This ad riddled slop factory is not “evidence”

Luxury bones!

There should be efforts to ensure it never happens again. All companies who abandon products or services should be forced to open source all associated code.

Why should greedy narcissists be allowed to waste humanities finite resources on their limp dick get-rich-quick schemes and failures?

Cryptomator is best for dirs and anything synced to the cloud. You can also use something like rclone, locally, but it’s more for remote backup of data. Veracrypt dirs are predefined in size, so it’s best to only use for full disk encryption, fixed archives, etc.

Password protection only means protection if the data behind it is encrypted with that password. In all other cases, the data should be considered compromised (visible/accessible) the moment anyone else has access to the hardware or software storing it.

Their product still produces output based on Studio Ghibli’s data, and just like all of us, they did not consent to their data being used to train models that would recompose their work for profit.

What if a corporation stole your voice and appearance, and made your likeness a movie star, without your consent or compensation?

What’s even funnier is that he’ll pay a relatively insignificant fine, and be able to continue and profit from the monopoly.

Corporate dictatorships masquerading as “democracy” is FUN!

Blessed be the profit margins. May the lord open.

Not necessarily

They are the most data harvested car by far. Knowing these criminals they likely run statistical models trained on all prior Teslas, approaching it like an actuary/data scientist.

The overcounting may only be performed on Individual units that display certain patterns which indicate premature failure. Maybe it only occurs based on the profitability vs likelihood of warranty claim for that individual unit, mitigating losses for manufacturing defaults (or cost cutting by a narcissistic megalomaniac).

Almost guaranteed. Net zero, and the means to achieving it, was basically a Greenwashing exercise manufactured by the fossil fuel industry, so the entire mechanism is full of ridiculous loopholes en par with Hollywood accounting.

Always has been. Nothing has changed. Every conversation you’ve ever had with chatGPT is stored and owned by open AI. This is why I’ve largely rejected their use.

If it’s not local or E2EE, you are the product (even when you pay for the service).

Completely predictable from the most “just” fascist dictatorship to have ever existed!

Ooh! You card read good!

So they can use it to dramatically expand data collection “to achieve 0 murders”, and before you know it everyone’s getting disappeared by the thought police.

Under the Biden administration, ICE records show the agency deployed Clearview widely, even as officials there charged with monitoring the technology were in the dark about how it was being used and by whom.

This is the direct path from neoliberalism/conservatism to fascism that some of us have been warning about for decades.

Sure, the D’s are better than the lowest bar known to man — mentally ill fascists and con artists — but fascism may have never succeeded without their own corruption, authoritarianism, and fealty to the plutocracy. They’ve spent decades building the most pervasive surveillance apparatus in history, collecting data from most computers on the planet, about most of the human population, and are doing nothing as the keys to the kingdom are handed to the Nazis.

but where’s the Proton Drive application for Linux!? … I sincerely hope Proton is working on it

It appears the author didn’t read the blog posts they linked:

“Over the next few months, we’ll enhance the app further by adding more new features and releasing the Software Development Kit (SDK) that the new macOS app is based on, which we anticipate will serve as the basis for a highly requested Linux app.”

It sounds like they haven’t even started. Hopefully the SDK covers most of the functionality and the Linux app is minimal additional effort.

This was true before the last 2-3 decades of globalisation, outsourcing, diversification, vertical integration, private equity, consolidation, and monopolization.

30-40 years ago most established sectors had a dozen brands across cheap, mid-market and expensive tiers. Most of the expensive brands were expensive because of consistent quality or niche. Nowadays the dozens of brands are owned by 2-4 multinationals, and there’s barely any brands left that haven’t been plundered and bled dry in the eternal race to the bottom for short term profit.

Pre GFC the US had 50-100 banks above a moderate size (can’t member). Post GFC there were like a dozen left; nowadays there’s probably half as many.

The difference is that the US is now denying visas based solely on whether the applicants political speech aligns with the Nazi party.

None of this shit is normal if you understand context and nuance.

Or just don’t be a “rude jackass” and discredit entire projects when you don’t know what you’re talking about?

You can’t use Firefox reader on an e-reader or cli, numbnuts.

“I’m a dumb cunt”