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Cake day: June 23rd, 2023

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  • https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/meetings/jha/2024/06/13/

    In public session, the presidency will inform ministers about the state of play of a legislative proposal to combat child sexual abuse. The proposed EU law would make it mandatory for internet companies to alert the authorities about online child sexual abuse on their platforms.

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    eff.org

    The Belgian proposal was debated behind closed doors, and civil society groups have only recently been able to even evaluate and discuss the proposal after it was leaked to the press.

    A bit of a discrepancy here between how it’s framed, “we’re having public discussions” vs getting information from a leaked document marked as “Classification: Top Secret – For official use only” - I wonder who’s telling the truth here, the EFF, or a Council of EU governments that secretly want to implement mass surveillance.

    Also funny how it’s always the same playbook. “Lets do this under the under the guise of combating child sexual abuse.”



  • There should be, that’s just how fiber works. If they lay a 10 Gb line in the street, they’ll probably sell a 1 Gb connection to a 100 households. (Margins depend per provider and location)

    If they give you an uncapped connection to the entire wire, you’ll DoS the rest of the neighborhood

    That’s why people are complaining “I bought 1Gb internet, but I’m only getting 100Mb!” - They oversold bandwidth in a busy area. 1Gb would probably be the max speed if everyone else was idle. If they gave everyone uncapped connections the problem would get even worse





  • I always went for bigger phones. Like I had the original Samsung Galaxy Note (This was back in 2011, so everyone was making fun of me “why is your phone so big?!”)

    Now I use a S23 Ultra, which is practically the same as the original note, even comes with a stylus pen again)

    I just like having a lot of screen space. As long as it still fits in my pocket, why would I want a super small phone




  • What benefits to “AI supremacy” are there?

    I wasn’t saying there was any, I was saying there are benefits to the race towards it.

    In the sense of - If you could pick any subject that world governments would be in a war about - “the first to the moon”, “the first nuclear” or “first hydrogen bomb”, or “the best tank” - or “the fastest stealth air-bomber”

    I think if you picked a “tech war” (AI in this case) - Practically a race of who could build the lowest nm fabs, fastest hardware, and best algorithms - at least you end up with innovations that are useful


  • For all our sakes, pray he doesn’t get it

    It doesn’t really go into why not.

    If governments are going to be pouring money into something, I’d prefer it to be in the tech industry.

    Imagine a cold-war / Oppenheimer situation where all the governments are scared that America / Russia / UAE will reach AI supremacy before {{we}} do? Instead of dumping all the moneyz into Lockheed Martin or Raytheon for better pew pew machines - we dump it into better semiconductor machinery, hardware advancements, and other stuff we need for this AI craze.

    In the end we might not have a useful AI, but at least we’ve made progression in other things that are useful


  • Well @ @TheGrandNagus and @SSUPII - I think a lot of Firefox users are power users. And a lot of the non-power Firefox users, like my friends and family, they’re only using Firefox because I recommended them to use it, and I installed all the appropriate extensions to optimize their browser experience.

    So if Firefox alienates the power users - who are left? I’m gonna move on to Waterfox or Librewolf, but they are even more next-level obscure browsers. My non-tech friends know about Chrome, Edge, and Firefox, so I can convince them to use one of those… But I kinda doubt I can get them to use Librewolf. If I tell them Firefox sucks now too, they’ll probably default to chrome


  • If AI integration is to happen […], then this to me seems to be the best way to do it.

    Well, to me the best way to do it would be for Mozilla to focus on being the best bare-bone, extendable browser.

    Then - if people want an AI in their browser - people should be able to install an AI extension that does these things. It’s a bit annoying they’re putting random stuff like Pocket, and now an AI in the core of the browser, instead of just making it an option to install extendable