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Cake day: August 14th, 2023

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  • You can only know if you choose to read the code and compile from source. You can trust, in that your read the code and just install the app, or let others read the code for you. If reputable sources tell you it’s good, most of the time it’s good. How can you trust Signal more? Well you… shouldn’t. You could try to use a decompilation tool, don’t know if that works on Android’s apps though.















  • I am not hyperfixating on digital privacy. Currently I am not hyperfixated on anything, since I have quite the load from school. Hyperfixation is not even topic specific. It’s a state of concentration. Maybe it’s just my genuine interest you little swine. Even if hyperfixation would be topic specific, I would not be telling you about my personal life on a sovial media platform. And I did say that my ADHD is still there. You know what else is there? My giftedness. Pretty easy to mistake it for hyperfixation, I’ll admit. I can talk the same way about Minecraft, development, IT systems integration, climbing and lots of other interests of mine. Don’t believe me? Ask me about mathematics.

    Now being nice again, despite your personal insult towards me.

    At my workplace, we are not admins of our own machines, but only so if we decide to use Windows. In my profession, lots of people favour Linux or MacOS. They do not have the same level of integration into the Microsoft ecosystem or similar. So, to make the user experience acceptable, we can choose to be our own system wide admin. I doubt that your company has a good grip on integrating Linux into their system, so this is often a very viable and accepted way.

    The machine is mine the moment I install my own OS. You can buy your own machine if they won’t let you play around with the work machine. Not one guy from IT is spying on my system. Maybe on my files, mails and messages in the cloud, but that’s about it.

    Besides, I talked about the possibility of you not being able to do something about your Microsoft heavy work life. I have no idea why you are attacking me out of the blue. I was trying to help you, but you seem less than interested. You seem scared of false information. Don’t take it so hard, you don’t even know me. We likely don’t even speak the same language.

    To me it seems like you are the one fixating on reasons why you can’t and shouldn’t. Trying to be the good employee that your company wants you to be. Well, that’s not me. They are in my life so I can make money through them, not the other way around.




  • That argument is no argument since we humans, no matter how advanced our language is, still follow rules. Without rules in language, we would not understand what the other person were saying. Granted, we learn these rules through listening, repeating and using what sounds right. But the exact same thing is happening with LLMs. They learn from the data we feed them. It’s not like we give them the rules to english and they can only understand english then. The first time they come into contact with the concept of grammar is when they get data, most often in english, that tells them about grammar. We all follow rules. That’s exactly how we work. We’re still a lot smarter than LLMs though, so it might seem as if they are vastly inferior. And while I do believe that most complex organisms do have “deeper thought” in that our thought has more layers and is generally fitter for the real world, there is no way I’m not gonna call a neural network that can answer me complex questions, which may have never been asked in the history of mankind, an AI. Because it is very much intelligent. It’s just not alive. We humans tend to think of ourselves too favorably. “We” are just a neural network. Just a different kind. Just like a computer is similar to the human brain, but a wire is not. Where do you draw the line?