For ICE as well: best to leave, unless you plan to do subversion from within. Ie. you can be the eyes and ears for the general public. You can be the whistleblower. You can be the leaker. You can use the breaks when needed. You can add checks and balances. You can be a hero for the general public (on paper, whether you get the credits sooner or later, who knows).
Somehow I hope such people still work at Twitter/X.com... but I really doubt it. In the US military? Oh, absolutely. Are they noisy? Probably and preferably not. The mere possibility of their existence shivers the authoritarians. And they exist, concealed below the surface. And where they do not exist, they may develop.
I don't get how people get so hung up about the <insert decade here>. It's your childhood/youthhood. Nothing else is special about it. In 30 years dumb people will glorify the 20s.
Nostalgia slop teally is a befitting term for this crap.
Of course, nostalgia slop can exist for any period. But it can be interesting to stop and think about how the little details of everyday life have changed over the years.
> It was an absolute embarrassment of a technology.
They seem tiny now, but floppies were huge back then because they gave regular people a simple way to save and move files. Writing them off today ignores how much they pushed personal computing forward.
The only thing cheaper were cassette tapes. Those were indeed unreliable, awfully slow, and couldn't store much data (but you probably already had a cassette player, so it was dirt cheap).
> One API to access and intelligently route to all leading AI models, with every request handled safely inside Europe.
> We guarantee that all your requests are handled safely inside Europe, so you are certain youstay compliant with the GDPR.
Then their privacy policy states:
> When you use EUrouter to access AI models, your API request content is routed to the AI model provider you select. EUrouter acts as a gateway and does not retain request or response content. The processing of your request content by the AI model provider is governed by that provider's own terms and privacy policy. You can review which providers are available on our providers page.
And on the linked providers page Microsoft Foundry and AWS Bedrock, both hosted in the US, are prominently placed.
Granted, I'm no expert, but that makes the promise on their homepage look like a blatant lie.
> You can't verify age without verifying identity, and once the infrastructure exists, scope creep is a matter of when, not if.
That's not true. But it's also not simple.
The German digital ID card system is able to anonymously do age verification.
Unfortunately, Germany fucked it up so badly, as a verifier, you need to register and connect yourself to their network, to be able to do so. I don't exactly remember how it worked, but the bottom line is: they made that so beaurocrstic and EXPENSIVE that it's typically only used by state authorities.
But. It's possible and the people should demand that their countries offer it, as it can have a lot of advantages, if this would be implemented so every company could do age verification without requiring any PII.
That would certainly stop governments from eroding privacy through the backdoor with things like: "but think of the children"
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