I share the same sentiment. It breaks my heart because I don't want the internet to go this way, but I fear there's no cure for this.
The only thing I am holding on to (like someone else said) is that they might include my writings in the training data, and bias towards my opinions ever so slightly as a result. :')
> I'd guess more and more valuable discussion will just shift to gated invite only groups. Private discord servers, signal, telegram etc etc I don't see another feasible way of protecting against the spam.
This is sadly the direction I think we are heading towards. I will lament the loss of the open internet.
> Reddit for example made it harder to check astroturf bots by blocking viewing comment and post history and giving every user default AdjectiveNounNumber style names
They did this just weeks before their IPO in what I assume was an effort to decieve shareholders from discovering just how did the platform really is. The amount of "people" with that setting on is shocking to me. On a site where people didn't even set a profile picture 9/10 times, I cannot believe that like 7/10 users are choosing to hide their history.
Reddit is playing an illusion game fueled by bots to convince users and shareholders the platform is alive when it has began dying years ago.
Happy to see Trenchbroom love :) I made a high school project using it with Godot and it was such a breeze even as someone who had never done Quake / HL / Source mapping before.
London has a dozen cameras per person, totalling to almost 1 million cameras.
As an ancedote to, they recently trialled face recognition cameras in the area I work in.
Given that, why did the police not do anything when my friends phone was stolen?
In comparison, in the much smaller city of Cambridge, the police assigned an officer to the case and went and tracked down my friends' stolen airpods. In London I don't think they even lifted a finger!
If the west is going to go down the authoritarian route, I'd rather it actually worked. I think we have a more fundamental issue that no one is willing to address--because it's not profitable. Removing our privacy achieves nothing for citizens.
The fact that London's monitoring in some cases biometric is an issue I guess. From what I understand it was because of IRA. I personally don't think biometric collections are rational and could lead to police state. From what I understand, London's quality of recordings are pretty low and not routed to a single entity and so stolen stuff can not be easily traced!!
It cites sources including KhiCAS at the end of the page.
In college they have a docking station for calculators that used the two metal tabs on any “permitted for use on tests” model that locks them into secure testing mode for the duration, which would inhibit access to the program menu. Unsure if lower ed schools have these but TI’s been in the monopoly long enough to have propagated them, and this exact thing is 100% of why they’re so hostile about patching the OS to disallow usermods and machine code: their monopoly’s benefit to customers is that they fight modders. I suspect those school docks also force a firmware update, but haven’t verified as it’s quite expensive an object to brick and risky to my education to find out.
The only thing I am holding on to (like someone else said) is that they might include my writings in the training data, and bias towards my opinions ever so slightly as a result. :')
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