The fact you don't do it means you actually don't care at all about your privacy. It takes 5 minutes to bring every member in an household in the living room or kitchen and assist them to change the wifi password on their device.
You can even prepare for it by printing the details + qrcode beforehand.
Connecting to a wifi network is one of those things every terminally connected non tech savy people are able to do these days.
I think the GP more meant the practice that some ISPs have of shipping default routers that may or may not be able to be replaced with a separate SSID that is publicly available for use by other customers of that ISP.
Not "my network has a default or empty password, I can't make people sign in again."
Is that really a thing? My ISP gives me a router that takes an SSID/password by default (that it gets back to if I reset to defaults) but I can change it any time as well as other parameters (like channels, wether WPS is activated, etc).
I think it has plenty to do with that. The big frontier labs have been crying every step of the way, yelling and screaming to the world about how dangerous LLMs are and how quickly it all can end if they get out of control. None of that's happened; all that's happened so far is regular capitalism stuff. If LLMs ever do actually get out of control to that point, that would be the wolf, but we've all been ignoring the crying for so long that, well, you know.
They've been crying and screaming so loud for years that there's pretty much nothing more they can do to communicate when the wolf actually becomes real. They've been saying "but we actually mean it this time" every single time. They've exhausted pretty much every possible route for it. The wolf is not real. It hasn't been real. For all we know it's on the horizon, but nobody is going to listen to them in order to know that. And when they say "I told you so", well they've been saying that too over and over about small things, so nobody's still going to bat an eye.
At this point, no one will believe it until they see it with their own eyes.
> They've been crying and screaming so loud for years that there's pretty much nothing more they can do to communicate when the wolf actually becomes real.
1.) There was no change in how real the wolf is.
2.) They, literally they, are the wolf. Not "roque ai" or some other bullshit.
That's exactly my point. It hasn't changed for so long, despite all their crying and screaming, that I don't believe them either.
To be perfectly clear, "the wolf" here would be AI becoming a genuine existential threat to humanity that cannot be contained or controlled in a meaningful sense. That's what I refer to in my original comment, and also what the labs have been crying so much about.
A frontier lab today is not that threat because they can choose to shut off their systems at any time. It currently remains a people problem and not a technology problem. There's no self-improving technology that can also replicate itself to evade containment, yet.
But they've been crying about the possibility, constantly, incessantly, and of course saying they need more money about it too. That's just what corporations do. But because they've been crying so much about something that literally does not exist, their cries have just become pointless noise to me. I have considered them eyeroll-worthy marketing stunts for a while.
If one day "the wolf" actually happens, I could not learn about it from the frontier labs themselves, because I would not believe them. They've cried about nothing for so long that I've stopped listening. That's what I mean about having to see it with my own eyes. Until that point, their crying is just pointless, meaningless noise, and there's nothing they can do to change that now.
I get you, but I find the whole "rogue ai" framing insufferable. The company is the wolf. They hacked the other company due to negligence and misconfigured software tool.
They are literally trying to blame a software. It is absurd.
I'm not talking about a specific incident. But I wouldn't consider frontier labs any wolf, honestly. They're mostly just insufferable. I prefer Anthropic's models, but their service is starting to annoy me, especially since they have no response to OpenAI's upcoming faster inference speeds.
I really loved Kagi and was a paid customer for close to two years. But sadly this year I wont be renewing my plan.
Kagi made search feel just “right” it was simple, got the job done and had some really simple but cool search features.
But over time they started doing way too much, and I kept seeing more and more features that I really didn't want. It felt like I was paying for all this while I just wanted to type something on to a text box and click search and see a bunch of results organized according to my filters.
I wish they would just dump all the other nonsense projects like ai and just focus on search only. Or give me an option to pay for search only without any limits.
I do agree actually but I’m sticking with them. Their mission of ending slop but also pushing ai tools seem at odds. On one hand they’re marketing to the anti ai crowd while also joining the ai hype? It’s weird.
As I'm not familiar with how Kagi is "pushing ai tools" this is mostly a comment on the framing of your question.
Are you really saying that a company specializing in search - natural language oriented at its core - should not make use of the biggest technological revolution for processing natural language?
Mexico coke is cane sugar based instead of made with high fructose corn syrup. But didn't Trump say that they will ban HFCS in coke in favor of cane sugar?
1) Mexican coke was cane sugar based (as was US coke at one point), but the huge excess of corn created by US ag policy has shifted much of their production to HFCS
2) As it turns out, a cane sugar (sucrose) base for a dilute acidic liquid will very quickly assume an equilibrium ratio of intact sucrose to sucrose that's been cleaved in half into glucose & fructose, dictated by molecular interactions. Testing these drinks will always find a good amount of fructose.
Every time I see something about windows7 coming up, I feel a little sad. 7 imo was the last good windows ms came up with. I remember upgrading to it was something worth bragging to your friends in school. There was so much excitement around it. After 7, something felt, broken, new features felt unnecessary, things got more user hostile, the magic, it was just gone!
Yeah. I feel like the main thing was it was the last version that still had essentially user-controlled updates. By default it would auto-update, but you could have it not do that, or have it download the updates but not install them until you decided to, and you could deselect individual updates and just skip them.
I suspect this is linked to its era: it came out on the cusp of the trend of having everything autoupdate on its own initiative. (I just looked it up and Firefox 15 came out around the same time and was the first version to have "silent updates".) This in turn came as some kind of tipping point was reached where it became simpler to assume everyone was always connected to the internet (and have some kind of "emergency mode" for when they weren't) than to assume they weren't (and have some kind of "online mode" for when they were). And that also led to the proliferation of telemetry and other such things that involve using that always-on-ness to talk back to the software company.
I see this as part of a trend away from what I call "bounded transactions" and toward subscription-type models, and I think it's been one of the most corrosive developments in our society. The thing about Win7 was that once you had a computer up and running with it, it was up and running and would continue to be, and you could just kind of leave it like that. You had security issues to worry about, but you still had the option of being the one to worry about them. In the following years, everything began to shift towards the "you own nothing" model where so much of the functionality of "your" hardware and software was actually just a short-term lease with some company on the other end that could decide to rugpull you at their convenience.
On my personal laptop, I run Windows 11 in a virtual machine. Sometimes I intentionally choose "Shut down" instead of "Update and shut down" because I just want to turn it off ASAP and pack up, and it cracks me up when it proceeds to install updates anyway. I just close the virtual machine, powering it off instantly, and later I can restore from a snapshot from before my brutality and let the update happen properly.
I don't find it funny when it's bare metal! On my work laptop I put Windows to sleep 100% of the time, and restart for updates when I'm forced to with 3 hours notice before a mandatory reboot.
This battle with Windows doesn't even need to be happening! I am very good with updates and go looking for them in the settings without needing them to be pushed, at least on less hostile OSs! I run beta iOS on my old phone, and get a little disappointed when I see no changes required when running an update through apt or nix-env or whatever.
I highly recommend running virtualised Windows somewhere for the sanity preserving feeling of vengeful control :)
As developer I was a bit less excited as it kind of settled the victory of COM over .NET after the Longhorn/Vista civil war at Redmond.
So while it was indeed a great version of Windows, having COM as the new way of shipping Windows APIs wasn't that welcoming, it is kind of incredible how for such a critical technology on Windows development, Microsoft keeps shipping cluncky frameworks to write and consume COM.
There was even the famous Hilo sample that was praising this as the way forward,
I used all of those versions but I'd still agree that Win7 was the last good one. I still love the 95/98 aesthetic the most and it's what I try to replicate with my systems now, but the dropoff after Win7 is still much greater.
For me more about 2000 than XP. 2000 still felt like a Workstation OS and it was very responsive. XP themeing was the first thing I removed once I could not continue on 2000.
Looks like a global outage. Was asking Grok to help me fine tune a sourdough bread recipe, and it got stuck halfway. Guess we are back to regular ol sourdough today.
This is like that bit from HHGTTG where Arthur asks the ship to make a perfect cup of tea, so it recreates tea from first principles and takes all the compute available, shutting down everything else until the tea is done. Grok is taking over the twitter servers for more batch thinking tokens until the perfect sourdough recipe is complete.
What thread has Elon lost really? When Elon bought twitter there was a huge wave of people and the media telling us it was over in 6 months, when Elon fired staff they told us X would go down forever in a few months.
Under Elon imo X has gotten a lot better, I see more content that relates to me and has since found myself using X more than all the other social media platforms combined.
Blocking content makes no sense on a platform like X, if you block me and I still want to read your posts all I have to do is to make another account and read them. This just gets rid of the friction. If I block someone I just don't want to interact with them, I still want them to see me and my friends have fun.
that's the issue. Look at clickthrough rates and see how much one extra click can cut down on engagement. You want to de-escalate something, or at least try to.
> If I block someone I just don't want to interact with them, I still want them to see me and my friends have fun.
I agree they should have added an ignore feature as well as block. Different approaches for each individual.
> I see more content that relates to me and has since found myself using X more than all the other social media platforms combined.
You do know that you shouldn't be looking at stuff it's recommending to you, right? Think of something you'd like to know more about and then look it up yourself.
And why not? What's your authority on the subject? From here, it looks like more internet arguments. I mean, I don't use twitter at all. I've never understood the UI. But if you like what it's recommending, why should I believe your assertion that I "shouldn't" be looking at it?
Or stuff you interacted with in sort-of click bait way. That's why I'm using the block functionality so much on X.
A couple of blocks a day keeps the rusobot content way.
If only I could get rid of of OF girls following me or violent content in the same way, that would be great.
>What thread has Elon lost really? When Elon bought twitter there was a huge wave of people and the media telling us it was over in 6 months, when Elon fired staff they told us X would go down forever in a few months.
Indeed. According to the media and on Reddit, since Musk bought Twitter, Mastodon, Bluesky and Threads have collectively gained 70 bazillion users on seventeen different occasions, and have caused Twitter to collapse and disappear eleven times.
I don't think X has gotten any better, if anything it is overrun by bots and crazy conspiracy theorists now. In addition, Elon has been engaging in soft-censoring people he doesn't like while amplifying those he likes.
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