This is not new, and not because WhatsApp is somehow “untrustworthy.” It’s been banned from most govt desktops for years.
It’s end-to-end encrypted, so it bypasses malware filters. A House staffer can easily be sent a malicious file and spread it around to others before anyone learns the file is malicious.
Musk probably heard about “synthetic data” training, which is where you use machine learning to create thousands of things that are typical-enough to be good training data. Microsoft uses it to take documents users upload to Office365, train the ML model, and then use that ML output to train an LLM so they can technically say “no, your data wasn’t used to train an LLM.” Because it trained the thing that trained the LLM.
However, you can’t do that with LLM output and stuff like… History. WTF evidence and documents are the basis for the crap he wants to add? The hallucinations will just compound because who’s going to cross-check this other than Grok anyway?
Prepare for Grokipedia to only have one article about white genocide, then every other article links to “Did you mean White Genocide?”
Ah, the possibly Chinese-originated propaganda pushing for the Republic of Cascadia.
As a former resident, here’s a few reasons why not.
First, there’s already a looooot of rednecks and racists in every single state you talked about. In large numbers in rural areas. Simply smothering them with the numbers doesn’t mean you simply can’t represent them unless you just want someone else’s dictatorship. They’re still going to end up electing people you don’t like, and the ratio won’t be all that far off from now.
Second, Cascadia can’t sustain themselves with water, power, or food. Where are you getting wheat from? How about ethanol? How about EV production? It’s a guaranteed huge importer of lots of staples, severing infrastructure optimized over decades. So the first day you’re stuck trying to import from farther away at the same cost as no tariffs overland from 1000 miles away.
Third, your top trading partners will totally abuse your desperation during the secessionist era. Putting you in a terrible place to start.
Fourth, you’re now fully capitulating to the whims of the Broligarchs. WHY? Why do this? They can literally sink the whole country if 2 pull up stakes from Silicon valley.
Finally, last I checked, there isn’t some secret sauce to either political party. No one is actually living in some utopia besieged by nasty conservatives from Iowa. There’s no grass is greener situation here other than in your imaginations.
Second Art Nouveau. Art Deco is nice, but I think over played as a throwback.
Also a fan of a neoclassical Italianate style. Square columns, low flat roofs, towers and tall thin windows. It can vary, but when done in a clean and simple style, it’s very nice IMO.
I mean, that’s simply statistics. The dude votes on 100 bills and isn’t simply following the party line, a few will not be votes for stupidity or hate.
The GOP cares that he isn’t “loyal” and still gets elected and Trump endorsements when he is clearly going to win anyway. That’s about it.
Child soldiers are not Brave New World. More like shit old world.
Huawei and their HarmonyOS would disagree with you on how many users there are on an AOSP variant. It’s a meaningful cost to Google, which is probably what is motivating them to lock down their phones now.
https://medium.com/huawei-developers/what-is-harmonyos-how-it-differs-from-android-e5ea3fc50acc
Y’all gotta read more than the headline.
Rep. Tom Massie has been the key most Libertarian Congressperson that consistently gives strong Ron Paul circa 2009 energy. He’s been a constant headache for Trump because he doesn’t ever like Trump’s policy positions for not being insane enough. The lone No vote against the antisemitism resolution just for show.
He might, but not for the reasons you want.
Tom Massie is a hard-right libertarian, and Trump doesn’t like him because he usually fairly obstructionist to Trump goals. Often because they’re not extreme enough, or not austere enough.
Oh yeah, for sure.
In other news, water found to be wet, puppies cute. More at 11.
I have a 250MB in aluminum container HD from 2005ish. Still works AFAIK.
Might be fun to stress test it, but I expect the discs inside would shatter from shocks before the case ever showed signs of wear.
Next week, imma be all about this.
Do do di-dee-doo-da-doo
It’s ethical because it runs on donations and has a non-profit business model.
Meta likely spends at least $1 billion a year running WhatsApp.
Please donate to Signal if you use it.
I understand what you’re saying, but AOL had the opposite problem. The internet at that time was hard to use in general, so it was more about trying to provide enough of anything to get commercial viability for regular people. At one point, AOL was 30% of the entire internet. Seriously, it hosted almost a third of everything online. The alternatives were CompuServe or Prodigy or simply not being online at all. But you paid for it up front as an ISP. AOL didn’t provide anything for free up front.
The Web 2.0 walled garden approach is about preventing you from wandering out onto the wide open spaces of the rest of the internet out there and not seeing the content curated to make the platform provider money. And making the 10% of daily internet content composed of idiotic FB comments and posts seem like it’s worth all your time when you can easily use one of 5 or 6 search engines to find alternative content. Making staying in the garden so cost effective and frictionless that even using a search engine seems “hard” to do.
For the most part, it works well without needing too much tinkering by the user. It’s the Fisher Price My First Distro.
I tried it out with a 21.3 dualboot with Windows 11 and within 2 or 3 months I hadn’t gone back to Windows other than to push files over. Sure, there were a few “learning opportunities” with tweaks or weird driver issues that were because of the particular hardware I’m using, but they were manageable. At this point I’m running 22.1 only on this machine.
The nice part is that being Ubuntu-based, if I run into a problem, I can search for both the more widely-documented Ubuntu version of the issue, or look for a Mint-related version. Claude does a great job with small-to-medium troubleshooting rather than me dig through forums. It’s low-risk, low-work, high-reward.