Is there any clarity about what the future with chat control will look like? As in what exactly apps will need to implement.

This part about self evaluation confuses me:

Under the new rules, online service providers will be required to assess how their platforms could be misused and, based on the results, may need to “implement mitigating measures to counter that risk,” the Council notes.

I assume all chat apps would have to take measures, since generic data can be sent through them, including CSAM. Or could this quote be interpreted otherwise? I wonder what exactly is meant by voluntary then.

Does this “mitigating measure” in practice mean sending a hash of each image sent through the messenger to some service built by Google or Apple for comparison against known CSAM? Since building a database of hashes to compare with is only realistically possible for the largest corporations. Or would the actual image itself have to leave the device, since it could be argued that some remote AI could identify any CSAM, even if it is not yet in any database? Perhaps some locally running AI model could do a decent enough job, so that nothing has to leave the device during the evaluation stage.

But then again, there will always be false positives, where an innocent person’s image would be uploaded to… the service provider (like Signal) for review? So you could never be sure that your communication stays private, since the risk of false positives is always there. Regardless of what the solution is, the user will have to give up fully owning there device, since this chat control service can always decide to take control of your device to upload your communication somewhere.

Is this any different from getting a sharing link from other chatbots, Google Docs or anywhere else? Seems like expected behavior. Or are the others not indexable by search engine for some reason?

Ooh, I don’t know why I assumed that XD

Makes Obsidian way more interesting.

Wiki.vim https://github.com/lervag/wiki.vim

It let’s you create a wiki with links between pages.

Unlike obsidian, it doesn’t put your personal data in the cloud.

Unlike the similarly named vimwiki it doesn’t use a custom file format. It uses markdown. Although I think you can configure vimwiki to use markdown as well, but with reduced functionality of the plugin.

Is it because the training/use needs to happen within a single datacenter? Or are they saying that there are not enough data center capacity in total in the world to meet the demand?

Thanks for sharing. I can definitely see how life can be better in a richer and more progressive place. I guess a major factor for choosing where to live should be whether people there are hopeful for the future.

Just curious, why do you prefer those countries over Japan? Anything lacking there?

Great, you have both back and leg exercises there then, with leg raise and chest flies. I’m wondering if it also allows leg curl, so you can train the other side of the thigh also.

You might want to add in bodyweight exercises in your routine to get a full body exercise. Like plank or situps for core, which I don’t see any way to train with the machine.

Looks like it doesn’t have any way to train legs so you should probably get something extra for that. Legs are hard to train with just bodyweight because the muscles are too strong and don’t get exhausted from just the weight of your body.

Can you pull the handles in the middle towards you in a rowing motion, or is it just for pushing? If not, you need some way to train your back also. Maybe back extension would work as a bodyweight exercise.

I only use wooden spoons, spatulas and cutting boards myself. And fire retardants are obviously damaging to health, so throwing out black plastic is a good idea. But I don’t think the article gives any good reason to avoid plastic in general. “Potentially harmful plastic compounds” sounds a lot like “compounds with zero evidence of being dangerous but they sound scary”. Happy to be proven wrong though.

The risk of the payment system getting shut down and people being unable to make payments for a while is real. And it is one good reason to be less reliant on digital payments.

But there is also the risk of bad actors, which could also be e.g. Russia, getting access to decades of payment history through a hack, if everything is digital. Having that data for every citizen of a country could enable efficient profiling of people in the country using big data analysis technologies.

The kind of thing you could find out with the transaction data is who are working in the military or security police, who is sympathetic to Russia and at the same time vulnerable to work with foreign governments, and potential blackmailing material relating to people in these or other groups. I’m sure the analysts working for the bad actor can come up with even more useful things to look for in the data.

There are of course a lot of other data sources that bad actors are interested in and that are easier to hack, but the financial history seems more comprehensive source of information than most other ones.

If you are using Mastercard in the US, Google will be getting transaction data all the same: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-45368040