When legal systems becomes the incomprehensible and tangled mess we have now, enforcement becomes arbitrary. In a twisted way it makes sense for sentencing to be arbitrary too.
All of the mainstream AI products being used today are privacy nightmares. If we’re not careful and don’t act with intent we may sleep walk ourselves into a dystopian surveillance hellscape.
Open source private AI is here and it’s reaching feature parity with ChatGPT.
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If you’re using AI this is a must listen episode.
AI needs buckets full of "don't trust, verify"
Yes, trust in Supergovernment Daddy Overlord to manage you money, work, thoughts, and the rest of your life for you. No need to concern yourself with pesky ideas like autonomy, privacy, or freedom. They've got this. You just keep doom scrolling, get scared/outraged when it suits them, keep gaming/streaming to get that dopamine hit, and ignore anything that distracts you from those distractions. Everything will be just fine.
That's true, but it's also possible for an attacker to compromise a GH account and publish a new "release", without even changing any source code. Only you have all the accounts to secure, and only one F-Droid.
I use Obtainium too, but it's unclear to me how to weigh up these risks.
I've officially migrated all of my most important apps over to Obtainium and marked them as ignored in F-Droid. Previously I had used F-Droid for the majority of my apps (Aurora Store for everything else), but following some recent controversies regarding them misclassifying the sacred text of my Christisn faith as "not safe for work" and "pornographic", I decided that it was time to start moving away from them and just start grabbing apps from source directly.
This was also inspired in part by nostr:nprofile1qqsyvrp9u6p0mfur9dfdru3d853tx9mdjuhkphxuxgfwmryja7zsvhqpzamhxue69uhhv6t5daezumn0wd68yvfwvdhk6tcpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7qgswaehxw309ahx7um5wghx6mmd9u2mk7fe. In a conversation, he mentioned that something like F-Droid centralizes all authority to one group of people, whereas Obtainium allows you to be fully in charge of what apps you use and when you download them. F-Droid compiles apps themselves, based on the original source code. Meanwhile, Obtainium allows you to grab the apps direct from their repositories, without any middle men.
There's still a place for F-Droid. Because of the fact that they do compile things themselves, that means you're less likely to download a malicious app if it's something you never used before. But if you know the app and it's important to you, you should just download through Obtanium directly.
#decentralization #obtaining #opensource
I wonder which of F-Droid or individual projects' GitHub profiles are more likely to be used in a supply chain attack. How does one mitigate against that from either source?
AppVerifier does something similar: https://github.com/soupslurpr/AppVerifier
"Don't shitcoin" falls under a broader point: don't fuck your users
User feedback often makes it harder to stay lean/focused. Stand strong.
Open source alternative to Tailscale control server: Headscale https://headscale.net/stable/
You can keep using the same Tailscale client.
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You're 💯% correct, but it goes so much further. We're not socially evolved enough for (especially mainstream) social media. Our bodies aren't evolved to sit still for this long every day. Our communities aren't evolved enough to comprehend a state ruling over millions. Our primitive trade brains aren't evolved to understand global flows of wealth.
We must fight against the centralization/globalization of all these things.
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No, spam refers to transactions not fit for pupose, not "transactions I don't like/care about".
With NFTs like BAYC you don't even own the images you "bought". You only own a URL to an image (that could change too!). Even if OpenSea was unaffected by the AWS outage, the server hosting "your NFT" could still be down. Scam all around.
