If it came to that, the SD card would be confiscated and/or the camera smashed.

Which search engines would do that?

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I completely agree. This shit came down when they had their failed social circled thing where they broke search operators and required a Google account for YouTube. They’ve been on the full-blown path to enshittification ever since.

I don’t disagree, but what more could Google do here? They had a flaw in their system that required two completely different services at Google in order to exploit and the result is an email address, not access to the account itself. Google also is actively paying for people to help them find these issues. I think they did a stellar job here, but of course being perfect with the security if the software implementations is always the best case.

OTF receives the majority of its funding from the U.S. government via the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM). Funding is appropriated for OTF through the annual  Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs appropriations and provided to OTF via a grant agreement from USAGM.

For FY 2023, Congress allocated $90.5 million for programs to promote Internet freedom globally, representing a $13 million increase from FY 2022. Of the funds allocated for Internet freedom, $40 million was designated for OTF. Per the appropriations, all Congressional funding provided to OTF is used to support “programs to promote Internet freedom globally.” In addition to helping to further OTF’s mission, this funding increase is also further recognition of the increasing need for the tools and technologies OTF supports.

In addition to funding from USAGM, OTF also accepts funding from other mission-aligned donors for discrete Funds, Labs, or Fellowships. For example, OTF’s FOSS Sustainability Fund is supported in part by funding from Schmidt Futures’ Plaintext Group, Okta for Good, and the Github Foundation.

There is a lot of valuable info in TFA beyond that: how to dress, interact with others, etc. Would be good to read the whole thing if interested.

Detailed instructions for things like this will need to documented. It starts with ads… does it evolve into 1984? Who knows, but it seems more likely in light of recent events.

What do we do when they come with 5G modems built in?

Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny. Consume you, it will.

My cynical take on that stance is they probably overstaff the airpots they are flying through to ensure that doesn’t happen. But yea maybe they fall down an elevator shaft.

I suddenly realize why I was so good at bhopping without scripts. Haha I’d get banned for cheats and never cheated once.

Thanks, friend. Much needed words. Maybe I’ll put my decades of counter strike to good use at some point.

First time I’ve used this phrase, myself. But I had such hope for the future and I guess I am finally admitting my hope is gone.

All they had to do was build a solid, reliable truck, and not be fascist. Instead they build a poorly glued together piece of shit and sieg heil. I fucking hate this timeline.

Would adding tor on top of AIDATA (or AIDATA on top of tor) provide anything useful?

https://mullvad.net/en/help/tor-and-mullvad-vpn

Would adding tor on top of AIDATA provide anything useful?

I don’t disagree at all, I’m just noting this stuff isn’t easy.

If it takes so much effort to make things compatible with Wayland such that fucking clipboard support is newsworthy, it’s no wonder Wayland has been such a shitshow.

DeepSeek is Open Weight, as in weights are available*

Anything needed to actually train the model is as closed as ClosedAI is.