No, what are you talking about?

Nah it can do that, probably because they wrote a workaround to use python to count chars in a string, just like they did with arethmetics.

This was posted on Mastodon today: https://epicenter.works/en/content/finally-a-no-to-overreaching-id-systems

Looks like they didn’t expect it to pass a vote, just like with chat control, and postponed it indefinitely.

They will surely bring it back for discussion in a few months/years though, just like with chat control.

EU fines take way longer then that, give it a couple years of data collection and if we’re lucky they get fined

Works great until some hikers take a photo with you in the background, that gets backed up to iCloud, then they want to show the photo to a friend, download it to their computer, open it and BOOM, Microsoft AI knows your face

They really told the students to “analyse the deeper meaning”, “analyse the composer’s intent” and “appreciate aesthetic and intellectual value” of an AI generated picture.

How are they supposed to find what’s not there?

dom0 is the administration qube which handles the graphical desktop, i/o and hardware devices. So if you’re installing dodgy software in dom0 you go around a lot of the sandboxing that qubes offers.

I recently bought a Pixel 8 for 500€, they got cheaper since the Pixel 9 was just released. If you want to save some money you could probably just buy a Pixel 7a which will get updates until May 2028 (vs October 2030 for the Pixel 8). Supposedly the 7 has better battery life than the 8, but in the end it comes down to how long you want to use it.

They would deserve it regardless, but they’re even harder to avoid than Nestle