This is totally unacceptable. But going to the hassle of running GrapheneOS and then using it to try and submit facial scans to combine your identity with your PSN account just seems so pointless.
> But going to the hassle of running GrapheneOS and then using it to try and submit facial scans to combine your identity with your PSN account just seems so pointless.
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Totally disagree. Everyone has a different threat model. Some people may solely be interested in the exploit protections and not care about their privacy. Some people might just like that it's completely open source or that there's no AI or it's bloat free.
I really dislike this maximalist, "ruin privacy" stance because it discourages people from making a small improvement if they can't be perfect. Changing to GrapheneOS is an insanely large privacy benefit compared to almost any other change and people might see this sort of sentiment and think there's no point if they use one privacy invasive app.
The thing is though that this kind of verification is going to be rife if we keep accepting it, and inconveniences like it not working (plus some banking apps) is almost the entire downside of GrapheneOS.
If you don't use it for things like this you don't really see any disadvantage. Occasionally I get cloudflare or vercel blocked when trying to read a blog but that's all.
So they're at a very strange intersection of using graphene but wanting to do exactly the kind of that is difficult on graphene. And just to be able to chat on PSN.
That's fair and I do agree Google is the biggest threat. It's just that all these ID verifications are already tying you with Google (or Apple) in most cases
It was an example that’s not particularly bound to me. I use a cheap burner android for shitware smarthome apps I need to setup devices before they get adopted by Home Assistant - if I cared about specifically ID association with gapps, I’d probably use my burner for that too.
But I’m also under no illusion that Google has better analytics sources.
I tried self hosting gitlab. I installed it and got miffed that it wouldn't let me change password complexity requirements for a user, so I left it but left it running for "maybe later".
Two weeks later it had spammed 50GB of logs to the disk and was idling at 11GB RAM. With zero repos and zero active users. I don't want a git interface to be full of bloat.
That's why I don't like it. I'm moving a client from gitlab to forgejo at the moment.
First is the corporate push for AI. We are constantly getting told to "use AI for X" and not "explore if it makes sense to use AI for X". It's pretty obvious that quality doesn't matter, only cutting staff costs does, and I dread to think how software and service will look in 5 years.
The second part is how people use it to do their work without shame. You can't get a bug report without someone saying "here's what Claude thinks". Great, is it right? I can ask Claude myself, at least verify. Outage reports will be summarised and pushed by AI without anyone verifying. I have to argue with a bot to get my PRs through, and nobody reads anything anymore.
It's not that AI can't be useful it's that it seems like nobody cares how good the quality is, only that it does the work.
CF serves something it convinced customers they need.
Static blogs hiding behind bot protection (in some cases blocking legit users from GrapheneOS because it's difficult to fingerprint them) because someone convinced them they'll be DDoSed by bots otherwise is a loss to the Internet.
A lot of self-hosters running CF tunnels because they don't know better also contributes.
> It's more healthy to start the conversation of _why_ CF services are valuable.
Begging the question. It's what TFA is about - telling people they need CF.
> A lot of self-hosters running CF tunnels because they don't know better also contributes.
Are you saying CF documentation is better than Computer Science / Networking education resources? Why don't people know better? I thought the tunnels are mostly used to bypass NAT's.
> Static blogs hiding behind bot protection
I'm not sure what is the proportion of the static vs dynamic sites, but I would argue that for wordpress CF is adding real value.
> I thought the tunnels are mostly used to bypass NAT's.
While not free, you can do with with TCP HAProxy streams on a cheap VPS. A lot of people using them to bypass NAT don't realise that Cloudflare decrypt the traffic on the way - that's what I meant about them not knowing better.
It's not about being incompetent. Quite often in selfhosted subreddits and forums you will see people surprised that Cloudflare can see their traffic in plaintext.
Of course, they probably don't, but the fact that they can and that their policies now influence XX% of internet traffic is bad for the open internet.
> In case you haven't followed the saga, the latest[1] digg.com relaunch failed because they couldn't deal with the bot onslaught [2]
Given that they wrote their goodbye post using LLMs and gave up after such a short amount of time, I don't take that at face value the same way I don't believe AI layoffs
It's only tenuously related to TFA but recently I've been trying to move almost all of my recreational internet browsing to the indie web. I've been populating freshrss with the ultimate aim being that I can mostly read everything on airplane mode.
Anyway I was reading through the newly published articles on Bear's discover tab and found this article on there with no upvotes. It's the first time I've seen something go from obscure to frontpage HN
> Jesus Christ... this anti-AI thing is getting ridiculous. If the code is good, bug free, and easily understood, who the f*ck cares?
Nobody. And in that hypothetical situation that post wouldn't have been written, wouldn't have been posted to hackernews and you wouldn't have had anywhere to write this comment.
> I can only conclude that this is some kind of misplaced frustration due to job protection and feelings of insecurity that makes people this polarized and religious.
LLMs are statistical machines and revert to the mean. I suspect that people's general opinion of how good AI is at a task mostly depends on whether or not that person's ability at the same task was around average
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