For starters, I have plenty to hide. No honest person uses that fallacious argument.
The fallacy of the argument is that it presumes anything I have to hide must be illegal. But of course that's not true.
If he's that out of the loop on news, the poor bastard probably doesn't even realize he dies in a fire locked inside it every time he drives.
Are you suggesting that Discord didn't have any technical means to detect and ban that activity before? And that having face scans of some users not only gives them that ability, but it's the most reasonable and sensible way to achieve it?
Because we don't really care about protecting kids.
That's not fair. They are still working super hard to disarm the people in blue states.
The thing is that he’s right
He's not right. The national debt is way fuckin bigger than 3 trillion. He's also wrong in presuming that an infusion of productivity (tax revenue) can "solve" intentional over-spending. He's just a serial scammer spouting uninformed nonsense to stay relevant.
Absent a warrant, probable cause, or some exigent circumstance, isn't "likely to escape" just a charged way of saying innocent person going about their business?
I was all set to be pissed off at this, then I read that it was opt in. Home Assistant is f'n awesome!
Encrypted apps like Signal encrypt messages in a way that only you and the recipient can decrypt and read. Not even Signal can decrypt them. However it has always been the case that another person could look over your shoulder and read the messages you send, who you're sending them to, and so on. Pretty obvious, right?
What the author and Signal are calling out here is that all major commercial OSes are now building in features that "look over your shoulder." But it's worse than that because they also record every other device sensor's data.
Windows Recall is the easiest to understand. It is a tool build into windows (and enabled by default) that takes a screenshot a few times per second. This effectively capture a stream of everything you do while using windows; what you browse, who you chat with, the pron you watch, the games you play, where you travel, and who you travel with or near. If you use "private" message tools like Signal, they'll be able to see who you are messaging and read the conversations, just as if they were looking over your shoulder, permanently.
They claim that for an AI agent to serve you well, it needs to know everything it can about you. They also make dubious claims that they'll never use any of this against you, but they also acknowledge that they comply with court orders and government requests (to varying degrees). So... if you trust all of these companies and every government in the world, there's nothing to worry about.
One: Civility is eventually restored to government and these people are tried and convicted for their crimes.
Respectfully, that's an outcome, not a path to get there.
The MAGA shitheads won't just give up and let themselves be prosecuted. They won't stop appointing judges, they won't stop cheating on elections, they won't stop manipulating media, and they won't stop harassing, intimidating, and killing their opposition until someone makes them.
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Classic false dichotomy. He's got a "both" button in real life.