A computer was anyway. These services arent necessarily reading our messages personally, but the algorithms parse them for ad placements or whatever, and it probably got flagged as being unreadable.

Edit: Some services that arent intending to be secure chat might not like the idea of encrypted content on their system either. What is it? What are they now harboring which wasn’t their intent at all? Like if you made a lemmy community and only had encrypted messages on it, a mod from the server might have something to say about it.

Pretty sure I read stories in the past of Google or someone like them banning people who were sending pre encrypted messages over one of their chat services.

Whoever had that idea probably got a promotion and raise.

There’s usually more than 1 way to do something.

Sometimes people get caught up on wanting to do it the best way, and then they just dont do it at all.

If there’s an easier, less ideal, maybe slightly more wasteful way to do something, and its the difference between doing it or not, just do it that way and dont get hung up on perfection if the alternative is not getting it done.

If its something that needs to be built into a habit, it might be enough to get you started, and then maybe you can move on to the better way in the future.

Edit: just to clarify, often times the outcome is the same but people get caught up on the how vs just getting it done. Don’t get caught up on the best how if there’s another way that’ll also work that you will find easier to do.

That was dumb as fuck wow.

Not that it was every in question in this war but…

Wow that is such an elegant solution! Definitely a principal level solution!

No wonder its been working 3 years.

Well done!

“don’t execute a command in the terminal you found online or were told to run, unless you understand fully what it does.”

We should start littering the internet with bad commands with all sorts of comments saying it works amazingly for its purpose so the AI will keep destroying things if let to run unchecked.

You should always turn off / reboot your phone if you expect it to be potentially be taken

Simply being locked after being unlocked once leaves the phone in a less secure state than if it was fully off or just rebooted and never unlocked.

If you need your phone to record the interaction, then you might only get as far as locking it, but always strive to shut it down.

That only works if your initials are D.T.

Tusk is safe at least.

The same principal has been tried with crypto mining to reduce waste / cost.

Capture the heat and use it elsewhere like to heat the building.

Downside for heating buildings though is unless you’re doing it somewhere where it’s always cold, you eventually still end up with heat you can’t use, and at that scale, there’s better heating choices. I heard the city of vancouver was looking into heating a swimming pool with it, at least that would have a constant use.

Then you still end up with the issue of the mining cards only being good for 2-3 years before the tech improves and they aren’t mining efficiently anymore, which then just leads to more e-waste.

But imagine if the cards themselves had a really long useful life or were super cheap and easily recyclable, we could put miners in things like space / baseboard heaters which were already going to be doing resistive heating and then gain something from that instead of just heat.

Imagine doing something like having a GPU based baseboard heater that folds proteins whenever it’s on, where it doesn’t become completely obsolete in a couple years. If the chips were cheap enough it’d be way better than just doing heat.

Edit: Taking the idea further… imagine if governments mandated reuse of the heat generated by data centers instead of piping it outside? You want to build a data center here? Build a public pool and heat the building / water with your excess heat. Then that commercial zone also gets a fitness center for anyone nearby.

Hopefully there are people still working on non-llm type general AI, because i don’t think we’re ever going to get there with LLMs. The architecture just seems wrong to ever get there, and even Altman has said they probably can’t solve hallucinations. We can probably go very far down this road and get them pretty good, but it’s the wrong road if you want a real AI.

It looks like your talking about CSAM! Please send details for your private event to 123 MPs house address. Should you fail to do so you will be arrested on CSAM charges.

Well that’s awesome. I had heard Germany did a ZKP solution, I didn’t realize it was EU law.

I don’t really expect anywhere but the EU to do that though. ZKP are really the only way to do it if it’s going to be done.

but this doesn’t necessarily mean that the identity verification company is reporting to the government which people have initiated age verification, or for which websites.

Oh sweet summer child.

Unless it’s designed to not be capable of doing it (its not), they are doing it and it’s the intended plan.

I didn’t know, had to look it up, 17th biggest.

I’d prefer my measurements in giraffes

If you didn’t actually finish high castle, it just keeps getting good weirder.

That would never happen to me, there’s no problem, I don’t know what you’re going on about.

People don’t even understand the value of an immutable digital object and how it never existed before bitcoin either. They can’t wrap their head around that having some inherent value even if small, and how that can transform the world, even if not bitcoin specifically

I saw an article that said it was to its lowest price since June 2022, got a chuckle out of that one.