They are not referring to passkeys. They’re referring to deterministic algorithms for uniquely labeling a particular device or person, despite any privacy enhancing features that device or person employed. It can be as simple as sampling various hardware specs, hashing the result, and using that as an ID for the person. So, if you switch browsers, they know it’s still you. More complex techniques exist, obviously.
I can’t take it anymore. I am tired of all the countermeasures, and see how my attempts to avoid the AI overlords have always been fragile. The only escape now is honesty.
I think it’s supposed to work like, “well, even if you are right about the massive utility of AI, is that still what we should be aiming for?”
It gets around the combative “you’re wrong, AI is garbage” argument. The people hoisting AI because they believe, even if it does suck, it’ll get better… those people can probably understand this argument much more easily.
That’s also ancient religion, aka modern spirituality. Ancient religion wasn’t about a personal connection with god, by my understanding, but about a lens you reason through for all activities in life. You garnered a connection to community, to the world, and to the spiritual via seeing yourself as a fundamental piece of all these matters. Modern religion is, as I understand, more hyper-individualized and about a personal connection to god.
It’s a group called CAG-170, for those who just want the name.
Can we later sue FedEx, assuming FedEx gets reimbursed? Human centipede that shit.
Sounds like the solution would be a public code sharing platform that specifically bans AI generated code. Then, at least, we’re moving in the right direction. Do any alts to GitHub provide such a rule?
It doesn’t need to be perfect nor catch every offender. No need for magic AI-coded detection sauce. If it just detected slop, human or otherwise, and obviously AI-written code, with a reporting mechanism for user-driven monitoring, that could be a good start
But, should we worry about it being a source for AI companies to scrape? How should we deter that?
Can the OS not monitor hardware level network usage on the device?
I’m curious if nobody has checked for something like that… it doesn’t sound hard to catch.
Huh… why’s this phone still calling homebase?
Maybe if it only activated over the mobile network?
We don’t want a monarchy. We want a spectacle fueled capitalistic society.
Is there some trend in humanity, where it’s like… we don’t care if we suffer so long as it’s not to the benefit of someone else? We gotta build our own suffering machines of culture instead? What’s up with that?
Those who put the most thought into it get an episode on some history channel show, though. (Looking at you, Cooper)
It’s quite common to hear we’re living in a digital panopticon. See modern philosophers.
Yeah, I was actually thinking about acquiring one myself. I want to dissect it, hook it up to some monitoring equipment/ software, see what I can learn about it… functionality, vulnerability, anything. But I’m also worried about the potential I accidentally show up on a video feed stored somewhere remote. I’ve been checking eBay for them, but honestly… there are several right by my home. We’ll see what happens, in time.
We need a dumb browser.
This browser doesn’t work for most shit, making it the best browser available for most shit you actually need to do.
That’s a browser I can get behind.
Yeah, I see what you’re saying. As far as I am aware, passkeys issue a one-time-token derived from a private key stored on the device. You can only access the private key via your devices own security (i.e., typically biometric). GitHub can only access the resulting one-time token, and it can verify that the token was derived from the private key using some cryptography. So, agreed. It’s not much different from a tracking perspective than just tracking password-based logins.
Though, I got the impression OP was talking about something else. Maybe I misunderstood them.