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[–] mii@awful.systems 1 points 1 minute ago* (last edited 51 seconds ago)

Personal rant: in my ongoing search for a replacement for ProtonMail after they pivoted to AI had me almost sign up with Tuta because, hey, they looked good and were on my radar originally anyway, when I found out that they do not offer any IMAP/SMTP access at all.

I mean, I get it, their whole thing is privacy and, yes, storing mail locally on my machine kinda undermines the idea of strong and impenetrable E2E encryption, but I should at least have the choice like I do with Proton Bridge. Because without SMTP Tuta is completely unusable for git send-email. I mean, yes, technically I could copy-paste the output of format-patch into the web client but, first, I am lazy and don't wanna do that, and second, from my experience it rarely works anyway because the clients do some encoding crap so that git am doesn't eat it without cleanup.

Meh. I guess I have to keep looking.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 9 points 1 hour ago

Ah, copilot is so extremely popular that MS has decided to bundle it into O365 for ~~free~~ a moderate “depends by region” price increase

I’m sure that’ll totally make people want it even more! hordes at the gate!

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 3 hours ago

"brb going to make an AI blockbuster called 'Zennos Parhadox' starring Dwynne Johnson and Rebeca Fernugson and then we'll see who's laughing." -- Dick Trauma, SA

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 8 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

what do anthropic, aws, and palantir all have in common? except for being the fucking worst, of course

the [https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/07/anthropic-teams-up-with-palantir-and-aws-to-sell-its-ai-to-defense-customers/](dollar signs in their eyes) seem to share a bit of a glow..

[–] mii@awful.systems 10 points 1 hour ago

Wild that "We left OpenAI and founded out own company with alignment and safety"-Anthropic decides to get into bed with Palantir of all companies.

It's almost as if their whole safety shtick is complete bullshit. Hmm.

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 7 points 1 hour ago
  1. Buy a defense ai system with a cool GUI but that absolutely doesn't fucking work

  2. PRESS RELEASES

  3. Leave the source code+model weights somewhere that your enemies will find it, preferably next to a big data pipe

  4. Watch them copy it and try to use it on the battlefield

  5. lol

Just have to avoid naming it something that would give the game away like WIM-PLOW or whatever

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 10 points 4 hours ago
[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 6 hours ago

Less election dreariness, Dr Michael Cook talking about the oasis minecraft 'game'.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 9 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

I swear to god post the map with lots of diagonal arrows one more time

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 9 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

lol, no, but this was good post

some inane fucking thing from bloomberg or NYT or someone’s Bad Visualisations Department. it’s at least 35 points of psychic damage

10 centibasilisk simtime units in old money

[–] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 11 points 12 hours ago

it's really fucking dumb because trump got 2 million less votes than in 2020. really great map for learning the wrongest possible lesson from this election.

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 18 hours ago

ikr i've already seen it too

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 6 points 18 hours ago

I have been having this feeling in a couple places too, heh

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 11 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

My hope is that either more progressive third party options become more viable OR the dems finally understand that being essentially republican is a bad strategy and actually become progressive. I know the reality is that the dems will learn nothing from this as they have clearly learned nothing from 2016.

[–] Rinn@awful.systems 13 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

I'll bet quite a lot that they'll learn the exact wrong thing from this and decide that they just weren't republican enough.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 12 points 18 hours ago

Overton window, more like overton viewfinder. Point it wherever you like and the median voter will agree everything to its left is radical extremism.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 9 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
[–] swlabr@awful.systems 8 points 17 hours ago

and for 2032:

[–] slopjockey@awful.systems 16 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The worst part about Trump being president is Trump being president for a year. The second worst part is Vance being president for the next three (after Trump dies of heart failure). The third worst part is the fact that I've been owned in a way I can't even explain to my closest friends.

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

the bit i wonder about is: would president couchfucker block weapons exports to Ukraine

[–] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 6 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Most likely. Backing out of international obligations and supporting fellow authoritarians seem to be pretty consistent aspects of what passes for MAGA ideology.

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 14 hours ago

i guess this depends on how much vested interest (monetary) he has in MIC

trump seems to treat nato as america's weapons shop buyers club

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 6 points 21 hours ago

What did sideburns ever to do that guy?

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 14 points 1 day ago

The third worst part is the fact that I’ve been owned in a way I can’t even explain to my closest friends.

Oh god, this so much. Well, third worst for me personally, as a non-American white guy. I suppose Palestinians, Ukrainians, and marginalized groups in the US might have a few issues they'd rank higher.

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