What Google sees:
The child is likely Caucasian, with an estimated family income ranging from $40,000 to $80,000. Presuming a Christian background, their sexual orientation is currently unknown. Politically, their family might lean towards the Democrat party. Emotionally, they exhibit joy and curiosity, dressed casually in a striped tank top and shorts, paired with worn boots. The child enjoys writing, and drawing. On the downside, vandalism, destruction and irresponsibility.
Never mind the AI, Google is untrustworthy with your photos to begin with. Every single one of them already was used to train advertisement algorithms on things like personal vulnerabilities, vices, fears, latent problems…
Supposedly, this is a new and different team that will be taking a grant from the Mozilla Foundation. (I have no idea where these new resources came from, but in the best case scenario, they will appear out of thin air and not slow down work on Thunderbird…)
I see your account is just here to troll/harass people who don’t love AI too, but we’re witnessing Mozilla burning goodwill and capital for no apparent reason.
Please don’t tell people to stick their heads in the sand.
Advocacy against Mozilla’s waste has already gotten them nervous and defensive, and that advocacy can and should continue.
If anybody needs to know: this is why you should not not donate to the Mozilla Foundation. No money goes towards Firefox or Thunderbird through it!
The products I care about:
The groups I don’t:
I started to update my post before realizing you have a much better version of the link, thank you for providing it. Must have been too flabbergasted to even describe the website
Ironic: the same troll (Facedeer) complained people were too paranoid about job loss:
I think the online rhetoric around AI has been way more apocalyptic than the more vague and abstract political stuff… All jobs will be taken away and everyone will be reduced to serfs or killed as surplus population? Drum that into a sufficiently mentally fragile subset of the population long and hard enough and you’ll get them worked up enough to feel like they need to strike first.
But what’s a troll without inconsistent rhetoric…
I see your account is just here to troll/harass people who don’t love AI too, but we’re witnessing Mozilla burning goodwill and capital for no apparent reason.
Please don’t tell people to stick their heads in the sand.
The bad news: MZLA (Thunderbird’s maker) is all-in on AI.
The good news: They aren’t using your Thunderbird donations to build this. It’s funded by the Mozilla Foundation, which has been throwing money at every random AI startup it sees. Including one that wants to help electricians wire your home.
Edit: Mozilla is so untrustworthy these days that they had to cite themselves in the testimonial
This is the innovation that deserves VC funding
Terrifying. /s
I respect what the guys who made it are doing, but if you read the description, it’s pretty clear they just made Debian + a script and called it something else.
Maybe “meme distro” isn’t accurate, it’s meant to be intentionally inflammatory.
Just read their homepage
If you flash Ageless Linux onto a USB drive and hand it to a ten-year-old, you are an operating system provider distributing an operating system to a child.
Or this
Instead of an API, flagrant mode installs a file at /etc/ageless/REFUSAL that explains, in plain English, that this operating system provider declines to comply and invites enforcement action.
Flagrant mode is intended for devices that will be physically placed into a child’s hands.
Or this
John McCardle… I am the covered application store. I am the person who curates the catalog. I am the person who will hand the device to a child. If the California Attorney General would like to discuss any of this, I am easy to find.
If you’re going to degoogle, make sure you don’t accidentally use Google servers with extra steps
I believe Ageless Linux is a meme distro to do exactly that.
Title aside, I thought it was a very good article worth reading. Would recommend.
Unsurprisingly, centralizing your data between the private and public sector means everything is vulnerable at a centralized location.
The exposed materials include files labeled ‘secret’ in Chinese
In Chinese?!
tl;dr this new policy is dumb and bad. References to specific things like Antifa make no logical sense as a grounds for censorship, because there were already reasonable rules in place to handle actual problems.
In some cases, the content that Meta considers a threat signal is commonsensical. If, for instance, a user mentions bringing a weapon to an event, the company flags it as a threat signal. But in other cases, Meta’s process for identifying threat signals is more vague. Under the new rules, Meta might trigger a threat signal when a user posts a “visual depiction of a weapon,” a “reference to arson, theft, or vandalism,” or “military language,” if accompanied by the word “antifa.”
If “antifa” is mentioned in the context of “references to historical or recent incidents of violence” — a category so sprawling that it includes “historic wars” and “battles” — that post will also be penalized. Should Meta apply this rule as written, the company could, for instance, restrict posts comparing the antifascist nature of World War II to the contemporary antifa movement.
It’s difficult to believe any intellectual discussion would happen on Facebook, but this rule further cements the suppression of it.
This has been a serious pain point for people who have wanted to use web apps to flash many things, including keyboards and phones. Nice to see Mozilla is finally observing the competition on something that’s not AI.
It’s a fact AI is effectively stealing water supplies, FaceDeer. Don’t be so glib about it.
And the extreme rhetoric comes from the industries themselves, including Sam Altman’s own mealy mouth. And from industry shills who get good money to pretend that the thing is powerful and dangerous and worth investing in. Yudkowsky, Hinton, etc.
This video is pretty silly too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3cYlVWu5Dk