@KimPerales It's bizarre that they describe Altman as one of their 'most successful alumni' since just about everything he did before OpenAI failed on its merits. But he was able to leverage them to get progressively more-lucrative gigs, whether or not the companies actually did well, so I guess that makes him "successful" - as a grifter.
"Given that Microsoft has not been able to prevent massive hacks of its servers, this product — which will record everything you do on a Windows PC — qualifies as criminally insane."
-R McNamee
"Satya Nadella says Windows PCs will have a photographic memory feature called Recall that will remember and understand everything you do on your computer by taking constant screenshots."
-Tsarathusta
I guess making money somewhat honestly by having customers that actually pay for a service with at least some guarantees of privacy and safety is not as lucrative as having an open platform network where people are tricked into giving out all their data while they are spied upon for whatever reasons.
@triskelion Forgejo is preparing for that as we speak. You already can use a mastodon instance as oauth provider, according to the docs (Haven’t tried it yet)
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Our industry has never really questioned the notion that one-to-one marketing is a worthy goal. Rather than learn the lessons of the consumer rebellion that led to GDPR, CCPA, and countless other regulations, we are embarking on a new style of consumer spying based on a new set of private signals. Today we are leveraging those signals to bully people into buying stuff they don’t need as well as instill in them irrational fears in order to prompt them to support anti-democracy candidates.
Why are we repeating the same mistakes? And make no mistake about it, the “alternatives” to third-party cookies function in the same way; they log a consumer’s private behavior and use it to follow them around the internet. Today we stand on the dawn of cookie-free advertising, tasked with reimagining the world. Instead, we are dangerously close to a colossal failure of imagination. Our focus is on identity resolution graphs and hashed emails — the exact kind of tracking we had with third-party cookies. Call it surveillance capitalism 2.0."
@jsrailton Hopefully the start of that will be all the YouTube channels refusing sponsorship. Remember the kerfuffle with Established Titles? Since then I’ve not seen a single sponsor from them, and hopefully something similar will happen with Better Help.
It might not put them under but hopefully it will put a dent in their bottom line and make them think twice before doing something like this again.
Fmr US AMB to IS, Jeff Gunter, will spend $1M of his own money on initiatives: 'Build the Wall', 'DEPORT THEM ALL', develop a website & reporting mechanism for everyday citizens to report suspicious activity... to compete in NV's R Sen primary. His goal: win the primary & unseat the Dem Senator.