I’m a stone-cold atheist. Seen a couple of Popes come and go. This guy is as good a man as I’ve seen on the throne. I’ll allow it.

I couldn’t care less if this man is good. He’s the head of the institution who has been oppressing the people for centuries. And when he says we should fear a “technology dictatorship” I can’t avoid to laugh thinking how many dictatorships they’ve held and or supported in the past.

as stupid as they are, if you had installed it and mined it for a few minutes, you’d be millionaire now.

I assume that’s why they enrage you.

true, but paying in cash is sort of difficult over the internet.

You can send it via mail, but mail is slow and it could potentially be traced back to you.

I’ve seen people being homophobic to straight but feminine men.

Anyway, OP meant that homophobia, just like sexism, seems to be more present in STEM.

DDG uses Bing’s results. Bing has deteriorated less than Google but it’s also becoming worse every day.

what’s the difference between a Chinese investment group and a US investment group? They are both terrible. There’s no ethical mega corp, I’m afraid.

They downvote you because that’s a very western-centric vision.

Additionally, a car manufacturer in one of your western nations, Volkswagen, is also one of the top EV manufacturers.

And nearly every other manufacturer like Hyundai, BMW, Mercedes and Ford are now making EVs too. So it’s not like there’s a shortage of non-Tesla EVs in the western.

the only ideology compatible with any company is capitalism. Do you think companies that make EVs do it for the greater good of the planet? No, they do it for profit.

If Tesla gets rids of Musk it will be because he’s making the other shareholders loose money.

I haven’t heard of voice-changers that can replicate other people’s voices that aren’t made with machine learning.

The issue is impersonation. An AI voice generator that does not imitate anyone in specific and has a “unique” voice, I have no issue with that.

And obviously, a human voice imitator that uses it for impersonating others is also an issue. But that’s far less common and accessible than a computer powered option.

the AI generated one is super easy to (ab)use.

yeah, if you can’t find FOSS cameras, I’d recommend getting a good old CCTV connected to a device that does not have internet access.

Should there be an expectation of privacy in public?

No, but there should be an expectation of not being recorded by every car you come across.

I totally agree. I didn’t know him until I saw a couple of his videos posted in Lemmy and I can’t stand the guy.

At this point I’d guess that the reason for his rambles is to make more money through monetisation.

just let me encrypt my data locally. I don’t trust their obfuscated JavaScript to handle my encryption keys. Give me IMAP and I’ll use my good old client with my OpenPGP plugin.

I think they saw it as an opportunity to wash their image. “Look, we’re the good guys” kind of thing.

Linux Mint does yeah. Browsers? Not for long. Give it a few years and browsers might require 16GB of RAM to run.

no, not that many companies solder the SSD. The RAM? yeah, it’s widespread now. But you can still find laptops with upgradeable RAM. The SSD has been replaceable in most laptops.

And yes, the 8GB RAM is very relevant to the discussion, because for the same price every other manufacturer is offering at the very least 16GB, in most cases 32GB and in some 64GB.

8GB macbooks will be rendered obsolete way sooner than 16GB laptops. That’s ewaste for you.

they are also not the worst

I’d argue that they are very close to that title, given their marketshare.

Sure, you have years of software support. Great. Did the hardware survive that long? Do you need any repair? Because they won’t allow third party spare parts so it would be a shame if you needed one.

Also, the software support desktop, Linux has not a limited amount of years of support, it could revive perfectly good hardware that Apple doesn’t support anymore and they deliberately make it difficult to install.

yeah, that green company that artificially impedes reusing parts by firmware.

the very same company that sells premium laptops with not upgradeable 8 GB of RAM. The very same company which sells laptops in which even the SSD is soldered, so when it dies or when it is full (the base model is 256 GB and they make you pay a big premium for more) you have to replace the whole thing.

This is like the third different new battery technology I’ve seen today.

I’ll believe it when it’s available for purchase.

As it’s to be expected from this website, the article quality is subpar.

They mix third party hosted LLMs, with frontends (KoboldAI, GPT4ALL) and with local models (which BTW, every single one of them is a llama finetune. They’ve never heard of mistral or others, apparently).

If I hadn’t read this website years ago and knew that the quality was already trash back then, I’d say this very article was written by a LLM.