Not a coder but I grasped enough.

Lastly, I’d like to know where the AI got the idea from. Sounds like pizza glue.

xonsh or python with sh.py.

Very interesting!

And thanks for the coding tips. It seems git is not the best option here because it keeps a full history of all files in their fullness - a gigantic waste of space in the case of a media collection.

I am now thinking more rsync minus lossless formats, then deal with lossless formats separately.

As overly pessimistic as it sounds, this is really it.

Unlearn the notion that you can live part of your private life on large platforms (in the widest sense).

All this is already happening and has been for a while before the whole AI hype even started.

I will take your question as a more general “What can happen”, not focusing too much on LLMs. Although arguably it was their precursors who started the more nefarious ways of aquiring & perusing ever more esp. behavioral data.

So the question is: what are the real-life harms of private online data collection everybody warns about? The answer is as long winded as explaining the mechanism of the aquisition itself.

It’s pervasive. “They” can tweak almost every manner of interaction with their customers/subjects. It affects younger people (and I mean younger than me, and I still remember the time when there was no internet for the people) constantly and in ways they aren’t even aware of. It allows the creation of data sets that are being sold on - now including DNA thanks to millions of useful idiots who went to 23andme -

out of breath. maybe somebody else can continue this

Thanks for confirming.

I still have that old gmail account. I cannot log in anymore, but it still sometimes forwards mail to my current address. I’d love to nuke it.

Nothing else. Facebook is destroyed, reddit I don’t care about, and I jumped ship before corporate cloud storage became normal.

But I remember times I was going through everything with a fine comb, mostly whenever I used my main address to register for something, to replace that with aliases or throwaway addresses.

Yep. Thousands upon thousands of … shit now I forgot the term, presidential decrees? At least concentrate on those, and, if you would, pick those that really matter. That actively dismantle democracy and directly hurt people. Not some media tiff.

What a coincidence, i said that yesterday!

That whole “invasion of immigrants” has been FUD from the beginning… which was a long time ago… nothing gets voters like having someone to blame for your misery, even if it’s bullshit.

The pope election with similar Latin terms is too close, I have to remind myself…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_corpus

Oh, that’s pretty neat. “You have to produce the prisoner” is basically what it means?

Of course I’m not the least bit surprised that they don’t like that. OTOH, they already just ignore the courts so why bother “looking at” it. 🤷

independent

Too chickenshit to admit he’s a turncoat?

This is the important question. On my blog software It’s just one short page written in the blog’s templating language, very easy to create from scratch.

If the blog is a collection of plain HTML pages, you’ll somehow need to collect the pertinent info first (e.g. the ten newest pages, their titles, a short summary).

Their extremism has a limit?

anti-genocide singer

Is this a singer who has made singing against the Palestinian genocide the main message of her songs?
Or is this a singer who sings, and just happens to have an anti-genocide opinion?

Not that one of these options would make Adams’ choice better - it’s wrong no matter what - but it’s an important distinction imho.

Or are these fearfully conservative* politicians actually just pushing artists into taking a stance, by being so censorial?

* yes, he’s a Democrat

Court ordered - return when?

Ah, you specified Android.

Should be relatively simple with a shell script. Considering Android’s security model the hardest bit will probably be to get that timezone out of the VPN app.

And then maybe some app exists that allows you to integrate custom script output into your staus bar.

Good!

Now if you could please stop them from flying at all, would you?

Also “GlobalX” - please tell me the X does not signify what I think it does… (apparently not)

The first AMERICAN concentration camp is being constructed

Definitely not the first

But hey, you’re preaching to the choir here.

They are concentrating the camps.

This constant barrage, I can’t keep up anymore. But it’s the slightly-boring-sounding ones like this one that are the most dangerous imo. Dismantling checks and balances (whatever was left of that). Making sure “you’ll never have to vote anymore”.