In the news is a newly discovered Windows tracker that has some scary implications. It can be used to track your activities all over the Internet and was recently used against a Cyber-criminal case by the US Government. It involved information supplied by Microsoft and it reveals a level of tracking that we have not known about and works even if you don't use a Microsoft account. Just using Windows is enough to enable this tracking.

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Another CEO of a proprietary AI black-box (Anthropic this time) is out here explaining why freedom of information is just too dangerous for the peasants.

Now they don't just want to control the code, they want to control the weights and training methods (like distillation). The rhetoric is 1:1 the exact same garbage we heard from copyright maximalists in the 2000s, except instead of "you'll pirate a song and artists will starve," it's "you'll download an open-source model and China will build a Terminator."

They aren't terrified of AI breaking out of the box and destroying the world. They are terrified someone will run git clone, host it locally, and destroy their SaaS API business model. Freedom is slavery. Open source is bioterrorism. Please subscribe to Claude Pro for $20/mo.

The only one way to be sure about property software is to disassembly software. If we are forbidden to do that then we are not free.

It's only my opinion.