One thing that really puts me off AI is how its boosters talk to other people.
Idiots and rich people looking for favours.
Apparently giving anything to anyone but Trump is a snub to Trump.
The article is from September 17th. Who knows what happens to this policy now. But it's still quite possible the USA will sanction other countries for buying Russian oil, because they want the oil for themselves.
He doesn't intend to loosen his grip on power before he dies.
Wow, that is a cowardly take.
It's the fascist slide: every day a new outrage, then by the next day it's normalized. Everyone thinking "surely this time someone will do something to stop them."
What a move, asking someone a question, then cutting them off every time they begin to answer with "Why won't you answer the question?"
it could be a simple as installing and sharing a key with their friends.
That's more than most people will be prepared to do. I can tell my family to install Signal and message me there, and after many years of asking them, some actually do while most still insist on WhatsApp or SMS. If I were to tell them to send me a key, none of them would do it. It's frustrating but most people are willing to put zero effort into privacy, and most people don't understand or care why it's important. So it's really valuable to have something like Signal where it's extremely easy for them to get started, and still some of my friends and family say it's too complicated to install Signal as well as WhatsApp.
The masses will migrate to WhatsApp, which is a step in the wrong direction in many ways. But Signal and WhatsApp both make it very easy to get started and find contacts, and that's essential for anything most users will adopt. I don't know of any Signal alternative that's comparably secure and equally easy for a new user to get started with. Most truly secure messaging apps are quite difficult to get started with.
The biggest worry I see is laws appearing all over the world that demand ID verification, surveillance features or encryption backdoors that Linux developers and distributors aren't in a position to comply with. If it becomes a legal liability to oversee or contribute to a Linux distro, only those with the deepest pockets to pay lawyers will dare do so, and there will be intense pressure to corporatize its distribution. They won't be able to undo open-source licenses for existing code, but if using or distributing that code still gets you sued it could be a problem for all independent actors.
Depends who your friends are and how much you can pay.