Boss I’m tired of AI

The EU should slap the living daylights out of this company

ChatGPT in its PhD thesis defense: “Oh, I’m sorry for the misinformation, let me try this again…”

Sounds like a good idea to me. Maybe we could invest in actually functional railways instead.

I don’t have Threads or follow anyone from there but sounds a bit… complicated?

https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/17/threads-expands-open-social-web-integrations-with-fediverse-feed-user-profile-search/

I guess they’d argue that none of those pesky little data protection laws apply to competent authorities like the police and they’re probably justifying it with the criminal prosecution clause.

Great.

Oh heaven forbid wanting to discuss things in discussion forum instead of watching “content”.

I repeat, what exactly is your problem with Linus? Point me to the kernel.org thread where he is being a jerk to you? Or at least the issue you have in kernel development?

I’m trying to discuss this with you. You keep shouting something about content.

So discuss or get the fuck out.

Yes please, if it’s only 4 minutes you should be able to air your grievances with Linus in text fairly easily and save us all from having to watch some shitty YouTube video

You are accusing him of being a jerk after all.

He has track record of being extremely blunt. This has been the case since the 90s., though he has made attempts to be less direct in the past decade or so. What’s your problem specifically?

VC financed social media at the start of its enshittification journey. Started interesting with open protocol but seems it has no ambitions of being open.

Deleted my account 6 months ago and haven’t missed it.

Normally you’d link the kernel.org mail thread, not a YouTube video.

Care to summarise your beef with Linus in text because I’m not watching that.

LLMs are a tool. They lack fidelity and frequently generate wrong results but as long as you (human subject matter expert) go through the results they are extremely useful in analysing and summarising large datasets.

But that’s all they are. They don’t create anything new, you can’t use them for learning anything and they certainly don’t ”think”, they just produce nice looking sentences.

Generally, the energy needs and environmental harm they do make their usecases very narrow. But there are some.

As a general tool that pretends to be ”intelligent”, they are completely useless because they’re nothing of the kind.

I think there’s also a fundamental cultural difference in that “govts take”. We don’t normally see taxes as “taking” in that sense, but I fully understand where you’re coming from - it makes sense and seems to work for you guys.

Yeah apparently so. I guess it’s not the top of mind problem Americans have right now.

Over here various pro-consumer watchdog organisations would protest wildly and the merchant would most likely get fined for false advertising. So the whole thing feels a bit alien to me.

Why do consumers accept a system like this? Wouldn’t it be just better for consumers if the shop pricetag represented the exact amount you have to pay at the counter?

If and when you send or receive e-mail encrypted by PGP, the body (contents) of the message is indeed encrypted and you’re safe from snooping and data collection, which is great. However, privacy-wise this might actually be a bad thing, because almost no one uses PGP and using it makes you stand out in a sea of normal e-mail users for someone who collects and analyzes lot of data. So if that’s your threat model, using PGP might actually be dangerous. Also, you have to remember and remind everyone to use PGP, which is cumbersome if you correspond with non-techie people. You don’t really know how they handle “their side” and PGP software is notoriously not very user friendly.

Whenever you send someone unencrypted e-mail from your Proton account, there’s a chance that the recipients e-mail provider (most likely Google or Microsoft) reads it. Same when they send it to you. It doesn’t actually matter that the message sits encrypted “at rest” in your Proton accounts Sent Items -, the contents have already been read, indexed and sold to a broker.

It’s very hard to do e-mail privacy because the protocol itself doesn’t have any built-in. It’s better to use other communication methods for sensitive transactions.

So much winning people will be choking at the fumes of all the wins for decades to come!

Why would I? It’s full of spam.

I never see them. The spam filter removes them. Can’t remember last time I saw a mail like that.

Then Proton should be fine. As far as I know, they don’t sell user data.

Of course as soon as you send an email or receive it from someone else, there’s a chance it will be mined, but while it’s ”at rest” on Proton servers it should fulfill your model just fine.

Depends on your threat model. What are you defending against?