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Reminds me of BadBIOS, a little bit

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I doubt anyone here has planted a tree. We talk of action and do nothing.

Every time I mention trees, I am told that instead we need expensive contraptions made out of mined materials, that usually require an external source of power. Instead of putting a tree in the ground and letting nature do its job, we have tricked ourselves into thinking that nature doesn't know enough.

In our hubris and delusion we will end our species and the rest of nature will scratch its head and wonder why.

This is not a solution or in any way clever. Critical ignoring of wrongthink is praised, while critical ignoring of the winning party is punished.

Call me cynical but my immediate impression that the gamedev is lying and exploiting the perceived asymmetry between the indie dev and the behemoth that is Steam. Attaching your game to controversy around AI is a great way to generate discussion and serves as a form of guerrilla marketing.

Maybe if the rules are "your game shall not contain AI", then don't write a ChatGPT integration for it.

For what it's worth, I don't think using Signal or Threema is enough to make you an E2EE enthusiast, and wanting to speak without your speech later used against you is maybe the purest reason for E2EE. I meant more so the type of people who are into Tor or I2P.

I was very unclear, sorry about that. The bulk of my comment addresses the content of the comment section here, not your article. Comments about how data collection can be used to manipulate behavior are woefully fatalistic. I want to challenge that mindset whenever I come across it.

As for Google Maps, I was under the impression that you used the app; I mostly use my phone for maps so I just assumed, and I may have misread your article.

I find it tiresome that blogposts about privacy always end up devolving into a discussion about how data can be used against individuals. There is a flip side to that coin, which is the individual's free will. Every one of us here chooses our actions, every day. If we don't like what Google knows about us, maybe it is time to ask ourselves hard questions, and to learn to truly accept ourselves as well as improving where we fall short.

This includes phenomena such as polarizing news causing social strife. If we simply took the time to understand how things are connected as well as how things are not, we would not so easily fall victim to propaganda. We can't just use the excuse that since Google knows our search history that we have no control over whether we are polarized. We also can't assume that once we de-Google our lives that we are any more properly prepared against polarizing propaganda. Lessons of mindfulness toward our neighbors' struggles don't come for free.

On top of that, the author of the linked blogpost is fooling himself. Other than halfway proving a point, he hasn't solved much. By continuing to use Google Maps he essentially makes a great deal of his online activity discoverable, undoing much of his work to "de-Google" his life.

Furthermore, Google has settings to blunt ad targeting, which seem quite effective, and you'll end up learning about CNC machines and dental drills in between your YouTube binges. If there was someone I'd accuse of dark patterns with ad targeting, that someone would be Meta.

What does this mean for customers of Meta, Microsoft, and PayPal? Are we consenting to having our data more carefully handled?

I have stopped using my dehumidifier, now I shall live forever.

Probably not what the parent poster was talking about, but fear is a great inhibitor. Excessively high standards for documentation and depth of scope might inhibit less experienced engineers, and nitpicking about scope is a pointless waste of time that ends up being a managerial excuse for more meetings especially if it's brought up endlessly when the core feature does not yet work. This promotes a culture of fear which can paralyze a team of engineers and all you end up getting out of them is the bare minimum.

Or something like that.

Odd. The high memory bandwidth of M2 intrigues me but I have not seen many people having success with AI apps on Apple Silicon. Which LLMs run better on Apple silicon than comparably priced Nvidia cards?