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  Wasn't aware of him pretending to be an engineer haha. I would argue it varies greatly on YouTube, just like it varies coming from other sources: all with a healthy dose of skepticism. Rob's content may be valuable to me, as it tends to raise awareness on subjects which other channels won't address, or only address when it finally receives mainstream coverage. These channels typically don't provide anything new to me, but given the number of subscribers to these channels, there&#...

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  >Optimus will ultimately be better than the best human surgeon with a level of precision that is impossible — that is beyond human… Ever heard of robot-assisted surgery? >People always talked about eliminating poverty, but actually Optimus will actually eliminate poverty. The wealth gap wouldn't contribute to the problem of course, buy my solution instead to widen it some more... actually >I’ve reduced it from 9,000 heads to about 5,000 because I need less heads I be damned, a m...

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  I'm a European, and yet I wrote this; but I would agree many people (regardless of whether or not European) have progressively been accustomed, to having their personal identify tied to their devices (often for the sake of convenience, or out of necessity: the uncalled-for Two Factor Authentication (2FA) applications, for accessing government or work-related services, being an example), and I've not been an exception to that rule. For me these were limited to applications, typically wh...

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  Photos, as in sonar depth maps?

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  Curious how big-tech platforms, actively moderating every user action on their platform (for advertiser-friendliness), while often involved with codeveloping the world's leading AI models, are somehow unable to moderate advertisement content. Certainly no conflict of interest there... I do wonder what downstream consequences this might entail: if YouTube starts baking advertisements right into videos, would they still classify as advertisements? And what would this in turn mean for content...

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  Welp, this was bound to happen, wasn't it? I'm pretty sure they're referring to [this application](https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-app-android-wallet-ui), which I stumbled upon a while back. If I remember correctly, the app "allows" (or implicitly forces) the user to store a government issued identity: able to attest to an age-restricted website, whether or not the user is of age. It does this, supposedly by "just" sharing an age-bracket with th...

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  Generally the rule of thumb is: if a service (including one focused on privacy and/or security) actively advertises itself (which Proton does a lot: especially through content creator sponsor-deals), be extremely wary. I was once also considering migrating to Proton, but luckily tried integrating the account into Thunderbird first; which led me to second-guess Proton’s intentions. It really didn’t sit well with me, they’re baiting users into (over-)committing to their service, encrypt their (pri...

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  I would say the feature is quite easily avoidable, as it only seems to require one manual visit, for it to show in the suggestions; which I believe are sorted based on interactions with pages (so just interact more with pages, you want to be suggested more strongly). I would personally advise against using the feature, primarily because it ties all browsers, on multiple separate devices, to a common Mozilla account. So why broaden your attack surface, for advantages easily reproduced manually? I...

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  (1) Offer a solution which exacerbates bot-traffic on the internet, (2) legitimize the need for verification of users as a result, (3) offer the most privacy-invasive "solution" to the "problem" imaginable: problem(1)-reaction(2)-solution(3)... every parasite's favorite paradigm :)

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  Quite impressive, but not necessarily in a positive way. I especially get uneasy with the robot having 360 degree vision, turning its head 180 degrees, walking backwards towards me, and in the process rotating the rest of its body. I do appreciate them not trying to make it look like a human, nor treating it as one. Seeing the renders of groups of these clankers, especially with the knowledge of them being able to share their “intelligence”, is frankly horrifying to me.