I mean yeah, its Googles OS… Why would they make it easy for people to escape their software lock in hell?

No, not wrenches, they just stuff you in a camp, starve you and degrade you until you give up and then deport you to an even worse camp.

Some of the mentioned things are real issues, but normal users dont care about physical security. If your physical security is threatened, then your failure point will be a pipe wrench.

Imho pixels fucking suck. Repairability is really bad, so as soon as anything has issues you need a need phone. I would say the answer to your question heavily depends on your daily battery life requirements. If you wanna stretch the phones overall life, set a 70-80% charging limit to damage the cells less. (If that is even possible with the new models idk, you didnt specify yours…) If you treat it well and turn off all the battery sucking toggles to extend the time before needing to charge, then 4-5 years might be doable.

I tried Graphene for a bit but ultimately couldnt put up with pixel devices anymore and went to calyxos on a fairphone. Not having a swappable battery or extendable storage is just not fun. If you want a 10 year phone get a fairphone. The 6 just came out and is very well priced in the EU.

Very nice thread, thanks.

I dont mind if its implemented like it has been in germany for a while with eID. With an open source desktop or mobile app that uses NFC to talk to your ID and can be used to verify your age online to a 3rd party without leaking your birthday or any other personal info to them.

I dont know why there is so much screaming about age verification going on when these cryptographically provable anonymous systems already exist. Remember that “stop killing games” EU campaign with a million signatures? That also used exactly this system.

I would prefer not having any verification, but as that is not gonna happen at this point, i think its more important to focus on HOW to implement it. I dont understand why these companies like discord arent being forced to use these existing verification systems. Those arent legally provable at all so why arent they being sued for this?

that’s a thing today as well

Yeah thats what i was insinuating. We just forgot how to collectively give a fuck, which is crazy considering how much more connected we are with live information about all the horrendous shit that the rich and powerful are doing.

The romans figured that shit out a while ago already: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses

In a political context, the phrase means to generate public approval, not by excellence in public service or public policy, but by diversion, distraction, or by satisfying the most immediate or base requirements of a populace […]

Happened 4 months ago. I am totally non religious, but sometimes when i do morally questionable things i wonder what they would think of me if they could watch me. Without going into too much detail, the whole ordeal also painfully reminded me that all the surveillance power available to police will never be used to actually solve real cases.

Pretty sure there is such a thing as legally certified software where the liability would then lie with the software vendor.

Law people have a duty to be up to date on this stuff tho. If you dont know how to avoid LLMs from seeing or interacting with your stuff then you shouldnt be allowed to practice law.

Just like you will never lose your virginity by talking to a horny chatbot.

This should be top comment if true.

Its the main link of the post itself… https://imgur.com/a/dxnJWTn

In other words to meaningfully power stuff that is a just couple meters away you would need a source so powerful that it would either kill you or all the electronic devices in its vicinity. A nice styropyro video to illustrate https://youtu.be/6TgrtA2wKaM?t=144

Itch.io already went and hid all adult content afaik, so we are already past the first stage even.

purposely putting extreme effort into tricking the LLM into saying something harmful

I dont think you understand how many mentally unstable people out there are using LLMs as therapists.
There are fuckloads of cases now of people that were genuinely misled by LLMs into doing horrible things.

I agree with your sentiment, but the thing is that the companies are selling their shit as gold and not as shit. If they were honest about their stuff being shit, then people wouldnt be able to capitalize off of malicious prompt engineering. If you claim “we made it super safe and stuff” then you are inviting people to test that.

I would generally not make companies responsible for how users misuse their products, but OpenAI is basically doing everything to get people to misuse it. They are overselling it so hard i think its reasonable to sue them for it.

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Which is why big tech is actively lobbying for these laws because they know that they will be the only ones who can comply and therefore exist.

Still nice for the DRM free gang then.