I remember reading warnings about having laptops and devices checked at airports a decade ago. As a matter of fact I think that's why I was looking into having hidden, encrypted partitions: because getting caught with some pirate TV series on my laptop might have meant having to pay a bribe or whatever.
Regardless, it doesn't really change my point - if there's a chance you're going to interact with a government official and they might want to look at your device, wiping it is going to attract attention.
I don't really know anything about privacy and security in this context, but I remember playing around with encrypted disks and reading that encryption isn't really useful if your adversary knows that something exists albeit encrypted.
I think this is similar: having a freshly wiped phone is going to attract attention. I'm not saying it's the wrong move in all cases, but it's probably the wrong move in the kinds of situations most people are going to encounter.
I think the latest advice for attending protests and similar is to take a cheap burner.
My experience was the same as everyone else's here: strict christian upbringing, not talking about things because they're "bad", and making up answers to things mum and dad don't know.
I'm trying to figure out parenting now. My plan, and I'm sure it won't survive contact with the enemy, is to be as open, thorough, and honest as I can be about sex and drugs.
While it is scary for me, I do want my kids to experiment with these things, but I want them to do it with as much contextual information as I can provide.
"The talk" which I plan to give often, as commonly talked about house rules, is that there's two ways adolescents can inadvertently change the course of their lives: car accidents, and getting pregnant.
It's indicative of the lack of benefit that LLMs are providing. If gen AI was providing tangible benefits to anyone, people would identify a need for data centres.
Really? Actually I thought it was caused by retailers taking the opportunity to increase prices when everyone thought prices would increase due to covid.
I saw a vaguely similar situation a long time ago where someone was a positive, contributing member of the community and then they fell from grace somehow and basically no one was thankful enough so they were banned and they just kept evading the bans and posting smut in the forums for weeks.
The way this guy has really thrown his weight into this but still obviously feels like the victim is really reminiscent, I wouldn't be surprised if there's some more to come.
This is just the same false dichotomy you've been presenting all the way along: starve or sell out.
The undeniable and obvious fact you're avoiding is that loads of people have jobs that they find satisfying in a "life well lived" kind of way. There are loads of corporations who's employees believe in what they're doing.
Your timed piss break anecdote is not an example of a satisfying job. A job where you make minimum wage is not an example of a satisfying job.
It doesn't take years to get into another field, and you don't start at the start because you take all your skills and experience with you, obviously. I'm in my 40s, young family, working on a postgraduate degree in something tangentially related to the field I've been working in for 20 years. I do find my current job satisfying, I'm just weary of it. People can and do change professions all the time.
Objectively, this is very much a case of "I've tried nothing and I'm all out of ideas".
Like I said at the start, you don't get a free pass just because you're not a CEO.
I never said anything about not benefiting a corporation - you seem to have imagined that.
Some corporations have shit objectives, others do not.
There are loads of people who work for companies and really believe they're making the world a better place through their work.
You're trying to present an argument that you need to work for an AI company or whatever to put food on the table, but it just doesn't stack up. Plenty of people are not starving and are not doing that for a living.
"More popular" is the wrong objective.
Focus on creative the best possible experience.
Better moderation, better content, better participation.