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I'm gonna leave here my idea, that an essential aspect of why GenAI is bad is that it is designed to extrude media that fits common human communication channels. This makes it perfect to choke out human-to-human communication over those channels, preventing knowledge exchange and social connection.

So, Copilot for VSCode apparently got hit with an 8.8 CVE in November for, well, doing Copilot stuff. (RCE if you clone a strange repo and promptfondle it.)

Fixes were allegedly released on Nov 12th, but I can't find anything in the Changelog on what those changes were, and how they would prevent Copilot from doing, well, Copilot stuff. (Although I may not be ITSec-savvy enough to know where such information would be found.)

Hier auf Voyager funzt alles 🤷.

I scolled around the "ludwell institute" a bit for fun. Seems like a pretty professional opinion piece/social media content operation run by one person as far as I can tell. I read one article, where they lionized a jailed BitCoin Mixer developer. Another one seems to be hyped for Ethereum for some reason.

Seems like pretty unreflected "I make money by having this opinion" stuff. They lead with reasonable stuff about using privacy-respecting settings or tools, but the ultimate solution seems to be becoming OpSec paranoid and using Tor and Crypto.

Hier, kannst schon mal anfangen

Ich glaube der Maggus kann sich aus geographischen Gründen recht sicher fühlen vor der Rache Neptuns. Ein Geert Wilders hingegen...

Checks out.

I am a dad who makes that sound and also use debian.

I was looking into pepping up my CV and was poking around the 2024 CCC style guide when this abomination hit my retinas:

Use the provided LUTs to tint your images in the predefined scheme. You can load them with your graphics software of choice. Ask your friendly AI overlord if you don’t know how.

After being provided with such reproducible instructions, I was of course poking around blog posts for half an hour to finagle this thing. Adding insult to injury: poking around the LUT files shows they were made by Affinity Studio (a freeware pumped out by Canva) instead of the true scotsman's choice: the G'MIC command line tool! (In fairness, there doesn't seem to be a FOSS option with a usable GUI for this task. The G'MIC GIMP plugin is sort of okay, but it can't parse this particular file.)

Wow, the first project to have found a use case for cryptocurrency!

Just kidding. This is trash. I don't care about fancy privacy features if the backend is tied to the Ethereum scam machine. Use Signal or Matrix.

I think it's great that you use privacy-enabling tech, and developing these is valuable in my eyes. But nothing about your setup screams "mass adoption" to me. I'll spare everyone the mobile OS adoption charts, and browser adoption isn't looking better.

You just can't put out an on-par mobile service nowadays without an app in Play and Apple's store. I don't like it, but it is what it is.

This is a non-argument, even though it made it onto Wikipedia. A mass-adopted Taler-based payment system would also require mobile support, which would be gatekept by Google/Apple.

Breaking oligopolist control over the mobile ecosystem is a separate battle and applies to both Wero & Taler.

That's not to say that Wero couldn't do more in this regard, e.g. publish to F-Droid.

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