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Yeah, that's essentially what I meant. The validation could happen much like with PGP keys and passwords.

Depends on how you create it. It could be set up that your app talks to the website, and the identity provider, but the identity provider never talks to the website. As in: you get a token from the IP, store it locally, send it out to he website, the website confirms retrieval and logs you in, and then all the logs get purged on your device so they can't be retrieved. The IP side would only see that *someone* has requested access to some of your data (e.g. proof of age, proof of human, maybe citizenship, if the content is region-locked), and that you have agreed to share it. The website would only see the tokens of proof, but not who you actually are. Ironically, the tech behind NFTs might be super helpful with this.

Yup! Which is why institutions that already handle identities (governments, banks, etc) should be involved. The way I see it: an institution verifies your identity as a human and has your personal details (such as DoB). A tool (similar to, e.g. Sweden't BankID) is available to the user. When a website says "you must be 18 years old to access this", a QR code is generated. You scan the code with your tool, and agree to send *only* the information about whether or not you're an adult. Not the DoB, not anything else, just a token of "yup, adult". If a website has a strong anti-bot policy, same same goes for your "proof of human". This can be set up in a way that guarantees the user's privacy (e.g. by just not storing any logs).

If it's a third party tool that does the verification, that's false.

Not sure I understand what you mean. Like, you verify the account and then give it away to a bot? My assumption is that the "proof of human" would be a unique identifier, meaning that once you've attached it to an account, you can't use it to verify another.

Why would it be temporary?

Mate, how does any of that help when you're up against literal cyber military units and propaganda farms financed by hostile governments?

Precisely. Any of the listed options is better than a captcha. None of the options are perfect, obviously, we're using yesterday's tech to solve a tomorrow's problem, but it's something, and it doesn't immediately mean "privacy online is dead".

Did you refuse to read a Reddit post, or fail to understand it? Out of the three options Spez has mentioned, two guarantee privacy. The third is - and he mentions the pitfalls - the use of government issued e-IDs. This is problematic for obvious reasons, however - properly implemented - *can* also guarantee privacy.

You have got to be joking, right? "The solution to AI companies doing illegal shit is to ask them nicely to let us know when they're doing it". HCaptcha only works until it doesn't.

FFS, do you guys just not understand a thing you're reading, or flat out refuse to read anything on Reddit? Who says anything about ID checks or HCaptchas?

Did you not read anything from the linked post, or did you fail to understand it? Who says anything about government ID?

What's the alternative? Nobody on the Lemmy side is talking about fixing the AI problem. The only reason why you don't see a flood of LLM content is that we're too small for anyone to give enough of a shit. If we grow enough, we'll get flooded just like any other social media platform, and federation does nothing to protect us from this.

I’m glad they did this because it finally gave me the push to move all my stuff to Codeberg.

It's really weird to me how *literally anything* they say or do is immediately interpreted in the worst possible way here, on Lemmy. Let's get real for a second. Is there a bot problem *on the Internet in general*? That's a resounding "yes". Do we want to do something about it? According to OP - no, not at all. I mean, if OP considers malicious everything that Spez listed, the only remaining course of action is inaction and hoping for the best.

It has very nearly got a majority several times. I’m sure that with some media manipulation (eg milking an incident) it will be easily pushed through. “Several times”? There were two votes to date. The only “majority” we’ve been hearing about were the “these governments support this idea” maps, which have minimal bearing on how the EU Parliament actually votes. Correct me if I’m wrong.

I still consider myself to be primarily a Windows user (I can actually properly troubleshoot stuff there), but I have dabbed in Linux many times over the years. I’m using Garuda for about a year now and I’m super happy with it. As for other distros - I tried Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Mint, Tuxedo OS (basically re-branded Kubuntu, specialised for Tuxedo Computers), Fedora, PopOS, and probably a bunch of others I’m forgetting. Garuda gave me the most “just works out of the box” experience to date. Don’t get me wrong - there was still a bunch of things I had to do to get the experience I truly liked, but it gave me the fewest and the least annoying surprises so far. As for things it lacks - if you get the “Dragonized” edition, you end up with a fairly heavy KDE, and some… questionable default theme choices. I’m running the Garuda Mokka, and I think it just looks super pretty out of the box. I disabled a couple of Window Decorations, but even out of the box it wasn’t anything super over the top. You can also always switch to one of the classic KDE themes, like Breeze. This was my first foray into Arch, so I can’t tell you if it “breaks” anything someone experienced with Arch would be annoyed about.

Fair enough. I used it on a secondary laptop for a while. I agree that it looks promising, their “Spotlight” equivalent is great, much better than KDE’s default.

TBF, I think the majority of “people who play games” play them on their phones these days, and PC gaming is not that big of a percentage.

what’s the benefit of using a “gaming” distro User of Garuda Linux here. The distro comes with an installer that asked me if I want to install Lutris, Steam, Heroic Games Launcher and the AMD drivers. Asked me about my browser preferences, including Vivaldi, which I actually use. It also took care of installing Wine and Proton GE for me, I just had to select them from a list. It also includes a Garuda Toolbox application which is a general “I don’t understand Arch but need to do maintenance” kind of software. You hop in, drop tasks into a queue (things like checking for updates, clearing orphans, merging .pacnew, etc., etc.)

What’s wrong with Popos?

Airfryers are just much faster to deal with smaller things. Less air to heat up before it reaches the desired temp.

Yup.

Yeah, clearly the ones still in Iran absolutely loved him. To the point where they recently went out to the streets to show their support, right?

Just FYI - “bowls” are the things you puke into, “bowels” are the things food never reached and therefore became puke.

Fuck me… I only started looking more closely after your comment and noticed that the room’s proportions are fucked up. But, at a first glance, it looks like a photo from the 90s…

Haha, classic newbie blunder! You think it’s better to spend money on fixing the problem, instead of making money on redesigning public architecture? Haha, oh my!

Nobody wants any of them, they’re old and pretty and also worth exactly zero euros. You’d be VERY surprised.

if I was annoyed enough, I’d do something like hang a picture in the house taking a dig at Wikipedia and then the interview could mention that and now it could be in the article about the house taking a dig at them. They’d be OK with that

I hate journalism so much these days… Random dude in the parliament: “Let’s all shit our pants.” “Journalists”: “Denmark wants to shit its pants!!”

What do you mean?? Elon has solved the critical problem of there not being a vaguely hot anime character in Grok users could talk to!

When talking about it earlier, they mentioned the integrated AI would be local-only… Which sounds better, but I doubt is even possible (imagine all the low-end devices attempting to generate a response or analyse the website on their 6-8-year old CPUs…).

My favourite description: “US is 50 third world countries in a trench coat”.

It relates to horrible, anti-human policies all around. For comparison: in the EU the number of pedestrian fatalities dropped by 40% in a similar period.

It’s good that you love that because you had no point Only if you literally ignore the two points I was making, then yes. A bunch of people achieving one single specific outcome is not competing with anyone. What are you trying to say here?

My sick?

I love how you completely ignored everything I said, and then reiterated your misguided point.

One of the MANY problems with this administration is that you see a post like this, and you genuinely cannot tell if this actually happened, or if it’s a joke.

Ordinary people made great use of the internet - but failed to make it really decentralized. Thus the enshittification of Reddit, Youtube, social media, and so forth I don’t think one is related to the other. Decentralisation doesn’t affect enshittification that much. Look at Lemmy and Fediverse in general - it’s federated… so what? The .world instance is by far the largest in the Fediverse. If the mods there go insane, like they did on Reddit, or if the admins decide to add monetisation to it… it just happens. There being other servers changes nothing for the users stuck on the .world server. Sure, they can create new accounts elsewhere, but that’s - in principle - no different than switching from Reddit to Lemmy. On the other hand, look at Steam. Valve, the creators of Steam, has no “decentralisation” of their product, they’re the god emperor of everything in terms of how Steam operates. At face value, it’s the same exact product as, I don’t know, the Epic Store, and yet Steam is loved by gamers, while Epic is hated. No, you can have centralised and not enshittified services just fine - as long as the goal is to provide the service, instead of “creating value for the shareholders”. As soon as that element comes in, there’s no stopping enshittification. We can choose to embrace local LLM that is fully under our control, or cede ownership to the 1% forevermore. Agreed.

You’re not training it from scratch, though. There are people, enthusiasts, doing it for you. I can fire up LM Studio and browse through thousands of models to then have a conversation with, or have them write stories, etc., etc. As for “nothing of economic value” - that’s, again, just plain misunderstanding what AI can be used for. Corridor Crew - a VFX team publishing on YouTube - used self-trained AI to boost their film making options. For example, to copy the “bullet time” effect from The Matrix, they were able to use around a dozen cameras instead of hundreds, and then used AI to create the “in between” frames. How does that have “no economic value”, mate?

But that’s completely not true! Like, not a single thing you said is even slightly correct! LLMs are relatively cheap to run - at small scales. You can run an LLM on your own computer right now. It won’t be super fast, it won’t have super skills, but you can run it, and you can train it yourself. Massive LLMs like ChatGPT require tremendous resources precisely because they are not just tools available only to big players. Everybody on the planet has access to them - for free. The only actual difference there is between running an LLM locally and through a provider is that you get better speed and (sometimes, depending on context) better training through a provider. As for “there’s a lot to milk from its growing adoption” - maybe? Probably? Who knows? That’s the “magic” of the AI bubble we’re experiencing right now - the big players keep saying that it will “make work and money obsolete”, that “anyone will be able to do anything”, that “a time of post-scarcity approaches”, and a billion other bullshit marketing slogans like that. But the reality is that nobody has yet figured out how to make money on that thing. Right now, the only reason it’s “growing”, is because of the weird and probably illegal circular financing that’s going on at the very top - Nvidia invests in OpenAI, which invests in Oracle, which invests in Nvidia - and so on. No money is actually being made or (often) even changing hands, but everyone can now show they’ve received a lot of investment which pumps up their stock prices. The only reason this hasn’t popped yet is probably because the main investing parties are using tonnes of cash they had stored. Growing adoption means nothing. It’s a marketing tool for them to keep shareholders happy while they keep a literal investing circlejerk going,e very now and again inviting another player into the fold.

Whatever the hell these trading algorithms were doing on November 20, they definitely weren’t ahead of the curve on investor knowledge and belief. Yup. But you’d need to keep your head out of the AI bubble’s arse to notice that. :D

But the AI or algorithm didn’t catch it - humans did just fine with that part.

It’s only “NO HUMAN” if they ignore the many humans responsible for developing this application Or the fact that humans already posted a video about this circular financing a month earlier

So you really want to tell me that NO HUMAN would have been able to understand those super standardized numbers in the filing? Sure man. Gamers Nexus managed to figure it out a month earlier using good old-fashioned HI.

You are correct. Gamers Nexus did a video on this a month earlier.

On November 20, 2025, trading algorithms identified what may become the largest accounting fraud in technology history Did these algorithms just look up the Gamer’s Nexus video about the circular financing that was published a month earlier?