Center right? You’re giving them too much credit
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While AI offers transformative potential, significant criticisms highlight its drawbacks. Current systems often perpetuate biases embedded in training data, leading to discriminatory outcomes in hiring, law enforcement, and lending. The environmental cost of training large models—like massive energy consumption and carbon emissions—raises sustainability concerns. Automation driven by AI threatens job displacement, exacerbating economic inequality, while opaque “black-box” algorithms undermine accountability in critical domains like healthcare or criminal justice. Privacy erosion, through pervasive surveillance and data exploitation, further fuels distrust. Though AI’s capabilities are impressive, its unchecked deployment risks deepening societal inequities and prioritizing efficiency over ethical considerations.
Nowadays with Apple, the bigger issue is the ARM Linux ecosystem being neglected in terms of support rather than the hardware compatibility (that is for M1/M2). The hardware for the most part works except for USB-HDMI and fingerprint (which didn’t work on my HP laptop either).
sudoer777@lemmy.mlto Privacy@lemmy.ml•Personal data security - How far is too far?English5·2 months agoThe most important part is balancing your own safety with limited time and resources. Perfection is not achievable, getting as close as you can is not practical in most cases, and prioritizing safety a lot of times limits what you’re able to do. So you need to do a cost/benefit analysis on these sort of solutions and decide whether they’re worth doing, which is very contextual (and in the end, you’re going to need to trust something somewhere unless you reinvent everything on your own).
For instance, in the US if you’re a middle class cishet white male citizen who ignores politics, you’re biggest problem is probably ads, companies knowing your financial info, and tools being more locked down, so the reasonable response would be to use an ad blocker and switch to open source/self-hosted software when it’s convenient, but not to the point where you have to program all sorts of things yourself unless you really enjoy that. If you’re working class, time and finances is more limited so the extent to which self-hosting, paid services, and CLI tooling becomes impractical might be sooner. If you’re a minority, there’s not really much that can be done that doesn’t severely affect quality of life (like living in the middle of the woods with no technology if you know you’re being hunted by the government, which sounds fucking terrible but probably better than being sent to a concentration camp in a remote country). If you’re an activist or an immigrant or doing something illegal, compartmentalizing data that would probably get you in trouble onto devices (that you can afford) with a strong security setup that doesn’t touch anything else you own and doesn’t cross borders while verifying that the people you communicate with are also on a similar setup and doing other “paranoid” security/privacy measures (while being careful not to draw suspicions) is probably a good idea. If you’re trying to be private for the sake of advocating for privacy, then do what you want to do.
sudoer777@lemmy.mlto Linux@lemmy.ml•Asahi Lina quits Linux graphics developmentEnglish16·2 months agoThere’s also Kiwi Farms targeted harassment involved as well
sudoer777@lemmy.mlto Privacy@lemmy.ml•Saudi Arabian government company is buying Pokémon go and 100 million players real time location dataEnglish7·2 months agoStreet Complete lets you walk around and answer questions that go to OSM
lemmy.ml federates with almost all instances most of which aren’t leftist, the admins are leftist as is a lot of the local userbase, but the moderation varies between communities and this one tends to be one of the more permissive ones. If you want one that’s more exclusively leftist you’re probably looking for Hexbear or Lemmygrad.
Lemmy, Reddit, Instagram, local communities on Signal and Discord
sudoer777@lemmy.mlto Privacy@lemmy.ml•YouTube doesn't let me watch without turning off my VPN?2·3 months agoAlternatively they could decompile it
Helix because it’s simple and works without tweaking it.
Right now I use mainly Firefox, not because I like it but because it comes with my distro (whereas LibreWolf requires Flatpak) making it work well with the PWA project and it supports weird hacks necessary to install Widevine on my system so I can listen to Tidal. I also have LibreWolf installed with data set to delete on close and set up to proxy over Tor and I2P using privoxy and has LibRedirect installed which is set up to redirect to the corresponding onion/i2p domains. I was trying to install Zen Browser using the Guix package manager earlier but had problems, but I might try again later.
On Android, I use Vanadium for sites I stay logged into, Cromite with auto clearing history for other stuff, and Ironfox for Kagi and to use plugins like LibRedirect.
That’s Instagram in its normal state, right now my Instagram feed basically turned into LiveLeak
sudoer777@lemmy.mlto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's the longest internet argument you have had?52·3 months agoPeople should stop making these sort of posts
sudoer777@lemmy.mlto Linux@lemmy.ml•A few beginner questions about the differences between distros.1·3 months agoalso on debian or ubuntu based distros you have the biggest selection of programs available.
AUR and nixpkgs have a massive amount of packages and are more up-to-date, and basically anything not on there can be installed with Flatpak
sudoer777@lemmy.mlto Linux@lemmy.ml•karolherbst 🐧 🦀 (@karolherbst@chaos.social) "MAINTAINERS: Remove myself"2·3 months agoWould also be interesting to see a Rust version of Genode
sudoer777@lemmy.mlto Linux@lemmy.ml•karolherbst 🐧 🦀 (@karolherbst@chaos.social) "MAINTAINERS: Remove myself"1·3 months agodeleted by creator
The CEO has shitty stances on certain things but everything is basically a frontend to Google/Bing/Brave which are all also shitty so the entire search engine market is fucked from an ethical perspective
Kagi isn’t privacy focused but it doesn’t use your data for ads either. The main benefit is good search quality and more control over the search results.
I use the FairEmail client
I used to never close tabs and they would accumulate as I kept doing more web searches and other activities. Now when I need to do stuff I usually open a new window instead for different tasks and if I need to free up RAM then I start closing other windows for tasks I’m not doing anymore so it closes all of the related tabs at the same time