I mean if you want to make good products you have to be in touch with how other people go about their lives
So it's truly baffling that the guy who has isolated himself on practically his own island, hours from civilization, isn't hitting home run after home run
When you're a billionaire, you're no longer accountable for anything.
You can insist on launchung the Metaverse, or building the cybertruck, and you will be paid handsomely for it, instead of being punted.
The man has never had an original thought in his life. Remember, Facebook is just an idea he ripped off while at Harvard. And "Facemash" before that was just a rip off of "Hot or Not".
sounds like transmeta 2.0 but for ai
Sadly, probably a crackpot paper. The link to the proof in lean 4 leads to a 404, the user doest exist, and the docker image also doesnt exist.
Also, the paper claims that its been verified by INRIA, Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of Cambridge, using their lean code. How can this be when the code isnt publicly accessible? Did they send it by email instead of fixing their repo? Why would they do that?
I somehow doubt that those three universities confirmed this proof and then sat on it, telling no one that one of the most important questions in CS has been solved.
lol Lmao, even
Meanwhile, I am completely unaffected since I spend 99% of my Internet time on Lemmy and watching pirated content.
Here's a good article with some context around the F-droid situation, and why Signal is full of crap.
I think it’s also important to understand that signal is also a company that, at some ooint, needs to make money from somewhere to do this awesome thing and they won’t get that limiting themselves to an obscure app store that maybe 1 in 100 users even know about.
Signal is a non-profit and backed by a billionare. Tbh idk what their financials look like, but they don't seem to be in a difficult funding situation at all.
I also highly doubt that Google would modify the signal binary with a backdoor...
They definitely wouldn't do it for everyone, but if the FBI comes knocking at their door and tells them that they need to access a specific person's Signal chats, deploying a backdoored update to that individual is easily within Google's power. It's extremely likely nobody would notice, unless maybe the target is a security researcher or something. And IMO even if the info does come out, most of the blame/consequences (if any) would fall on the government, not Google.
Considering everyone is being labeled a "terrorist" nowadays by this whackjob administration, this type of scenario seems increasingly likely to me.
I understand what you're saying here, and I agree, BUT...
I think it's also important to understand that signal is also a company that, at some ooint, needs to make money from somewhere to do this awesome thing and they won't get that limiting themselves to an obscure app store that maybe 1 in 100 users even know about.
I also highly doubt that Google would modify the signal binary with a backdoor. When that happens, truth will come out within days and it would severely damage Google's reputation, and at least the EU would be screaming bloody murder to push new stores from independent providers immediately. It would end bmvery badly for Google, so I think there is honest doubt about that argument.
So yeah, they should at least ALSO host a version in fdroid, give users the option where to install it from
The entire thing of limited app stores is just absolutely removed in the first place, it's nice and easy (taken the idea from open source there) but implemented in a way that only AND ONLY benefits the vendor Google. Or apple, same shit, different name.
Phones should have an operating system where you can add app stores to. Linux phone, here I come!
No F-Droid, no trust. It doesn't matter how strong the cryptography is, if Google or the government can trivially deploy a backdoored version. It also brings into question Signal's own credibility/trustworthiness, as this is an obvious and well-known flaw that they've refused to rectify, and have made bogus arguments to justify their decision.
All this and a screenshot makes a copy. It's an amazing technical achievement, though. But the use case is a bit of a stretch, just like NFT's.. I'm not about to give kernel lock screenshot blockers room in my devices.. and encryption is solved for banking use etc. I'm probably missing a lot though
I was mainly sharing it for those that are interested in the details of the changes. I agree they're not the first, and groups have been making these changes for a few years now. Signal did another change a few years ago:
Yeah wireguard has something also, as a post quantum security aid.
You have the private and public keypair, but then an addition preshared key.
One exception to the industry-wide lethargy is the engineering team that designs the Signal Protocol, the open source engine that powers the world’s most robust and resilient form of end-to-end encryption for multiple private chat apps, most notably the Signal Messenger.
Signal's update is certainly a great thing, but they were not the first, eh?
For instance, here's a Tuta blog post from March 2024:
All (for profit) corporations are my enemy.
You deploy with rsync?
Is it still fashionable to claim you were always an AI company, and just developed to build the capital to achieve your AI goals?
In any case, AI is (and always was) a meaningless buzz word. Worse, it's a pop-culture adjacent buzz word.
“I feel liberated,” one top banker told the paper. “We can say ‘retard’ and ‘pussy’ without the fear of getting cancelled.… It’s a new dawn.”
I don't think people realize how fucking smoothbrain incompetent the powerful and wealthy are. I think everyone understands that there is rampant nepotism in this country, but don't notice the scale of the problem. One of America's biggest weaknesses is the deference we give to people who have a lot of money, regardless of where that money came from.
These nepobabies will elect a fascist government that eagerly wipes it's ass with the US constitution, just so they can OwN tHe LiBs on social media. It's the type of thing that can only come from people who have never faced any kind if hardship or consequences in their lives. Who cannot even imagine that the same constitutional rights they're trying to trample are protecting them, because they can't imagine an existence where they need protection.
Fuck these clowns.
Many of the so-called Christians in the USA have this worship of Israel thing that they use to ignore the genocide or justify it. Israel is always the good guy no matter what, to these people. Because God said so.
That's not how that works at all. Christians in the US believe Jews are heathens who are gonna get what's coming to them when Armageddon happens, while Christians themselves get Raptured. They support Zionism -- not Jews themselves, Zionism -- because shipping them all off to Israel both (a) hastens that fate (because "the Jews return to Israel" was prophesied to be a precondition of it) and (b) removes them from the US in the meantime.
I wouldn’t describe Vercel as an AI company. I’m not defending them, but if we just start labeling any company that offers an AI product as AI, then literally every tech company will be an AI company.
Also conveniently disregard all the times yhwh allowed his people to be conquered and exiled because they disregarded their own teachings.
The business idiots do not live in the same world we do.
It's also probably partly due to religious brainwashing. Many of the so-called Christians in the USA have this worship of Israel thing that they use to ignore the genocide or justify it. Israel is always the good guy no matter what, to these people. Because God said so. Somehow they conveniently forget all the teachings of Jesus about compassion, forgiveness, helping people etc.
