We developed the Privacy Sandbox with the goal of finding innovative solutions that meaningfully improve online privacy while preserving an ad-supported internet that supports a vibrant ecosystem of publishers, connects businesses with customers, and offers all of us free access to a wide range of content.
god, the opening paragraph made my head spin with tech pr copy
Jeremy Keith on the bullshit "privacy sandbox" in chrome and firefox: https://adactio.com/journal/21285
I like Jeremy because he is an OG, but I think his requirement for proof that targeted advertising "works" before the browsers implement these features is off the mark for me. He's an agency guy, a bit like Andy Budd, so they tend to have these really visceral takes about the state of the web but with this skewed perspective of best interests
I one-up your well-sourced article with a "nope it isn't", your move.
Nope it isn’t. You blame AI companies for pollution they didn’t generate. Blame the energy sector.
don't talk about providing good counterarguments, please
I watched the video of a talk by the author from an xrp conference in June and I don't know why I do that to myself and I also don't understand how these people muster the energy to talk about this stuff which is SO MUCH THE SAME AS IT ALWAYS WAS. It's such a grind.
ICYI in watching paint dry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwqmDTfsspM
the dorks that come in and dumbpost are fun for the first few interactions, but, damn, they get annoying fast
"it is providing Microsoft non-exclusive access to advanced learning content and data to help improve relevance and performance of AI systems".
I wish it wasn't normal to call these "systems" instead of "products"
It had an i3 which I bumped up to an i5-750 (it only cost 4 euros) but it's socket 1156 era, so probably still rather inefficient compared to recent gens, right?
I’ll hit you up elsewhere a bit later and share some ideas for backup :)
thanks! that would be great. I already have a NAS with redundancy for my important stuff, but I'm starting to build a large archive of downloaded youtube videos for research projects and I would hate to lose them.
I highlighted another nice dig by weizenbaum this afternoon which your "broken by design" reminded me of:
"These gigantic computer systems have usually been put together (one cannot always use the word designed) by teams of programmers, whose work is often spread over many years. By the time these systems come into use, most of the original programmers have left or turned their attention to other pursuits. It is precisely when such systems begin to be used that their inner workings can no longer be understood by any single person or by a small team of individuals."
let's see how many steps they take back
the backups is good advice. I need to put in a second drive and work out how to make it keep a backup. I'm learning all that as I go.
As for power draw, I only turn it on when I need it and it's not connected to a display - just ssh-ing into it, so hopefully not wasting too much juice.
I rescued an office spec HP desktop from a trash heap and upgraded it with second hand components from https://computerstoreberlin.de/?lang=eng. Its running Ubuntu server and I use it as a wordpress dev server and also my yt-dlp machine which dumps the files into a samba share. I'm very proud of it
you can see they are actively monitoring the masto discourse and responding whenever they think their justification list has any merit https://hci.social/@protonprivacy@mastodon.social/with_replies
but they are already saying stuff out of sync with their promotional material so damage control does appear to be in action
e.g.
Thanks for the feedback everyone. Just to be clear, Proton Scribe is:
- only for business users, who have asked for it
https://mastodon.social/@protonprivacy/112814751983760603
but their site says
Who can use Proton Scribe? We are currently rolling out Scribe to eligible users. If you’re on a Proton Business plan, including Mail Essentials, Mail Professional, and Proton > Business Suite, you can try Proton Scribe for free for 14 days. If you’re on our Visionary plan, it’s included with your plan.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240719203115/https://proton.me/support/proton-scribe-writing-assistant
does this “free for 14 days” trial auto-renew?
It doesn't sound like it, but the wording is a little strange in that it is $2.99 per user per month but does that mean that an admin has to tell each employee whether they can do the trial or not? It doesn't seem manageable to have a free trial that is activated by the individual user but then the switch to paid subscription has to be handled (I assume) by the designated admin.
Also, if we're talking about paid accounts they have the billing info already, so maybe they figure it's better to provide it in this difficult to manage way so that the automatic rollover appears easier?
Now I'm talking out of my ass based on their promo material but it doesn't change the fact that their standard response is "75% of the survey respondents said they want this" but they release it with this limp-ass "free trial" bullshit
they go to react conferences, too
their self reported system requirements to run the local LLM don't sound like the average office dell spec (sorry for using screenshots)
and the "opt in" flow appears to make no effort to explain the critical privacy difference between local and server llms
https://proton.me/support/proton-scribe-writing-assistant#system-requirements
I bet they go to react conferences
but, like, really think this time. at this point i'm not arguing with you, i'm trying to help you.
re-read your chatgpt response and think about whether the percentages in my original link could be too high or too low.