If you want to know where tech companies are with AI safety, know Microsoft Recall won’t record screenshots of DRM’d movies.. ..but will record screenshots of your financial records and WhatsApp messages, as corporate interests were prioritised over user safety. And it’s enabled by default.

We are more prone to anthromorphizing LLMs than to humanizing suffering humans

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hot take linux is not harder than windows, most people are just blind to the sheer amount of upkeep that windows requires.

@jalcine@todon.eu @wxcafe@social.wxcafe.net If it's ethical for the companies to use AI, it's ethical for you to subvert it.

The more I think about it, the major problems in tech and in society in general is that all the investment is going to solve problems that white affluent men have

Burnout in the FOSS community is real, and I'm glad that it's something that is being talked about more in blogs and conferences. There is a different flavor of burnout and emotional toll when you are sacrificing for a cause you believe in (especially in FOSS where people are often working for free or at below market rate). Working for a cause you believe in brings the highest highs when things are going well, but the lowest lows when they go badly. #FOSS #burnout

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Next time you get a bad performance review at work for doing a shit job, just say you were “hallucinating”

Do Not Reply cards and other mechanisms used to explicitly outline what interactions are unwelcome to a post are called “boundaries”. Boundaries are good. They are good for bother the setter and the receiver. It is loving to tell someone what is not welcome, and loving to have them respected. If you are upset that someone is stating a boundary, it is likely that you are not familiar with boundaries and I’d like to tell you that you too deserve to both set them and have them respected.

I already have my own AI powered Recall feature on Linux: It's called ~/.zsh_history and is very conveniently reachable by pressing CTRL+R.

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If Windows XP was released in 2024 (📎1)