Encrypt-Keeper

The latter. But the mechanism is the same.

Yes… a problem not solved by an AG

The Attorney General cannot pardon or commute the sentence of somebody whose judgement is past.

The issue with that is, presidential pardons exist for a reason, as a solution to a problem, in part one of injustice and abuse of power of the legislative branch. Among a few other things, It’s purpose is a safety valve against unjust and cruel laws passed by a theoretically tyrannical or apathetic legislature.

It’s easy to look at this from the lens of “The President is corrupt and Congress is good” and so we decide to let Congress take the pardon power away, but then what happens when you have the inverse situation where Congress is corrupt but the president is good? Now the president has no power to protect genuinely innocent people from injustice.

This is what the American system of checks and balances is about. Every check is both a solution to corruption and a potential lever of corruption. The point is to split the power up so that while some corruption can happen, it’s the least likely to be able to become absolute. We cannot implicitly trust in the President, Congress, or the courts. And whenever there is a hard choice to make between “Punish innocent people” or “Allow the guilty to walk free”, the framers of the constitution erred on the side of the latter.

But ultimately, we do have other mechanisms to deal with this. Specifically impeachment (Which pardons cannot be granted for), and the ability for us to vote out the president, or a legislature that is enabling them. Also the president cannot pardon anyone for state crimes.

It’s a very messy, imperfect solution. But it has largely worked for 250 years.

Trump will just preemptively pardon them anyway the same way Biden did

The last Dem presidency gave us Lina Khan who was absolutely tearing it up until Trump fired her

Respectfully to you personally as your heart is absolutely in the right place, Americans do not need or at this point want Canadian forgiveness. Canadians have their own problems with their far right neighbors that they will continue to underestimate until it’s too late. And when that happens, the majority of Americans — who respect and support Canada and its people, who were outraged over the governments treatment of Canada, and who turned that outrage into action through protests and yesterdays rejection of the current government, will remember how Canadians turned on them.

The global rise of far-right authoritarianism defies borders and those of us standing against it should have been standing shoulder to shoulder, but instead Canada would rather blame all Americans while burying its head in the sand and pretending like the same thing couldn’t happen there. As if America is somehow uniquely susceptible to a problem that has been plaguing the entire world. First they doubted Americans would deliver on the rejection of its government, and now that they have, they disqualify it.

We should and we have to put things to rights with Canada because it’s the right thing to do, and it’s what our northern neighbors deserve, but frankly the holier-than-thou pearl clutching that has dominated online Canadian-American discourse has sucked the well of Canadian sympathy dry for a lot of people.

How do I delete someone else’s Lemmy account?

Andy Yen’s political afilliations are one thing, but this does indicate an imminent decline in the function of the product.

You’d be surprised at how many people on Lemmy have decided Proton is lying to people and secretly sharing all your data with US authorities because of the handful of times they have been ordered to by law hand over metadata that does not include the content of their data.

These people then say to ditch Proton and use Tutanota instead as if they they somehow won’t be compelled to do the exact same thing.

I have never bought into the Proton hate seen on Lemmy, as most if not all of it came from a fundamental misunderstanding of how technology works. And if anything, this report confirms that the employees inside Proton really do seem to care about the product.

But ultimately, if the CEO is this hostile internally, those employees will leave and the product will just enshittify at an exponential rate. This is actually some very damning insight into the future of Proton.

Proton has a couple competitors that are viable to switch to, if not somewhat half baked next to Proton. But it’s important to understand for the people who have been berating Proton for handing over metadata to authorities and similar things, that Tutanota and other competitors will have all the same problems. Tuta is based in Germany which is a member of 14 eyes, and will if anything be more susceptible to the whims of the US government than Proton was.

As an American, who is entirely against the current administrations hostile behavior towards its allies, I’m glad that this debacle has at least spurred other nations to into separating themselves from America’s BigTech grasp. GDPR was only ever going to be a half measure as long as foreign governments continued to rely on American controlled infrastructure, and American made software and cloud services.

This is the kind of thing that should happen regardless of the temperature of diplomatic relations with the U.S.

From the article (And OPs title)

“there are still no signs of AI boosting productivity growth.”

Mine got past that phase and now we’re in the being selective about who gets the AI subscription, and lowering token budgets phase.

It was expensive, sure. But not entirely nonviable across the board like we see today with AI. It’s not even close.

Those “Big companies that could afford to negotiate Bandwidth prices” don’t even exist in the AI context of today. They’re still speculative. If the bubble pops before that speculative future comes to fruition, the development of the technology towards that end stops.

The companies operating frontier models and AI as a viable technology on the scale it exists today are inseparable. If the big players died tomorrow you’d still have that vastly inferior local model that would be good enough for light work for awhile, but without all the eye-popping amounts of money to continue training and scraping data on unprecedented scale, its usefulness would fade over time. Most companies today would not feasibly be able to host and train their own models to be used in the ways they use frontier models today.

LLMs would still exist as a niche solution for some things but what AI fundamentally is, and how it could be used would be entirely different in very short order.

Depending on when the bubble bursts, It would effectively be. AI needs this continuous terminal upwards velocity of investment with no profit to show for it in order to keep improving despite the diminishing returns we’ve been seeing. It’s viability as a long term technology is uniquely dependent on it reaching a state of efficiency or otherwise capability that doesn’t yet exist.

I really wonder why it is that the pro-ai fanatics are so sure it will stick around just as it is today without anyway to actually pay for it.

Websites aren’t also incredibly resource heavy money holes with no proven path to viable profitability.

What use AI has doesn’t matter if it’s untenable to continue to operate long term. Whether or not AI is here to stay is entirely reliant on its ability to turn a profit.

Holy shit computer hardware road pirates in the year of our lord 2026. What a wacky world we live in