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5·6 days agoI don’t disagree with you. There are trade offs is the thing. I’m not getting a digital ID until I’m forced, but many people are fine with it.
The other commenter from Ukraine explained it well, and to add, the Diia app they use is open source. Other countries can use it if they pay a one time “licensing fee” that is basically a donation with the from line “we’re not shitbags.”
According to people super into digital IDs: In terms of trade offs, especially for Americans, interoperability means unifying state and Federal systems so that you can renew your driver’s license, register a car you just bought, file your taxes, and renew your passport online in the same portal. You would rarely set foot in a government office ever again. Your ID hash can be used online and IRL to validate only a part of you identification, like age, so a bouncer at a club can’t take a photo of a young woman’s ID and stalk her later. So there are some added privacy benefits…in theory.
Obviously, there are the same downsides to any consolidation of digital anything. A stolen phone, even a dead battery, means you have no identity anymore. Data leaks are inevitable. This likely opens the door for far less privacy online when LinkedIn or Reddit starts asking for an age or name check. But plenty of people are oblivious to that anyway. Andb the same argument was probably made in the 1950s and 1960s about paper ID cards. So once there’s utility and pressire applied to having a digital ID, adoption will follow.
Hey now, I’ve been paranoid for years. Don’t call me a newborn.
Mmm, I’ll decide that myself much later. I’m going to be a crypto bro, Elon sent me a message on Facebook saying he was going to help me invest my money.
Hmm…maybe. Can I make money with auto-generated clickbait headlines?
The style of AI slop writing is in the style of AI slop writing. This is often indicated by its use of writing that fits the typical style of AI slop. This can sometimes happen when a lazy writer dumps their notes into an LLM, and isn’t careful to delve into the results. The results can be disappointing because the lazy writer had dumped their notes into an LLM and simply used the raw output without delving into the details of the raw output.
Please pay me $900 now, thank you.
For real. I once had the misfortune to admit to having some Centrist ideas, and the down votes were immediate and generous. No discussion, just personal attacks.
And we wonder how things got to where they are.
The degree to which MS Teams can get fucked by the horse it rode in on is proportional to the number of registry entries their bloatware has on first install.
On a long enough timeline, almost everything is biodegradable ( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°)
Just need…like, 27 or 30 million years. Shod be fine.
Man on floating whale corpse: “Your boat stinks!”
Man on burning garbage scow: “What?”
And learn how to use it.
And get your FF fork loaded up with the right extensions to prevent fingerprinting.
Ugh, this world is so cooked, but we keep reaching out of the oven and turning up the heat on ourselves.
Well, considering that I speak 4 languages myself, maybe that’s not the take I was going for.
I speak 4 languages, and when I need surface level basics for a trip, I’ve found the Duolingo helps get the wrote memory part of see a shape, hear a sound.
For actual terminology or grammar, it’s OK, but it doesn’t deserve the hype it gives itself. I can make up my own lessons with Google Translate better than Duolingo.
I believe that a clickbait title about 400 idiot people starting the first lesson in Duolingo and then quickly quitting without deleting their accounts is the through line here.
Narrator: “But he didn’t mean the critically acclaimed 2013 movie ‘Her,’ but instead the 1991 classic ‘Mannequin 2:On the Move.’”
Cut to GOB driving the stair car with a mannequin in a wig tied to the top.
This is all about pressuring Bytedance to sell to any of the large US companies dying to get that user base. Remember that one party is currently loaded with tech bros with no ethics.
Bytedance seems willing to play chicken and hit the wall as a gamble about coming out of this less hurt than anyone else.
In theory, but in practice the BBB is usually a pay-to-play sort of racket where as long as a member doesn’t have active litigation happening, you can likely swing an A+ rating and still be a terrible company. It’s business oriented, not consumer.
I feel like stuff like this is always aimed at average people and the data collection is what offsets the price to make it the cheapest option. Only new money would use it to chase trendy things like this. They end up being slight convenience with added work and expectations on the consumer.
High end appliances aimed at real wealth are usually more about how they can be built in to the house design. Rich people will pay more for a thing that makes the house look like a magazine, and will last years.
Why would a rich person want a fridge that tells them they need to buy milk when their actual human assistant does that?
It really is terrible. I’ve tried a dozen times to get it to do anything that the free version of GPT can do…fails every time on the few things it even tries.