WhatAmLemmy

Yeah. That guys "nuance" comment made me read the article, and I'm glad I did, but the end result was my expectation going in; the profit motive of capitalism killed a FOSS OS that could have nullified Americas tech dominance before it even started.

There's no way to know how it would've played out, but I could see Bill Gates' connected family greasing the wheels of geopolitics to scare the Japanese out of implementing it, or being the catalyst promoting exclusive US proprietary tech rights to Japanese capitalists, or the CIA/NSA arguing that a Japanese controlled FOSS OS would make it harder for them to influence tech standards. Basically, like most things I've learned about history, it's likely that morally and ethically bankrupt, sociopathic, criminals had their hands balls deep in the clusterfuck of a horror show, in many more ways than one.

That's what all the data centers are for. Every sensor in the world will be wired into the hydra; funneling all its data into mass surveillance algorithms so the fascist oligarchs can determine who is a naughty antifascist, and who is a nice brainwashed pawn or pedophile. Those who are naughty will have these systems weaponised against them. They will lose employment. They will be continuously harassed by law enforcement. They will be blacklisted by grocery stores and other vital services. Eventually, they will meet their fate with the data-center controlled, fully-autonomous killbots.

The entire term of "Artificial Intelligence" is basically a misnomer, false advertising, even fraud. It is merely an advanced "correlation engine". It is the output of an algorithm, and has no concept of what anything is. It does not "know" anything. It is the result of the 1's and 0's humans input as training data or context, or give it access to query via the internet etc; including all the misinformation, disinformation, errors, and bias. There is no intelligence or critical thought. It does not get the difference between causation and correlation. It just responds based on some internal probability matrix or distribution; correlations compressed into weights/coefficients from all of the training data.

The only thing that makes its responses appear stochastic is the randomization seed and context, or other techniques harnesses use to dogfood its own responses into itself. Without those, you can have the exact same conversation, byte for byte, and the responses become evidently deterministic and "dumb".

All of the "novel" solutions I've seen to date are not actually novel at all, having merely applied some technique documented in a far removed discipline, entirely explained by the properties of a gargantuan working memory and no off switch. We don't call a computer "super intelligent" because it can process trillions of mathematical calculations a second. Those are merely properties we explicitly engineered into the machine.

Ever since I realised that corporations are allowed to engage in fraud, and a litany of other crimes, without consequence I started archiving things directly using a combination of the SingleFile browser extension and full page screenshots, placing them in a web-archive folder.

Every time I purchase anything I save the product listing and order page, along with all associated info, naming all files based on the date of the purchase; the larger the purchase the more I'll save (product page, warranty, user manuals, etc), and sometimes even a note.md file to document specifics (filter changes, spare parts and part numbers, etc).

I also use this method to snapshot various account pages or interactions like web chat; pretty much anything that future me could possibly need to reference.

It comes in handy extremely often.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=8HgejSCHRi8

You're kidding yourself. They're going to be bailed out by our fascist oligarchies, with contracts to use the data centers for totalitarian mass surveillance "to protect our freedom and national security".

Yeah, flock is just another head in the fascist hydra.

This company failing will have no impact whatsoever on the expansion of the surveillance state, or fascisms implementation of totalitarianism.

Nah. Alex Jones is just a fucking con artist, who also happens to be extremely mentally ill. He's showed many indications over the years that he doesn't believe half the shit he continues to promote.

Nuclear is actually promoted by old guard mining and energy oligarchs because it provides a centralised means of control.

The peoples needs can be met with 100% renewables and battery storage. The oligarchies needs can never be met, because they are a malignant cancerous parasite.

The greed and narcissism of modern consumerist society has given everyone a dog-eat-dog worldview where working together as a species to solve problems, and making minor sacrifices, is "communism". Moral and ethical bankruptcy is "freedom".

Why plant a tree for future generations when you believe it won't survive the climate in 50 years, or it will be felled to generate value for shareholders?

CEO made the exact same mistake most capitalist "Liberals" make, going all the way back to the Weimar republic and Hitler; believing what fascists say, are acting in good faith, and ignoring their actions; instead of being corrupt criminals and sociopaths who don't care about the meaning of words.

My entire comment history is filled with criticism of capitalism, and I have a bunch of issues with proton, but this is just sad and not something I care about.

They are testing what price point is most attractive for NEW customers on a 24 month intro offer. Both of these offers revert to the standard price after 24 months.

Windscribe, as a 5 eyes based VPN, is not trustworthy, and posting "gotchas" like this makes them even more suspect. Proton is one of the only providers that offer a permanently free VPN. Windscribe has no free option.

Personally, I think a moral company would offer permanent discounts to long term customers, but there isn't a single company on earth I'm aware of that actually does that.