“This is the Strait of Hormuz in the data economy. If you want to make a change, this is where you cut it off. Anything short of that is theatrical political posture.”
  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    9 hours ago

    so you’re telling me that all those times I said google was listening to me through my phone, and like a thousand people said I was full of shit, I was right?

    • FatVegan@leminal.spaceEnglish
      3·
      1 hour ago

      I love that if you tell people that you don’t use google/microslop/whatever and tell them why, YOU are the paranoid weirdo. Buddy we’re way past paranoid, we’re at “i don’t care because convenience”

  • ImmersiveMatthew@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    11·
    6 hours ago

    I am a solo developer on some of these platforms and have to do an annual privacy evaluation which I find painful as the company taking up my valuable time to answer all their BS questions, are the ones breaking privacy. Insane. Further, I had to pay $100 annually to the UK privacy commission as it is required for all UK companies which is also deeply ironic as the same government is requiring you to submit ID for some websites which has made the privacy leaks even more damaging.

    As a solo developer I am feeling the brunt of the privacy charades while the big companies just continue to violate privacy unchecked. I have zero desire or intentions to break anyone’s privacy an ask for no information from anyone outside of pulling down their profile to sign in as is required to determine app permission. That is it. No phone numbers, no real names, no biometrics, no photos of ID or anything outside of those username on that platform but I am burdened as if I was collecting all of this and as if I was the one breaking privacy. This world is mental.

  • hansolo@lemmy.todayEnglish
    53·
    20 hours ago

    “Yeah, no shit”

    -anyone on the internet and paying even the slightest bit of attention for the past 5 years

  • sircac@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    23 hours ago

    In a lawless place there is no enforcement of one’s word, is blind trust or nothing…

  • elucubra@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    2210·
    24 hours ago

    I’m trying out Google’s Gemma4 LLM, which is run locally, and is touted as a 100% private model.

    Asking it some questions about itself, at one point it acknowledged that chats were sent to “developers”.

    • nightlily@leminal.spaceEnglish
      9·
      10 hours ago

      You mean it hallucinated a positive response to your leading question as it is meant to? You are operating on a fundamental misunderstanding of what LLMs do. Even if what you said is true, an LLM would have no knowledge of that unless it was explicitly told as such as an input - and why would they be stupid enough to do that?

    • natebluehooves@pawb.socialEnglish
      191·
      19 hours ago

      llama.cpp doesn’t have the ability to send telemetry because the next word predictor says so. you can confirm with wireshark.

    • hansolo@lemmy.todayEnglish
      111·
      20 hours ago

      Did the LLM tell you it’s 100% private?

      What else did the LLM tell you?

      • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldEnglish
        13·
        21 hours ago

        The way I see it they’re not gonna waste the time and money to fight a $1,000 claim and articles like this would convince a local judge that I can’t just opt out.

        And since the other side didn’t bother to show up I’d win by default.

  • Da Cap’n@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
    72·
    1 day ago

    “Shortly before I left my boss told me, direct quote, my job is to protect the company. There was another time I got into a very serious ontological discussion with a fairly senior engineer about what the difference was between taxes and fines and they didn’t understand there was a difference,” he said.”

    😳