but I don’t see an alternative

An alternative to what? This will not prevent children from accessing content. The weak point is the humans that willingly allows it in the first place. Having an extra step won’t stop them if it can help them not be bothered by actually having to look after their kid.

This is not sacrificing freedom to gain security; it’s sacrificing freedom to not gain anything.

Fucking onion.

The obsession of republicans with other people’s penis is legendary at this point.

do they think people will keep expressing these kinds of opinions publicly? Oh course not

People are already pushing all kind of extreme and suspicious opinions on multiple websites under their “official” name that can be found on their ID. This won’t change. And the risk isn’t people stopping saying thing at one point; it’s the list of “allowed” topics changing over time, then going back to older content.

But it would totally change the mood

Because in the end, you, the person that is forced to use various AI chatbot/agent/model/whatever, will be held responsible for anything that happens after one of the 3000 decisions they imposed you to make with no way to check everything turns out to cause the slightest problem. When that happens, YOU were supposed to know that NOTHING the AI tells/says/do is to be expected correct, so it’s your responsibility if something’s gone wrong.

It depends on many things. The hard line for me would be is this running locally, on a server with the same IT management as my actual data, or on a third party servers. If the doctor either don’t know this, or can’t give adequate proof that it isn’t running on some third party servers, then all the “prioritize your privacy” aren’t worth shit.

But that’s only the point where I give a hard no. The way it is used would also matter a lot. Is it used as a clutch for reference searching, or a full self driving decision making process that will write me a prescription in the end? This part is the same whether it’s for medical advice or for anything else: if the user is skilled enough to be able to evaluate/validate the output of the process faster than it would have taken them to do it manually, then there might be some value. Some usages fits into this. Some don’t. Summarizing large documents you did not read does not work as a safe thing, because, you’d have to read the document to check the summary. Getting the summary of a drug/sickness/whatever that you know about but need a reminder of, could be ok.

tl;dr: it have to run in a privacy-enabled context (no third parties), it have to be used as a clutch (no skipping work), and the user have to keep is brain en mental activity alive enough to steer the system instead of being dragged by it. As things stands right now, I doubt there’s a lot of doctors that would fit all three points, but in the future, maybe.

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Bluesky leadership: slightly worse than JD Vance. It must not have been easy for them to reach that, but what an achievement.

There’s an easy workaround : install W10 with a local account, then upgrade. No need for any kind of workaround. Disclaimer : this might have worked because I’m in Europe.

Otherwise, there are workarounds for a vanilla install with only local accounts that still works to this day, I did that in a VM. But that’s flimsy.

Of course, this leaves you to the whim of “fucking microsoft, we’ll screw you forever, bork your data when we want, force you to change computer every other year, and you’ll love it”, but the option exists.

Thats all there is to it.

Not really. Even with (theoretical) infinite context windows, things would end up getting diluted. It’s a statistic machine; no matter how complex we make them look. Even with all the safeguards in place, as these grows larger and larger, each “directive” would end up being less represented in the next token.

People can keep trying to hammer with a screwdriver all they want and keep being impressed when the bent nail is almost flush, though. I’m just enjoying the show from the side at this point.

I’m sure this will be fixed with an ever increasing context window and more “plz be nice” inserted left and right.

Well, too bad. Do something else.

But as long as people have some brain, if the market gets a majority of “smart” devices to the point there’s enough people looking for alternative, some people are likely to try and fill the gap. It might become a new niche market, but it’s one place where supply and demand will work to our advantage.

The alternative is having every individual program try to store data about the user in their own, non-interoperatble formats

The alternative is NOT to store that data system wide, NOT have it made easily available to anything in the first place, and NOT normalizing having all your personal data available at will to everything.

Are you really arguing about the convenience of having personal data available system wide when it’s is absolutely irrelevant to 99.9% of running applications?

The biggest defense for this I see is:

• it’s not bad now
• it’s not mandatory
• it will remain unused like the other fields that were previously there
• you can put anything in it

Then, tell me, why bother adding this in the first place, exactly at the time governments are looking toward full control of everybody’s computers? If it’s that innocent and useless, either someone really likes throwing shit up, or it won’t stop there.

And given the slate of other things that “didn’t stop there” in the past few years, you know, it cost nothing to be cautious. Especially if it’s “so useless you won’t even notice it’s there” after all.

Until the next one refuses to even pass through HDMI if it’s not connected.

Just don’t buy shitty devices.

I’m sure you think you’re smart dropping a short, “insightful” three word post. But you might have missed the constant falling down we’ve been having in every possible places these last few years. It’s not a fallacy when it turns out to be a series of fulfilled plans.

is a classic slippery slope

Were have you been the last few years or so? We’re not just “going down” one slippery slope after another, we’re speeding down them.

To look nice.

Hey, I know this place.