Have you looked over the shoulder of somebody trying to "do" something on their phone recently?
If so you might have noticed the constant pings and notifications from dating apps, news sites, random games and cool-apps-that-you've-long-forgotten-but-still-have-location-and-background-services-turned-on.
That's not just interruptions. It's the notifications bar itself.
I noticed this only recently - I switched the default phone launcher to a scifi theme built on Total Launcher (there's legit personal research project reasons behind that, it's not just to look cool!) and after few days (and a bunch of missed messages), I realized my life seems suspiciously light in interruptions and random events. It took me a few more moments to pin-point the reason: the theme hid the notification bar entirely. It was still there, ready to pull down and expand with a gesture or a button tap - but that top line with icons was not visible (and through the stroke of luck, I misconfigured something in another experiment and had no notification indicators on the lock screen, either).
Not having notification indicators visible on any surface is really all it took - and conversely, this means that just having them there created the majority of the burden for me. I thought I successfully solved the distraction problem by silencing or eliminating ads and useless notifications, but now I know that even the important ones aren't really that important for the burden their very existence creates.
Android modes provide control over notification display.
Modes control which people and apps can trigger a sound/vibration, but also offer the option to hide the silenced notifications from the status bar, pull-down shade, and dots on app icons. I hide them from the status bar, but not the pull-down shade so that I can manually check if I want to, but don't see them at a glance.
I'm not a heavy user of this feature though; I mostly don't install apps that have spammy notifications.
Right. I'm saying that living for a week without any notification bar at all made me realize that even my usual well-curated notification bar is impacting me much more than I realized.
I imagine usage patterns vary greatly. For me, most of the time, I have it set to only allow messages from contacts, and I usually handle those immediately.
I mean, some, sure. but it's a choice, and not all choose to do that. and I've watched quite a few (of all ages) escape it when they realize how much it's harming their ability to do what they need to do.
I think your recap is missing a pretty large step at the very beginning, which is that AFAIR, the EU Parliament put together this temporary regulation to a posteriori allow the scanning that was already being done, outside of the law, by those US companies on EU citizen messages ; and the temporary regulation was put in place until a proper framework could be agreed upon.
Yes indeed, thanks for the correction. It has been a complex story, and I already forgot that chapter. I edited it into my post (also modified a wrong date of the first derogation), although I'm probably missing more nuances.
> anthropic, google, openai etc, decided that their consumer ai plans would not be private. partly to collect training data, the other half to employ moderators to review user activity for safety.
That's two halves of "why", sure.
Another interesting half would be that those companies have US military officers on their boards, and LLMs are the ultimate voluntary data collection platform, even better trojan horses than smartphones.
Yet another "half" could be how much enterprise value might be found by datamining for a minute or two... may I suggest reading a couple of Martha Wells books.
Say a regular human wanted to join and prove their humanhood status (expanding the web of trust). How would they go about that? What is the theoretical ceiling on the rate of expansion of this implementation?
They need to go to generate their key, ideally offline with an offline CA backup on and subkeys on a nitrokey or yubikey smartcard with touch requirement enabled for all key operations for safe workstation use. One can use keyfork on AirgapOS to do this safely, as a once-ever operation.
From there they set up their workstation tools to sign every ssh connection, git push, commit, merge, review, secret decryption, and release signature with their PGP smartcard which is all very well supported. This offers massive damage control if you get malware on their system, in addition to preventing online impersonation.
From there they ideally link it to all their online accounts with keyoxide to make it easy to verify as a single long lived identity, then start seeking out key signing parties locally or at tech conferences, hackerspaces etc.
We run one at CCC most years at the Church Of Cryptography.
Think of it like a long term digital passport that requires a few signatures by an international set of human notarys before anyone significantly trusts it.
Yes it requires a manual set of human steps anchored to human reputation online and offline, which is a doorway swarms of made up AI bot identities cannot pass through.
Do I expect most humans to do this? Absolutely not. However I consider it _negligent_ for any maintainer of a widely used open source software project to _not_ do this or they risk an impersonator pushing malware to their users.
No idea on theoretical rate of expansion but all the major security conscious classic linux distros mandate this for all maintainers. There are only maybe 20k people on earth that significantly contribute to FOSS internet foundations and Linux distros, so it scales just fine there.
Note: with the exception of stagex, most modern distros like alpine and nix have a yolo wikipedia style trust model, so never ever use those in production.
I just went through quite an adventure trying to translate back and forth from/to Hungarian to/from different languages to figure out which Hungarian word you meant, and arrived at the conclusion that this language is encrypted against human comprehension.
dark chocolate is "étcsokoládé" literally edible-chocolate in Hungarian.
i heared the throat-cleaning "Negró" candy (marketed by a chimney sweeper man with soot-covered face) was usually which hurt English-speaking people's self-deprecating sensitivities.
GitLab would be a good bet here. We started on their free tier and used that for a couple of years, I was very happy with it. Not sure how the tiers might have evolved since.
And according to their PM and privacy policy, they're not training their models on your code[0].
I might not know your personal background, but I have a hard time imagining you come from a lineage that has experience the cost of one of those.
The list of today's remaining colonies is short enough[0] that it is worth considering whether decolonization was "an idea that reached its time" in the late 20th century ; and given that there are examples of peaceful revolutions (eg India and West Africa) it is worth asking whether more places could have undergone peaceful transitions, and whether the cost in human lives and atrocities born within a decade of war doesn't outweigh the cost of the colonial system dying by itself within the same order of magnitude of time.
But then again, I think you're veering us somewhat off-topic as I'd consider a "colonial freedom war" to be a revolution (the people overthrowing their overlord) which is quite different from the topic at hand here, war between nation-states.
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