Cops have alternative means to access encrypted messages, court says.

Do they mean https://xkcd.com/538

Well, there is also this news https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/netflix-subscribers-up-q2-earnings-1235673960/ showing that apparently many people just pay up to keep their access.

I don’t understand why any journalism site will advertise that they are using AI. It just says they don’t care about facts, research or quality in writing. Journalism is not simply spewing out a handful of paragraphs of text about a random subject. It is research that can take weeks or months, double checking facts, verifying sources and putting it all together into a well written article. AI texts have none of that. Quite the opposite.

I have been experimenting with this week and while I like it, I am still not sure I like it enough to find it worth paying. It is still mostly using Google and Bing as a search provider, so I haven’t so far found drastically different results than what I get from DuckDuckGo. Having a limit on searches also makes me a bit anxious when you are used to just searching for all kinds of stuff simply because I am lazy and don’t want to type in full URLs or go to my bookmarks. Lots of muscle memory that needs to be revamped. I do see the potential in how it can be customized with personalized lenses and lowering/raising specific domains. And the people behind it seem really nice on Discord, so I expect to see a lot of innovation in search that we haven’t seen from Google in years.

Ah ja, den danske Slashdot. Der var jeg også virkelig meget og har stadig venner jeg mødte via sitet for over 20 år siden.

Totally agree on the news and journalism part. I subscribe to three different publications, which gets expensive, but it is worth it. Many newssites have also started to hide their articles behind paywalls, which is understandable, but also make sharing and discussing news with others on social media harder. And since most people can’t afford to subscribe to several news outlets, they will be limited in their exposure to different viewpoints - unless that particular newspaper is really good at challenging its readers and not just giving them what they think they want.

Har været online siden slut 90’erne så det har været en stor del af mit liv i 25 år. Startende med anonyme chatrum, senere lærte man folk lidt bedre at kende via IRC og fik IRL venner derigennem. Med Facebook kom alle “ikke-nørderne” med også og det blev normalt at bruge sit rigtige navn online. Reddit blev en tilbagevenden til det anonyme og Reddit har jeg ikke rigtig set som et socialt medie, da man med få undtagelser ikke har bidt mærke i brugernavnet på dem man skrev med. Reddit har bare været en stor masse af en masse forskellig viden og erfaring, som virkelig har givet mig meget lærerig perspektiv at læse om hvordan andre mennesker lever i forskellige dele af verden. Særligt den sidste del frygter jeg lidt hvor skal komme fra hvis Reddit falder sammen. Det har været uundværligt i forhold til at komme ud af osteklokken, selvom Reddit også blev sin egen osteklokke i mange sammenhænge.

I think it is more like the protoweb. How this works is more similar to BBSes, Usenet, IRC networks and the like from 30 years ago. Truly distributed networks with no central controlling mechanism and the systems communicate by simply agreeing on the technical protocol. That was what the internet was designed for i the first place. The last couple of decades where everything has been centralized to a few big megacorps is an abomination.