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@noxypaws @eff Good question, I also want to know.

@zigi_now9 @EUCommission Personally, I hate the sickly white color of typical LED streetlights. They should have very warm colors instead. They would still reproduce colors reasonably well, unlike monospectral sodium lamps.

@Fat_Farang @eff @TheNewStack As I see it, AI is a tool, like a box of matches. It's perfect for starting a campfire, lighting candles, even determining airflow direction. The thing is, we have plenty of companies handling matches in an unsafe manner, other companies telling people that matches cure acne and even companies running around setting things on fire.

@itsfoss I don't understand the outrage. On-device speech-to-text, text-to-speech and translation are very useful. They are 100% private, unlike Google Translate and other proprietary on-line services.

@eva_chaos @noelreports 10 is more than enough for a PR stunt, which is what this is.

@Eternal_Light @itsfoss For example, Easy Anti-Cheat has support for Linux, but game developer doesn't have to enable it. With Linux support disabled in EAC, you can usually run the game on Linux, but you can't join matches.

And yes, single-player games tend to work well and even many multiplayer games do.

BTW Linux 6.14 should include the NTSYNC driver, which boosts performance of many Windows games running in Wine.

@noelreports Any peacekeeping force must include troops from nuclear states. Otherwise Putin will keep piling on little "incidents" up to openly attacking the peacekeeping troops.

@Eternal_Light @itsfoss I suspect most games that don't work on Linux don't work because of incompatible anti-cheats or game developers intentionally disabling Linux support (for example in anti-cheats).

@noelreports Ammo depots are perfect targets. Stationary, important and usually no one dies.

@josephcox Online ads are even more of a cancer than TV ads and billboards.

@aires @theintercept @jilliancyork @eff That was written before EFF learned about hate speech changes; they only knew the earlier FB announcement that did not mention changes to "hateful conduct" policy. They updated their article to reflect that: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/eff-statement-metas-announcement-revisions-its-content-moderation-processes

@synijlymon @noelreports My thoughts exactly. There's also the possibility of GPS jamming/spoofing causing the drone to hit the wrong target or the drone simply malfunctioning.

Side note: GPS jamming/spoofing can explain some of Russia's civilian building hits. Not all though, as many Russian weapons feature robust inertial navigation, some even laser guidance or visual target recognition and those weapons have also been observed hitting civilian targets.

@ihor LLM to bardzo dobre narzędzie dla ludzi, którzy rozumieją, czym one są i jakie mają ograniczenia. Ludzi, którzy nie ufają, tylko sprawdzają. Udostępnianie ich przeciętnemu Kowalskiemu to proszenie się o katastrofę.

Inną sprawą jest to, że niektórzy ludzie nie są w stanie bezpiecznie posługiwać się nawet nożyczkami.

@mt @eff They updated the article with this info:

"Update: After this blog post was published (addressing Meta's blog post here), we learned Meta also revised its public "Hateful Conduct" policy in ways EFF finds concerning. We are analyzing these changes, which this blog post does not address, and will provide an update soon."

CC: @cairobraga Turns out they did not know it when publishing.

@cairobraga @eff There's always a lot of lurkers. If I didn't engage, I'd still not know about it.

@cairobraga @eff Thank you, I did indeed miss it. It would be clearer if you started with this link.

@noelreports Putin made it clear that he will only agree to permanent peace if we let him win. Even then, it's likely this peace would not be permanent at all.

@samirx @eff @jgkelley Phrase detection is very specialized, often even run on a DSP to be low-power. Regular recording and upload would use much more power than that. Analyzing speech on-device would use even more power.

Alternative activation phrase approach would use a more modest amount of power, but is not useful for analyzing speech. There's plenty of ways to talk about a product that don't begin with “I want to buy” multiplied by the number of languages.

@cairobraga @eff What makes you think EFF somehow endorses hate speech? Did you perhaps see the term "over-censorship" and instead of reading the article jump straight to imagining the worst and throwing around unfounded accusations?

FB does indeed over-censor. For example, I was replying to a post containing disinformation. My reply contained a link to the website of the same fact-checking organization FB used for their fact-checking program. It got removed, while the disinfo post stayed.

@eff @cmcsherr @washingtonpost This is only acceptable when done locally and 100% offline.