_cryptagion [he/him]

What an unbelievably optimistic opinion piece.

Not even that. There’s decades of indie music from around the world on Spotify. I would be surprised if more than a few percent of the 200 million or so songs they scrapped metadata for are AI.

Nobody knows that. We haven’t downloaded the archive.

Lol I didn’t even notice till you said something. People see one downvote, they downvote as well because it’s instinct to go with the flow. Downvotes have never bothered me.

you:

the entire idea is that it would be open source so we can know that it’s not doing anything shady.

them:

Any relevant device supplied for use in the UK must have installed tamper-proof system software

The bill also seeks “Action to prohibit the provision of VPN services to children in the United Kingdom” and wants “all regulated user-to-user services to use highly-effective age assurance measures to prevent children under the age of 16 from becoming or being users.”

This will effectively ban end-to-end encrypted communication and open source operating systems like GrapheneOS and forbid that people have administrator rights on their own devices.

tell me you didn’t read the linked info without telling me you didn’t read it.

The amount of “AI slop” is an incredibly tiny portion of the metadata.

I don’t support piracy either. I just torrent it for free. 🏴‍☠️

Yeah, they can still personalize somewhat based upon what other people in your area are getting as personalized ads. There’s an upside though, and that’s that by disabling personalized ads, you cut their income from you by as much as 60% since they can’t target you with stuff that will supposedly appeal to you. That’s why they sued apple, advertisers are losing hundreds of millions every year on that.

So you should disable personalized ads anyway out of spite.

They shouldn’t be fined for this at all. They were sued because ad companies couldn’t target ads to people if apple allowed them to opt-out. That’s fucked up, people shouldn’t have to hand their data over to advertisers if they don’t want to.

Oh I did not know that.

As long as the car isn’t moving, this is the best thing they could do. Emergency vehicles can drive around cars that aren’t moving. There should be plenty of room in any intersection for multiple vehicles.

This seems like just a ploy to collect biometric data for all citizens. Especially given the fact that Samsung owns a significant portion of the entire South Korean economy, and they also run advertising. This would be Google’s wet dream.

Yeah, because traditionally corporations have been good at regulating themselves, and we all know that they never sell access to private information of individuals to their governments.

On top of that, your idea would never work because they want a tamper-proof system, which would require Google having total control over the implementation, which would not work since multiple projects like GrapheneOS strip google entirely out of Android.

Furthermore, this is just a slippery slope to even worse invasions of privacy, and if your idea was implemented it wouldn’t be long before they insisted on even deeper intrusions, justifying it as being incremental on the access they already had.

Uh, well you can already have a different browser. I know Firefox, Opera, Chrome, and Brave are all on iOS. Brave has built in adblocking, but AdGuard is also available if you want to block ads in Safari. I’m in North America, but I assume they are available worldwide.

Laughs in KDE

Understandable, but without one you’re totally at the mercy of your ISP. If it turns out they are automatically throttling BitTorrent traffic, there’s nothing you can do without a VPN because on a fundamental level they control your access to the internet. The unfortunate thing about BitTorrent is that it’s not sneaky at all. Your ISP will be able to tell you’re doing it if you aren’t encrypting that traffic.

yeah, but you wouldn’t be able to settle for a lucrative deal that the Texan elite can personally benefit from. that’s the difference.

guess samsung didn’t pay their bribe on time.

more likely they just know it’s bittorrent traffic. that’s not hard for an ISP to sniff out, if you aren’t using a VPN. it’s not uncommon for ISPs to throttle bittorrent traffic automatically.

yes, and you should also be using a VPN because it sounds like your ISP is throttling that port because you asked for it to be open and they know what you’re doing with it. either that, or they just automatically throttle bittorrent traffic that their systems sniff out. pick a VPN that allows port forwarding.