about how Chinese people cope with constant surveillance in their country

Very interesting read.

Finally, wanting to protect privacy was often seen by participants as a desire to hide shameful secrets in order to save face. Here too, surveillance is viewed positively, as a tool to unmask shady behaviours and promote morality.

Damn.

In short, the way the Chinese citizens I spoke to experience digital surveillance is characterized by strong psychic tensions: the same persons who support surveillance as being indispensable in the Chinese context are also and nevertheless expressing the heavy burden that coping with such exposure places on them.

I felt strong aversion and irritation throughout, thinking they were unnecessarily making enemies.

They certainly have an extreme view and goal. And are personally invested to the point of seeing fellow collaborators on FOSS as enemies(?) now.

Putting up barriers through segmentation and alternative tech creates silos. To reach new people I don’t think we can get around meeting users where they are and what they are familiar with.

Bring value through FOSS, and hint and nudge them. If you meet them where they are and bring them to your software it’s already one more than none. You don’t need to get them to make a huge leap into a whole ecosystem of alternative software at once.

Their categorical dismissal of other’s opinions or priorities certainly felt irritating to me. Maybe they care more about FOSS license than UX or features, but why is that the only correct view in their eyes? Blind users may not even be able to use FOSS alternatives when they lack accessibility features or quality.

Even as a contributor to a project I don’t want to use a supportive side platform only for that when it’s annoying or cumbersome. I very well may just skip it, or leave as a contributor.

I would have been interested in the premise; why they think advocating and exclusively FOSS is the only correct view and thing to do. The lack of a strong basis also made all that followed more irritating.

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The webpage has additional filtering options etc.

JS query code 🧙‍♂️

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I changed it.

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I’ve skipped signing up via email to be able to read articles because that, apparently, that also includes signing up for a newsletter.

Yes, I do. What info are you looking for? You didn’t even say.

I know the Mumble and SoftEther VPN projects use them for hosting their website/project hosting.

Do you think they see it the same way? “life down the drain”?

They still worked, got experience, got paid, worked on something, maybe even well and satisfactory even if overall direction and combination isn’t.

I don’t think calling it “life down the drain” is fair or good. As if that were all that mattered in their lives.

I wouldn’t call pasting verbatim training data hallucination when it fits the prompt. It’s not necessarily making stuff up.

I feel like you’re unfittingly mixing tool target behavior with technical limitations. Yes, it’s not knowingly reasoning. But that doesn’t change that the user interface is a prompt-style, with the goal of answering.

I think it’s fitting terminology for encompassing multiple issues of false answers.

How would you call it? Only by their specific issues? Or would you use a general term, like “error” or “wrong”?

Makes you wonder how they identified them. If they know what he wrote and he was using a VPN, it’s r either state prosecution receiving information from VPN provider and/or discord, them sharing personal info, or backdoors being used.

Does discord respond to Chinese inquiries? The Twitter example with mobile phone numbers makes me think that may be the most likely identification.

Too bad the article lacks these details.

she updates her github repos

I was so confused by the link not going to GitHub. (and the Lemmy instance looks very different from mine)

As a society, we’re responsible for all our children. The point of child protection laws, and population protection in general, is to support and protect them, because often times, parents are incapable of doing so, or it’s social dynamics that most parents can’t really understand, follow, or teach in.

Yes, parents should teach and protect their children. But we should also create an environment where that is possible, and where children of less fortunate and of less able parents are not victims of their environment.

I don’t think demanding and requiring big social platforms to moderate and regulate at least to the degree where children are not regularly exposed to life-threatening trends is a bad idea.

That stuff can still be elsewhere if you want it. But social platforms have a social dynamic, more so than an informative one.

Typically, for any game that has a campaign, I would consider completing that completing the game.

That doesn’t mean you can’t continue to have fun in endless modes or multiplayer. That’s a different orientation.

For multiplayer games, there’s no completion really. Play the tutorial? All maps once? Win once? Ranks? Endless leveling progress? All achievements? None of those really fit. There is no completion to a game without designed, completable progress. If there’s a max level, one could consider that a kind of completion. All achievements may subjectively fit too.

Microsoft maintains a modern fork of Mono runtime in the dotnet/runtime repo and has been progressively moving workloads to that fork. That work is now complete, and we recommend that active Mono users and maintainers of Mono-based app frameworks migrate to .NET which includes work from this fork.

What’s left for the mono project then? What’s Wine’s interest in it?

it’s not hard to find them when they’re selling fake reviews as a service

The article teaser beginning should make that clear as well

Amazon sued more than 10,000 Facebook group administrators in July 2022

The last mouse I bought is a Razer. The bottom is an awful dust collector. Never again.

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For anyone else wanting to look it up

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Lai_massacre
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Medina

I played Alba last saturday. Very good! Very cute and charming.

labeled “BREAKING,” that was posted in late January, three weeks after an earthquake had struck.

Labeled broken because it’s a broken notification [system] /s