@mttaggart

My only complaint is that it's Forbes and I'm pretty sure I know them mostly for having a bunch of con men on their magazines front covers.

@GrapheneOS

What do you feel is the culture or climate for Google when it comes to allowing others to utilize Android?

Do you feel they are conflicted? It sounds like they are still working with you which is good, but that they are equal parts working against you. That's vague, but hopefully makes sense.

Do you think the culture is supportive of your work? That they are resisting the capture of Android as a purely extractive operating system?

@GossiTheDog

While unfortunate that we will likely not gain a large body of people, I would say that there is also value in a small well educated base who are connected.

Protecting ourselves from bad sources of information is only going to become more important. Smaller group of people, less value in targeting us for misinformation.

I took a long break, but I'm back. Mostly because I swapped phones and had to reinstall and log back in and just didn't for a while 😂

@agturcz @alice

They can't do anything about that. That's your credit card company protecting you from bad practices like what they are doing.

However, your credit card company doesn't protect you from the 30% interest they (the credit card company) charges you.

@jerry

I was kind of worried you were going to say that it went to shit.

Good to hear it got better.

@jerry

It 'feels' like we created systems that are easily made insecure on accident.

If you leave a lot of bombs laying around that are hair triggered, at some point it's the system architecture that's the problem and not the users.

I mostly avoid certain domains because of this. I don't host services online because I don't know enough about them to keep them secure, though one day I will tackle that, and I have in the past, but I have just found it easier to avoid it for now.

@whitequark

My experience with network stuff and why I'm kind of avoiding it....

@timnitGebru

The answer is LLM's, image generators, and video generators.

That's what most people mean when they say AI. Most other things are business people trying to get more investment dollars by saying their thing is AI.

If you are more technical, you have better terms for the specific tools one is using as you have noted.

@ChrisMayLA6

Interesting...

It's like... Of course this would happen, it makes sense why such a large body of videos would be hard to police. But also it's very frustrating and will have bad outcomes.

But I was mad enough to remove YouTube from my phone for automatically starting a short when I open it.

(Note, I'm still definitely using YouTube on my PC. I'm just mad at the bone headed decisions for phone.)