Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one

I have a teapot made by a ceramics company called Emma Bridgewater, so I searched if it was dishwasher safe. No 2 on the list is this #AI #LLM generated piece of trash: https://dishwashermanuals.com/is-emma-bridgewater-dishwasher-safe/

It includes this heading that only an LLM would generate: "Are Emma Bridgewater mugs, dishwashers, and microwaves safe?" Oops, it mixed up who is doing what to who. I think it is pretty clear that this AI wave is a repeat of #cryptocurrency: 99% of use cases make our world much worse.

It seems like the #EU #DigitalMarketsAct is already having an effect on #GooglePlay: now that they might actually have some real competition, they seem to be ramping up efforts to clean up their app store:

https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/09/google-play-tightens-up-rules-for-android-app-developers-to-require-testing-increased-app-review/

I've been getting a flood of #spam from #UK companies, but the kind where they are actual companies, not weird phishing things. They seem to provide proper unsubscribe links. Did the UK changes it laws recently to hold spamming companies less accountable? What happened?

One thing that most impressed me about the culture of Brooklyn was how after the September 11th attacks, mainstream culture rallied to protect its Arab and Muslim communities because we knew they would be unfairly targeted https://web.archive.org/web/20210712204925/https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2001-09-14-0109140289-story.html

Sadly, what I see now in Europe is the mainstream adopting the bigoted views of people like Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir, Likud, Shas, etc. and coding it nice sounding language. The #EU should protect and respect all of its citizens and residents equally.

I wonder if #GooglePlay uses the deobfuscation data in the "mapping.txt" file in the app review process? It would bring the binary code a bit closer to being more readable like source code. Their documentation only mentions crash reports as a use case:

https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/9848633

This is a really good sign for the #EU #DigitalMarketsAct: #Google is leveraging it to get #Apple to adopt #RCS in #iMessage:

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/8/23951935/google-european-telcos-apple-imessage-digital-markets-act-core-platform-service-gatekeeper-lobbying

Looks like #Google's keeping the #DRM "Web Integrity API" alive in the #Android WebView, despite widespread disapproval for the "Web Integrity API" as a web standard. https://arstechnica.com/google/2023/11/google-kills-web-integrity-drm-for-the-web-still-wants-an-android-version/

#Microsoft #Apple #Google etc have massive piles of "cash on hand". They are supposed to be innovative companies which hire as much talent as they can, so something is clearly wrong with this picture. Lots of skilled people also have morals, and want to build things they believe are beneficial and #ethical. So many developers would rather work on things they believe in and are willing to get paid a fraction of what they could earn: so they reject working for #BigTech

https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/sp500-companies-stockpile-1-trillion-cash-investors-want-it/