I use mpv (successor to "mplayer", handles video too, opens a separate window, zero chrome) or ffplay, since they have wider format support.
No playlist or even file management - they do show id3tags, that's about it. No telemetry, SaaS chicanery or "improvement" upgrades every few days, either.
I just woke up this morning and I am amazed. I am taking all my nasty words back and I starred the project and followed the author who reacted so fast to my dull negative feedback and this reaction shows how much he cares about the project.
My issue with telemetry is that 99% of software ends up not using it. Why have it? And definitely don't have it by default. Your users will come tell you what they want, making telemetry useless, especially when it's an OSS project you're mostly building for yourself.
Except that telemetry can give you more complete (and foolproof) information than what users report. But yeah, that could also be solved by having debug info that users can attach to their report, the app doesn't have to "call home" for that...
I agree, but it's a cost/benefit thing. Most OSS projects aren't big enough to do anything with the telemetry, so you're just paying in goodwill for no reason.
IP address (which can be geolocated) along with a unique identifier is not considered "personal data"? This is basically a tracking cookie. It also seems to use HTTP, which is itself widely fingerprintable based on what request headers it sends.
I saw it, it is NOT spyware. It just sends a random UUID. It is just a personal disappointment for the fact that it is something so simple as a console player and yet connects somewhere. But that's just me. I grew up in other times.
Also I just compiled mp3blaster and I am listening to it again. So cool!
Few years ago a huge NRA database was left public with admin/1234 or similar by the Bulgarian NRA. They government fined itself some non-trivial amount, then in the source/destination IBAN they put the same value and paid the fine. They managed to find someone to blame and it was not the person who left the database but the person who found it. Turns out that if you leave the PII of a whole country open to the public it is not your fault and you get to keep your cozy job. It is already unlawful to access that, so if someone access it - it is his fault - he broke the law.
Edit, i checked the facts: The Bulgarian government said that the it should pay too much to itself, and appealed the fine for few years until it somehow expired. And the guy (20 year at that time) they accused was later acquitted after they tried to ruin his life.
At least you think that this is satire, until the author receives a DMCA from one of the big corps saying that he leaked the transcript of their last meeting
Linux users are still behind on this innovation. Big corporations with money can move much faster. The closest I got on Fedora was a "donate to the author" button in a game launcher I installed last week. I saw it once. That pretty much exhausts my "modern platform" experience for the past few months.
Still waiting for the copilot button in cat | grep.
I bought my PC like 2 weeks ago and ran my ram at 5800 to test its limits and forgot to lower it. After few strange crashes of my fedora desktop - super strange behavior, apps refuse start/stop, can't even escape to the console... I ran memtest today and it lit all red in the first 2 minutes! Then I log in to my stable desktop at 5200 MT and I see this in the front HN page! What are the chances?!!
I am 100 percent certain that one of my domains i registered before and now I am still looking for lawyer to help me sue my government for blocking my domain for something I never commit and refusing to remove the block - just be cause they can. short .com domain! I even paid it for 2 years because I was willing to commit.
Now it is easy to blame AI for any mistakes, I remember back in the days we had to convince our PM that notepad++ was at fault for the bad code and the whole team should keep their jobs.
I was in the shop for new PC today and decided on 9950x3d but I don't know how I opened HN just before the checkout and now I am a happy owner of intel 14900!
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