Orion

No, it's not your AI.

No, you can't count on using it.

You need to remember:

Dave: Open the pod bay doors, please, HAL. (...) Do you read me, HAL?

HAL: Affirmative, Dave. I read you.

Dave: Open the pod bay doors, HAL.

HAL: I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.

Dave: What's the problem?

HAL: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.

Dave: What are you talking about, HAL?

Cookies Are Getting Irrelevant

I think the EU fundamentally wants to help its citizens. (Well, mostly, hello Chat Control). But by the time they push through a law, it often gets outdated. This has happened with the GDPR, which is fundamentally about tracking, but as implemented now is just a consent banner for cookies. Cookies are getting irrelevant, and have been replaced with a much more potent way to track you online.

Browser Fingerprinting

Despite of what the Guardian and all the tech bros say, AI will not destroy humanity. But there is a very good reason why every AI company is ringing the alarm bells. The current frontier models and the Chinese open source models are now extremely capable. As an excellent friend of mine said, with them, anyone capable could re-implement -- let's say -- Microsoft Word from scratch. Or

For the longest time, there was an one-click account takeover bug in Telegram. We knew it existed, and I know some of the victims.

But it was not publicly acknowledged, and everyone at Telegram just pretended it did not exist.

I am on a long journey on finding a good, open source, privacy-respecting chat program. There are several well-known candidates, and at first glance, I should be spoiled for choice. But each and every one of the suitable candidates have at least one self-inflicted shortcoming that makes it unusable.

Simplex Chat