Nextcloud isn’t really a direct equivalent to Google Photos. For that you want Immich.

Another interesting one. These extensions are all related:

I’ve gone through the list a bit and out of the most popular ones that spied on you, most were adblocks, coupon finders or AI Chatbots.

Some notable extensions:

• Stylish. A theming extension, I used to use this back in the day!
• Smarty. Some sort of coupon code thing like Honey
• Video Ad Blocker Plus for YouTube™
• Video Downloader PLUS
• Karma - Another coupon thing
• Audio editor online Audacity. Some sort of web-based Audacity clone?
• GIMP online - Same sort of thing as above with GIMP
• Ground News Bias Checker - To be fair it probably makes sense this one sends the URL you are visiting, as it’s purpose is to look up the bias of the publication you are looking at.

Worth a read regardless.

Great work to the investigators here. I’m going to comb through this list a little. See what things stand out.

The point is that I’ve seen several comments on other posts about this vulnerability, and in the body of this one, saying that Notepad is bloated and terrible now.

I’m offering a counterpoint that this is not necessarily bloat. It’s debatable that this is the right tool to have this feature, but it can be a useful feature.

I’m fine with Markdown support, but I wish MS got the message about Copilot being unwanted. Not sure if they’ve added it to Notepad or not at this stage, but given all the places they’ve crammed it into I wouldn’t be surprised.

To be fair, markdown is a very cool standard.

While I don’t know if it really makes sense for Notepad to be anything other than a plain-text editor, there are better tools for that, supporting markdown is kind of nice.

This means you have support for it on fresh Windows installs, which could be good for virtual machines. That said, Markdown is intrinsically pretty readable without formatting anyway.

It’s a shame they flubbed the implementation though…

Or percentages

Related video

https://youtu.be/uDkyP37JgY0

Of course. It’s not like I want this. I was out there messaging my MP when the UK law had just been pushed through and filling out the petitions. It didn’t help though.

You can send a message to Discord by leaving, but they won’t revert it for places where it’s legally required.

I will say that this has been in the works for a little bit now and it’s more related to the UK’s new laws. We’ve had this age verification stuff on Discord for some months now.

As for why it’s being rolled out globally, not sure. The UK is not the only country / state starting to ask for ages verification on “social media” so maybe they thought it would be easier to use the same approach everywhere? Seems like a bad idea though as everywhere it’s implemented it’s unpopular.

My experience with it so far has been that… well… It hasn’t affected me at all. Mostly because I only use friends servers and activism servers. Those aren’t age restricted, so you never hit this check.

As far as age verification law compliance / implementation goes, this is not the worst one. That data leak early on was a clown show though.

hunting for alternatives

I’ve heard people mention Matrix, but I’ve not tried it yet.

Hmmm…

As the article correctly states, machine learning (“AI” is a misnomer that has stuck imo) has been used successfully for decades in medicine.

Machine learning is inherently about spotting patterns and inferring from them. The problem, I think, is two-fold:

1. There are more “AI” products than ever, not all companies build it in responsibly and it’s difficult for regulators to keep up with them.

The gutting of these regulatory agencies by the current US administration does not help ofc, but many of them were already severely undermanned.

2. As AI is normalised, some doctors will put too much trust in these systems.

This isn’t helped by the fact that the makers of these products are likely to exaggerate the capabilities of their products. This may be reflected in the products themselves, where they may not properly communicate the degree of certainty of a diagnosis / conclusion (e.g. “30% certainty this lesion is cancerous”)

AI radios

Looks inside

No AI

Jokes aside, this is a common thing in tech / software at the moment.

You can make fantastic software and systems, but unless you slap an AI label on it, big companies and organisations will not want to pay for it, or will pass you over for a product that says it has it, even if it’s dogshit.

AI (or, more accurately, machine learning) can bring value, but so can a lot of other features.

+1

I discovered it when I found it was shipped with CalyxOS and honestly it’s way better than anything else I’ve found.

When a country does war crimes, the entirety of its populace is not to blame, the systems, power structures and people in charge are.

Most people in a country are not for wars or other attacking other countries. This is true for America and Russia alike, to the best of my knowledge (which granted, is anecdotal).

More people should be engaged in activism and should push back against the inhumane actions of their state, and people should be less gullible to the promises of their leaders.

Both America and Russia are overdue for major reform. Their systems are broken and many of their people brainwashed. Wishing harm on them does not help and imo is not a constructive approach. If anything, hate just begets more hate, making things worse.

If you are going to have hate, it should be more focused on the people in power.

Splitting hairs. If you think a group of people are intrinsically worse than others, you are effectively racist.

We can come up with new names, but ultimately it’s all the same. If you think racism means black vs white then your understanding is kindergarten level.

If you prefer, we can use the term bigoted. That term also covers other intrinsic groups like trans, gay and disabled people among others.

Is this sort of thing not protected by labour laws?

But WHERE’S THE PROFIT INCENTIVE.

• Capitalists, when their wives ask them to have sex with them.

More like $300 on.

“Don’t protect yourself or others, even peacefully. You’re obstructing the oppression.”