This is not new, and not because WhatsApp is somehow “untrustworthy.” It’s been banned from most govt desktops for years.
It’s end-to-end encrypted, so it bypasses malware filters. A House staffer can easily be sent a malicious file and spread it around to others before anyone learns the file is malicious.
Musk probably heard about “synthetic data” training, which is where you use machine learning to create thousands of things that are typical-enough to be good training data. Microsoft uses it to take documents users upload to Office365, train the ML model, and then use that ML output to train an LLM so they can technically say “no, your data wasn’t used to train an LLM.” Because it trained the thing that trained the LLM.
However, you can’t do that with LLM output and stuff like… History. WTF evidence and documents are the basis for the crap he wants to add? The hallucinations will just compound because who’s going to cross-check this other than Grok anyway?
Prepare for Grokipedia to only have one article about white genocide, then every other article links to “Did you mean White Genocide?”
I mean, that’s simply statistics. The dude votes on 100 bills and isn’t simply following the party line, a few will not be votes for stupidity or hate.
The GOP cares that he isn’t “loyal” and still gets elected and Trump endorsements when he is clearly going to win anyway. That’s about it.
Child soldiers are not Brave New World. More like shit old world.
Y’all gotta read more than the headline.
Rep. Tom Massie has been the key most Libertarian Congressperson that consistently gives strong Ron Paul circa 2009 energy. He’s been a constant headache for Trump because he doesn’t ever like Trump’s policy positions for not being insane enough. The lone No vote against the antisemitism resolution just for show.
He might, but not for the reasons you want.
Tom Massie is a hard-right libertarian, and Trump doesn’t like him because he usually fairly obstructionist to Trump goals. Often because they’re not extreme enough, or not austere enough.
Oh yeah, for sure.
In other news, water found to be wet, puppies cute. More at 11.
I have a 250MB in aluminum container HD from 2005ish. Still works AFAIK.
Might be fun to stress test it, but I expect the discs inside would shatter from shocks before the case ever showed signs of wear.
Do do di-dee-doo-da-doo
It’s ethical because it runs on donations and has a non-profit business model.
Meta likely spends at least $1 billion a year running WhatsApp.
Please donate to Signal if you use it.
Gimme back muh solstice! I’ll worship the dark with whiskey and chocolate and maybe some beef.
Lol, YOUR PC maybe.
A lot of areas that seem like only pedestrian areas in Europe are still roads. Cars regularly drive on tiny streets, especially in Italy and France, nearly clipping people eating dinner.
Then a lot of hollow threats, and standing in a big group shouting “waaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!” Thinking something is happening and you’re flashing colors, then flying away shouting “I’ll defeat you later!”
FS?
As in “F’ing Shit”?
OK, who had “The opening from Threads but in 4K” on their bingo card?
For the most part, it works well without needing too much tinkering by the user. It’s the Fisher Price My First Distro.
I tried it out with a 21.3 dualboot with Windows 11 and within 2 or 3 months I hadn’t gone back to Windows other than to push files over. Sure, there were a few “learning opportunities” with tweaks or weird driver issues that were because of the particular hardware I’m using, but they were manageable. At this point I’m running 22.1 only on this machine.
The nice part is that being Ubuntu-based, if I run into a problem, I can search for both the more widely-documented Ubuntu version of the issue, or look for a Mint-related version. Claude does a great job with small-to-medium troubleshooting rather than me dig through forums. It’s low-risk, low-work, high-reward.