I really seriously want to ditch Spotify. The apps are trash, always doing shit I don’t want without asking, I’m now getting ads for bands or artists that I don’t know and never want to know, which is the last drop
Problem is that I have some 6000 songs long playlist. How can I get this playlist off of Spotify and where can I find the songs? I don’t mind paying (once, as in the good times) for songs, but I’m done with the paying to own nothing
It’s so weird to me that there are people, like you, who completely ignore established facts just because these facts reflect negatively on some group that you like.
It’s like you’re completely incapable of understanding that nothing is 100% perfect, and that good people can sometimes do bad things and that (applies here) bad people sometimes do good.
The Chinese government has implemented a shit tonne of repressive rules, it’s committing genocide, but to you that must be a lie because they did something that you like.
It must be nice being 15 years old
There is only one solution that stands any chance of being effective: to bolster massively the support that open source maintainers receive.
Yeah good luck with that.
They need to be properly financed so as to enable them to create broad teams with the human and technical resources to spot and fight LLM attacks of the kind that will come.
Even more luck with that. Companies (and governments) typically take much MUCH more than they give. When they give, it’s only because it’s in their own interests. One could argue this is in their interest, but middle and upper managers deciding these things typically are shortsighted to the point where they won’t be able to understand the threat, the required investment, and the gains.
The sums required are trivial compared to the trillions of dollars of value created by open source software, selfishly used without payment by governments and companies alike.
Basically what I just said. Investments versus gains is crazy yet most companies won’t be able to see this as the only thing they care about is their own bottom line.
They are also tiny compared to the losses that would be incurred by those same governments and companies around the world if such LLM attacks succeed in subverting key software elements.
Most managers won’t care about this, instead hoping this will happen only after they’ve left with their bonusses
What’s frustrating is that this problem has been raised time and time again, and yet little has been done to address it.
This. This is exactly the result of what I’m saying
The xz Utils hack should be the digital world’s final wake-up call to tackle this core vulnerability of the open source world before it is too late.
You’d think so, yeah.
What we need is government support. We need governments to step up and give financial support to open source developers. Again, won’t happen because Microsoft gives nice enough contracts to governments to focus on just that single US provider who totally won’t fuck us over when the US government wants it
Though we can’t use the android name and logo, the software that was open so far is still open for use.
Take that part and continue building from there
Yes, true
Thank God that in China you can’t simply be “disappeared”, you won’t be sent to reeducation camps, and you won’t be slaughtered.
Right?
It’s not that I want an imitation, but I do want certain functionalities to be available
30 /hour would be a laughably low salary for someone doing that type of development, I would not call that “hefty”
This has been ongoing for decades now, nothing new. They try every other year or so and they only need a single win
That’s just called jellyfin
But yeah, it’s the content that matters. Getting movies is easy enough, but getting reliable news ?
I know you’re joking but I have talked to people before arguing things like “human being” being anti feminist because it should be huwoman or some shit like that.
I know, crazies, but there have been a lot of them
Having said that, just the obligatory “I don’t care if you’re man woman trans or whatever, as long as you’re happy and don’t be a dick to other people”
Stop using Google.
How about that?
Always assume Google is stealing all your data possible
Oh of course but the problem is that it still has to pass through routers that, if they can’t understand the package content, will block / report/ whatever is needed. Now, I know I can still hide encrypted stuff in plain sight, but it would wreck open protocols like SSH
Is it open source? If not, I’m out. I will NOT have a keyboard in my phone that is run by some corporation looking for a quick buck
You think basic parental duties is helicopter parenting?
I’m getting to the point where I’d rather see csam legalized than this shit. (Keep reading)
Think about it: csam will happen, period. I’m not world’s best computer engineer but even Incan build something that embeds data like text or images in other files in ways that cannot be detected. I can build basic but effective encryption that will be hard enough to crack. I can find ways to exchange files outside the internet, hell, do sneakernet
And kids watching porn online? They’ll have their buddies who have libraries that will be copied. A single USB drive can contain days of porn videos and you can’t stop that either
Then there are these laws that “are to protect children” which makes me just outright want to vomit. You take victims of child pornography and use them for your political gain, for your power. You are almost worse than pedophiles. At least pedophiles harm only one child, you harm all of them you sack of fucking shit.
And no, of course I don’t want child pornography legalized, of course not by what is the solution?
These assholes have been at it for decades now and they play the long game. They can lose every year and come back next year. They only have to win once and they move on to he next good thing they can destroy.
So what can we actually really seriously do to stop this?
So SSH tunneling it is
That is until encryption is outlawed altogether making the internet truly a horrible place to be
It’s always been an issue as in they’ve always used children as an excuse to enact laws that are bad for everyone. I’ve seen this shit since at least the 2000s
It just comes back every other year or so, and they only have to pass those laws once
This is just patient people trying to fuck over everyone else, so I imagine it’s probably at least in part religious organizations who push for this and now again they’ll pay shelves in the back in how successful they are with ensuring everyone will be as pious as they are
I hope they die
Literally.
Because id they’d all die, the world would be such a nice place again
… And how will you be able to distinguish between encrypted child pornography and encrypted normal messages?
It’s kind of the crux of the matter, so please answer this question