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Yogthos

While Signal messages might be e2e encrypted, people tend to forget that the platform collects phone numbers of its users, which can be used to identify people.

This makes Signal an effective metadata collection tool that resides on a central server in the US.

By cross-referencing these identities with data from other companies like Google or Meta, the government can create a comprehensive picture of people's connections and affiliations.

#signal #privacy

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Yogthos

This allows identifying people of interest and building detailed graphs of their relationships.

Signal may seem like an innocuous messaging app on the surface, but it cold easily play a crucial role in government data collection efforts.

It was originally funded by CIA cutout Open Technology Fund, part of Radio Free Asia.

Its Chairwoman is Katherine Maher, who worked for NDI/NED: regime-change groups, and a member of Atlantic Council, WEF, US State Department Foreign Affairs Policy Board etc.

Dr. Quadragon ❌

@yogthos Just to play Devil's advocate:

What are the alternatives?

XMPP might be, but they haven't been able to get their shit together for a decade and a half regarding... well, everything. Jabber is in shambles, especially regarding E2EE:

soatok.blog/2024/08/04/against

Matrix just has awful protocol design that crumbles under its own weight. Don't believe me? Try visiting #matrix:matrix.org.

So... We're kinda screwed, aren't we.

noiseician

@yogthos "capitalist realism" just ain't realistic

frigginGlorious ✅

@yogthos well... competition is natural. Isn't that the whole reason evolution exists? It's the default.

Humans created societies to stabilize things, but outside of those efforts, it's just competition and chaos. Right?

Yogthos

Street-Complete is like Pokemon Go but for improving Open Street Map

streetcomplete.app/

Peter Bronez

@yogthos @evan very cool! Wish there was an iOS version.

Powersource

@yogthos looking forward to taking a walk in my town and going through this

Yogthos

how to browse the web in 2024

1. open site
2. close email subscription pop up
3. close push notifications
4. dismiss cookies pop up
5. dismiss the request for your location
6. close the "did you find what your were looking for?" dialog
7. apologize to those around you for the loud swearing
8. try to remember why you opened the site in the first place

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Uwe_Kauffmann

@yogthos Someone who is on sides for stupid People, shut not wonder that he will be used as stupid people,

Vee

@yogthos you forgot the

Close the "May I help you?" chat...or was that No.6...?

On point regardless!!

Pseudo Nym

@yogthos

Fill out net promoter score, answering how much you'd absolutely love to recommend this to your friends and co-workers.

Yogthos

LLM routing aims to reduce costs by directing simple queries to less capable, cheaper models, and complex queries to stronger models. RouteLLM is a framework that uses preference data and data augmentation to train routers that decide which LLM to use, achieving significant cost savings without compromising quality.

lmsys.org/blog/2024-07-01-rout

github.com/lm-sys/RouteLLM

#machinelearning

stuart yeates

@yogthos

Excellent!

Detecting "simple queries" is clearly halting-complete, so someone's solved the halting problem at last!

Шуро
Here is an AI for you to put in front of your other AI so you can save on running the other AI by passing your data through this AI so it might redirect it to yet another AI helping you to dumbify the response in even more unexpected ways.
Yogthos

False Nationalism False Internationalism: Class Contradictions in the Armed Struggle is an investigation of the struggle for solidarity between the left in an oppressor nation and rebellions against that nation from the oppressed.

The research explores political questions of pro-capitalist classes and opportunism, of euro-centrism and settler colonial privilege amongst groups and entities striving to steer revolutionary resistance.

archive.org/details/falsenatio

#socialism #theory

False Nationalism False Internationalism: Class Contradictions in the Armed Struggle is an investigation of the struggle for solidarity between the left in an oppressor nation and rebellions against that nation from the oppressed.

The research explores political questions of pro-capitalist classes and opportunism, of euro-centrism and settler colonial privilege amongst groups and entities striving to steer revolutionary resistance.

Yogthos

When you own the orchestra, you get to choose the music, and the oligarchs love having their own personal band to drown out dissenting voices.

Jeff Bezos Amazon;s founder worth $156bn bought The Washington Post for $250 million

John Henry trading firm J.W. Henry & Co worth $2.6 bn bought The Boston globe for 70 million

Sheldon Adelson Las Vegas Sands worth $35.4 bn bought Las Vegas Review-Journal for $140 million

Laurene Powell Jobs Forbes worth $20.3 bn bought The Atlantic (undisclosed terms)

Patrick Soon-Shiong biotech startups including NantHealth, worth 7.2bn bought Los Angeles Times for $500 million

Marc Benioff Salesforce.com worth $5.6bn bought Time for $190 million
Dr. Quadragon ❌

@yogthos Have you heard of the book Principia Mathematica?

1+1=2 is not as obvious as you might think, it's just what you're used to.

Yogthos

IDF devastating #Gaza over time, even destroying the roads, destroying every bit that make life possible

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