Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one
Joined Aug 2019
Watching two party politics like #Democrat vs #Republican in the #US, it seems like an endless game of "he said she said". With multi-party politics, there are more possibilities. When three differing opposition parties get together to have a hearing to hold the government to account, that sends a pretty clear message that is not possible in two party politics.
Democrats have a hearing, Republics say its just politics. Or vice versa. Then stalemate.
For example:
https://abcnews.com/Politics/follow-law-bondi-after-democrats-storm-epstein-files/story?id=131199517
Hey #Europe, check out how #Sanchez and the #Socialist party in #Spain stood up against
the #IranWar, ignored threats from #Trump, so far received no meaningful retaliation and improved their standing in the latest #elections.
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How do you feel about the impending lockdown of Android?
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EFF's Certbot has brought HTTPS to millions of web domains for free! Each cert brings us closer to encrypting the web and defending users everywhere. Help support this work today. https://eff.org/support-certbot
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Two weeks in, our Open Letter to Google to Keep Android Open has gotten over 50 signatures from 20 countries. Our latest endorsement: Forbrukerrådet, the creators of the viral hit video: "A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator". https://youtu.be/T4Upf_B9RLQ?si=FlZ4CswIlPJDs6Rs https://keepandroidopen.org/open-letter/#signatories
#Technology can empower people, the key is what it empowers people to do. #Weapons technology allows people to kill others ever more effectively. And #AI #ChatBot #tech like #ChatGPT can empower us to make our deepest darkest fantasies real. Most of the world has decided that it is not a net positive for individuals to have easy access to deadly weapons. Although chatbots can do useful things, it seems ever clearer that lots of the uses of #LLMs do more harm than good
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/15/lawyer-behind-ai-psychosis-cases-warns-of-mass-casualty-risks/
After a couple of decades of working to make the #web private enough that we can search it alongside our #private files, now it seems the goal is to focus on #local data because the web is trending so fast towards drowning in #AIslop. "The best way to predict the future is to invent it"... thank you #AI #startups 😉 and #VentureCapital! 🤑 And I'm sure #OpenAI's trending towards #SurveillanceCapitalism is only going to make things better 😱
@ilumium @chiefbongo @janjko @CoMaps @organicmaps I've been looking for someone to take this on for years, its been on my TODO list too. The code changes are small and easy. The vast majority of the work required to get it done will be user research, project management, lobbying to get it merged (e.g. AOSP), activism to raise awareness, and testing to make sure the integration works nicely everywhere. I've wanted to get this done for years. Happy help someone take this on, please reach out.
Its pretty well known in #software development that some can be 100x more #productive than others. Google says using #AI internally makes them 10% more productive, that seems to be a safe estimate. So 0.1x.
Seems all these billions in investment are missing out on the real gains. Another data point supporting the case that AI companies are not focused on making us productive, but being good enough so management can get rid of pesky humans. More highly productive humans weakens the boss' power
Joined Aug 2019
