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Linux (the kernel) and Git have done more in this regard, but think of FOSS in general. Without it, there wouldn't be Android. Without it, Windows NT would've won server space in the same way Windows won desktop space.

It is tools which are the commons (such as FOSS) and tools such as Wikipedia. But also open standards. LLMs cannibalize on these tools.

Furthermore, no customer wants an AI as customer bot. Especially elder people who are a bit computer illiterate can't find the real support (dark patterns). Can AI help a customer support representative? Oh, absolutely. AI can help a skilled person become better/quicker at certain tasks. But it cannot replace them, and it shouldn't either. If we do, we get all these 'fantastic' tools like *claw.

So there's three types of positions here:

1) Those who gave the order (position of power). Often a chain of command.

2) Those who planned it (usually the same or merged with group #1).

3) Those who implement the plan. The engineer, the soldier, the distributor (all down to the line of the logistics driver who delivered the evil TV), etc.

For some strange reason group #1 is called executives. They do not execute much though; they order others to, but execute sounds like they work hard, I guess. Those are indeed the most liable, and we must explain the why. Think Hitler, Himmler, Stalin, Mielke, etc. Lower down the line you get the Einsatzgruppe commanders.

The soldier who executed Jews (among other minority groups, mind you) with a gun is liable, but part of a power structure. If he refuses, he can and will get in trouble. Mass murder generates trauma, so it is executed by pawns or pawns of lieutenants. NKVD solved this by using others to execute.

Ergo: the higher up the chain, the more liable these people were as they had more power to say no.

That someone else would say yes is a red herring excuse. An engineer is in a position of power. They're an educated specialist in their field, they get paid for their job (not forced to implement in West), can say no. They can even blow the whistle. If those in power cannot find a fool to do their errands, they must do it themselves (and they cannot as no expertise), or lay down the idea.

The gas used to gas people in concentration camps didnt magically end up there. They weren't lied to that they'd get a shower by people who didn't knew what would happen. They knew or could've known, but they chose not to act.

(I'm using older examples of genocide as they are established and well documented; I am aware of more recent examples, but 1) this hasn't been solved legally, 2) I leave that comparison as an exercise to the reader.)

> Rally they're just doing what we've known for a while [...]

s/we/I

Not 'we' or 'everyone' knew this. The write-up proving such, and a content creator summing it up (if done poorly and you can do better; time to compete?) was worthwhile for a significant amount of people.

> [...] that all TV manufacturers are doing.

Ah, everyone is doing immoral things. Then it is OK. Somehow?!

Some of us remember a past where this wasn't OK. Where not everyone was doing this. I still got a TV from that time.

Tell you the truth, I don't want to even pay the electricity this malware would require to function.

Market gets flooded with these devices. Someone notices they are cheap, opens a Reddit thread about what is going on. Google Search picks it up. Now people who search for this TV (new or used) see a hit about malware in this TV. Buyers need to perform due diligence. However, in EU, sellers need to inform buyers of obvious negative sides of a product. Malware appears to be one of them.

Starlink? So I guess the TV cannot be used to harm Russian citizens :>

In that case we find where the antennas are and sabotage them. Aluminium foil around your TV (it can just be covered in for example plastic or black paper), or in/around walls.

I skimmed through the list. It is a couple of brands, none of it is recent hardware. Talos II (super expensive IBM Power workstation), TPE (not to be confused with TP-Link) networking stuff (old standards, like 1 gbit, 802.11n), some rebranded IBM/Lenovo X200, some old USB peripherals. There's nothing worthwhile on this list. No monitors or TVs (the topic at hand!). No keyboards (even though there is FOSS firmware for keyboards), except for I suppose X200. Not even Stallman's old MIPS laptop (Lemote Yeeloong) is on the list.

Linking this list is like saying you can live in a world without war in some remote cave where you have to eat mushrooms growing in it. Cool that exists (or not); but it isn't relevant. There's nothing worthwhile in the cave. No treasure trove.

How so? Anyone can do this, if it fits their agenda. Especially useful way to use your stolen/extorted BTC. If I had an exploit for this right before or right after embargo was lifted, and I could do that again, then it is in my interest to have cybersecurity people get more lax. For example, any secret agency in the world could be behind such a psyop. But also any criminal group or company invested in this field. You seen recently (Shinyhunters) how people can wear double hats.

Another trick could be to increase hype. Original author could've done that, for example because they always planned to burn 1k USD in BTC on this for whatever reason.

And then there's the trick to hope others follow, after which he, ehh, magically takes the money. That's a bit akin to ICO scams.

Can I prove any of the above theories? No. But the author cannot prove their motives are sincere either.

It was used on you, you were subjected to it. You cannot avoid that. That's the entire point. Before you get born, a computer is used to assess your health. If you want to watch TV, well you can't buy a TV without a computer anymore. Anything which uses the internet contains a computer with TCP/IP stack. Going on school in my country almost guarantees you end up with Chromebook or large touchscreen in classroom.

So when someone in West says they never used a computer in 2026 (or even just this decade) I don't believe them, unless they're so old they never used a mobile phone, don't watch any TV, and live like really sheltered like a hermit in some squad. A policitian needs to communicate; they surely use computers during their endeavor. Even the very old POTS is essentially also computers, same with old CRT TVs, ATMs, or computers used during public transport.

Ergo, the point is they've almost surely used computers; theyare just not aware how omnipresent computers are in our world,and ut isn't even a recent change either (the recent chamge is that they're 'smart' ie. 'networked' (TCP/IP stack).

Trump was organizing a coup. Lula wasn't. Big difference.

You've used a computer the moment you aren't even born yet.

First of all: kudos to Oz!

Better late than never. And this is very late.

IIRC Europe was on this as well e.g. Meloni regarding OpenAI.

Now that governments are banning remote LLMs controlled by authoritarian governments by proxy (CN, USA) it is time for companies to realize they shouldn't do that either.

The alternative? On-prem open models. Performance a little lower? Too bad, it ain't worth the risk. A privacy officer can value the risk, but that would be a case by case scenario and is expensive employee (lawyer), so not worth the effort.

Don't do it. You'll be liable.

Cool words which apply if you are in USA. If you are not in USA, the Trump administration demonstrated you are better off with a domain of your country (usually a ccTLD).

The real class action is the issue of a fascist government declaring antifascism terrorism, making all bank transfers void, seizing their domain (.org). They could do the same to ICC and ICJ, or anyone they dislike really. Most root-servers are located in America, too.

That some company is behind .com or some TLD and earning some money with that is a nothingburger.

Why does it have to be web-based? Discoverability? There's Minecraft and Lego. I discovered the CLI of MSDOS when I was a kid. It was a world to explore for sure.

There used to be pictionary online, web-based, which used Shockwave. iSketch I think it was called. There's probably alternatives these days, but I wouldn't know them. And regarding the Roblox issue: yes, some **heads were drawing ** pictures. Screw those people. This is what you get when you interact with total strangers. It brings the worst in people. How to solve that? Play with strangers-lite. Play games with people who are local to you. Yes, issues may ensue, but at the very least you can contact each other as parents.