By now i think we need to assume everyone that is willing to use Israeli tech in any government functions, even if it is only “local police” using Palantir software and the like to be compromised by Israeli intelligence.

The data will be compromised to the detriment of the people and politicians who push for using such tech are likely compromised themselves already.

Let me explain you how the Red-Workers-Movement of 1922 in the Oblast-Utbackya had this structural issue in their organization by the theory of famous late 19th century analyst.

The fediverse is much more than just lemmy. That being said i also disagree for lemmy. Drama between mods and communities was a regular thing on reddit. Still reddit managed to grow quite big before the bots took over. And companies are in no way more accountable to the users. Look at what happened with twitter under Musk. The only realistic choice you have as a normal user is to leave. And in the fediverse leaving a shitty instance still allows you to connect with all the other content from a different instance.

I am asking because i know crawler robots exist and are in use since at least a few yearse. The more interesting aspect imo. is the automated image recognition which made huge improvements over the past years. For that it makes sense to have the analysis centralized within reason. E.g. pattern recognition against a larger database. There is local factors too though as materials, construction forms and so on often have historic local differences.

I fail to see, why the wheel needed to be reinvented into flying here.

Some examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEMC_3ilpHw https://redzone.com/our-technology/solo/
https://www.theengineer.co.uk/content/in-depth/crawler-robots-helping-to-prevent-flooding-and-pollution

There is no mention why wheels wouldnt work.

They only mention that flying is difficult because of confined space and changing airflows.

Aside from nebulous groups who made up some bad statistics, likely to grift some donations, i didn’t see any claims towards that.

There is also about 450 days of protesting, striking, organizing, boycotting…

Waiting for the next election is not going to fix things, just like it didnt before.

Why are you flying the drones though? Just give them wheels and call them robots.

Costs less, is easier to operate, uses less energy, less sensitive parts exposed, can be used in smaller spaces, easier to recover…

“Whenever you want to scam people as a company, just invent some fancy words that sound like innovation” odometer

No, MS just wants to expand their monopoly, but “MS buying most common browser, after antitrust laws already forbid internet explorer” doesnt ring so well.

So it is not given to a centralized authority, that is guided by for profit motives and also does the moderation of its plattform.

Where this can lead was shown with twiiter. The moment the central organization is captured, the central authority will abuse the authentification for its own goals. Then instead of just having to check for the authentification to be reliable you need to question everything that is on that plattform as a whole, which is infinetly more consuming, but also simply impossible.

If the same authority is doing verification that is also doing moderation and both ultimately in a for profit setting, that has conflict of interest.

We dont know how reliable bluesky moderation will stay. We dont know how they will respond to political pressure. We dont know how they will monetize past the growth phase and then could also argue a “service fee” for verification.

In a perfect world none of these would happen, but then everybody could still be on twitter and be fine there.

Idk. Celebrities and Politicians usually have other vetted channels such as their own website or a website of their ogranization representing them. It should be basic journalistic work to see if their social media links link to the account in question or not.

Google translate is using the same approach like an LLM.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Translate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_machine_translation

So is DeepL

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeepL_Translator

And before they were using neural network approaches they used statistical approaches, which are subject to the same errors as a result of bad training data.

There is also people who just hang on their phone all day or gossip in the kitchen. I have seen that in the best and in the worst working conditions.

There is good reason, why the principle “same pay for same work” usually does not include surveillance of productivity. But it does feel infuriating to not make 3x as much despite having 3x the productivity of some people that have a similar or even higher salary thanks to seniority, when i am basically financing their lack of productivity.

I agree that the term “laziness” is often used by management to shift blame onto the workers and i don’t know how a solution could look like that would address real laziness without infringing on workers rights.

If the service is advertised as no data limit, aka “take as man woodchips as you like” they shouldn’t track back on it.

In order for that to make sense for a company, there must be one dominant distribution or their software must be the truly one and only for that purpose. Otherwise they just loose market shares to other companies willing to serve all distributions.

It is possible in principle and of course the MBA bros will try to pull stunts like this. It will be much more difficult to execute successfully though and it will be much easier to challenge from an anti-trust aspect.

Everyone running a linux distro won’t be a fairytale land, but it is still a huge step into the right direction.

I disagree.

I recommend you to do the switch now. Linux is more accessible than ever and there is no reason to give them any more of your data. Also it helps you to transition step by step where it might take a bit longer to get used to a different way of doing things.

Randos destroy evidence, botch data gathering, beat up civilians and witnesses and perpetrators alike, and generally complicate things.

This assumes the necessity to abide by some sort of more or less legal process by the cops. Once this requirement goes out the window entirely the only question is whether the randos might shoot the wrong people. Otherwise they will be welcomed. Also consider that riot police, patrol runners and other enforcers are a different bunch from investigators, with the investigators being the more educated minority among cops to begin with.