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@Research_FTW@sciences.social Well done to Carol. But I think there is more to this. Farage became a household name because of BBC. They promoted him and his ideas.
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@gwynnion@mastodon.social if they could use Claude to delete 25000 lines of code per day and still have a functional service, then that would be something to discuss.
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@davidgerard@circumstances.run @prietschka@mastodon.social Twitter struggled to make money after decades of presence and a lot of users. So I don’t expect bluesky will do any better any time soon.
At the moment it will be monetised it will start losing users.
Unless they only use it as a honeypot for AI training
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@billgoats Why would you jailbreak a kindle? I can load mobi books to it without jail breaking?
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@readbeanicecream@mastodon.social Well, even though you are right the biggest tech corporations in the world rely on the fact that a website is not a text file.
Otherwise they would not be able to track you and show you adds.
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@_elena@mastodon.social Mastodon data are open too….
But yeah blue sky has crypto investors it will be monetised for sure
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@jon@social.vivaldi.net @Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net have been using Vivaldi for a few years now. No issues at all.
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@r3dr3clus3@infosec.exchange Yeah totally on the spot. Maintenance of AI generated services will be such a chore because there is going to be no one having ownership of the code.
No developer with deep understanding
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@paco@infosec.exchange This Monday early prediction capability sounds amazing. Never heard of it before. It must be a new scientific breakthrough.
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@lordof1 A shoe shop requires some manufacturing capacity unless the shoes are imported. In really bad times you will only see services shops, such as the hair parlours, nail parlours and tatoo shops.
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@Mastokarl @noplasticshower @davidaugust I know plenty of old people that would be goners in Greece if it was not for the public health system, with all its issues and delays it has kept them alive.
These are poor people living with pensions 200-300 euro per month.
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@mihamarkic @faliate @davidaugust Eye tests are free in Scotland and NHS advises people to have one every 2 years.
Similarly dentist check ups cost less than 10£ with an X-ray and polish and they are also scheduled at least once per year via NHS. You can of course go in at any time if there is an emergency
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@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe i use AI for spell and syntax checking. my writing style is too informal to be confused with AI text :)
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@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz Afaik each country in the west had a few set of these clocks and they are all connected. There is a method of averaging the time between them on national and international level so the reference time is common.
But I am not sure what happens if one goes offline, can time sync fall back to another country, in the US case potentially Canada?
I am pretty sure some computers could do it but for industrial equipment this may not be possible.
Plus there is no alternative in the US for the radio towers. In Europe we have the German and the British towers.
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@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz Are there any organisations at state level that can provide a similar service? In Europe each state has its own standards institution and they are in sync with each other for redundancy.
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@stevenaleach@sigmoid.social @f_beaudet@cosocial.ca I really believe that 99.99% of people do not realise they can use libreoffice or even an older version of ms office and not need a subscription at all. But all major companies are,going for the subscription based model these days, they don’t want us to own things, they want us to rent them from them.
Perpetual growth hack etc etc
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@smsm1 @LaChasseuse the blades are serrated? this is the first time i see this design...
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@ehashman@cloudisland.nz It will be great for isps with a captive audience. 100% packet traceability 0% privacy.
What are we waiting for
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@marleenstikker Amazing, I bet nobody in the eu saw this coming….
Well it’s time for the eu orgs to switch to eu based tools.
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@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange @robertklaschka@mastodon.online @pluralistic@mamot.fr It’s a bleak political landscape. Greens are the most likeable but Polanski has misled people more than once and he did scam people in the past as well by pretending to be a hypnotist.
He has also misled people more recently by claiming to be a Red Cross ambassador etc.
of course all of these are minor failings compared to Torries level of sleaze, or Reform, or even SNP.
I think Labour is not as much corrupt as incompetent. So there you go a perfect storm.
@Buster I am pretty Jesus pronoun would be them
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@ChrisMayLA6@mastodon.me.uk These type of changes can not proceed unless widespread digital fingerprinting is available, usually by handing over some sort of id.
When that happens then the platforms will be forced to request users to re authenticate regularly.
Then we will have full end to end tacking for everyone. A perfect surveillance society.
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@evan Mozilla yes, Wikipedia no. Wikipedia is a lot more than user traffic. When someone wants to actually check the sources of AI they have to go to the source.
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@evan Yes but only with consent and also share a link to the original for anyone who wants to follow the discussion
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@cmconseils Youtube wins either way. Except when you don’t use YouTube or you download stuff using yt-dl in which case you get to see everything without ads and in this case you win.
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@MorningSong @billgoats Thanks, I haven’t felt the need to change anything like this. I haven’t all my books in calibre and change formats depending on where I want to read them.
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@paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange @Dianora@ottawa.place @W6KME@mastodon.radio @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org Discovered the Chinese vanishing point ones recently. They are so nice
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@evan Interesting, i did not know they were depending so much on user traffic. i stand corrected.
in that case yes Wikipedia will be affected by AI absorbing most user traffic.
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@stevenaleach@sigmoid.social @f_beaudet@cosocial.ca Well most Linux distributions are subscription free even though some are pushing their users to opt in to some kind of subscription such as the Ubuntu extended security updates.
But I think nothing can be compared with the absolute shitshow that is Microsoft.
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