Just because it’s possible, doesn’t mean it’s common.
It’s hard to convince tech people to be activists. There’s this other term, in between bougie and proletariat that classifies the people in between. Something like, the people who have it just good enough to not give a shit.
And that’s like all of tech.
They’re not selling the copy, bruh. They’re selling a technology that very few understand. Smart people pretend they get it, but they don’t. That’s how rare the math is.
Whatever happened to copying isn’t stealing?
I think the crux of the conversation is whether or not the world is better with ChatGPT. I say yes. We can tackle the disinformation in another effort.
Make your account on the porn instance and let them block you! Galaxy brain.
But that’s on the LLM side not the bot side.
The dog counts. You’re a DINKWAD instead.
Facebook is Meta, no one cares about Microsoft.
So the acronym is MANGA
Defragging is about… defragging: making the data contiguous (a continuous stream along one arc of the same radius) so it doesn’t have to jump around.
The problem isn’t necessarily “stuff not sent over vpn isn’t encrypted”. Everyone uses TLS. It’s more that you are no longer NATed behind the VPN egress IP. When governments want to assassinate anyone who touches a destination IP, having the true source IP instead of a VPN source IP is pretty helpful. For this to be practical you first need a botnet of compromised home routers… which they already have.
In a corporate environment, traffic that is VPN’d typically also undergoes better logging and deep packet inspection.
“yes, please keep using Jenkins” -every red team ever
I prefer to reduce demand, instead. Everyday people who feel happy and safe don’t feel the need to be violent.