> Not exactly, The problem is trust. And if you don't trust the party that authenticated it, then you gain exactly nothing by having it signed by a single party.
> The idea of blockchain is to replace trust in a single party by a chain of signees

And how do you know how to trust them? Blockchain absolutely does not solve the trust challenge. All you blockchain evangelists fail to realise that the reason you own some coins here and there is because at some point you loaded an HTTPS web site, authenticated by a CA that your browsers included, so the trust you place in blockchain is effectively rooted in the implicit trust you have in your operating system, and there's pretty much nothing you can do about it.

Yawn.

More than 50% of Facebook users have a sub-average concept of trust in the first place. You cannot argue with that.

Most people don't understand Facebook, and they don't get to the point where trust is even a decision.

Most people implicitly trust Facebook for the convenience, and they give a fuck about privacy and censorship, thinking it doesn't apply to them.

So yeah, non-story.

Look up Sahabot developed at our lab at the University of Zurich in the 90s. Nothing new. I don't understand why people decide to go public on their duplication of someone else's work.

Machine learning operates within a model, influenced by implementer's bias. Anything it'll ever be able to do will be constrained to lie within the model. There is no way "an AI" will be able to understand human concepts the same way humans do, and in part that's because humans don't learn just by playing Pictionary.

When will this hype subside, so that we can actually focus on the real stuff machine learning can do, without constant conflation with the idea that "general AI" could even ever exist?

Thank you very much for that excellent feedback. This talk was to a technical audience. I will be giving this talk again to a humanist audience soon, and you are absolutely right that I need to focus on precisely the point you raise!

Ask someone to hug you. You seem to need it.

So I just gave a talk at LCA2019 on precisely this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I also thought about arguing in this direction, but then I didn't want to open the gender debate, and so I left it at "humans".

Enjoy.

Android is Free, but Google has woefully neglected it for years. Or rather, they meticulously worked on pulling all functionality into Play Services, while blinding the public into thinking that they are so great in doing open-source.

If they take Android non-free (what does this even mean?), it won't actually make much of a difference to the status quo. I'd hope for the EU to not take any of this, and simply double the fine if they do.

Fuck you, Google.

I've no evidence for this, but the way he keeps defending big-G in the wake of all the privacy problems we've seen and continue to feel, he's been touting them as being stellar about privacy and that they would never, and bla.

Maybe it's true that unlike Facebook, Google doesn't sell your data. But the main reason for that is that they want to monetise you all by themselves. Also, nothing would stop them from doing so tomorrow.

Gmail innovations here or there, your best bet is to get rid of Google and Facebook, use plugins like uMatrix and Cookie AutoDelete and navigate the Web without splattering your fingerprints everywhere.

Check out matrix.org. It is not only a rich IM solution with all the bells and whistles, including multi-devices end-to-end encryption, but Matrix also provides for bridges and proxies to other networks, so that it can be used to unify communication.

It's only 2.5 years old but has already come quite a way!

https://matrix.org/

Check out matrix.org. It's a federated, open-standard, rich communication protocol. It can't do everything of Slack and Whatsapp yet, but it's moving along fast and you can help. There are already several clients to choose from, as well as integrations with other networks, APIs, and bot-like tools etc..

We used it at linux.conf.au 2017 to (inofficially) bridge between Slack and IRC, and had an update of ca. 33% of the conference within 3 days or so, while the number of Slack users went down to a low one-digit figure.

#matrix on Freenode is bridged to the main discussion room, so pop on over if you want.

Here's Matthew (one of the project leads) at FOSDEM (with video):
https://fosdem.org/2017/schedu...
https://fosdem.org/2017/schedu...

and my little lightning talk at LCA:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

-- @martinkrafft

So now I have a couple dozens of "Noto" fonts on my machine, but wasn't the idea of Unicode to approach it "one size fits all"? I.e. why is there not a single "Noto serif" font that combines them all? Or how else is one supposed to configure the browser now to give access to all those symbols?

Correct me if I am wrong, but distilled water is harmful to the body as it flushes out salts and minerals. It can actually kill you at larger quantities. So why exactly should I drink distilled water when my body needs the minerals (i.e. during sport)?