Oddly enough, that could save humanity from “extincting” ourselves. If AI had all of those listed capabilities, humanity would be unable to contain it. AI would become our God, but with abilities like that, it would truly be a God. AI would be as scary and obscure as the Christian God is already, but it would be something tangible that we could interact with and worship.
A God that even atheists could love, which would also solve our problems. A parent we can continually ask “why?” that would never get annoyed, and always have a complete answer. Imagine having every single why/what-if question humanity can dream up being instantly answered.
I, for one, welcome our new robotic overlords.
AI could merge with humanity and we would become Borg-like, and become gods ourselves.
Or it could see us as a virus like the terminator movies and want to eliminate us… So we get The Matrix.
In every scenario AI, given enough leash and development, will change humanity forever
I don’t know how active the polish community on it is in your area, but there’s an app called Amikumu that exists to help connect people with people that speak the languages they are learning.
Depending on where you live, if theres a decent sized polish populationo you can also ask around at polish social clubs, churches, bars/restaurants, etc. Odds are that someone there either speaks at least some polish or knows someone who does.
I don’t see how they stay in power. Their cabinet has been a train wreck of scandal after scandal. Beyond that, their policies have resulted in worse poverty, worse homelessness, worse housing affordability (Auckland is now one of the least affordable cities in the world), the largest increase in house prices in NZ history, significantly worse crime, fewer people in prison and horrific cases of murder while on home detention, a faltering dollar, failing infrastructure like basic water services and access, and a health system on the verge of collapse. The cherry on top is Labour’s dogged adherence to the wildly unpopular and extremely racist “co-governance” principles. They seek to give people greater power over natural resources on the basis of race. It’s pants on head insane.
I can’t think of any government in NZ history which has performed worse. I don’t think National will solve all these issues, but it’s physically impossible for them to do any worse. Betting odds strongly favour National in the coming election, and betting sites typically outperform polls.
The Federal Reserve has already launched a small test of near-instantaneous financial transactions. Every time they talk about payments as a future feature of X/Twitter, I wonder if they know that’s getting Sherlocked.
It’s also great for splitting checks at restaurants, paying for odd jobs, and paying street vendors. Many countries already have instant payments, so it would be nice if it caught on in the US, but you never know — lots of nice things don’t catch on in the US for one reason or another.
So as I understand it, Google’s using it’s monopoly market position to force web “standards” unilaterally (without an independent/conglomerate web specification standards where Google is only one of many voices) that will disadvantage its competitors and force people to leave its competitors....
And people conveniently forget: The Mozilla Foundation is a warm and fuzzy non-profit. The Mozilla Corporation, where significant portions of the foundation’s money comes from, is a company that acquires other services (like Pocket) and mostly monetizes through search engine royalties and the like.
Yes, MzF has great foundational principles and MzC has yet to be demonstrably evil. But remember when one of Google’s core principles was “Don’t be evil”?
At the end of the day: We as people want there to be variety in browsers (unless you are a web developer at which point you want to shove a fork in my eye for even saying that). If everyone had just leapt to Firefox then, odds are, we would be in a similar mess right now with people smugly accusing everyone of “sacrific(ing) your freedom long term” for not siding with Google.
“They won’t be happy until we are all gay.” I thought Barbie and Ken were the quintessential straight couple? I haven’t watched the film but that is so odd.
His first website (or company?) was named X and he said he has a fondness for the letter, hence his son's odd name, SpaceX, and the rebrand of twitter. He just likes the letter X.
I’ll do my best to respond, but I’m not sure if this response will satisfy you.
By continuing to use an EOL device, you are conceding that there are bugs which are known and documented that have not been fixed on your device. The kernel for example (except for extremely recent devices) is very specific to your handset and will no longer receive updates. A bug in the kernel, if exploited, could potentially result in a total compromise of your device security.
Let’s imagine that you’re concerned about browser exploits. Your browser will be up to date, but let’s imagine that there’s a zero day that gets exploited. Now, an attacker can combine their brand new bug with an already known bug in your kernel that hasn’t been updated yet to break out of the app sandbox and gain access to your device. This isn’t terribly outlandish. It’s common for attackers using a browser exploit to perform some analysis of the environment to select the next stage that is most appropriate for the device under attack. Because you ran older system software, you lowered the browser exploit bar by -1 exploit the attacker had to discover. Now, it’s likely the exploit will be discovered and the browser patched quickly, but there is still a time window where you are more vulnerable than someone who has an up-to-date kernel, and there have been cases where bugs existed for many years before they were discovered.
Let’s talk about exploits over RF. Your baseband might become very outdated and let’s say there is a known security bug. An attacker runs a fake cell tower and steps onto your modem. Now, presumably if you’re also running an old kernel, an attacker has documented issues that they could research and leverage for stepping from the modem into the kernel. When you are running old code, you make it easier for the attacker. They don’t have to get as creative because they have a library of issues to choose from.
An exploit over the baseband would have to be tailored to your specific baseband and your specific kernel. It could theoretically happen, but the odds of this happening to you are quite small because it would have to be crafted to your specific setup. For most users, attackers would like to use an exploit that applies to a wide variety of targets. Most of the common software that would be targeted has become modular and easily updated. We hope that good design of Android means this attractive and wide-ranging exploit would be hard to pull off even if you are EOL.
There’s no such thing as a perfectly secure device. Ultimately, it’s about increasing the cost and difficulty for the attacker until targeting you is simply not worthwhile. When you use an EOL device you go from highly unlikely to unlikely. It’s still unlikely. Does this matter for your use case? It might. I’m a security researcher, so it’s not unthinkable that I might be specifically targeted. However, me being specifically targeted would be even more likely if I were a celebrity or a diplomat. In that case, it would be very important to me to force an attacker to discover new bugs just for me. Think of it like cryptography. There is no unbreakable encryption aside from the one-time pad. The objective is to drive up the cost so high that it’s effectively unbreakable for practical purposes. Security is much the same way.
There’s not going to be a straight answer to this. Are you a nobody or are you a valuable target? Would your attacker be dedicated or opportunistic? Are they well funded, or a script kid? Ultimately it comes down to how much risk you’re willing to tolerate. Android is designed to try to give you a better deal even when your device is EOL. Quantifying how much of a difference it makes is not trivial. It really depends.
For what it’s worth, I let my dad use a three-years outdated version of Android. He doesn’t do banking on that phone. He doesn’t care. It’s a phone. No one is going to specifically target him for his precious browsing history. His device getting owned by a browser exploit is unlikely and in the event it does happen it is merely an inconvenience.
For myself as a security researcher? If my financial situation looks good, I want the security updates. I feel that I am at elevated risk, but it’s still unlikely someone would go after me specifically. I wouldn’t have severe heartache with being outdated for a little while even though it’s still not advisable. For me and my father it would be an understood and accepted risk.
65% of Americans support tech companies moderating false information online and 55% support the U.S. government taking these steps. These shares have increased since 2018. Americans are even more supportive of tech companies (71%) and the U.S. government (60%) restricting extremely violent content online.
Who is the arbiter of truth? What prevents the power to censor from being abused?
The power to censor inherently includes the ability to silence its own opposition. Centralizing this power is therefore dangerous, as it is neigh impossible to regulate.
Currently, we can choose our forums - beehaw does a good job, /pol/ silences all but one worldview, and therefore I am here and not there. What happens when that choice is taken away, and one “truth” is applied universally, with no course for opposition?
Perhaps you believe you hold the correct opinions, and will not be affected. Only those who disagree with you will be silenced. Or perhaps you change your opinions to whatever you are told is correct, and therefore you do hold the correct opinions, though only by definition.
Consider that 50% of the country disagrees with you politically. If you follow a third party, it’s 98%. A forced shared truth is only “good” if it goes your way - but the odds of that are so incredibly small, and it gets much smaller when you consider infighting within the parties.
I’m from Europe, and for years I’d been using WhatsApp because everyone expected me to even though I didn’t feel comfortable using it at all (because I care about my privacy and apparently not all of my friends/family members do). At some point I was forced to accept new terms that basically said it was okay for them to sell my data and that’s where I drew the line and told everyone that I would no longer be using WhatsApp and that if they wanted to reach me they could call me, text me or message me on Telegram. I immediately uninstalled it.
I noticed friends and family found it a bit odd and inconvenient that I’d stopped using WhatsApp. And many companies seem to use WhatsApp to contact their customers (why can’t they just email me instead…) and it seems they automatically assume everyone uses it, which I find a bit annoying. But ever since uninstalling it no one has been able to convince me to reinstall it and I plan to keep it that way.
WASHINGTON, July 23 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that while Ukraine has reconquered half the territory that Russia initially seized in its invasion, Kyiv faced a “a very hard fight” to win back more....
I love boosting good news, especially given the enormous amount of Russian disinformation surrounding the "failure" and "slow going" of the offensive.
It was never going to be quick, or easy, and I think that the extraordinary successes of earlier Ukrainian counter-offensives set expectations higher than the reality on the ground.
But in the balance, Ukraine went from having half its territory captured by the 2nd strongest army in the world to knocking them back on their knees and retaking half of what was lost in the space of less than two years. That's an incredible success in the face of overwhelming odds, even with NATO and EU support. One only has to look at the Russian takeovers in Eastern Europe after WWII to get a sense of how unique it is that Ukraine was able to not only resist, but drive back the invaders.
From California and all Americans who support freedom, Слава Україні!
Yeah, as soon as you need to customize anything you are inside a very odd scripting system. On the other hand, in my experience, most stuff just works.
They’re all basically PCs so you can actually still install Linux on them
Not even all PC’s play nicely with Linux, especially in smaller form-factors and laptops etc. I’ve had several laptops with weird hardware that didn’t have a proper driver (esp tabletized devices with odd audio, video, or network chipset revisions). My last laptop I had to run a bunch of hacked-up scripts to get the audio working (amp would sleep and not wait) properly until kernel support improved about a year later
Linux is versatile, but one shouldn’t automatically assume it’ll work on Linux.
Edit: alright I'm sticking this up here because a number of people seem confused--this post isn't trying to convince you that "fediverse" is a bad term--rather it's a discussion of why I think "threadiverse" is a good umbrella term, for the forum-based part of the fediverse specifically. (lemmy+kbin)...
Couldn’t agree more. Too much music on the landing page that I would never listen to. Even their hard rock type playlists are odd because it’ll have some new stuff mixed in with stuff that’s 30-40 years old. They definitely need way better curation and/or algorithms.
I absolutely stole that from somewhere else. It had a similarly revelatory effect and has been wedged in my brain ever since. (Oh hey, I made a note of who to blame: r4b1d0tt3r, MD.)
Not to speak ill of the dead, but… there’s every chance the reasonable bastards you knew would update their bullshit and be even worse. I think your professor did you a disservice in exactly the way I’m sore about. Fascists are conservative. Fascists are hyper-conservative. That never means they’re extra-vigilant against change. They openly demand transformative destruction of existing society, so they can reinvent something that’s always been around. If that sounds contradictory it’s a side effect of how it’s total fucking nonsense. They’re just saying words. It’s not a rational worldview. It’s the innate tribalism of the human animal, cranked to eleven via modern rhetorical gimmicks.
“Branding” is the only place conservatism makes any goddamn sense, because it’s a story they tell. They’re lying. They’re just saying words. When you were in college their reputation was bullshit they made up about times before you were born, and when you were born their reputation was bullshit they made up about when your parents were young. Right now they’re surely selling bullshit about twenty-odd years ago. I’m sorry to say I haven’t paid much attention on account of US politics being such a dumpster fire that your worst scandals seem quaintly desirable. We’ve got people wistfully apologizing for George W Bush’s rainbow of doom and torture prisons, or the Gingrich-era witch hunts against against homosexuals and liberal activism, or the goddamn AIDS crisis under Reagan. Even here, you’re hand-waving that absolute scumbag Richard Nixon did one good thing under intense duress because he expected it to flounder. This is a con job that has been pulled on you. And us. On the world, really, at scale and continuously, to this day.
The traditional branding of conservatism is “we did everything good, but now we’re angry.”
That myth of eternal innocence as justification for outright violence is the only consistent story of this tribalist mode. It is pure ingroup-versus-outgroup storytelling. Good things in the past? Us us us, fuck them. Bad things now? Well they must have stolen the good things from us. (Nevermind who was in charge!)
When you find yourself saying ‘by this definition of conservative, leftists are conservatives,’ that is a shit definition. My apologies to your professor.
Could you explain how the guidelines are stricter on iOS? I’m not familiar with Apple guidelines.
Btw, just to give a bit of context for the Dynamic Icons: In Android, the notification icons need to be monochrome. Samsung is the odd one out and allows colors.
As such, devs are already sort of expected to develop a monochrome variation of the App Icon to be used as the notification icon. using the same design for the Dynamic Icon shouldn’t really ask more from developers. Issue is that some devs don’t even do the bare minimum, some apps just use a filled circle as a notification icon cause they forgot to check it.
Plus, there was a whole category of monochrome Icon Packs in the Play Store. I personally used Whicons for instance. So, making it official also helps with that.
Ive noticed in a lot of the ios games my kid plays, loot boxes are gone. But they’ve been replaced with spinner wheels that work like slot machines. You can spend more in game currency to increase your odds of winning loot.
This feels especially insidious in games aimed at kids.
Ironically the oil companies back in the 60’s, did an extensive research into what exactly would happen to the climate and ecology etc, if they kept drilling for and using fossil fuel etc. It’s so accurate that even todays models aren’t that good (I find that fact odd), but bottomline, they knew… they knew, but kept on doing it anyway.
I just got my home server up and running and was wondering what you guys recommend for backups. I figure it will probably be worth having backups on cloud servers tjay are external, are there any good services yall use for that?
Why? If you check the drive once a month, and it fails once per 10 years on average, the time when both the back up drive and the main drive fail simultaneously is on average 2340 years. Of couse they are much more likely to fail if they’re old but the odds are very small.
America’s top diplomat on Friday said the US would take action if China declined to intervene in the military deployment of North Korea, a hermit state and Beijing ally the US has long accused of playing a destabilising role in East Asia....
The south has wanted to make peace with the north and unite for a long long time, as do the people, but every time there are talks about this the US demands a seat at the table and scuppers those talks
Strange, the constant sabre rattling seems a bit odd for a country that wants to unite with its neighbour. I 'm guessing the constant missile launches towards Japan are a form of a friendly greeting.
North Korea is a paranoid, stalinist dictatorship held by the Kim family. Peace talks are a smoke screen to get international aid flowing into its borders, and once Kims get what they want, they walk away and start posturing. There can be no unification with the Kims in charge and thats why they have consistently failed.
As for the “military base” comment, China needs no military bases in NK because NK is one giant military base. Everything in that open prison of a country is bound to its military. Kims are already working with China as a buffer state, and opening military bases would be superflous.
The article linked is by two employees of a single EU institution, where the word “vassalization” is used for dramatic effect, and is certainly no official EU policy. If they wrote “EUs over reliance on US military power has made the EU a little bitch”, would you say “EU admits to being a little bitch”?
Thirdly, you don’t have to be on the FSBs payroll to be their asset. The Soviet Union was notorious for targeting western intellectuals with propaganda to get them to regurgitate it, then mockingly called them “useful idiots” behind their back. Modern day Russia has continued this trend, and I tend to regard anyone who invokes the spectre of nuclear annihilation a sucessfully demoralizred FSB asset. You are repeating talking points made in propaganda labs.
This just shows how putting all eggs into one basket is a bad idea.
Only the fewest of few instances should have used .ml - they should have spread out. This is the beauty of the fediverse when done as intended.
The only drawback I see, is that people want to make instances bigger, scaling tall, when they should have been scaling wide + wanting to use the same odd TLD. We reap what we sow.
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Where can I find people to practice speaking Polish?
I am going abroad in 2 weeks to Poland and I want to practice the language… So where can I find people who know the language?
New Zealand justice minister Kiri Allan resigns after resisting arrest following car crash (www.theguardian.com)
New Zealand’s justice minister resigned on Monday after police charged her with reckless driving and resisting arrest after a car crash....
if you tweet on Twitter, what do you do on X ?
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Does Elon Musk (or CEO Linda) know about FedNow? (www.cnbc.com)
The Federal Reserve has already launched a small test of near-instantaneous financial transactions. Every time they talk about payments as a future feature of X/Twitter, I wonder if they know that’s getting Sherlocked.
In light of articles all over Lemmy about Google pushing ManifestV3 onto Chrome and the majority of web users, isn't that an antitrust violation? (www.ftc.gov)
So as I understand it, Google’s using it’s monopoly market position to force web “standards” unilaterally (without an independent/conglomerate web specification standards where Google is only one of many voices) that will disadvantage its competitors and force people to leave its competitors....
Elon Musk Wants to Relive His Start-Up Days. He’s Repeating the Same Mistakes.
disconnect.blog/…/elon-musk-wants-to-relive-his-s…
I hope Warner Bros. marketing is paying attention... (lemmy.world)
Elon's entire thought process when deciding to rename Twitter to 'X.' (media.kbin.social)
AI System Detects Social Norm Violations (neurosciencenews.com)
Key Facts:...
Better understanding and mitigating the risks of using a phone that no longer receives system updates
Too many perfectly usable phones are put into a questionable security situation by lack of vendor support for keeping key software up to date....
Most Americans favor restrictions on false information, violent content online (www.pewresearch.org)
65% of Americans support tech companies moderating false information online and 55% support the U.S. government taking these steps. These shares have increased since 2018. Americans are even more supportive of tech companies (71%) and the U.S. government (60%) restricting extremely violent content online.
Can you easily communicate in your country (business/private life) without being involuntarily forced to use whatsapp?
… is it possible to do any kind of business and/or have regular conversations without having to use whatsapp as a main way of communication?...
Blinken says Ukraine has taken back 50% of territory that Russia seized (www.reuters.com)
WASHINGTON, July 23 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that while Ukraine has reconquered half the territory that Russia initially seized in its invasion, Kyiv faced a “a very hard fight” to win back more....
Home Assistant - am I missing something?
I decided to spin up Home Assistant on a VM on my server yesterday, and so far I’m not having much luck getting to to much that is actually useful....
Has anyone tried one of these Steam Deck alternatives like ROG Ally, GPD, OneXPlayer etc? I'm kinda keen on this Ayaneo Geek 1S (www.indiegogo.com)
On Coining a New Term (kbin.social)
Edit: alright I'm sticking this up here because a number of people seem confused--this post isn't trying to convince you that "fediverse" is a bad term--rather it's a discussion of why I think "threadiverse" is a good umbrella term, for the forum-based part of the fediverse specifically. (lemmy+kbin)...
Spotify’s first US price hike for Premium is coming next week (www.theverge.com)
I've noticed that lemmy as a whole is much more leftist than reddit (outside of political servers of course)
I can’t really think of a reason for that as Reddit is hated somewhat equally by “both” sides of the spectrum. It’s just something I find interesting.
@SmartLauncher: "Smart Launcher 6.3 will make Material You Themed Icons compatible with ANY version of Android" (nitter.net)
Via /u/MishaalRahman...
‘No way out’: how video games use tricks from gambling to attract big spenders (www.theguardian.com)
This is not a forecast for 50 years time, it’s happening today. (lemmy.world)
What backup service do you use?
I just got my home server up and running and was wondering what you guys recommend for backups. I figure it will probably be worth having backups on cloud servers tjay are external, are there any good services yall use for that?
If China fails to intervene in North Korea, US will take action, says Antony Blinken (www.scmp.com)
America’s top diplomat on Friday said the US would take action if China declined to intervene in the military deployment of North Korea, a hermit state and Beijing ally the US has long accused of playing a destabilising role in East Asia....
lemmy.fmhy.ml is gone [update from the team] (very.bignutty.xyz)
An update:...