- How do you hook it up and how do you control it remotely?
- That's not a good answer, unless you just want cable. YouTube, Netflix, etc won't work. Buying hardware is paying extra which is already a deterrent, but anyway just shifts the problem to that piece of hardware - is the stick vetted to not do any harm? Other solutions are often impractical or overly complex for non-technical people. I haven't seen any good answers to date. I guess your TV just shouldn't spy on everything you watch? Seems like a reasonable expectation.
- Of course they have a choice. Just don't do it. All you said are predictions of what may or may not happen in the future. The opposite could be true - the audience at large may get sick of AI tools being pushed on them and prefer the browser that doesn't. No one knows. But even if you are right, supporting an hypothetical API that extensions and websites may or may not use and pushing opt-out AI tooling in the browser itself are very different things.
- Interesting read, thanks. The related article shows that even more robust anonymization techniques may still be insufficient (in the case of the taxi rides, spatial-temporal analysis could still lead to de-anonymization). More reason to reduce data collection. Unfortunately the trend is the opposite for governments all around the world.
- This seems to be more about political power and government overreach than money. The narrative seems to be focused solely on concentration of the later, lately.
- Any setups without Claude Code? I use CoPilot agent heavily on VSCode, from time to time I have independent grunt work that could be parallelized to two or three agents, but I haven't seen a decent setup for that with CoPilot or some other VSCode extension that I could use my CoPilot subscription with.
- Android also has limited photos access nowadays.
- But is it a game changer vs CoPilot in Agent mode with Claude 4 Sonnet?
Because it's twice the price and doesn't even have a trial.
I feel like if it were a game changer, like Cursor once was vs Ask mode with GPT, it would be worth it, but CoPilot has come a long way and the only up-to-date comparisons I've read point to it being marginally better or the same, but twice the price.
- Poor comparison, none of these are attached to the manufacturer, you can and usually do get these services from other companies of your choice. You don't need VW-Gas(TM) from VW-Station(TM) in your tank for the car to run.
- ... how would it be enforced?
- Which is costly to do...
- Same for any legislation piece.
A law that costs 100M people $1 and benefits 100 people with $1M.
Would be, as you noted, costly to oppose, not worth the $1 nor the time.
And at the same time, very profitable for the 100 to spend hundreds of thousands and great effort lobbying for.
It's just the power structure of any representative legislature.
"In vain do we fly to the many"...
- I got interested and got down to the FAQ. The "how much it costs" question doesn't give any price figure in the answer. I'm still left with the same question and feeling like a fool. Nor is the data privacy question answered. "Bank level encryption"? Because everyone else just gets the placebo? Maybe this isn't fair, I haven't really tried your product. But this is your front page. And if your product really is good, it's not doing it justice.
- I also don't like it but it seems to be what most institutions are going for.
It's a strong factor if required in person, the problems start when accepting it remotely. But having to go to the bank seems like the past.
- The solution already exists: MFA and IdP federation.
One factor you know (data) and the other you posess, or you are (biometrics).
IdP issues both factors, identification is federated to them.
Kind of happens when you are required to supply driver's license, which technically you own and is federated id if checked in government system, but can be easily forged with knowledge factors alone.
Unfortunately banks and governments here use facial recognition for the second factor, which has big privacy concerns, and the tendency I think will be federal government as sole IdP. Non-biometroc factors might have practical difficulties at scale, but fingerprint would be better than facial. It's already taken in most countries and could be easily federated. Not perfect but better than the alternatives imo.
- I don't see enough talk about reducing the amount of data collected in the first place. Even if it's kept within one jurisdiction, it can still be the target of a breach by a local criminal, a foreign spy, or a new government agency... Cameras on every street, cellular antenas on every car, biometrics for everything... It may vary from country to country, but an expansion on citizen data collection (in one area or another) seems commonplace across most governments, and usually with zero opposition in "the real world". And unlike products or platforms that you can chose to not use, there's hardly any escape from those.
- Camera and microphone usage should be hard-wired to an LED
- As a side note / curiosity, the world's fastest electric car had a top speed of 357 mph (574 km/h), I was just watching a video about it (and other cars) the other day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_DaGwTHlwE
- It can be used in the desktop (web) with the phone turned off since a few months (years?) ago.
Source (Portuguese): https://mpmt.mp.br/portalcao/news/1217/164630/pf-expoe-invas...