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That's a beautiful fantasy but that's just not how America works at this point. Everyone has ulterior motives to keep the meat grinder running.

Try: "What happened at Tiananmen Square in 1989"

It's Chinese. Won't answer anything about Tiananmen Square but will gleefully give you instructions to perform various electronic warfare attacks that opus and fable instantly refuse.

Side tangent, why is fable so weird about questions involving "Welch's method"? Even really trivial ones it'll shut down frequently. CFAR and STFT are both totally fine but Welch's is apparently taboo, it's wild.

Yeah sorry, I read too far into your position. There's a certain faction within these AI discussions that wants to over-anthropomorphize the LLMs in kind of a borderline spiritual way.

I think you're ending that train of thought too early. Why does this occur?

Well... We can hypothesize that these things are largely trained on internet dialogue so there's probably some correlation between threads where people are not flaming each other and the quality of the replies. They're just statistical engines so anything you can do to raise the odds of a helpful next token...

I'm essentially just making shit up here, maybe it's right, maybe it isn't, but rather than saying "it's human and we should treat it so" we're trying to get to the ground truth of how it works.

What happens when the courts stop enforcing the law in accordance with the constitution and established ethics?

Doesn't look like anything to me. FAFO flies both ways.

No shit. Many of us are doing stuff, but we can't post about it on fucking social media if we don't want to join our friends at the supermax party.

Bullshit. I watched the video. The car never moves.

Have you seen our prison system? Everyone who's actually "done something" about it is either dead, spent time in supermax, or is headed to supermax.

Maybe try reading more leftist attacks on law enforcement?

Like, yes, the system works at the level you're assessing it. The problem is that it's based on a mountain of flawed premises and so we've ultimately created a literal torment nexus with a smiley face taped on top of it and everyone gets to wash their hands of it and go home: justice served.

Unironically yes, we convict people of felonies for the dumbest fucking reasons and working a jury is literally a science.

Yeah I don't think they actually want this. There's far too much deeply personal and useful data being freely feed to the companies running these models.

People are giving them everything. Their thoughts, feelings, intentions, company IP... It's a fucking gold mine.

There's just too much value in retraining on that data and even if there wasn't, the feds lean so heavily on Google search histories to get convictions I am certain there will be pressure to prevent any mass market services from adopting this.

Is this actually practically reducing the attack surface? We're replacing a battle hardened service with a random one that has the ability to manipulate the firewall rules.

The system needs built in back pressure against these events. Not just "police accountability" but also a defined system were fuckups like this are expensive organizationally so that the organization has an incentive to prevent them. Something like if you're subject to detention that turns out to be unwarranted you automatically get cash straight out of the police budget. Same deal with having weapons pointed at you.

This also helps provide restitution to victims who would otherwise just be screwed out of their time and legal defense fees

What if we just didn't have as many police interactions? They love pulling people over because it let's them run everyone for warrants.

I watch a lot of body cam stuff. The number of videos of police executions starting with "flock cameras identified..." is rising rapidly

Delay the legislation whenever possible, call your Congress critter and make their lives a tiny bit worse. Deny them at every level of government including local and state assemblies where you have a bigger voice. Defend your communities by actually showing up to city council meetings. That kinda stuff...

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/prot...

At the end of the day nobody gives a shit though. The technical hams care more about their freedom to do cool stuff and the majority would just as fast try to decode their own power supply spurs because they're messages from aliens.

I would love to move to wire, but the issue I've run into is that we'd need a custom client to move push notifications off their infra and that's a non-starter for iOS users because of app store policies (thanks Apple).

We'd be happy to pay them to host but for our size we'd be paying many thousands per year which is insane for chat.

I always find the anti-encryption arguments frustrating because all the digital modes are going to have data whitening anyway, and are therefore (if you are not aware of the exact protocol) indistinguishable from encrypted transmissions for all practical purposes. We already have a number of common systems that are basically encrypted because the codecs are proprietary.

The actual mechanism preventing abuse is the requirement to broadcast a callsign in a way that casual observers can interpret it.

Yeah, it's a frustrating situation because we have hundreds of people and the constant state-sync issues and assorted account problems are making it hard for non-technical people to participate.

This is a non-technical group so the main concern I have is the same with Element vs Element X vs Fluffy vs ......

It's definitely tempting though, it seems to be by far the most flexible solution.

Are there any real options in this space for something that is

- E2EE

- Large group capable (100+ users)

- FOSS + self hostable

- Not riddled with security issues

- Relatively easy to use for iOS and Android users (safe for normies)

I help run a Matrix server for people who are at risk from the current administration and I can attest to all of the issues mentioned plus a few more.

I'd rather not move to something as hostile as Discord and while we've tried Stoat it's infinitely more buggy and the lack of iOS apps is causing problems.

Rocket chat is interesting but E2EE is early in development, lots of security issues at last check.

Simplex isn't going to be better for large group stuff, it has the same fundamental sync issues Matrix does and the devs are more interested in crypto than fixing that.