One step closer to personal army of super human mutants

I think if enough people never gave them Internet access, the manufacturers would start adding in cellular modems to ensure they get the data flowing (that is, data on your viewing habits and sending you ads).

Brave removed it shortly after Firefox

https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/issues/1885

Next!

I wish Tesla kept selling the “$35k Model 3” that was stripped down and had no cameras or autopilot. Essentially just an electric vehicle with no bells and whistles.

It’s also opt-in by the car owner. Even Firefox will suck up your private data if you opt-in yet this community seems fine with that.

From the article you linked:

In its Customer Privacy Notice, Tesla explains that if a customer agrees to share data, “your vehicle may collect the data and make it available to Tesla for analysis. This analysis helps Tesla improve its products, features, and diagnose problems quicker.” It also states that the data may include “short video clips or images,” but isn’t linked to a customer’s account or vehicle identification number, “and does not identify you personally.”

So (1) it is opt-in specifically, and (2) that article is taking about the external cameras.

Have you seen BeepSaber?

A basic implementation of the Beat Saber VR game mechanic in the Godot Game Engine for Oculus Quest (and other VR headsets) This game uses godot 3.2. The implementation supports to load and play maps from BeatSaver.

A little hokey but I bet it doesn’t break every other week when Meta updates it. Not sure on addons tho.

For anyone interested in more information about Laugerie Basse and the artifacts they found.

https://donsmaps.com/laugeriebasse.html

That’s pretty fascinating but seriously instagram? 🤮

There’s also the check connectivity to Internet ping that network manager does. Arch Linux defaults to Arch’s servers, etc.

If you’re feeling adventurous, you could try to build your own version of LineageOS for your device. Hardest part is probably going to be figuring out drivers for the kernel.

I did some reading up on this as it’s fairly interesting and I haven’t heard about this before. I found this article and it sounds like it’s less than $200k fine and two years monitoring. If I had to guess they might have used that as insurance against leaks of their innovative technology, drone ships and return to pad rockets, satellite technology etc. At least that’s what I hope as I want to give them the benefit of the doubt. Also potential sabotage. They also have government contracts with military I’m sure. Maybe it’s easier to risk a lawsuit for a few years of mitigating those risks. Just something to think about.

Having gone through the Arch install myself, what part dod you find you had to babysit? Boot the install media, format the drive, mount the mounts, install system, configure the system, and done. Maybe it’s just a more involved process than you’d like?

Yea nobody would ever use Arch for the basis of anything game changing coughSteamOScough

This is the way

I, myself, have a blocklist a mile long. Communities as well as users. It’s made my mental health go way up. Some may argue I’m in an echo chamber but I much prefer conversations with pleasant and/or likeminded people to getting verbally shat all over.

Do you have an IP address conflict?

Hey, that comment’s a bit off the mark. Transformers don’t just memorize chunks of text, they’re way more sophisticated than that. They use attention mechanisms to figure out what parts of the text are important and how they relate to each other. It’s not about memorizing, it’s about understanding patterns and relationships. The paper you linked doesn’t say anything about these models just regurgitating information.

Nextcloud is a service that ticks most if those boxes (if not all). You can self host if that’s your thing or pay for a hosted service.

I read through the comments and figured I should try to help balance the discussion. For risk of getting pounced on, I use brave browser and brave search for all my personal needs. It is pre configured with things I care about out of the box, ipfs on mobile, great adblock by default, I experimented with their ad/crypto thing. I’m very happy we have companies trying to do new things, the naysayers will shit on innovation always, so “do your own research” lmao. Other features are a built in crypto wallet.

Other things I care about are their terms of service. Whether you believe it or not, at least we have a company out there trying to champion privacy by default. DuckDuckGo is similar on that regard. They also have their own search engine and their AI powered answers is very good, much better than Google’s at this point. I find myself not having to go to Google as often anymore. It’s really good these days!

They also push the envelope and put their money where their mouth is so to speak privacy wise by continually coming out with new features for privacy and security. I honestly do not understand how a privacy community will shit all over Brave. And no I don’t care about their founder nor about their copyright AI infringing API. Have none of you sailed the high seas? If it personally affects you then sue them.