Found the Turkish commenter!

Gelato and pasta-making course.

Already knew how to make pasta, but it was nice to get formally taught. Gelato is stupid easy and instantly makes any dinner fancy AF.

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The curling iron nice way of saying “don’t stick this hot thing in you.”

Yes, but you get that, PLUS you get Google’s invasive surveilance. Rather than using the default Andoid app to track who you talk to, they can do it with iphones.

Read the TOS. They tell you.

https://fi.google.com/about/tos/#google-fi-privacy-notice

Google does Google stuff with your data, and shares it with any Alphabet entities they want. Which means it gets sold and traded like any other data. Sure “not your name” but data enough to 100% identify you, fore sure.

I’ve used RunnerUp and it works well. F-Droid store.

I wish In had thought of this back in September so I could cut out down from a 60-page first draft.

Good question, I expect it would depend on the router manufacturer.

Posting all over social media about the pagan origins of modern Xmas and wishing I knew enough people that were cool to have a proper Saturnalia feast. Because that’s what cool people do.

Also a funny Photoshop holiday card.

Sure, but you can at least start any observations from a clean baseline.

Rather than test, why not just get the firmware from the manufacturer’s site and flash the same firmware? Or update if there’s something new?

What a great point you make: know your threat model, know your environment, act accordingly.

The _nomap suffix prevents Apple devices from automatically mapping a WiFi connection.

Did ya even read the article?

Apple and Google are to blame. Don’t blame the unaware for the sins of the unethical.

Plus, don’t blame me, I hide my SSID and it ends in the magic _nomap that prevents this stupid shit. So wardriving is not exactly a major problem for the informed.

Your premise is a bit flawed here, and I appreciate where you’re coming from with this.

I would say it’s probably true that no human has read every book written by humans. And while reading about those experiences are insightful, any person of any intelligence can go through a full and rich life with lots of introspection and cosmic-level thought without ever reading about how other people experience the same things. If two young kids are abandoned on an island and grow up there into adults, and have the entirety of human knowledge available to them, is that the only way they would be able to experience love or sadness or envy or joy? Of course not. With or without books makes no difference.

Knowledge is not intelligence in this sense. An LLM is no more able to understand the data it’s trained on than Excel understands the numbers in a spreadsheet. If I ask an LLM to interpret Moby Dick for me, it will pick the statistically most likely words to be next to each other based on all the reviews of Moby Dick it’s trained on. If you take an LLM and train it on books with no critiques of books, it would just summarize the book because it doesn’t know what a critique looks like to try and put the words in the right order.

Also, AGI is not well-defined, but emotions are no where in the equation. AGI is about human or better intelligence at cognitive tasks, like math, writing, etc. It’s basically taking several narrow AI systems specialized on one task each and combining them in a single system. AGI is not “the singularity” or whatever. It’s a commercially viable system that makes money for wealthy people.

The GDPR isn’t universal. It applies to EU and EEA residents only, it’s an EU regulation. Ukraine isn’t in either. Don’t take it personally, doesn’t apply to me either. Wish it did.

If you’re posting this somewhere that anyone else can see it, then it’s going to get scraped. There no corner of the internet where you can post stuff and expect it to just sit there. People scrape Patreon, people scrape FB and IG, which require logins and can limit who sees what. People scrape the fediverse. Short of a Whatsapp or Signal group with like 10 people, it’s going to get scraped.

I suggest you find a balance with what you want to share and who is going to see it. Ask yourself why others want to see what you share, and why you feel they want to see it, then understand you have to take the risk of loss of privacy with anything you post. As others have said, if you don’t want it online, then it should never be typed in the first place.

You’re correct that no one cares about 1) users, 2) the GDPR, 3) the prospect of €5 million fines 10 years from now under the GDPR. If there’s any way around that, such as you not being physically in the EU when sending this email, or the company not being based in the EU, then it’s an excuse for everyone not to care. Truthfully, the Irish DPC is correct - you and this company are not subject to EU laws any more than had the President of Mexico sending this email. GDPR will not help you until you cross the border into Poland to send the email.

In case it helps, I went through the list of US data brokers, one by one removing my spouse and me from their lists. A lot of time it came down to the same thing, blast emailing support@whatever.com and making the request. 2-6 weeks later, I might get a response. Many required going back over and over to jump through hoops. I still have no guarantee the data is deleted, and in many cases it’s not deleted but just “not published.”

This is why all users, all people online who care about privacy, must maintain proactive defense of their data. There are no data police to lock up the bad guys. Once your data is gone its gone for good. It must be protected before it’s lost, not after.

Functionally, no. It’s like the no tracker request in browsers - only the stupid ones would honor that.

There’s research. Theres a link to a 2022 paper in this article.

https://www.petmd.com/dog/general-health/how-many-words-does-a-dog-know

One more

https://www.forbes.com/sites/scotttravers/2024/03/29/dogs-understand-our-words-more-than-they-let-on-science-reveals/

There’s also a whole mess of people who have taught dogs and cats to use buttons that say a word to have 2-way communication. So the dog will go press the button that says “outside” when they want to go out. Some get an active vocabulary of dozens of words.

What I love from these people is that dogs say exactly like what you think dogs would say. Outside, food, hi!, love, play and the like. Cats get bitchy. There’s a few instances where multiple cats will have a button for “litter box” or similar. When you tell the cat something it didn’t like, it goes over and presses “litterbox” as a kind of F you.