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I have a related cybersecurity point.

No interface should, on a regular basis, contain buttons that, if pressed -- harm the computer and other computers near it.

And of course, this is links in modern email.

Anyone else laugh out loud when they read this? Like, okay so NO, that's entirely impossible. What's really going on?

VPN (or other) Tunnel.

That's the objective answer. There's no mystery here. That's exactly how you get what you want and it's not too hard. Not trying to dunk on you or anyone one but this is an easily solved problem, and I think I want to highlight it like this to make sure everyone understands.

Anything web/internet/network service thing, you can add this on. This composability is important to remember in software, this even goes back to "The Unix Way" type stuff.

Right, I think the major thing that both of you are unwittingly dancing around is the extent to which AAV is generally "popular," almost subconsciously. Especially in the US, but I'd argue the whole world.

It would be exceedingly difficult to strongly distinguish it from "Gen Whatever Slang" or "US Slang" or a lot of "LGTBQ Slang" etc etc. The list goes on.

Not to my knowledge, and I imagine even trying to do this would stir up.. a lot.

The more I think about it, the more difficult it seems. Not that it shouldn't be done, but wow.

"Identity based activist communities" feels like a hilariously ham-fisted attempt to connect together extremely different groups.

This is going to be a thing where the individual parties might get something like reliable anonymity, and Google will still be able to trace it, right?

It's funny, and perhaps not entirely unwarranted, that "racism" pops up here?

As a Black American, I find the author's idea extremely interesting and naturally began to wonder -- what might this idea (in code?) look like for us?

Owing to history and whatnot, the role "Black American English" might play is of course very much a moving target, but it's interesting to think about.

And what does this do safety/privacy-wise?

Nothing, except make it more available.

This is why I often argue against (or at least want to point out the dangers of) the ATProto/Bluesky model.

It's an absolute boon for people who want heavy surveillance, government or otherwise.

The looseness and "unreliability" of protocols like Mastodon ironically make them safer.

Doubt it. Explain China?

An interesting problem in the background of this is the cope.

Which is to say, there are a lot of people who think "they can tell AI" in music, wherein you can cue the famous picture of the airplane with the bulletholes.

I'm not sure what you can do about it, and part of me hates it too -- but youtube has absolutely given me 100% AI generated music that's full of soul and better than, say, Bruno Mar,s IMHO.

(For those interested, my two examples would be the gospel "Thong Song" and the fake rock-n-roll dis track against 50 cent "by TI's Son," 2 quarters...)

Let's go with impossible.

Nothing personal, but there's something hilarious about "I demand a quick and easy solution to a likely practically impossible problem once you get into details" -- in opposition to AI.

I have NEVER SEEN A MORE PERFECT distillation of modern casual economics discourse than the last two comments. Hilarious.

For what it's worth, I bet this opinion literally doesn't matter anymore.

Write your thing in whatever you want, AI it into another language, done.

Bash gets way more hate than it deserves, in ways that are like "this kitchen knife is terrible for cutting down trees!"

Like, yeah, why are you mad? And also, if a dude wants to cut down a tree with a kitchen knife that's actually pretty impressive.

Eh, he's either praising or being condescending, seems like?

I think you're doing the thing I'm literally railing against; I believe the tendency to turn a relatively simple concept like "we should have a society that has peace and also favorable trades" into IDEOLOGY is precisely how we end up with overreach.

I hope people get the right message from this, which is:

The way people talk about "Capitalism" is most often silly and counterproductive because most of the time -- the person that hates capitalism and the person that loves capitalism are talking about nearly entirely different things.

I would emphatically not do this, because you're confusing legal ownership with physical ownership and only one can be guaranteed with reasonable certainty.

Honestly, I'm continually surprised at how badly people miss this even as, e.g. Sony et al just take away stuff you "bought."

So, to put directly. Do not reword it, you will screw it up.

You must be able to hold it in your hand.

Does it really, though? I haven't used Windows as a daily driver in forever, but I'd have trouble believing that my Linux Mint desktop isn't less hassle than Windows (e.g. the ads, windows updates etc you mention)

Any reason for stopping? I have a physical steam link and a Raspberry Pi 4, and house rearranging is making me look into all of this.

Given my experience with Steam Deck, I strongly doubt this?

My guess is that the extra $200 (over a custom built pc) will precisely be "everything mostly just working."

This is such a baffling claim? I've had very close to zero issues with couch gaming with my steam deck + wireless xbox controllers. They overwhelmingly just work. Including Overcooked?

So, I just discovered MoCa Coax in the house, and it's the kind of thing that makes me feel silly, especially since we don't have cable tv. I suppose it's because of the ubiquitousness of "wireless."

Anyway, will be looking into all of this soon.

Generally, I'm glad that "the people" appear to be pointed in the IMHO correct direction, even if for imprecise, or maybe even wrong, reasons.

Regardless of what they are used for, we do not need more "data centers." This is true even outside of AI.

Putting so much of us into "the cloud" is generally harmful; encouraging people to learn about, and to do more "computing" at home -- on local machines they, or someone who cares about them, control, is better.

If it involves Amazon today, it is overwhelmingly unlikely to be the best thing that has ever happened for anyone.

"Confidentiality"

Yeah, nah, I'm good. That's not "open-source."

Or maybe it is, but it's not "Free Software," the better thing.

Nothing personal, but there genuinely ought to be consequences for using "open source" in the context of something like this tied to proprietary AI services.

Local models should be the first choice in that framing.

Lol. Again.

Private company third party password managers are bad. Across the board. They're a bad idea.

Deeply localized actual best practices can help solve this. Private companies can also help, but only if it isn't in the form of "you can't have this unless you pay for it." The point is, it's like fighting fires, you can't isolate it.

It's a complete dead-end and the sooner the industry realizes this the better.