Rikj000

That humans in general aren't?

After working 2 years on an open source ML project, I can confidently say that yes, on average, lights aint that bright sadly.

Thank you for reminding me about NPCs,
we have indeed been calling them AI for years,
even though they are not capable of reasoning on their own.

Perhaps we need a new term,
e.g. AC (Artificial Consiousness),
which does not exists yet.

The term AI still agitates me though,
since most of these are not intelligent.

For example,
earlier this week I saw a post on Lemmy,
where a LLM suggested to a user to uninstall a package, which would definitely have broken his Linux distro.

Or my co-workers,
who asked development questions I had to the LLMs they use, which yet has to generate me something usefull / something that actually works.

To me it feels like they are pushing their bad beta products upon us,
in the hopes that we pay to use them,
so they can use our feedback to improve them.

To me they don't feel intelligent nor consious.

But what do you call a robot that teaches itself how to walk

In it's current state,
I'd call it ML (Machine Learning)

A human defines the desired outcome,
and the technology "learns itself" to reach that desired outcome in a brute-force fashion (through millions of failed attempts, slightly inproving itself upon each epoch/iteration), until the desired outcome defined by the human has been met.

Afaik, no conflict.

Been using both together for years.

If Nintendo would invest the money they pump in DMCA takedowns and lawyers in their games instead,
then perhaps they would have a chance to make something equally good as Palworld.

Was this mod released before the DMCA?
If so, anyone got a mirror?

Hurt the spy-ware giant,
by using Invidious.

Free leeches their bandwidth,
without the spy-ware and ads!

https://invidious.io/

I don't expect that average users will become android/privacy experts.

I don't even think of my own privacy being all that important.

However systematic privacy,
through laws that protect us all,
that's what the average joe should be made aware off and stand up for.

Yes,

But the software on it has been completely re-done to enhance it's privacy and functionality.

I'm running LineageOSforMicroG,
with Magisk/LSPosed,
to run things like AdAway/XPrivacyLua/Blocker.

Additionally I replace everything I can with FOSS from F-Droid,
and scan all apps from Aurora (Play Store) with ClassyShark3xodus, against well known trackers, to either look for better alternatives, or to block the spy-ware in them with Blocker.

Further, a premium no-log VPN, which has been vetted (servers confiscated in the past, though 0 logs retrieved), configured as always-on + block connections without.

Paying for spy-ware,
how dense do they think we are?!

Let Google rot :)

.4 Should be, deadline stress kicks in, "my god dude you're doing the thing with un-natural amounts of concentration/speed"

Take a look for yourself with a rooted phone.

Blocker will show you all the recievers/services/activities/providers the app uses,
and will allow you to block them.

https://github.com/lihenggui/blocker

Apps often still work correctly with about 80-90% of their recievers/services/providers blocked, since they're spyware, which doesn't add functionality to the app.

XPrivacyLua will allow you to lie to apps when they request sensitive data.

Aditionally it will show you timestamps of what it lied about, to which apps, reveiling what they try to collect on you.

https://github.com/M66B/XPrivacyLua

ClassyShark3xodus allows you to decompile and scan apps on the fly,
to check which well known trackers are embedded into it.

https://bitbucket.org/oF2pks/fdroid-classyshark3xodus

Idk if these apps still do it,
since I have not used them for years,
but that's how I learned about many things like:

• 9GAG contained a face detector service at some point.
• Facebook Messenger requests access to your microphone, even when you are not calling with it.