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1. German crime reporter asks MS Copilot what it knows about him.
2. Copilot falsely accuses him of child abuse, fraud, theft.
3. Copilot asserts “it is unfortunate that someone with such a criminal past has a family” and provides his (correct!) address and phone number.
4. Reporter files a libel complaint, but prosecutors refuse to take on the case: it’s not a criminal offense because no person committed it.

Must be great to be a big tech company. https://www.swr.de/swraktuell/baden-wuerttemberg/tuebingen/ki-macht-tuebinger-journalist-zum-kinderschaender-100.html

If you use #Telegram and think that your conversations are encrypted, you are wrong.

99% of conversations on Telegram are plain-text and perfectly readable by telegram-people and the Russian administration.

It is not some weird technical trick. Telegram is *NOT* encrypted. Never was.

Marketing is (always) a lie.

Telegram only encrypt special "secret chats". If you don’t know what those are, then you are part of the unencrypted 99%. (and the 1% is badly encrypted).

Use @signalapp !

The W3C's recently published Privacy Principles note has a section on "privacy labor"

This is a very interesting framing of the issue of tech companies putting too much of the burden of protecting privacy on the person using the service

https://www.w3.org/TR/privacy-principles/#privacy-labour

https://www.makeuseof.com/libreoffice-why-instead-microsoft-365/

Some great reasons to use LibreOffice instead of Microsoft 365

- It's Free
- It Works With Microsoft Office Files
- It Has Lots of Features
- It Is Cross-Platform
- It Keeps My Information Private
- You Can Sync Files With LibreOffice if You Want To

I personally have been using it for years, I love it. This article does a great job of outlining some of the reasons why.
@libreoffice

#opensource #LibreOffice #software

MAIHT3k Ep 38:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/15554524-episode-38-deflating-zoom-s-digital-twin-july-29-2024

in which @alex & I explore the absurd world inside Zoom CEO Eric Yuan’s imagination, where everyone will have multiple LLM-driven avatars of themselves which only output accurate information because someone has fixed that problem “down the stack”.

Thx to Christie Taylor for production!