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I also want to see them succeed. After sitting in meetings with some of the world's brightest software engineers over the last 20 years and observing progress come to a stand-still because of their (in)decisions, I am very skeptical. It beats a corrupt government any day though.

Yeah this resulted in a mass exodus of my contacts from Signal. The worst part is some of them never deactivated their Signal accounts, they simply uninstalled it from their devices. For a good while, I was sending messages to the void because Signal thought they were still active users.

I only have 2 people in my contacts that use it now. Every now and then somebody will install it for a couple weeks and ditch it again.

The other day in one of the Android TV related threads somebody posted a Github repo for an AndroidTV browser app with a rich suite of functionality. I pulled the repo down and asked Claude to scan it because I was concerned about security issues and vibe-coded vulnerabilities. It got about half way through the scan and abruptly stopped, refusing to scan it more nor would it say exactly why it stopped or what it found, only that it was a "security" issue.

Needless to say, I ditched the repo. The problem is I don't know if what it found was legitimate or simply a keyword that set off alarm bells or if my prompt was falsely detected of being malicious. It's very frustrating. When I researched more on this topic, I found users complaining about the same issue when asking Claude to scan new releases of legitimate npm packages (a popular library like react-query for example).

They've simultaneously cultivated a medium for faster and more devastating exploits with no good way of protecting ourselves from them. It's ridiculous.

I have tailscale for running self-hosted stuff like Jellyfin (media server) and Immich (image host) without completely exposing these things to everyone on the web. When I'm away from home, I can easily access my media and photos without sacrificing my privacy on cloud-hosted providers for those things. It's also completely free with no limitations other than disk space and bandwidth.

My wife is tech-phobic, so having her sign up for Tailscale with her existing Google account and installing the Android app was easy enough for her to agree to this setup.

My CPAP machine has a modem in it that transmits data without ever being connected to my network. I can see a future where Samsung decides to do something similar. Perhaps even contracts with Starlink so they can transmit even larger chunks of real-time data. It makes me sick to think about that possibility, but I don't think it's far-fetched.

What's the population? I'm wondering if this is a YMMV situation. My uncle lives in a town in Oregon with ~1500 people. Everybody knows everybody, but they all treat each other like thieves (rightfully so in many cases unfortunately). I remember one summer night in the mid-2010s a group of guys kept coming back to his property to steal stuff. He'd go out and start yelling, they'd take off and come back an hour later to try again. About the 4th or 5th time he went out and just started shooting into the field nearby and they didn't come back after that lol. I was shocked when he told me this was a semi-regular thing.

There's also another hypothetical angle to consider which is that Google's egregious deforestation here may be somewhat self-limited due to prior knowledge of Finnish environmental regulations being more strictly enforced. "It is easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission" comes to mind. Imagine then what Google could be doing in other areas of the world where they can freely pave through the land without such oversight. The cumulative destruction then becomes a much larger issue than this "small" chunk of land.

I think you're moving goalposts. You posed this scenario, did you not:

> Start an investigation into deforestation, leading to the discovery of the deforestation caused by this datacenter?

I've provided evidence to suggest that's exactly what it was in this case. The head of the environmental department found evidence of deforestation and started an inquiry. Techspot (and many other outlets) picked it up because it mentions Google and they are a Tech publication. They provided a neutral view of the matter, sans bias. Those are the facts.

How is the article written in bad faith? Did you even read the title let alone the article?

The title: Google cleared 300 hectares of Finnish forest for a data center, and regulators want answers

The opening sentence: Finland's regulator says the environmental review came too late, Google says it followed the law

I'm going with option #1 here because the article represents both sides here equally and makes no claims that laws were broken, only that an investigation is underway. Point me to where it indicates #2 for you.

EDIT: It's not clear if you're simply pointing out OP's misgivings or stating yours in support. Either way, I would like to see evidence of scenario #2 if that's the contention here.

EDIT 2: the more I think to myself about this, the more silly it seems. This is from a website called techspot.com, they literally report on news regarding tech companies. So while it may not be "investigating deforestation" as you put it (which in itself is a ridiculous starting point and you know it), there's also no indication it's providing false news about Google just to bash on data centers.

Hmm this seems like whataboutism, but I'm not sure that was your intention. The big issue here is what you initially touched on: did they break the law?

I don't think those are necessarily fair comparisons either. Countries like Brazil and India may not have the same regulatory strength as countries in the EU and perhaps public appetite is not as sensitive to such matters either. Finland is well known for being very protective of their natural areas.

Here in the US, I've seen it make news when a neighbor cuts down a few trees on another neighbors property without permission. That doesn't make it any less valid of an issue than a company razing down acres worth.

> There are a lot of entities clearing lots of forest every day. Interesting that this one makes news.

Are you approaching this from the angle that we shouldn't be making this a big deal because we don't for the others? Because I would approach it from the opposite direction: we should make the others just as big (if not bigger) a deal as this.

The best part about using an LLM for learning new things like that is not having to deal with snarky and snobby comments from the community members involved in them. Thanks to an LLM, I learned how to install, maintain, and winterize an above-ground pool. It's not rocket science, but it was not easy either. I peeked into the forums surrounding the pool communities for help first and they were always so hostile towards newcomers. It's very demotivating when you're excited about something new and half the people that are supposed to be helping you are just rude elitists; completely ruins the whole experience.

Yeah I don't doubt that. My phones and PC are always fine also. I use an ONN 4K device for the TV. The first month or two was ok. Then I updated the app at one point and it's never been the same since. I've uninstalled and reinstalled and changed to Projectivy and tried some other loaders as well, and the problem just keeps coming back. We'll see if this Wholphin client changes anything.

Oh wow, TIL about Wholphin. I'll have to give that a try. I wonder if this will finally resolve the issue with me having to login to JellyFin every few days for no apparent reason (it's not the server, I switched from Win to Linux and same problem).

EDIT: all that remains for this stack is a good browser that can allow usage of uBlock Origin. BrowseHere is a pain to use with its constant nags about allowing pop-ups on certain sites...

I'm excited to see more studies done in this context, but without the HIV association. My wife has Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and Rheumatoid Arthritis. She saw more benefits in inflammation reduction than weight reduction, especially those first two weeks she started taking it. She says her pain levels are night and day difference when on GLP-1 vs off. To me it would then make logical sense that reduced inflammation can have a measurably positive effect on aging.