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Yes, but there is a good reason for that.

As we saw in this story from a few months ago, yes, absolutely, manufacturers will stoop to the level of disabling devices which are prevented from exfiltrating your data. I’m pretty sure I’ve heard of TVs doing the same with the network modules but I’m too lazy to search for it now.

I get all that, I just mean you can’t just ignore the social reality. Like you said elsewhere in this thread, Linux is barely cracking 3% of the desktop market. Can you run an LLM locally? Of course. Do people do it? No, except a couple of hardcore enthusiasts. That is an issue which can’t just be cleanly separated from the technology itself and has to be taken into account when discussing it.

Also, weapons are tools.

A hammer can be used for good or bad but a shrapnel bomb can only kill and maim; not all tools are multivalent like that, some are realistically only used for evil. Additionally, divorcing discussion of a tool from the social context like this is blinding to the real consequences. We don’t have small scale LLMs running on personal machines (even if we could, that’s not how it is now), we have them at industrial scale controlled by a few billionaires. It’s purely fantastical thinking to say that just because you could imagine a world where they’d be used for good, that actually means anything.

Many online banks and money services can do this. I have an account with one whose main purpose is transferring money to my home country to pay my student loans and for money while traveling, but they also offer these digital visa cards. Wouldn’t consider it “private” in any serious way but it’s probably less bad than paypal.

The markets authority and antitrust offices are different people than the chat control people, they aren’t a unified organisation, they will probably argue about it.

Not happy, just resigned to reality

He’s just never tried to say something which wasn’t allowed

I didn’t see anything to see that these aberrations indicated anything about a type of phone? They’re unique for each lens…

Most of the modifications to aosp in graphene are security improvements, so it’s at least somewhat better than any other android

In theory, very bad. In practice, also very bad.

It’s because they are secretly proud of their past

I don’t know, I’m not that much of a legal expert. My guess would be in most places you’re just supposed to delete it or not use it.

“expectation of privacy” is a US-specific legal standard that doesn’t apply on much of the EU. In many countries, you can’t just record someone without their permission or some other permission, regardless of their expectation of privacy.

I don’t understand why they didn’t have the old account removed.

why bother when you’ll go through the hassle for them, I guess

That is still what we do with criminals

Haha

Sure, but there are also a lot of people doing good things who are persecuted for them, do you think it should be impossible to do any kind of activism just because other people commit crimes?

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That’s roughly the equivalent of a $100 fine for someone who makes 75k