Zacryon @ Zacryon @feddit.org

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I didn't want to share a recommendation. I saw a post about Seagate and wanted to share my opinion about them.

Do you want a recommendation from me?

Idk, why you're repeating yourself. If you have the option to choose between two products and you know from experience that one of them is useless earlier than the other, then it would be a waste of money to buy the inferior product as you would have to replace it sooner and therefore loose more money.

Probably. Although such low level interactions can also contribute. Depending on what someone wants to do or needs.

What's crazy about that?

Haven't heard of, e.g., Cambridge Analytica?

Sure. But in my experience Seagate drives are significantly worse. So why spend money on a shit company producing shit drives, if I can spend it on products of another company where I get more use and lifetime out of the product?

I don't have the time right now to addeess all of this, but:
Device interactions can be used to identify users, predict and manipulate their behaviour, contribute to further identification measures etc..

Furthermore my point was that there are many reasons to be cautious about any type of data collection and processing. Saying a specific type would be ridiculous undermines the possible dangers stemming from this. Therefore I wouldn't plainly discard these concerns.

Even if, in this context, the transmission is not widely noticed, this doesn't pose a universal guarantee, especially if this can be turned on on demand via backdoors, trojans or whatever. Even worse if the transmission can be hidden. (Less likely for very proficient users with extremely tight network monitoring & control, but that's rarely the case.)

Ah yes. Seagate. The trash storage device company. If you want to burn your money, just throw it into a fire before buying this e-waste.

Can not recommend.

Of course not, that's ridiculous.

angry Snowden noises

That's the difference between North Korea and the western world:

In North Korea the government forces spyware onto your device.

In the western world, people share their data voluntarily and publicly.

Instagram, Facebook, Dropbox and Co. made it possible.

As usual with very much wow inventions from China.

Not to say that they don't have clever people there doing cool stuff. It's just my experience that such articles are often overselling something which does not live up to the claims.

Cogito ergo sum.

Accepting a common framework of provable, i.e., measurable, repeatable, falsifiable phenomena, as a concept of "reality," seems to be a pragmatic approach, given my sensory inputs and the processing results of my brain. This is then "knowledge."

But ultimately, this is subordinated to the possibility of an illusion – be it like in The Matrix, or as a Boltzmann brain, or whatever. Unless there is evidence for that, it appears most practical to me to go with the above, as I don't gain anything from racking my brain about such possible illusions of reality (even though it's fun thinking about it).

I'm nitpicky about the word "believe". So let me rephrase: I do not believe. Either I know, or I don't know. Everything else are more or less informed speculations, assumptions or hypotheses at best.

Ask for a community meeting, so you can see that those people are real.

Despite that, I don't see any effective counter measure in the long run.

Currently, sure, with a keen eye you might be able to spot characteristics of one or the other LLM. But that'd be a lucky find.

Yes to all of that except your last paragraph.

What a funny coincidence that I've heard about this discord alternative in a post just a couple before this one in feed.

I suppose you're referring to the article I've linked. As I see it: If an increasing amount of applications world are running with Python, then energy and time consumption are important aspects. Not only cost wise but especially since we're grilling our planet. Therefore, comparing with more efficient languages is indeed meaningful.

Python sucks.

Not only is it extremely inefficient, it is also a pain in the ass to work with if you have to use APIs that heavily rely on dynamic type wrapping and don't provide stubs. Static analysis via Pylance is not possible then and you're basically poking around in the dark, increasing the difficulty enourmously to get to know such an API. Even worse if there isn't even a halfway decent documentation.

They don't seem to have heard of weather reports.

I suppose this will become an arms race, just like with ad-blockers and ad-blocker detection/circumvention measures.
There will be solutions for scraper-blockers/traps. Then those become more sophisticated. Then the scrapers become better again and so on.

I don't really see an end to this madness. Such a huge waste of resources.

Why the hate against TAA?

Not everything in life needs to be financially efficient.