Olives @olives@qoto.org

Bluesky doesn't appear to thread well when the subsequent post is made a while after the first such that there are other posts in between.

I haven't had the time to look into this that deeply but these are my immediate thoughts on the matter.

I haven't had the time to look into this that deeply but these are my immediate thoughts on the matter.

I haven't had the time to look into this that deeply but these are my immediate thoughts on the matter.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/14/eu-ai-act-draft-guidance-for-general-purpose-ais-shows-first-steps-for-big-ai-to-comply/
1) What if there are computers ten, twenty, thirty years in the future with far more processing power than those now?

2) I haven't looked into this deeply but "risks" sounds awfully vague. It seems likely to drive censorship.

3) Some of these "risks" are hypothetical and appear to be inspired by Hollywood disaster films.

4) "having a tendency to deceive"

If you have an issue with hallucinations (or inappropriate uses like customer support), can you just say that straight-up instead of beating around the bush like this?

Also, once again, this leans into a fantastical framing of the "AI" being an intelligent agent, that plots against people, rather than being an over-hyped tool.

"woke" originally meant being socially conscious or something but that was back in 2015 and I think that meaning was forgotten.

I see a concern about how "mitigating AI risks" could lead to censorship. I haven't had enough time to look into these.

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2024/11/13/remaining-paypal-subscriptions-are-being-canceled Mullvad transitioning from using recurring payments for #privacy reasons.

More things for me to read.

For something like analytics, maybe there could be a DNTA header which clients / browsers could use.

I don't understand why sites don't just use the DNT header (which has been around for ages) or something to say "okay, this user doesn't want these extra cookies".

I'm sure that was Amnesty's mistake with the cookie prompt, but basically if you hit the option to customize what cookies are set, it won't let you read the page, it just won't work.

Honestly, a prompt on every site is probably not a good way of conveying consent.

If only E.U. sites were designed so that they could be archived.

I commented on the issue before but then I figured I didn't know enough about the issue and deleted them. Turns out I was right to do so.

When that server is fixed, maybe those weird problems will also be fixed.

Groups server seems to be down.

https://nichegamer.com/gog-preservation-program-announced-with-over-100-titles/ GOG has a program for preserving classic games.

https://nichegamer.com/tokyo-clanpool-rejected-by-steam-as-too-sexy/ When did #Steam become strangely puritanical? 2018? Game rejected for being "too sexy". #FreeSpeech #anime

https://nichegamer.com/aloft-launches-in-january/ Gliding from flying island to flying island sounds like a cool idea.