Yeah, but is it going to stick around for years, or months?

Looks at judges who have decided any sign of support for Palestine is terrorism

Probably from the Predator movies

God, this article is so full of bullshit my phone stinks. And I’m not even an AI-phobe

I tried element a week ago after a similar discussion. Afaict, it does not fill the same niche. I’m very open to being corrected, but it doesn’t seem like element has support for multi-room communities.

Also, multi device login was extremely wonky. I’m not going to recommend something that’ll end up with me having to play tech support to get it working.

Discord isn’t like reddit though, you don’t have the userbase spread out across the same space regardless of the users. For discord every server is a standalone community and they’re each going to have their own standards of civility.

Why do you think anti trust rulings couldn’t contain the same limitation? Other than the govt being for sale to the highest bidder, but if Google could influence that the ruling wouldn’t happen in the first place.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(chatbot)

You’re thinking it would require effort or coordination on the part of real people, instead of it being default behaviour for some

So, just like actual users?

Studies have shown we’re pretty bad at detecting good AI stuff, regardless of how skilled we think we are. It’s the crappy AI slop that makes everybody think they’re Sherlock Holmes.

There’s nothing ‘inherently unsafe’ about it. It’s untrusted, not unsafe. The software stack just needs to develop more with that in mind. Consider Tor or any VPN as an example of how most if not all the metadata could be hidden.

I feel like we mean very different things with the term ‘Internet cafe’. This is what the term brings to mind for me.

Apparently you’re thinking of actual cafes with F&B. Cultural differences I guess.

I still don’t see the point. Even if the location offers some sort of ‘secure’ WiFi, you cannot trust them. Every link on the chain between your device and the server must be considered potentially malicious. The main thing that needs to change is the current leak of sidechannel data needs to be halted.

Internet cafes, at least in my experience, provide you computers. They don’t sell you WiFi access. And I very much doubt they have somebody monitoring network traffic live.

If you’re saying they COULD exist, I doubt they’re financially viable.

Most people are better off buying a lightly-used Mac (or not, it’s been a while since people have been happy with Apple) or replacing their laptop with a Fairphone or Graphene OS phone than switching to Linux from Windows 10.

I don’t really see the connection there with somebody bringing down their own firewall, hosting open services, and basically putting out the welcome mat. You can burn yourself on any OS (and if you can’t, I don’t want to be using or pushing it).

Best option is to just go to places where the wifi service is affordable but not free so that the operator needs to keep tabs on whether users are doing something other than browsing the internet or playing games

What place charges little enough for the WiFi to be affordable but has somebody live monitoring network traffic?

They’ve mastered Danish, though. Or at least the native speakers can’t tell the difference.

https://youtu.be/s-mOy8VUEBk

That’s the point, you don’t have to. The system works on the assumption that the AP is untrusted.

1. Not everybody in the EU is living in the EU.
2. I didn’t mention roaming. Not everybody has the same unlimited data for cheap package
3. From my understanding, the no-roaming charge law is being ignored pretty widely, in spirit if not in letter (different quota if at home vs roaming).

Good for you. What makes you think every country has the same package available?

Nothing we can do to prevent that, unless we want to turn all laptops into walled gardens. PEBKAC is not the fault of the WiFi network.

You don’t HAVE to be comfortable. But if you use any sort of public WiFi, this is no riskier than any of those networks. They can grab some metadata unless you use a VPN, but likely less than what your ISP already has on you anyway. Basically, there’s no reason this should be putting up any major red flags. We’re past the days when a malicious access point could MitM most connections due to lack of encryption.