Is it also bad karma to let people kill npc in videogames? If yes, why? If not, how is it different?
Wouldn't our treatment/abuse of animals be a better, more obvious example?
Readit NewsIt's too early in the development of AI technology to start asking questions about their self awareness and sentience. We don't yet have a reasonable model to explain even those of our own or other animals, let alone those of machines, for that matter. People are understandably very excited about LLMs given how much deductions they make. But in my very subjective personal experience, they don't show anything approaching sentience or self awareness. Their interactions are dry and devoid of the liveliness that human interactions exhibit. They have at best what can be described as a simplistic mechanical approximation of a personality - one that lacks the depth, nuisance and imperfections of a real human or animal personality. In my subjective assessment, the imminence of intelligence that can mimic biological intelligence is being extremely exaggerated and overhyped. It could possibly be decades away at best. The need for machine rights are equally far away.
The actual reason behind these demands, I believe, is to justify things that they do using these models. For example, didn't they argue that the fairuse policy applies to them while training on copyrighted materials without permission, because the training is not like other forms of digital reproduction? Imagine how far they can push this argument if AI sentience is recognized. It's just an extension of their greedy agenda.
Now going on a tangent, it's surprising that people have AI girlfriends and boyfriends. Trying to make an emotional connection with them is really off putting because of how unnatural they feel - even when we don't have the prior knowledge that it's an AI, and no matter how much they try to mimic a romantic human interaction. Dogs do an infinitely better job at making emotional connections with humans, without uttering a single word.
"We don't yet have a reasonable model to explain even those of our own or other animals, let alone those of machines, for that matter."
Is in direct conflict with:
"they don't show anything approaching sentience or self awareness."
Waiting for us to figure out sentience before we decide to apply morals is akin to OpenAI being in charge of determining when we have achieved AGI. The people in power have no incentive to declare it even if evidence is available because it destroys their profits indefinitely
Eh, as a network administrator you want the netlogs on by default and you very clearly onboard everyone to the network with a memorable warning to do their personal browsing over some other interface. You've usually got at least some minimal audit requirement on any network with high value stuff on it.
It's probably not great that someone trying to use the free sample product lands in the same netlogging regime as the work network default, but I suspect thats more about allocation of attention and priority which understandably goes to the companies that make up approximately all of their business. Keeping the free sample product around after its long bern clear "this is for work computers" is just one of those things. The "no support" suffix on a setting is not to me the smoking gun you make it out to be, and I'm pretty hardcore in my attitudes about surveilance.
I agree it's the wrong default for a purely personal user, but TailScale has enough "good faith actor" points with me that I'll give them the benefit of the doubt on malicious/evil dragnet surveilance ambitions. What could they possibly want with the data of a group of people who are by construction not spending money on a VPN? They'd be storing it at a loss.
> What could they possibly want with the data of a group of people who are by construction not spending money on a VPN? They'd be storing it at a loss.
This is the exact point where our conclusions diverge.
Why are they sending themselves so much "useless" data-intensive logs by default, from their non-paying clients that accounts for roughly ~95% of the userbase and from a profitable business perspective, largely ineligible for troubleshooting support? For me, the only logical conclusion is that the data is valuable to them.
As someone who also cares about privacy, hear are a few things that IMO suggest that free customers' logs are a part of their business model:
* Their documentation has plenty of references to security, but no references to privacy outside of the privacy policy.
* They have all but eliminated any revenue stream from average user when they made an unsolicted announcement that they upgraded their free plan to allow 100 devices and 5 users.
* The content they sponsor for marketing/advertising seems targeted for consumers instead of networking professionals. I don't see Cisco and Palo Alto Networks sponsoring every Linux/self-hosting podcast or YouTube channels for example.
* Even the flag-name for turning off logging is mild deterrent based on what you will lose (`--no-support`) as opposed to being neutral '--no-logging' or truly descriptive like most FOSS companies that are not pushing an ulterior motive such as '--no-analytics'.
* logs cannot be disabled for phones
* In my experience, disabling logs was perhaps the only thing that was not configurable through the GUI
I'm into privacy and still relatively new on the networking scene thanks to setting up OpenWrt on my router. Am I correct that when tailscale updates/hijacked resolv.conf, subsequent DNS resolution is passed onto them on visited websites even when tailscale is not being used? No, they can't "read" your traffic, but if I understand things right, they know every website you visited and for how long, which is more than enough data for a rich marketing profile. That was my takeaway before I jumped ship for a self-hosted solution.
My understanding is that they have the holy grail of data because they are getting all of your LAN, WAN and mobile network traffic. I'm not aware of (m)any companies whose business model allows access to all three? It's like if your ISP and your Mobile Network had a baby on your local server, and that baby reports every website you visit.
I don't know how to get a unwalled version. What's the best way to do that these days? xcancel seems unavailable.
Install libredirect extension (https://github.com/libredirect/browser_extension/) and select a few working instances. Then you can use the programmable shortcut keys to cycle between instances if one ever goes down.
mac-attack commented on I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/08/... · Posted by u/blenderob
I like Amazfit because it can fully function without sending any data whatsoever to a server. I can export data from the app very easily.
I use amazfit w/ gadgetbridge as well
mac-attack commented on NetBird Is Embracing the AGPLv3 License netbird.io/knowledge-hub/... · Posted by u/braginini
What did you find harder to achieve with NetBird than with Tailscale? I refer to more work and learning. Or is it purely related top self-hosting?
Going from tailscale in the cloud -> self-hosting netbird required a richer mental model so I had to learn more about routing, why ZTNA is better, what is OIDC, etc
I do think that netbird's documentation is easier to read than tailscale's, but the tone does still assume a solid foundational networking background in places.
My uneducated guess is that the product is appealing to networking professionals, but a growing number of current/former tailscale users that are otherwise new to networking, but familiar w/ self-hosting. With the latter group, there's a steeper learning curve (that would also be there for headscale or most other self-hosted mesh VPN solution fwiw)
mac-attack commented on NautilusTrader: Open-source algorithmic trading platform nautilustrader.io/... · Posted by u/Lwrless
>I used to trade options and had about 99.5% success on all my trades
Do you mean this literally or is that an exaggeration for effect?
I'm not sure how you'd do that unless all your trades are like selling a put with a $50 strike price expiring in a month when the stock is trading at $100.
Pennies in front of a steamroller
mac-attack commented on NautilusTrader: Open-source algorithmic trading platform nautilustrader.io/... · Posted by u/Lwrless
Is this the financial version of the 3-body problem?
A deep cut
We live in a society.
I don’t use TikTok. That doesn’t mean TikTok doesn’t affect me.