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  • American actor George Clooney and his family are granted French citizenship. Clooney previously said that 'his children have a better life in France than in the United States.'

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  • I think you're conflating the wealth of the nation and the wealth of individuals. Saying that if you really want to go to France it's possible, you just need to sell or abandon your belongings, walk away from your debt, abandon your family and travel by steerage on a cargo ship to get to France and live illegally because you don't qualify for any type of long term residency and you also can no longer return home because you'll be homeless and left to die in the street is... Unrealistic.A very significant number of Americans simply do not have the resources to fail at something like that.

  • Bernie Sanders criticizes AI as ‘the most consequential technology in humanity’

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  • Please elaborate on how LLMs can functionally replace politicians, elected representatives, lawyers, or political activists.

    I really want to hear how you think that works.

  • US measles cases surge to highest level in 30 years

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  • To be completely fair, rising rates of measles prior to 2024 or even 2016 and the general increase in antivaxer sentiment for decades has nothing to do with rfks death by measles being a win for society.

  • US measles cases surge to highest level in 30 years

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  • It's entirely unsurprising, considering people voted for a person who said they were going to put an antivaxer in charge of stopping communicable disease.

    It would be a net positive for society if rfk died of measles.

  • Newly released Epstein file links Trump to murdered newborn baby dumped in Lake Michigan

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  • Yeah, but then he's just ... Down there. Poor lake doesn't deserve that.

  • Sekyuritee

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  • Yup. The risk of someone breaking into your house and stealing your post-it note is vastly different from someone guessing your password, and the risk changes again when it's a post-it note on your work computer monitor.

    One of the best things you can do with your critical passwords is put them on a piece of paper with no other identifying information and then put that piece of paper in your wallet. Adults in modern society are usually quite good at keeping track of and securing little sheets of paper.

    I'm paranoid, so I put mine on an encrypted NFC card that I printed to look like an expired gift card to a store that went out of business. It's got what I need to bootstrap the recovery process if I loose all my MFA tokens (I keep another copy in a small waterproof box with things like my car title. It's labeled "important documents: do not lose" and kept unlocked so any would be thief feels inclined to open it and see it's worthless to them rather than taking the box to figure that out somewhere else. The home copy is important because there's vaguely plausible scenarios where I lose both my phone and wallet at the same time. )

    Stealing my laptop and getting my stuff is a significantly larger risk than me leaving my computer on and unattended without locking the screen.

    Passkeys are a good trend because they're just about the only security enhancement in recent memory that increases security and usability at the same time.

  • “I Almost D!ed After Being Denied Medical Care”: Conservative Christian Trump Voter Shocked to Learn Fetal Heartbeat Bill Applies to Her Too

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  • And you still manage to miss the point entirely.

    Your party is awash in the blood of Gaza's children.

    There's no American political party that isn't by the standards of "supporting Israel or didn't stop them is complicity in genocide".

    your voters continue to support the leaders that make this holocaust possible.

    What leaders would those be? Which Democrat in charge of the Senate, house, executive branch or judicial branch is responsible in your eyes? Has having the Democrats hold next to no political power done anything to help?

    When your time comes, I wonder how you'll feel when others point and laugh?

    And here's the biggest misunderstanding of all: you're entirely misunderstanding why people don't have sympathy because you're mad at Democrats. If Democrats overwhelming voted for and supported the genocide of Democrats people would be justifiably unsympathetic when they got what exactly what they voted for. That's the key part you don't seem to get. Person wants X to happen. People tell them X will be bad for them. They vote for X. X happens. Person is unhappy X happened. No one feels sympathy for them that X happened.

    It's hard to feel sorry for someone getting precisely what they asked for.

  • “I Almost D!ed After Being Denied Medical Care”: Conservative Christian Trump Voter Shocked to Learn Fetal Heartbeat Bill Applies to Her Too

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  • Ignoring your false premise that Democratic candidates were *in favor of genocide", particularly in a way that any other viable candidate wasn't, and ignoring that Democratic voters weren't in favor of those policies: you still have the fact that an Americans opinion on how our government should pressure another government to act towards another group is fundamentally different from an Americans opinion on how their government should treat them.

    You're saying Americans should be genocided because what Israel is doing to Palestine is abhorrent.I'm saying my sympathy for people who get hurt by what they explicitly voted for is limited to voting for them to not be hurt.

  • “I Almost D!ed After Being Denied Medical Care”: Conservative Christian Trump Voter Shocked to Learn Fetal Heartbeat Bill Applies to Her Too

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  • "wished on the wrong party" is a funny way of saying "advocated for hatred and oppression". And you're leaving out the part where what's happening to them is what they said they think should happen.

    It's hard to have sympathy for someone being treated how they thought others should be treated.I do however have enough sympathy that I've consistently done everything in my power to keep it from happening to them.

  • Some Epstein file redactions are being undone with hacks

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  • It's a shockingly common source of data leaks. There are some versions with more subtlety, like actually redacting the text but a copy of it remains in the file for version tracking, as a separate layer, or things like that.

    PDF is derived from printer control tools, and has a lot of features built in that add flexibility for office document purposes, but can be surprising for people not expecting it.If you're working as a team to redact documents you might deliberately use something reversible so that the person checking your work can 1) see what you redacted 2) unredact if they think you shouldn't have.Sometimes people also just don't know there's actual reaction tools built in.

    The part that I'm more surprised by is that whatever process they have for releasing documents didn't involve passing it through a system of some sort that automatically fixed that sort of thing.

  • Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux

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  • Yup, that's a good one.

    Purely for discussions sake, I'd say that the video game entity is making a choice, but it lacks volition.No freewill or consciousness, but it's selecting a course of action based on environment circumstances.

  • Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux

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  • It's really not. The people who invented the term "artificial intelligence" both meant something different than you're thinking the term means and also thought human level intelligence was far simpler to model than it turned out to be.

    You're thinking of intelligence as compared to a human, and they were thinking of intelligence as compared to a wood chipper. The computers of the time executed much more mechanical tasks, like moving text into place on a printer layout.They aimed to intelligence, where intelligence was understood as tasks that were more than just rote computation but responded to the environment they executed in. Text layout by knowing how to do line breaks and change font sizes. Parsing word context to know if something is a typo.These tasks require something more than rote mechanical action. They're far from human intelligence, and entirely lacking in the introspective or adaptive qualities that we associate with humans, but they're still responsive.

    Using AI only to refer to human intelligence is the missuse of the term by writers and television producers.

    The people who coined the terms would have found it quaint to say something isn't intelligence because it consists of math and fancy scripting. Their efforts were predicated on the assumption that human intelligence was nothing more than math, and programming in general is an extremely abstract form of math.

  • Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux

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  • Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux

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  • Right now browser usage patterns are shifting because people are trying new things. Most of those new things are AI integration. If those new things prove popular or have staying power remains to be seen.Firefox , in my estimation, is looking to leverage their existing reputation for privacy focus while also adding new technologies that people seem at least interested in trying.A larger user base means that people will pay more for ads, which if they maintain their user control and privacy standards users are less likely to disable on the default landing screen.

    It's why they keep getting flac for working on privacy preserving advertising technology: they want you to use Firefox because they don't stop you from disabling the bullshit, and they hope to do the bullshit in a way that makes you not mind leaving it on.

    All the AI stuff was mentioned in the same context as discussion about how they need to seek money in ways that aren't simply being paid by Google.

  • Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux

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  • Their CEO makes more than I think CEOs should earn in general, but the rest of their executives earn relatively normal to low salaries for their roles and the sector.

    Non-profit doesn't mean everyone works for free.

  • Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux

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  • But that's just saying that instead of using Firefox and not turning on the feature, you'll use a less maintained version of Firefox where they didn't enable the feature. I don't feel like those projects have much value add in the privacy spectrum compared to Firefox, particularly when one of them was owned by an advertising company, and neither of them actually has the resources to maintain or operate a browser in isolation, which is a major concern regarding security and privacy both.

  • Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux

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  • A very vocal portion of the user base, but we don't actually know what absolute portion cares. I'm personally unlikely to use possible AI features outside translation, but Mozilla has generally done enough that I don't feel particularly worried they're going to mess with my privacy or force me to use a feature I don't want.

  • Hello, We're Firefox

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  • For a slightly less dramatic description: the person who's been in charge of Firefox is now the CEO of Mozilla. In an interview they detailed their vision which includes trying to get money in more ways than just making Google the default search engine, all of which involve growing the user base. He said that ignoring changes in technology doesn't benefit users or the Internet, and alluded to some previously announced features that are in progress for Firefox, including on device AI tools for things like alttext generation and translation, and upcoming features like an AI browsing window which has more integration with an AI including ones that aren't on the device depending on what the user selects.He reiterated that user control of data and privacy remains their biggest selling point, so that has to remain the focus of whatever path they take.

  • Maybe I've just got the wrong history book

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  • I believe it was along the lines of "actually solve the problem".There's so many diverse causes of violence that there's not one solution or alternative. Resource shortage? Find a way to fix it. Land shortage? Find a way to use what you have more efficiently.If you can't solve the problem you're by definition not competent.

    I don't believe he thought the incompetent should meekly roll over and die, but rather that violence was a failure to solve the problem correctly. If you find yourself in a position where you need to do violence it's not because you had no choice, but because you didn't know what that other option was.

    It's worth remembering he was one of those people who said exactly what they meant. If he meant that violence was unacceptable no matter what he would have said that. He was a pacifist in the "what if we don't invade Vietnam?" sense, not in the "I will let you beat me rather than raise my hand in anger" way.

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