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It think the common analogy is a padlock and a key. One party gets the padlock and the other one the key. Now with the padlock you can just lock the box but not open it. And with the key you can just unlock and open the box. That's assymetric. You hand out padlocks (your public key) to everyone, but keep the key (your private key).

The maths behind that is a bit difficult to explain but not that difficult. I think it's about one-way functions that are easy to calculate in one direction and impossible to solve the other way around. There are several ways to do it. Like the old approaches with prime numbers. It's easy to multiply two prime numbers. But given an arbitrary large number, it's difficult to tell which prime numbers it consists of.

https://www.baeldung.com/cs/prime-numbers-cryptography

Stay at a friend's house where people don't wear shoes inside and watch them.

Sure. But I'd drop the premises for that discussion. A post-privacy world is probably where convenience trumps everything. Everything is commercialized even more. Access to the internet isn't free any more, options like selfhosting or uploading things are heavily restricted and each and every service requires you to show your ID card into the webcam and give them your phone number. All private is being sold and AI shows you ADs and propaganda like in the old scifi movies.

I mean we're already half-way there. And I think it's especially bad that all the people use closed services that require me to dox myself and give them my phone number if I want to participate. It's just that we still have alternatives. It now needs politics to cut down access to the internet so only the big companies can host platforms and then force them to stop piracy. And cut the free flow of information and connections to other countries with other legislation. Reasons could be to protect intellectual property, stop crime (also like in the old dystopian movies) or "would somebody please think of the children"... These attempts to take away freedom happen regularly in politics. I think a post-privacy world would simultaneously be one without freedom. Either a scifi dystopia, a Cory Doctorow novel or like in the countries where they currently filter the internet successfully, which aren't democratic countries.

I think I'm far more concerned with the loss of any privacy or freedom in such scenarios. Not being able to pirate things would be a minor inconvenience in such hypothetical worlds.

I strongly doubt that it'll happen out of the reasons OP gave. They're all technical in nature. And in the past we were always able to circumvent the technical ones. Countermeasures have also improved. I don't see a reason why it's different now. But I think society could change and affect this. And there are anti-democratic things happening currently...

1. It's open source and grants me the opportunity to participate.
2. It's distributed (federated) and not just one company making the choices for me and all of us.
3. No ADs, gamification and nagging me to buy in-game currency.

Yeah, and it has an usable app.

I think the most important aspect to me is 1) the freedom it provides me with. I don't like all my communication being in the hand of big tech companies.

I hate people doing that here. It's always unreadable since people took the screenshot on a PC and the text is tiny and I need to scroll sideways every 8 words... Or I'm at the PC and the screenshot is just 3 sentences without a link to read the rest.

I'd say let them train their AI on my comments. I just want a share of the finished product in exchange.

I think 1) and 2) have already been that way for at least 15 years. Software copy protection used to be very simplistic and is getting improved constantly. Also when I grew up games didn't yet talk to servers and they do it for quite some time already. Every new physical video format gets a new copy protection mechanism... DVD, BluRay,... now streaming services with DRM... Illegal sites get shut down all the time.

The piracy scene also adapts, changes their methology. I'm pretty sure it'll continue that way. I asked the same question 10 years ago and yet here we are.

The adult content is getting worse though. But i think mainly for the big and well known commercial streaming sites. Maybe there are still torrents of that around and pirating adult content will get similar to pirating a tv series.

Agree. Not sure if I'd use the word "tool" to describe him... But he's certainly "special". Glad I found one of the few discussions where it's not just his fans praising him for his " visions" despite him not delivering on the last 50 promises he made. Or the latest edgy memelord thing he read somewhere or came up with... Usually I just shut my mouth and don't comment on that because it's just so many people following the hype.

No? I left out the detailed info here as I thought it's of no concern. I provided it with pretty much the same info I'd write to the Linux Kernel Mailing List. With computer bugs that's usually steps to reproduce the issue, exact versions of everything, exact error messages and my findings from googling and looking at the code...

That was one of the issues I had that only gave me one or two search results and it's unlikely that someone comes up with a solution since the hardware is outdated and not many people have that specific board lying around and also the expertise to understand the low level hardware coding involved.

I mean it kind of fits the rest of the picture I have from using ChatGPT and similar stuff. It can do easy stuff. And write boilerplate code pretty alright. With the Arduino code I'm tinkering around as a hobby... not so much. I once asked it to do the inverse kinematics for a small robotics project. And the AI can tell me about what I just read on the Wikipedia article about that topic. But that's it. Not an idea how to apply that info. And that the complicated part is to come up with the specific Jacobian matrix. And not just tell me that using one is one of the few approaches to that problem. That's obvious from reading the Wikipedia article or reading any textbook. And it did silly things like write code like equation.solve(parameter1, parameter2, parameter3) ... Sure. I mean if I already had a framework that did that and was available on an embedded platform, I wouldn't have had that problem in the first place...

So my attempts at using AI for the issues I have with computers regularly fail. I can see how that's not the experience everyone has, but still... It doesn't really help me with specific problems or rare issues.

And I still have a few I can try to question some AI about... An slow Wireguard VPN tunnel inside if another tunnel that I already fixed the MTU and it's still unbearably slow... A few obscure webframeworks that don't tie into things... But I'm pretty sure I'll get the same results.

Have you ever been lucky with AI and issues that didn't get you any search results because no one ever did it before? I mean I'd be happy to learn how to use AI properly as a tool. It's just I've tried and I don't think I'm too stupid to prompt it. It's just that I've given up since it doesn't seem nowhere near intelligent enough to tackle the real issues I have. I'm not opposed to AI. I use it and it helps me get small stuff done easier/faster.

I've tried. And usually the questions I ask are too specific. I mean I can answer the basic questions myself and often I get several result when it's just that. The AI just mumbles general advice and is always wrong if it's too specific. Like for example: Why does the graphics driver crap out on any OpenGL ES instruction on the old single board computer I have lying around, despite the SoC being supported?

Alright. Thanks. Seems I know the concepts, just not the names. I don't think I'm into these booths 😅

Maybe I'd consider these theatres where some swinger people meet. If I someday feel the urge to do so.

I think we have an appropriate amount of adult shops in the city where I live. They're quite different in selection and atmosphere. Some look a bit more filthy(?) and are still filled with DVDs. Some are modern, clean and well lit. Last one I visited has a fetish shop on the upper floor with more equipment and expensive clothing, not just the stockings and 25€ sexy maid outfits with cutouts for the ass cheeks...

Can somebody explain to me the terms "adult book store" and "adult arcade"?

What we have here are sex shops that sell mostly toys, sex shops that focus on dvds and magazines, is it that?

And what's the arcade? Is it what we call "Pornokino" im Germany? A dark room with 6 booths with a TV set a chair and a tissue box? Or do you have sexy arcade cabinets and orgies there?

(Edit: Btw: For NSFW questions there is !asklemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com which also is a nice community to ask such things.)

I don't get it. Where does he say "algorithm"? Does Google Gemini do PAC learning?

AFAIK "AI" means "machine learning" and machines with "intelligent" behaviour, whatever that means. It includes everything from expert systems, statistics, markov chains to LLMs. And people nowadays slap it on every product out there.

"Algorithm" means a (finite) sequence of (rigorous) instructions. At least that's what Wikipedia says. It's well defined and doesn't talk about where the instructions come from or if it includes statistics.

And one of them is Java?

Uh. That's a complicated question. I mean if I were to pirate something instead of buying it... It'd be obviously good for me and bad for the creator. But that question really is a can of worms. I don't think there is a single, simple yes/no answer to that. Personally I'm leaning more to the "Robin Hood" approach. I'd have less issues taking and copying a multi million dollar hollywood production than doing the same to a small and independent creator. But in practice I might have done both. Copied the textbook my electric engineering professor wrote and downloaded the Lord of the Rings TV series... But I myself also make sure to regularly pay for stuff if I can.

Meh. I'd like to see that open source and available to everyone at some point. Sure it's SOTA tech and impressive and all. But on the other hand it's just the 5th company implementing the same AI editing tool.

I see no difference. Takes time and effort to write the standard book on electronics and also takes time and effort to produce the new scifi tv series. Both are (different) jobs but I don't think there is a difference if I pirate one or the other.

You can skip subs, flairs and the gamification aspect (trophys, medals, gold, ...)

Most people need to learn about communities and instances. Rest should be similar. OP, comment, post, DMs, ...

Etiquette varies. Some people here like people who are nice to each other. Of course this doesn't always work.

I also pay attention to upvote people who reply to me. And I keep shitposting to the dedicated communities.

The dynamics and technical details can be different in detail. Some things don't work as smooth (yet). And we're only a few people here compared to the big commercial platforms.

Mousse au chocolate.

Yeah, you said that. You didn't read my comment. The question is why and what do you hope to get out of it. You definitely came to the wrong place. Lemmy is the one Reddit alternative that's not about "free-speech". 4chan.org for example is pretty open to everything. It's not Lemmy though. Most "free-speech" services fail because they're immediately filled with idiots. There is lots of precedence for that. And most idiots just say they want "free-speech" but don't really want it. The right-wing nuts delete leftist posts and the communists hate the conservatives and delete their posts. The trolls are happy everywhere but need some audience and not just 5 people on an instance. You don't tell which one you are, so we can't recommend anything to you.

I'd say try 4chan. The answer without further details would probably be exploding-heads or another reddit alternative like ruqqus... But they all died as I explained.

But I mean that's a good thing. Every culture gets replaced by a new culture at some point. We had the roman culture, the greek culture, ancient egypt, the inkas, babylonians.... They all went away. Currently we have our current culture. I'm glad it replaced the middle ages at some point. And I'm sure we're also not the pinnacle of cultures... Something else will follow, if humankind continues to exist.