Notices by Niels Abildgaard (nielsa@mas.to)

@hakan_geijer i don't really think the trolley problem is like a triage, exactly because it's stripped off all the mess and context that makes up reality (even the few triage examples I've seen in medical text books have more details). Am I missing something here?

@hakan_geijer idk, taking the trolley problem seriously as philosophy very quickly gets you to effective altruism

@hakan_geijer Wait that sounds way worse when summarized in order. These may not be genders...

@hakan_geijer ah yes, the three genders, vibrating, sliding and exploding

@hakan_geijer I'm in

@pseudonym @cammerman If you ask the magic 8-ball about frequently truthfully described or discussed things, or things of similar structure with a clear mapping, it's more likely to produce a correct answer, but you have no idea what's frequently described and whether it's just randomly wrong. Oh, and if it is wrong, it is optimized to make the wrong answer look right in context. Good luck.

@aral deal

@aral Yeahh we don't fit those criteria (yet), but could maybe build something that fits if you can share the requirements

@aral I might be able to hook you up with some cheap VPSes hosted in Denmark if interested... we are working with a publicly owned data center that is trying to break into the private sector and care about digital/data soverignty. Let me know if relevant...

@rose yes!! similar sentiment: https://mas.to/@nielsa/110644474909022137 but from the discussion if Kollektiva being compromised: tools needed

@hakan_geijer As a tech person: you are absolutely right.

It is impossible to have a setup with zero risk, and to be efficient pragmatic choices will be made. Sure, a situation like this is a great time to reevaluate practices, but a lot of the takes are unreasonable in their expectations.

Even if nobody ever had an unencrypted copy of the db, someone somewhere has access to the machine (e.g. by deploying code) that can read the unencrypted db. It's a fundamental limitation of Mastodon.

@hakan_geijer I think a lot of people think encryption at rest means things it doesn't, tbh. It just means access without decryption keys isn't possible. Anyone with access to (e.g. a machine, like the masto server, with access to) the encryption keys still has access.

That's anyone with deploy access *at least*.

Imagining a ChatGPT fueled dystopia in which all work emails are needlessly prolonged by AI embellishing the text to make the sender seem more intelligent, but it's okay because recipients all just ask ChatGPT to summarize each email. It is a social faux pas to write directly or informally. People learn how to evaluate if generated emails are written in a way where ChatGPT summaries preserve the essential points.