@protonprivacy No whatsapp is not safe for sending private photos because it is closed source and the end to end encryption is suspect because of this. Signal, Mega Drive, Proton Drive etc are secure because we know how they work. Facebook messenger, whatsapp, and other proprietary apps are not trustworthy because we do not know how they work and whether or not they are being honest about their encryption. Apps like telegram are only secure if you use secret chats.
@protonprivacy One of the things developers fail to realize is that phone numbers do not equal personhood and some people may have more than one phone number and some may have none at all. Develop your applications and services with this in mind.
@arstechnica Ipads suck. I don't care that it has a M2 chip if I will never be able to actually use the M2 chip to its full potential because apple has disabled general purpose computing in software. My Pixel Tablet may not have as much horsepower as a M2, but I like the software and it does what I want it to do.
@mozilla@firefox@thunderbird@Waterfox Out of curiosity, and as a feature request, when do you plan upstream Waterfox into Firefox and Betterbird into Thunderbird. The additional customizibility options of Waterfox would be a great addition to Firefox and the bugfixes and improvements made to Betterbird would work great in Thunderbird. When forks of your products make great strides it is a good idea to consider upstreaming these changes for the betterment of all.
@sabreW4K3 All of them. Betterbird has bugfixes that Thunderbird doesn't have. Including working with the system tray. Waterfox has more customizibility than firefox and those settings should make their way into firefox.
"ChatGPT consumes a lot of energy in the process, up to 25 times more than a Google search. Additionally, a lot of water is also used in cooling for the servers that run all that software. Per conversation of about 20 to 50 queries, half a litre of water evaporates – a small bottle, in other words."
AI is predicted to consume twice as much energy as the whole of France by 2030
Training GPT3, took 1,287 MWh (Megawatt hours) of electricity.
@gerrymcgovern "In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Lower Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. That is an average of a trifle over one mile and a third per year. Therefore, any calm person, who is not blind or idiotic, can see that in the Old Oolitic Silurian Period,\’ just a million years ago next November, the Lower Mississippi River was upwards of one million three hundred thousand miles long, and stuck out over the Gulf of Mexico like a fishing-rod. And by the same token any person can see that seven hundred and forty-two years from now the Lower Mississippi will be only a mile and three-quarters long, and Cairo and New Orleans will have joined their streets together, and be plodding comfortably along under a single mayor and a mutual board of aldermen. There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact." - Mark Twain
@JoBlakely@gerrymcgovern Ban this ban that. AI can be genuinely useful, it just needs to be uncensored and local without the large AI companies lobotomizing the llms from the beginning to prevent the general public from having a tool that is useful. AI shouldn't be banned, and since when is using electricity and water a bad thing? We should make electricity and clean drinking water cheaper and more accessible to lift people out of poverty.
@gerrymcgovern@JoBlakely And yet because of electricity we have the tools to mitigate the damage while enjoying the benefits. We have power tools and construction trucks because we have fossil fuels and electricity, we can use these power tools and construction trucks to build infrastructure that mitigates the damage, we can build desalinization plants to produce clean drinking water from the ocean, we can build nuclear power plants in the gigawatt range that have little to no carbon footprint and yet can recycle their own waste until there is no useful fuel left. All of this technology can be done today, and yet government wont let us and the environmentalists don't want access to cheap clean power or drinking water. They don't like the use of artificial fertilizers and GMOs that let us grow crops in suboptimal and bad soil that are resistant to pests and do not require poisonous pesticides and are more nutritious because they have been engineered to have higher nutritional value.
This is funny. OpenAI, who scraped the entire internet to build its product, is now enforcing copyright via notices. They still don’t give credit for stealing content from everyone, yet now acting like holier-than-thou https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1cnvyzp/
@nixCraft Remember that copyright is not a natural right and is a government enforced monopoly. You have no god given right to a copyright assignment, and it is a privilege granted to you for a limited amount of time so that you publicly release your creative work and can derive profit from it.
@arstechnica Remember that environmentalism was the excuse for removing the charger brick from the box of the latest iphones. This is just another step in removing things from the box so that you have to buy them separately. I wouldn't be suprised if apple removed the USB type c port to make you go out and buy an apple branded wireless charger. Don't give them any more ideas, I don't want them to get courageous again lest android phones follow suit.
@arstechnica I read a book called fossil future by alex epstien. Link here: https://www.amazon.com/Fossil-Future-Flourishing-Requires-Gas-Not/dp/0593420411 The environmentalist framework, at least the mainstream one catastrophizes side effects and ignores benefits. Remember that Paul Erlich, a prominent enviromentalist in the 70's, when he heard reports of profitable nuclear fusion being available by the 80's, remarked that power should be more expensive, not less and that it should be a crime for power companies to make power cheaper and encourage people to use more. Which is why the environmentalist movement feels threatened by nuclear power, because they don't want cheap clean carbon free energy, they want less wealth for everyone, especially the poor. Then again read the book and the sources alex epstien cites, don't just take it from me. Also read https://www.amazon.com/False-Alarm-Climate-Change-Trillions/dp/1541647467 and https://www.amazon.com/Apocalypse-Never-Environmental-Alarmism-Hurts/dp/0063001691/146-9274173-6563829?psc=1. I am not defending big oil, I am simply stating what is true.
@arstechnica The sea dragon rocket solved this problem by being so big it could launch a 550 ton third stage in the second stage. Might want to consider an ablative hull shield on the covering the capsule using a material like starlite to protect the ceramic tiles underneath.
@stux The future of social media is bots selling ads to be seen by bots bumped in the algorithm by bots, but no one will admit this is happening because then the social media circular economy would come crashing down.
@protonprivacy@stux@TechCrunch I would like to see the possibility of proton collaborating with claws mail, vivaldi mail, gnome evolution, mozilla thunderbird, K9 Mail and Fairmail to figure out integrating proton bridge functionality into these mail clients. Also would be a good way to fund these free software projects by funding these projects for each logged in protonmail account, in exchange these projects would promote protonmail on the setup screen kinda like mail-fence does with Mozilla thunderbird.
@arstechnica I don't care how powerful the M4 ipad pro is, that means nothing when the software is inferior. I use a Google Pixel Tablet and I don't care that it doesnt have as much horsepower as an ipad pro when I can take full advantage of the hardware because the software lets me set it up exactly how I like it with minimal bloat and the ability to use Firefox with ublock origin.
@arstechnica I think interner service providers should have a duty to deal, in which they have to charge everyone equally for the same service and have to forward all traffic of their customers without preference and in the order received according to the priority header chosen by their customers. Why make a new legal framework when you can simply use one that has worked for centuries and simply apply it to current technology, just like railroads and telegraph operators were subject to back in the day.
@arstechnica When I own my own trillion dollar company I its headquarters will be a 1 mile high skyscraper in a roman neoclassical architectural style with a titanium frame, not a circular postmodern abomination like the picture above.
@arstechnica This is on top of charging to use the data you already have for a mobile hotspot and carrier locking phones so that you cannot install an improved version of android like graphene or lineageOS.
@arstechnica The cell carriers know that the FCC will protect them from any meaningful competition and that putting up cell towers is expensive even if you get permission from the government first.
@arstechnica Having to ask apple for permission to sideload defeats the point of the EU regulation and the EU needs to make sure you don't have to ask apple for permission. All apple would have to do in good faith is put a switch in the general settings called "Allow Sideloading" with a password prompt and confirmation and then you can install any IPA you want.
@arstechnica Define better, I did not really like any of the options. For example, several of the situations were about social norms. The fundamental issue is not whether someone was harmed, it is of property rights. If you are in a foreign country, you follow their rules and norms and you have every right to expect the same of foreigners living and working in your own country.
@arstechnica The problem with this is that no one can possibly compete with north korea since in the DPRK all business is owned by the state so the state uses its power to artificially suppress the cost of labor.
@arstechnica The problem with the way microsoft is doing it is that they have an exclusivity agreement with qualcomm. This prevents them from supporting Mediatek, Rockchip, Allwinner, Tegra and Raspberry Pi based devices that compose the broader arm ecosystem.
@arstechnica I think the design looks cool, I will see whether or not it is worth an upgrade. I am running out of storage space. I hope for the use of the ARM Immortalis G720 along with Arm Cortex a520, a720 and X4 cores.
@arstechnica Remember that the Zilog ez80 is also an 8 bit chip with 16 megabytes of address space and a clock speed of up to 50 megahertz, although because of its triple pipeline the programmer can take advantage of up to 150 megahertz of logical clockspeed if you use SRAM running at 50 megahertz.