Don’t do evil

Hasn’t that been Google’s guiding principle for quite some time already?

Don’t you have annual passes? They tend to be a fair deal. Especially when you compare them to the cost of car mobility.

Everyone works in different ways. You may not believe it, because it is not your thing but some really want to separate their work location from their free time location and there are also good reasons for doing so. I am not saying everyone has to want that but many do and there is nothing wrong with that. The other thing is that real, face to face communication is simply not the same as an online call, especially low key interactions during lunch or coffee break. Depends on your job of course and they way of working but there is value in it.

If someone can combine the commute with work out, there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. Why impose your preferences on that other person?

You are just envious that they have Suchard chocolate in Switzerland.

That’s the thing though. The sign says something like “we’re sooshan deesh”

That is not how it works in the EU. The Cybertruck has never been street legal here, for a reason.

I disapprove the Schadenfreude comments, but this is not merely a “vehicle most people don’t like”. It is a dangerous vehicle unnecessarily threatening health and even live of other members of the community, especially of children. There is a reason why it is not street legal in the EU.

… owned by an ad company.

Ecosia seems to be pushing the aI stuff hard as well, but at least you have to press the obnoxious AI buttons to get it. Still, it refuses to make those buttons optional. Duckduckgo let’s you have clean experience without rubbing AI buttons or AI summaries in your face and so does qwant.

noai.duckduckgo.com

It offers also news search as well as image and video search. Filtering out AI images. Guaranteed AI summary free.

Sacrificing lives for aesthetics, pretty much sums it up and explains why this thing is not street legal in the civilised world.

Wouldn’t it be cheaper to pay vastly more versatile human guards a decent wage to guard those or more of those instead of those robots?

Because it is clearly messing with more than just “lighting”. While the spatial models appear untouched, it heavily changes textures, inventing details that simply were not there before, no matter what lighting. And then some of that “lighting” is also used to imply spacial details that were not there before.

All of that creates that incredibly artificial and sloppy overall impression at “100%”. At lower percentages it likeky won’t be better, the sloppiness will be merely more diluted and therefore more tolerable.

Cornell Unversity owns ArXiv.org, that doesn’t mean they have much to do with the content of that article, as they clearly state that ArXiv.org is not peer-reviewing articles hosted there.

Not quoting the primary source does not per chance have anything to do with the source being a not peer reviewed archive of the Cornell University, does it? I wonder, is that normal in the field of AI research?

They might think that they are upholding open source secure communication but what they are really achieving with it is fortifying the US big tech duopoly. There are other aims than theirs, of maximum security, in the EU we are facing the real and very relevant issue of digital sovereignty, which is separate from the ambition for getting hardened mobile systems. Sure, possibly legislation would be preferable to regulate and open up what Google’s Play Integrity API is doing, but as long as that legislation does not exist, creating alternative systems is crucial.

I can’t shake the feeling that this isn’t really about the UA but the private feud of Graphene OS developers with pretty much every single other alternative OS or degoogled android. Yes, they are all less secure than Graphene OS, primarily because Graphene OS relies on huge man power effort by Google to keep the firmware at the cutting edge with swift security updates. That is all good and fine, for their cause but it is not the only legitimate cause out there.

What’s that “Ranch”? Just the usual mix of fat and sugar to drown any food and its taste with, good American style?

The war over civil rights is continuing, no questions but this has been an important vote against the surveillance state ambitions.

So they are concentrating immigrants in warehouses now?

He probably wanted to say “English (simplified)”