The thrust of this article seems to be that the important thing is that automatic transcription services be compliant with unspecified “governance standards”. It goes on to give a generally glowing review of a specific medical transcription service:

This software, Accurx Scribe, has been developed and deployed in line with all current NHS England requirements for AVT, and there is no suggestion this product breaches any rules, standards or guidance.

Indeed, the company which developed it meets weekly with NHS England on creating a standardised approach to scale the benefits across the NHS.

However their website seems to indicate that their privacy practices are garbage as transcriptions are implied to happen on company servers:

At Accurx, our employees may need to see patient data that we store for for strictly limited purposes.

This seems pretty absurd to me since the technology is at the point where effective on-device transcription is a reality. Why look at whether bureaucrats have rubber stamped something instead of looking at the actual commonsense properties of who has access to the data? That could easily be the doctor and no one else. The question of what constitutes good security and privacy isn’t even something this article wants to bring up for consideration.

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Supposedly the old style of potato peeler is measurably more awkward and less efficient to use than newer designs

I love it, hate having to check my phone for these, brilliant choice to put the code onscreen

Doesn’t that game already have a “behavior score”?

This kind of reminds me of that time Apple made a big show of resisting court efforts to get them to unlock iphone data; they have every reason to cultivate an impression of caring about privacy, but this isn’t actually evidence that they do. Giving them all this info about your life by holding a continual ongoing conversation about what you’re doing on their servers is inherently pretty bad for your privacy in a way reassurances can’t really fix.

There’s a lot of reasons to prefer local AI instead and this is a big one.

It’s pretty controversial but imo financial privacy from your government is important and a legitimate thing to want, especially when your government is terrible. Hopefully Russians are able to find ways to evade this.

Just like old web forums, how nostalgic

The officer said there had been a noise complaint about the medical center’s air conditioning units, and cannabis was possibly being cultivated inside, the complaint says.

He repeatedly surveilled the property in 2023 and reported the “distinct odor of live cannabis plant and not the odor of dried cannabis being smoked” — as well as tinted windows, security cameras and two people dressed similarly, according to the complaint.

The officer believed these were signs of a hidden marijuana growing operation, and efforts to expand it, the complaint says.

lol

Most cryptocurrencies have less privacy then tradfi

Sort of, but that doesn’t really contradict what I said, because cryptocurrencies and cryptocurrency tools that enable more privacy exist and work and are used. Even ones that don’t offer the potential for pseudonymity and are functional for bypassing the arbitrary censorship/control of Visa etc, for example see recent events with CivitAI.

It will always have people trying to destroy privacy and also people trying to enhance privacy.

But this means the people trying to destroy it will win sometimes. That means it is important that systems for preserving privacy should be resilient against small victories by this faction. By design GNU Taler seems to lack the resilience against interference that is a core feature of decentralized systems which could be used in its place.

Privacy is a good thing.

Yes

And don’t forget the State works for us.

Hasn’t Europe been seriously considering bans on end to end encryption? Aren’t there serious pushes to force VPN companies to keep logs? And for all this project seems to be trying to emphasize its distinction from other styles of cryptocurrency, the goal and means is largely similar, and I don’t think you can ignore all the precedent for how crypto exchanges, mixers and pseudo-mixers have been treated regardless of their efforts to be compliant with the law, especially as relates to privacy features. So how can you possibly trust a state to perpetually remain on the right side of this? The design of this project means there is little possible resistance to any level of attack coming from that direction, even something as simple as banks dropping the exchange as a customer would kill it, and I think it is a fatal flaw, especially when other cryptocurrencies already achieve greater levels of privacy and payment censorship resistance without asking or needing permission, despite being under constant attack from states.

It’s a neat idea but I think the concept of user payments privacy and also being based on custodial centralized exchanges collecting KYC and trying for total compliance is too contradictory to work out. This totally depends on state acceptance and not pushing the removal of privacy features.

Depends on the data, some data would be fine being deleted but not fine being leaked, some the other way around.

Doesn’t seem to be the case, some popular servers:

• Ollama written in Go
• llama.cpp C++

And then of course talking to these servers can be in any language that has a library for it or even just handles network requests, although Python is a nice choice. Possibly the process of training models is more heavy on the Python dependencies than inference is, haven’t actually done anything with that though.

Nothing like reading the manual for the game you just got in the backseat of a car on the way home

Sometimes they are funny

That’s why Playtron is excited to announce Game Dollar, the stablecoin built for games and ready to handle massive transaction volume over the next decade,” said Kirt McMaster, co-founder and CEO of Playtron. “Game Dollar will unlock new economic models for developers and marketplaces while enabling consumer incentives only possible via programmable dollars.”

What’s wrong with the stablecoins that already exist I wonder?

Complex requirements for social media websites to verify the identity of users, respond to spurious automated takedown requests, provide authorities with backdoors, etc. I think instead of explicit bans, it’s more likely they pass a regulations that are made for large websites with lawyers and algorithmic moderation, which are in practice not something fediverse instance operators can safely deal with and go against the basic values of the open internet.

Hell yeah worm smoothie

Open source code doesn’t mean open API though. Bluesky seems to have made a whole thing out of their technical architecture, and I get the arguments that it’s centralized in practice, but wouldn’t it mean basically scrapping the whole thing to lock down third party clients? Even if that didn’t mean anything I think multiclients could be a good idea anyway, if people were using those and there was a Reddit situation, some portion of users would want to stay with the same clients rather than using whatever proprietary app they try to push.