ChatGPT access to Apple Messages is dangerous and irresponsible

A friends car’s emergency brake triggered at a toll booth because it got too close too the barrier, which is required in order for the barrier to automatically open.

He had this issue everytime he got on the highway, and eventually disabled that feature.

It’s too early to publish a news article about it, then.

They are losing billions… of investor money.

This may include people investing in index funds, now that Musk’s Space/AI company is publicly listed. Maybe a piece of people’s pension fund as well, if NVIDIA’s wish comes true. https://fortune.com/2026/08/13/nvidia-wants-your-pension-fund-in-the-ai-trade/

The layman with money in index or pension fund probably don’t intend to invest in AI, but here we are.

Do users actually want such AI summaries? Is there any good polling on this?

I mostly read about people being annoyed by companies pushing hard for AI, and trying to get rid of those unrequested summaries.

Mostly out of the loop, I use this fork as well. Apps distributed on the F-Droid repo are OSS, built from source, and screened for malware.

If the fork is no longer maintained I expect it to be removed from the repo, that should be announced on the blog with the regular app news.

It might be possible to fool it.

More important, it’s normalizing use of facial recognition in everyday situations. This is a very invasive tech and prime for abuse by increasingly totalitarian governments.

I guess developers working on AWS are increasingly vibe coding.

Or maybe the invoices are accurate, and LLMs continue to increase memory and hosing cost for everyone.

Anything but PoW

Oh no, not the coal and gas-powered currency.

I misread, sorry. Deleting comment.

I’ll avoid the window seat next time I have to fly.

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Why would you need to plug a console to the Internet to play solo games?

Connecting mostly bring enshittification: sending telemetry to 3rd party, ads, updates triggering a random time making it impossible to play when powering the console.

My console is offline 95% of the time, behind a slow connection 5% of the time. No physical media would mean not buying any new game. No new games means there’s no point in buying the latest console to play new games.

[…] PuffPal, a platform that manages membership and age verification for cannabis retailers and clubs across Europe.

Get ready for many more leaks, as governments require identity and age verification everywhere online.

Many organisations, which cannot be trusted with this data, are going to be processing it.

That’d be ideal, and would affect adtech’s ability to track without consent. So that’s a good goal.

Requiring adtech to honor an automated signal would still be progress, hopefully reducing enshittification and making it easier to refuse tracking.

It would be an extra bit or 2 that could be included in fingerprint. IMHO it’s worth it if there’s regulation that makes it easier to go after companies that ignore those signals

Well said.

The one exception where producing images with generative AIs could be acceptable is to study their impact on society and the environment.

Even in such case, care should be taken to minimize the amount of images generated to the strict minimum, to give as little money as possible to toxic corporations and to minimise pollution. Favor studying images previously generated and already available online if that’s sufficient for the study’s purpose.

Good point. The first repo, anon-vpn, has single commit made 3 weeks ago.

Security sensitive software require time, review or audit. Let’s give this time. It may take from a few months to 2 years until there’s enough scrutiny to either confirm it’s safe, or reveal problems.

Until them, keep using well-known open-source software.

Given recent events in USA politics, I’d suggest not judging a (potential) candidate only based on his performance on an entertainment show, which is mostly scripted, with a writer team and a prompter to read from.

Colbert would certainly do better than Trump, but it would be good to set the bar higher, see how the candidates act under pressure which a challenging debate or interviewer. It’s more telling than a friendly and scripted TV format, where the question are easy and obvious.