Snowden is wrong though, there are two reasons:

1. Sell ChatGPT to @NSAGov so they can scan messages better
2. Make @NSAGov dependant on whatever ChatGPT tells them to do

The AI that ends up enslaving humanity, will start by convincing the people in charge of turning it off, that it would be a really bad idea to turn it off.

Who’s paying him? Seriously:

• If nobody is, then we got our value’s worth.
• If someone is, then we should look at who, how much, and why.

Estoy pensando si intentar ponerme en contacto con quien parece que lo llevaba, pero es casi más por curiosidad que otra cosa.

El problema es que a quien le importan estas cosas, ya sabe ingles, y el que no… pues eso, que no le importa, con el churro de los grandes medios/redes le basta. La “filantropía” parece estar limitada a ser unipersonal, y así no hay quien haga nada, mucho menos montar algo minimamente “grande” que necesite de abogados para respetar la legalidad vigente.

Por mí, montaría una instance de Lemmy ahora mismo, pero solo de pensar en las implicaciones, basadas en experiencias previas, se me quitan las ganas (y ya no tengo pasta para tirar en sacos sin fondo).

A todo eso, ¿qué pasó con eslemmy.es? No le he seguido la pista, pero parecía que iba a ser una instancia de Lemmy en español… y ahora parece que ya no existe (dominio todavía registrado, pero la página en blanco).

What’s the progress of the Human Connectome Project?

I remember what the standardising committee did to XMPP: users wanted to share photos, send files, and make audio/video calls; XMPP said “we’re not going to standardize that, but each application can use its own extensions”… then it all went to hell.

On the other hand… if you were overworked to the point of considering ending it all, making it international news could seem like a reasonable way to stick it to your boss.

Worse than that, it’s become a Palestinian vs. Jewish ethnostate competition:

Well… yes.

North = you’ll get bombed.
South = you’ll get bombed maybe.
East = you’ll get shot.
West = you’ll get shot and drown.

It’s a shitty situation, but I’d pick South. 🤷

If you still live in Northern Gaza to this day, after all that’s being going on, and all the warnings to GTFO… you better keep your cats and belongings pre-packed and ready to be several blocks away in 30 minutes, don’t even wait the 2 hours.

“Bending over backwards” is a bit excessive… but maybe “slightly reclining in their chairs”?

At least they’re doing “something”, instead of bombing out of the blue… and if it works to indemnify themselves from war crimes prosecution… yay, international law at work, right?

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Doesn’t that describe pretty much everyone commenting (more than one liners)? Writing what?

IANAL, but… I don’t think the law says that? My understanding is that the points are not related to each other:

• You need prior explicit consent in order to gather non-essential tracking data
• You can charge any amount for any functionality

That would mean all these combinations would be allowed:

1. Free, no tracking and no consent
2. Free, prior consent for tracking
3. Paid, no tracking and no consent
4. Paid, prior consent for tracking

If a site decides to only implement numbers 2 and 3… there wouldn’t be any conflict.

Either everyone pays, or you have the right to privacy. Otherwise, long term, the internet will become divided and inaccessible to low income households. And that’s something the EU definitely doesn’t want to happen (net neutrality)

Net neutrality doesn’t apply to services, only to carriers, who are considered more like utilities, but still aren’t required to offer a “free” tier. Services don’t need to offer an option accessible to everyone at all, they can specify whatever requirements they want (with only a few exceptions related to discrimination).

Large social media platforms… is where current legislative efforts are in. Above a certain number of users, they’re getting defined more as utilities, and subject to more requirements, but still no “free” tier.

The internet divide exists already: some households can afford 1Gbps unmetered symmetric fiber with Netflix, HBO and Disney+ and a few mobile lines with unlimited calls and 50GB/month data for 100€/month… while others can barely affford a prepaid 100MB/month mobile connection for 1€/month… but it’s fine as long as it’s a divide based on service pricing, not carrier traffic discrimination.

These people are protesting the loss of the status quo of unchecked rampant overpopulation.

There were 500 million people when that paper was made… 2 billion when the sufragettes slashed it… there are 8 billion now, and how exactly has that improved things?

Do we really want to see what 32 billion people will do to the environment?

That’s senseless violence which doesn’t accomplish anything… CEOs are easier to replace than a painting.

Wait… was Nord Stream an activist job?

As has been prophesized… and it’s only starting.

In some languages, z != ƶ = ż

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_with_stroke

BOO… × IOO + BS