Imagine thinking an ad post will be successful on possibly the most anti-advertisement community on the internet.

Well that was a crazy read. Never seen a company act this way before. Sounds like a very small operation. Unfortunately their products don’t appeal to me at all, I’d much rather buy a Framework.

These power hungry tyrants just can’t STAND the idea of normal humans being able to communicate without their prying eyes spying on us. They claim this is for the purpose of protecting the public. This is plainly not true, as crime will occur regardless. They cannot eliminate crime, despite their outrageous claims, nor do they actually want to. E2EE comms will be used to plan crime sometimes. Sorry, not sorry. Privacy is worth that cost. I’ll die on that hill.

Hence, if the data is not on someone else’s computer in the first place, it is not a matter of time.

The solution is to stop putting your data on other people’s computers. You can’t control other people’s computers. Apple does not care about you any more than any other trillion dollar corpo. Take back control.

May be IS

Fixed that for ya

Womp womp. I’m sure openAI asked for permission from the creators for all its training data, right? Thief complains about someone else stealing their stolen goods, more at 11.

Oh please. Warrants are rubber stamped, it’s as simple as clicking a button. And do you really think entities like the NSA bother with formalities like warrants?

as Chinese law allows government access to company-held data.

… Kind of exactly like how US law allows government access to company-held data?

But-but I was told Apple’s security was the very best! That’s why they charge so much for everything they make, right? … Right?

Abandon Google. I’ve been slowly extricating myself and it feels wonderful. Soon I will have an entirely degoogled phone.

Do you believe that the affiliate scam only started when PayPal acquired Honey?

Are the Feds actually this smooth-brained? I mean, I know they have to maintain the appearance of control, so his words make sense from that perspective. But surely they have to be aware, the very backdoors they originally forced down our throats are EXACTLY WHAT’S CAUSING THIS PROBLEM NOW. These geniuses who purportedly protect American citizens, are either woefully inept, lacking basic understanding of how data security actually works, or LYING with malice. Which do you think it is?

Content filters! I’ve got them for Trump, Elon, “Slammed”, “Dragged”, “Blasted” and the question mark, because news headlines in the form of questions can almost always be answered with the word “no” and are not worth my time.

Obviously, don’t upload any photos to the demo site that you wouldn’t want shared. That’s pretty basic internet 101. The point is to demonstrate the amount and types of information Google infers from its users’ data. So feed it a pic you don’t care about, or try with the supplied images.

Best part? The description supplied here is probably a limited version of all the information that Google infers from each of your photographs. It would make sense to ask for a short 3 paragraph summary of key observations to fit within API limits. On Google’s end? No reason for such limits to exist. So they infer even more from your data than this website can show. And they run this kind of compute on everything you give them.

They “claim” that they don’t sell or share this data. Do you trust them?

You might say you have nothing to hide, but you also don’t get to control the shifting definitions of what’s acceptable. Today you’re fine. Tomorrow you’re labeled a political dissident because of the evidence of Wrongthink that Google happily supplied to the government without your knowledge. Especially in light of the incoming administration, this is an important discussion to have.

Here is a list of FOSS Google Photos alternatives. Immich looks particularly good to me.

You think Microsoft doesn’t give a direct uplink to America’s thought police?

Wonder if Chief Piggy Sam Taylor’s speech has been entirely free of no-no words his whole life, since that’s the standard he’s applying here?

Why is this?

Paid version does both access the web and cite its sources