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working with computers (and humans)
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@steppenhahn
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just an ordinary bloke with too little time at hand.
working with computers (and humans)
be excellent to each other!
working with computers (and humans)
be excellent to each other!
nixCraft 🐧Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/
> No consent dialog. No opt-out UI. Re-installs itself if the user removes it manually.
That is the true definition of malware.
Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. — That Privacy Guy!
Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise tooling, and an automatic re-download every time the user deletes it. The pattern is identical to the Anthropic Claude Desktop case I wrote about last month, but the scale is between two and three orders of magnitude larger. This article does the legal analysis and, for the first time, the environmental analysis. The numbers are not small.
Al Zheimer
Michael StancliftI just blew on a Nintendo Switch game card that wasn’t loading, as a joke, to see if it helped.
And it did.
TutaGmail welcoming the Gemini era?
That's it. Guide to disable Gemini everywhere: https://tuta.com/blog/how-to-disable-gemini-on-android
that feeling of relieve, when you find and fix the cause of a problem, followed by anger at what caused it in the first place.
that feeling in the morning, when you step outside into the freezing cold and then feel warm sunrays on your face.
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@elhackernet/115768551627260664
ai generated, but the great kind 🙂
Dave Smeg