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#MyXAnniversary The party continues on @prof-komp.bsky.social (BYOB).

On May 4th, a Swedish privacy lawyer caught Google Chrome silently installing a 4 GB AI model on every desktop computer it could reach. If you delete the file, Chrome treats the deletion as a temporary error and downloads it again at the next opportunity. The file is called weights.bin. It lives in a folder called OptGuideOnDeviceModel inside the Chrome user profile directory. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device large language model. Hundreds of millions of devices now carry it. Two thirds of every desktop browser in the world is Chrome. Alexander Hanff, the Swedish privacy lawyer, installed a clean copy of Chrome on a fresh Mac, ran a script that visited a hundred webpages with no human input, and watched the system logs as Chrome silently wrote 4 GB to his disk. Chrome 147 ships with an "AI Mode" pill rendered in the address bar. A reasonable user, knowing Chrome just installed an on-device AI model, would assume that visible AI Mode feature uses the model sitting on their hard drive. Local query. Local processing. Local privacy. Every part of that assumption is wrong. The visible AI feature ships your queries to Google's servers. The 4 GB file on your hard drive does nothing visible. It powers obscure features buried in right-click menus that almost no Chrome user has ever clicked. The invisible binary sits on your disk and waits for the version that does. Chrome is the most-installed surveillance product of all time. Two billion users. Every URL you visit, every search you type, every form you fill out, every site you stay on, every site you leave. The advertising model that pays for Chrome requires every one of those signals. Chrome holds 64% of the global desktop browser market. Two-thirds of every reader of this sentence is reading it through software that just took 4 GB of their hard drive without asking. Until last year, Chrome's surveillance ended at what you typed into the address bar and what your activity log showed. The model can now read the page you have open, the text you have selected, the draft you are writing inside a Gmail tab before you have decided whether to send it. Google's "Help me write" feature requires that capability by definition. Help me write means read what I am writing. Locally. In real time. Pre-send. It's time to switch browsers. The cartel cannot watch the screen it is not running on.

@binary_runner @_Roman_Maca To je frekvence generátoru střídavého napětí, takže jeden drát do levé ruky a druhý zastrčit. Ano, tam. Pravou ruku potřebujete na ovládání generátoru.

@_Roman_Maca tak jsem namatkove vybral nekterou z tech mimo akusticky rozsah lisdskeho ucha - 816500 to jsou stredni vlny v radiu, akusticky se ne vzduchem sirit nebude, takze to chce asi napustit vanu a ponorit do ni sebe a funkcni sonar ... nebo ze by kontaktne nejaky hightech vibrator? 😁

Paní Ivana objevila lék na hantavirus, ale média nám tu pravdu samozřejmě tají. Paní Ivana prohlédne úplně všechno a má ten zdravý selský rozum. Její profil je plný ruské propagandy, rozmanitých konspirací a "vlasteneckých" videí Jindry Rajchla, který je idolem těchto šílenců. 🤷‍♂️

@DopravniPeklo Ty ušanky můžete přinést v ruksaku.

Jako osoba se sídlem podnikání na Praze 1 říkám jednoznačně: Běžte s tímhle, kam slunce nesvítí. A netvařte se, že mluvíte za místní. Nemluvíte. Ani náhodou.

@OrevaZSN And I am afraid that Pages,Numbers, andKeynote are following this model, yet only to enable access to useless features like AI-assisted writing, more templates, and vector shapes.

Microsoft requiring you to repurchase Word every year is insane. I can’t even copy the 2000 words I already typed into another program because the document is locked behind a subscription. Not long ago, you bought the CD once and you were set until your computer died.

@Dad_2_The_Bone There is a story behind each such sign.

That’s wildly specific

@LePapillonBlu2 .

Hey 👋🏽 guys, I’ve been throttled for two weeks now. Please reply with a . If you see me. Thank you, y’all!

@avatarkaTereza Norimberk obsadila 7. armáda USA.

„Každý, kdo miluje svobodu, má vůči Rudé armádě tak obrovský dluh, že ho nikdy nedokáže splatit.“ – Ernest Hemingway Rok 1945 znamená konečné vítězství nad nacistickým Německem a porážku fašismu. Záběry ukazují epické zničení nacistického velitelství v Norimberku před 80 lety.

@hrot24cz Že ne?

Schválně – že uhodneme, jaké máte heslo? hrot24.cz/clanek/hesla-c…

@tvtomas Nejspíš alergie, za tři dny to splaskne.

Píše mi po dnešní demonstraci řada lidí 😃. Do hajzlu mě třeba poslala tahle krasavice z Liberce. Koho si myslíte, že volí? Fašisty z SPD, fašisty z Motoristů nebo estébákovy prolhané kreatury?

@buitengebieden @just1deeva No tails? Illegal here.

Here's what happens when you put a German Shepherd in charge of babysitting Doberman Pinscher pups.. 😅

.@JonStewart begs the press to put Trump's feet to the fire after his bulls**t claims about America's weapons supply

@LePapillonBlu2 Hi

Hey, guys! Please say hi if you see me; they are silencing me now. 💙

@Hanten_Inu @ZdenekHrib Ta jáma vedle silnice je nová. Před tím: louka. Dneska: díra. Doufám, že si ČEZ dává stranou peníze na rekultivaci stejně zodpovědně, jako pan Tykač.

@davitk @ZdenekHrib Tak to není .. Mezi Bílinou a Mariánskými Radčicemi jde o stávající těžební oblast Severočeských dolů.

Staletí nám nevadí rozkopaná krajina kvůli uhlí, zničený hory ani díry jak po bombardování. Ale pár větrníků najednou spouští řeči o „hyzdění krajiny“. Naše budoucnost je v čisté energii a musíme ji podpořit veškerými prostředky co máme.

@Hanten_Inu @ZdenekHrib Nový důl se otevírá mezi Bílinou a Radčicema.

@ZdenekHrib Jste prostě dogmatik. Kdo tady tvrdí, že mu nevadí rozkopaná krajina po těžbě?! To říkáte vy. Chce snad někdo otevírat nové obří povrchové doly? Ne. Chtějí zaplavovat ty stávající a využitelné. A místo toho přidat do krajiny další obludnosti. Vytěžit a rekultivovat je správně.

@rocknrollofall Copied the Time from a friend. We shared songs wirelessly (cassette player mic against the speaker) back then. Innovative usage of the clock ticks, we agreed! Minutes later I overwrote it by Space Trucking, obviously. Still, that tick-tock intro was nice, if you’re into clocks.

If you haven't listened to a whole Pink Floyd masterpiece in your life, you aren't alive. You're the walking dead.

Biplanes reverse the propeller rotation to slow down before landing.

@Watch_ListDaily The 🇨🇿 lion should have two tails. Nice, anyway.

Which one is your country and is its symbol correct❓

@timqueeney @militaryhistori The building has been ruined since 1933 fire.

@militaryhistori Staged or not, it’s a great photo. The enemy flag flying from AH’s “thousand year reich” Reichstag with the ruins of Berlin in the background is immensely powerful.

Berlin, 2 May 1945: photographer Yevgeny Khaldei (1917-97) snaps soldiers flying a Soviet flag from the Reichstag. This carefully planned image, which came to represent the defeat of Nazi Germany, used a giant banner that Khaldei prepared beforehand from 3 red tablecloths. Other soldiers had already raised smaller flags over 30 April-1 May from lower windows, but few were photographed & none well. Inspired by Joe Rosenthal's 23 Feb 45 flag-raising image on Iwo Jima, the Kremlin directed Khaldei to compose, take & edit an appropriate image with his Leica. Sgt Abdulkhakim Ismailov's looted 2nd watch was edited out & background smoke added. Accessible, it is now the site of the skyline restaurant. (3rd image is Khaldei atop the Brandenberg Gate).

@militaryhistori I like that gentleman down there, who has Moscow time on right hand watch, while local time on the left hand one. Clever.

@divi5on @DarthPutinKGB Shame to the satire, which needs to be marked.

@davitk @DarthPutinKGB А где смайлик?

OTD in 1941 the Soviets held a May Day parade in Moscow. So they invited their Nazis allies cos it would be rude not to.