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max_dryzen

@ max_dryzen @mander.xyz

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  • Look at what's really happening though: the state is implicitly saying you can have free expression provided your reach is miniscule/ineffectual. The moment you get traction is the moment it will move to block use of your preferred platforms, or simply hard-/algorithmically ban you - it's functionally identical to suppression of speech/association

    They rely on the public's credulity when they insist freedoms are intact because 'only one website' is verboten. It's a dirty exploit. In reality, all platform denial should be protested

  • 'For too long, Apple has operated a walled garden around its products': The EU forces Apple to open its closed system to third parties

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  • Its primary utility is shoring up their image as the brand where 'everything just works' and op/interop is a thoughtless zero friction process. Compromise that and you lose normie, bigtime. So everyone gets locked in...and you get the walled prison basketball court

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    Should tech companies be required to report AI’s environmental impact, or is voluntary transparency enough?

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  • If you mandate reporting the accountants will design a reporting scheme that makes the default company behaviour appear environmentally friendly

    Something something goodhart's law

  • Brian Eno: “The biggest problem about AI is not intrinsic to AI. It’s to do with the fact that it’s owned by the same few people”

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  • The government likes concentrated ownership because then it has only a few phonecalls to make if it wants its bidding done (be it censorship, manipulation, partisan political chicanery, etc)

  • The wildest details in the Facebook memoir Meta is trying to bury

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  • He'll get the kissinger treatment and be rolled out to 'prestigious' public events like olympic basketball in roder to shore up his credibility as a 'great american', (that the US gov even used an insulation strategy like this was a huge tell on their assessment of HK's war crim status)

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  • Plex is the current war front. May it hold for many years

    the idea of stockpiling a lifetimes AV entertainment being within normie's grasp must have media congloms terrified. Problem is - that accessibility poses risks for us filesharers too, cause a panicked animal is an aggressive one

  • Everyone knows your location

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  • Can't object to what you (normally) can't see.

  • CVS wants you using its mobile app to unlock store shelves

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  • Depends on what value you place on your consumption data. I'd argue the scheme participants are the ones paying a premium.

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  • You're thinking about about it all wrong. Treat it like a 3€ per month sub and a 2€ donation to one of the leading lights/centers of expertise for digital freedom and privacy. Or a €4.50 fee and a €.50 donation. Or €2.50 each way.

  • CVS wants you using its mobile app to unlock store shelves

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  • I wonder whether it ever occurs to normies that surrendering PII in order to transact amounts to hidden cost inflation

  • Facebook admits that the Linux topic crackdown was 'in error' and has been fixed

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  • Alfred emerged from the densest part of the eucalptus grove. All around him, his tiny bots unobtrusively kept pace. Every one was in violation of local law, containing not a single chip in thrall to the Department of Homeland Security. While Vaz continued to play Bollywood exec through the public net, these devices provided him with his own network and countermeasures.

    Rainbows End (Vernor Vinge)

  • ‘Mainlined into UK’s veins’: Labour announces huge public rollout of AI

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  • The government plan features a potentially controversial scheme to unlock public data to help fuel the growth of AI businesses. This includes anonymised NHS data, which will be available for “researchers and innovators”

    'We are concerned that if data and weights are FOSS, people will develop their own tools, which will work for them by definition and not us, thereby increasing people's autonomy from us. So the data will not be publicly available'

  • [iFixit] Worst in Show 2025: Not All Innovation Is Good Innovation | The Most Overengineered, Unrepairable, and Unsustainable Tech Disasters at CES

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  • Vendor Electronics Show