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The British Empire

“A terrorist with cancer was killed today after threatening the profits of an innocent health insurance company.”

Let’s see how they like being colonized for once

That’s sometimes hard to do on social media where everything wants to autoplay videos.

It’ll become less impactful over time if you can avoid the topic and don’t mentally dwell on it.

I think most readers didn’t make it past the first sentence before the outrage got them.

This poster is a symptom of the bubble. Another bottom feeder looking to jump into the oceans of cash being thrown around to capture a market that doesn’t yet exist.

No responsible decision-maker would replace employees with AI (it is, at best, a niche tool useful for some professionals, not a replacement). We’re already seeing business failures resulting from this kind of bad decision making.

It’s like the 2008 mortgage-backed securities crisis. Short-term thinking results in long term consequences.

In the future, this poster will be looked at like a Lehman Brothers brochure on their new mortgage investment offerings. It’s not a sign of how the world will be in the future, its evidence that even rich people can be idiots at scale.

You can’t believe that LLMs are unintelligent and produce inferior quality work while using an extraordinary amount of resources and also that they’re destined to take everyone’s jobs. Pick a lane.

This is just a ragebait advertisement of a company that will be bankrupt when the AI bubble collapses. They’re selling snake oil and empty promises.

Any company that buys into their BS will face a similar fate because companies who’re hiring humans will continue to out perform them in every important long-term metric.

“There is, simply, no way, to ignore privacy. Because a citizenry’s freedoms are interdependent, to surrender your own privacy is really to surrender everyone’s.

You might choose to give it up out of convenience, or under the popular pretext that privacy is only required by those who have something to hide. But saying that you don’t need or want privacy because you have nothing to hide is to assume that no one should have, or could have to hide anything – including their immigration status, unemployment history, financial history, and health records.

You’re assuming that no one, including yourself, might object to revealing to anyone information about their religious beliefs, political affiliations and sexual activities, as casually as some choose to reveal their movie and music tastes and reading preferences.

Ultimately, saying that you don’t care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different from saying you don’t care about freedom of speech because you have nothing to say. Or that you don’t care about freedom of the press because you don’t like to read. Or that you don’t care about freedom of religion because you don’t believe in God. Or that you don’t care about the freedom to peaceably assemble because you’re a lazy, antisocial agoraphobe.

Just because this or that freedom might not have meaning to you today doesn’t mean that that it doesn’t or won’t have meaning tomorrow, to you, or to your neighbor – or to the crowds of principled dissidents I was following on my phone who were protesting halfway across the planet, hoping to gain just a fraction of the freedom that my country was busily dismantling.”

– Edward Snowden

I’m not able to comment on the software itself, I’ll leave that to someone with more development experience.

It would be awesome if somebody with experience could take a look at the cryptographic processes and provide feedback

As far as Security, someone with experience would recommend not using software made by someone without experience. There are existing, simple to use tools, which are regularly audited by teams of professionals and their efficacy is attested to by the valuable secrets that they protect.

If you need to encrypt files with a symmetric key, you can use gpg.

gpg -c --cipher-algo AES256 file.txt

Then share the password with your friends.

To decrypt:

gpg --decrypt file.txt.gpg > file-decrypted.txt

This has the additional advantage of being a standard part of almost every Linux install so its presence is less suspicious than a custom encryption package.

No way, an Israeli company founded by Israeli spies is spying on people who speak out against Israeli crimes.

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An alternative is throwing shade on social media by trying to prompt inject them.

You don’t have to share anything that you don’t want to, what you’ve described is enough.

On the Internet, a lot of content is selected for its ability to provoke that kind of mental distress. Algorithms that optimize for ‘engagement’ and content is selected by that algorithm is typically things that produce strong emotional responses like fear and disgust.

If you end up consuming a lot of that content your perceptions, behaviors, and reactions change so that you’re extra sensitive to the messages that you’re exposed to. This manifests in things like being more aware of specific phrasing, words, concepts or imagery in your thoughts. This can be uncomfortable. Being upset and angry all the time is not pleasant.

A ways to mitigate this include to avoiding using any online source/phone app that selects which content that you see for you. Things like Facebook, YouTube, TikTok, Reddit, Lemmy, etc. The types of content that surface on these places are the kind that appeals to our worst impulses and instincts. Especially on charged topics where there is a lot more content to select from.

Stick to searching for things that you want to see and not going to places that allow you to passively consume content which is selected for you.

More specifically.

Age verification is a topic that is heavily charged at the moment. A lot of content is being created on the topic and so the ‘best’ content out of this pile is the content that “pushes your buttons” the best. As a result, when you’re consuming a lot of ‘high engagement’ content on emotionally charged topics, you’re exposing yourself to highly refined psychological triggers.

That isn’t to say that these topics are not important, age verification has serious implications that should be discussed. The issues that it is trying to address are also serious and need to be addressed.

The issue is that, in these passive viewing environments, the selection method is biased against you seeing that kind of content. Reasoned debates are not as fun to read than a rant on the topic, after all. The hot takes and angry image macros get all of the upvotes and so the nuanced takes and reasoned arguments are pushed out of your sight. So, you become conditioned towards hot takes and angry images and that sucks.

Phone -> Wireguard -> Offshore VPS -> Pi-hole -> over 9,000 proxies -> Mullvad VPN -> Facebook App installed through the Google play store on my Verizon smartphone.

Is this secure? Should I use more Pi-Holes?