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@GBNEWS The real reason behind this is that many young people that age are getting their first political content from some of these platforms, content that runs against the liberal globalist consensus. And in these formative years, the gov wants to be the only one to have full access.

EU prepares to impose internet restrictions on more than 65 million people gbnews.com/news/world/soc…

@asaio87 But I get it, AI is gonna impact millions negatively. Gotta find a way to cope with it by telling yourself you're better than it. I'm not a dev, but it might impact me too, eventually, so I will go through the same mental gymnastics.

@asaio87 Are you saying human devs never made slop? There's some awful, bug riddled healthcare legacy software out there I am forced to use every day at work and it wasn't made with AI... There's no big difference bewteen AI and man made slop imo, except AI will only improve.

I read a post by someone on Reddit today, about vibe coders Its about this guy who was laid off because of AI, or so he says It seems this guy, as a software developer with 18 years of experience, is working at McDonald's I can assure you guys, do not fall for that, he is for sure lying or just shitposting Vibecoders cannot code production apps No serious company has replaced entire development teams with AI because its not possible... yet Yes things might be harder in some areas, but its only like that because some companies have been fooled that they can replace people 100% with AI thats not the case, and if you ask these companies, you will see they are struggling with that decision AI is a good tool , no doubt, but its far from replacing people.

@asaio87 By the way, there's news story after news story recently of hackers stealing personal data from government databases in Europe, and none of those databases were made with AI. No no, real engineers made those. Didn't make the systems they made bulletproof, far from it.

@PeterMcCormack The salt from software devs in this thread could fill the grand canyon lol What you guys are missing is that claude is already good enough, and it'll keep getting better. Your mistake is to think this is the ceiling. But hey, I get it, I'd be scared too if I were a dev.

I now understand why AI will eat the software industry. I used to have a web agency. With Claude over the last 3 days I have built and deployed a system that would have: - Taken 6 months - Cost £150-200k - Required 8 different skill sets I can't design. I can't code. I don't understand SQL, APIs, Cloud Storage - yet Claude has walked me through Github, Supabase, Vercel and it is deployed and working. A 100% custom software system - 3 days, 1 idiot. BLOWN AWAY!

@dgaspard @PeterMcCormack @zerosandohs Hmm, the one who built it, aka his claude agent maybe? No amount of cope will make this transitional period towards AI systems easier for devs.

Who maintains everything you just built? Who understands it? Who keeps security up to date? Who fixes bugs? Who monitors it for updates? How do you know it’s secure? Who’s on the hook if it breaks in the middle of the night? What’s budget in the cloud for the custom applications you’re building? What if you need to share data from this system to the next?

You can always tell someone is a Fed or compromised by what they do when it actually matters. Talk a big fucking game until Dan Blizerian has a real fucking chance to unseat a literal fucking anti American Zionist fat fuck. Then steer people away from Dan? Stear people away from Thomas Massie? You're a fucking fraud

Tout le monde sait que la plus grande catastrophe démographique qu'a connu la France a été celle de 1694, sous Louis XIV -- si, tout le monde le sait. Après les étés pluvieux et les récoltes maigrichonnes de 1692 et 1693, la sécheresse de l'été 1694 a achevé pas moins 1,3 millions de personnes, dans un pays de 20 millions d'habitants. Et pourtant, on s'est relevé. Pendant la guerre de Trente ans (1618-1648), l'Allemagne avait perdu peut-être 40 % de sa population (morts, famines, épidémies), passant d'environ 15-20 millions à environ 10-12 millions. Et pourtant, elle s'est relevée. La seule chose dont on ne se relève pas, c'est le métissage, avec pour conséquence : la baisse définitive de QI. Je sais, ça ne plaît pas à tout le monde. Mais c'est une vérité qu'il faut entendre si l'on veut que nos enfants vivent dans un monde qui ne soit pas trop violent.

“wHy aRe tHerE iNdiaNs In pOrTuGaL?!” Because they are good slaves, you are not. I hate essay-posting but allow me a rare indulgence: To understand what is happening now, you need understand that this isn’t the first time it’s happened. Why are there Indians in Kenya? Suriname? Fiji? Burma? Because Indians have always been the preferred servile class of elites. The evidence for this goes back hundreds of years. I’ve spoken about British colonial Burma before, and it is a great example of what this looks like. Even after extensive efforts to bring them to heel, the majority of the Burmese ethnic groups were far too resistant to submit to the British empire to be reliable labor. They refused to abandon their culture and ways of life to be slave drones for British pocketbooks. So the Brits started importing Indians to be their colonial administrators, preferring them as labor because they were easier to control and satisfy. By the 1940s, Indians made up almost 20% of the population of the entire country. Another great historical example of this is Suriname - a small country in South America that had been under Dutch colonial rule for 300 years. The Dutch abolished slavery in 1863, forcing colonial plantation owners to have to hire labor to do the work they had previously been using slaves for. But… they didn’t want to pay former slaves or Indigenous locals a living wage for the work. So what did the Dutch elites do instead? Import Indians. Today, Indians still make up 27% of the population. 27%. Of a tiny, obscure South American country. We could basically go through the list of every country with a non-negligible Indian population and the theme would be consistent: They were brought there by elites who needed a submissive, easily exploitable labor pool when local labor asked for better living conditions or wages. Why? Because Indians never did. They are a population that seems fully content with subjugation (even Marx noticed this). So it’s easy to see why they were such an ideal population for the intensive global expansion era of colonial empires. And it’s even easier to see why they are perfect subjects for late capitalism now. They are the culturally, psychologically, and physically ideal organism for the dominant system. There’s 1.4 billion of them. They are deeply socially stratified and so expect and even enjoy inequality. Their cuisine is cheap, meat-free slop. They live amongst trash and filth with no qualms. They don’t care about the environment. Their reaction to death and abuse is blank-eyed indifference. They are physically and spiritually malleable. They not only adopt and internalize the demands of the dominant system as personal ambition, they believe this servitude makes them better than everyone else who hasn’t. Absolutely IDEAL subjects. You, on the other hand, are not the ideal subject. You want to live in a high-trust society. You would shed tears if someone tried to cut down the apple tree you climbed as a child to build a data center. You want to see and experience beauty. You want your own space. You have an expectation that your living conditions will improve over time. You would not be content to live in a room with 10 other people, work 16 hours per day for pennies, and eat cheap slop. You are a liability. Just like the Burmese and Surinamese slaves were. And as we continue to crawl deeper into this late capitalist hellscape, you and your silly little needs will come into increasing conflict with those of the system. Thus, you WILL be replaced by people far easier to control and far less concerned about their own welfare or the welfare of everyone and everything around them. … Unless you do something about it. But the system has already locked-in that you won’t, and that you’ll just sort of fade into nothingness, distracted by meaningless comforts and terrified of the uncertainty of change. So “why are Indians in [wherever]?” Because you are about to not be.

@nym I smell an anti-trust lawsuit coming. One company forcing an entire industry to comply with their own infrastructure? Sounds similar to USA v Microsoft 1995 over Internet Explorer, but without the technicality that got Microsoft out of trouble.

Apple and Google are gradually expanding their use of hardware-based attestation. They're convincing a growing number of services to adopt it. Google's Play Integrity API and Apple's App Attest API are very similar. Apple brought it to the web via Privacy Pass, which Google intends on doing too. Google's Play Integrity API requires hardware attestation for the strong integrity level and is gradually phasing in requiring it for the more commonly used device integrity level. Apple already has it as a requirement. Over the long term, this will increasingly lock out hardware and OS competition. The purpose of these systems is disallowing people from using hardware and software not approved by Apple or Google. This is wrongly presented as being a security feature. Banks and government services are the main ones adopting it but Apple and Google are encouraging every service to use it. Apple's Privacy Pass brought hardware attestation to the web to help with passing captchas on their own hardware. Many people saw that as harmless since few sites would be willing to lock out non-Apple-hardware users. Apple and Google are both likely to bring broader hardware attestation to the web. Google's reCAPTCHA is planning an approach where they use Privacy Pass on Apple hardware, their own approach on Google Mobile Services Android devices and a QR code scanning system to require an iOS or Google certified Android device for Windows and other systems: support.google.com/recaptcha/answ… Banking and government services increasingly require using a mobile app where they can use attestation to force using an Apple or Google approved device and OS. Apple's privacy pass, Google's 'cancelled' Web Environment Integrity and now reCAPTCHA Mobile Verification are bringing this to the web. Current media coverage for reCAPTCHA Mobile Verification misunderstands it and the impact of it. They're bringing a hardware attestation requirement to Windows, desktop Linux, OpenBSD, etc. by requiring a QR scan from a certified smartphone to pass reCAPTCHA in some cases. They could expand it more. Control over reCAPTCHA puts Google in a position where they can require having either iOS or a certified Android device to use an enormous amount of the web. Google defines certification requirements for Android which includes forcing bundling Google Chrome, etc. It's enormously anti-competitive. Google's Play Integrity API bans using GrapheneOS despite it being far more secure than anything they permit. It also bans using any other alternative. This isn't somehow specific to an AOSP-based OS. You can't avoid this by using a mobile OS based on FreeBSD instead. You'll just be more locked out. Google's Play Integrity API permits devices with no security patches for 10 years. The device integrity level can be bypassed via spoofing but they can detect it quite well and block it once it starts being done at scale. The strong integrity level requires leaked keys from TEEs/SEs to bypass it. It doesn't provide a useful security feature, but it does lock out competition very well. Services requiring Apple App Attest or Google Play Integrity are primarily helping to lock in Apple and Google having a duopoly for mobile devices. Play Integrity is more relevant due to AOSP being open source. Governments are increasingly mandating using Apple's App Attest and Google's Play Integrity for not only their own services but also commercial services. The EU is leading the charge of making these requirements for digital payments, ID, age verification, etc. Many EU government apps require them. Instead of governments stopping Apple and Google from engaging in egregiously anti-competitive behavior, they're directly participating in locking out competition via their own services. Requiring people to have an Apple device or Google-certified Android device is anti-competition, not security. reCAPTCHA Mobile Verification will currently work with sandboxed Google Play on GrapheneOS but it clearly exists to provide a way for them to start using hardware attestation on systems without it. People without an iOS or Android device will be locked out when this is required even without that. This isn't about security or any missing functionality. GrapheneOS can be verified via hardware attestation. Google bans using GrapheneOS for Play Integrity because we don't license Google Mobile Services and conform to anti-competitive rules already found to be illegal in South Korea and elsewhere. Services shouldn't ban people from using arbitrary hardware and operating systems in the first place. Google's security excuse is clearly bogus when they permit devices with no patches for 10 years but not a much more secure OS. It's for enforcing their monopolies via GMS licensing, that's all.

J’ai fait confiance aux experts toute ma vie. Dix ans de cardiologie. La science comme boussole. Puis le Covid est arrivé. La colére aussi. Ces mêmes experts m’ont imposé un produit expérimental,comme un cobaye. j'ai appris plus tard :Risque de myocardite multiplié par 6 pour ma tranche d'age. Bénéfice sur la transmission : quasi nul. Protection réelle pour mes patients : inexistante. Un masque et la vaccination des plus fragiles auraient suffi. Ce n’est pas la science qui a failli. Ce sont ceux qui s’en sont emparés pour imposer peur, obéissance et vérité d’État. Bureaucratie toute-puissante, infantilisation de masse, autoritarisme médicalisé. Le Covid m’a surtout révélé l’état réel du système, au dela de la medecine. Mon divorce n’est pas avec la science. Il est avec ceux qui ont confisqué son nom pour mieux nous diriger et nous escroqués.

@johannesmkx What would that do exactly? You already need an ID to pay for your internet access. And once you're connected, you can just use a VPN anyway.

If the EU is going to demand age verification for internet use at the ISP level, it means you'll likely have to login using an ID app every time you change IP addresses. It means VPNs also won't help escape it. And then they can start banning people from the internet entirely for unwanted speech. If that were to happen to me (likely), I will consider moving to a non-ID internet country if I can, or simply move activities to the street and see how long I last.

Tried watching a BBC doc on Russia. Already in the first mins: "Russia arrests journalists and threatens them with decades in prison!" As opposed to what? Me being threatened w/ 14 years in the UK, or 10 years in Austria for my reporting? Hypocrisy at its peak.

@johanvan_vliet @kimmonismus Fucking pathetic when you know the whole continent does not have a single frontier AI lab. And no, Mistral is not frontier.

@kimmonismus Even worse, they’ve crowned themselves the ‘AI Continent’. 😂

I always try to be diplomatic and constructive. But this infuriates me. So, according to the EU, I'm a conspiracy theorist if I criticize excessive bureaucracy/regulation and high taxes? This meme was, by the way, paid for with my taxes. I'm simply speechless. The EU is failing to keep up with AI and technology (or perhaps doesn't want to?) and then labels those who criticize this as crazy conspiracy theorists. Holy moly. Let that sink in.

@theSaaSdemon @zuess05

@zuess05 Because anything built with claude is usually fucking useless... feel like a lot of you X 'agentic' workflows gurus have never worked at a real startup / company before lmao

Serious question. We have an entire corporate class making $150k a year whose only actual job is to sit in meetings and ask "what is the status on this?" But if one guy with Claude can now finish a 2-week project in an afternoon... Why haven't companies laid off the entire middle layer yet?

True.

Hahahahahaha VPNs are HURTING CHILDREN Hahahaha fucking stupid fucks

Droht das Ende der freien Debatte? Norbert Häring beschreibt im Interview ein Netzwerk aus EU, Militär und Faktencheckern, das die öffentliche Meinung beeinflussen soll. berliner-zeitung.de/article/der-wa…

@EU_Commission You should fire the intern who posted this lol

The battle of narratives is going strong. Our countries are a recurring target. It is time to act to tell the stories that make us strong. Let’s live our own story! Protect what matters - our democracy.