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1. mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jan-2024 10:04:07 UTC mcc

   There *has* been a lot of talk about the problems with so-called "AI" but one I don't feel gets enough attention is that "AI" products are surveillance products. "AI" is inevitably run in a cloud service, and in order for the AI to know what to generate some amount of the context within your application— usually it's not clear to the user what context, or how much— has to get sent to the cloud. The more of my local app state that gets transmitted over the Internet, the less comfortable I am.

   • Jeremy Wadhams (jeremywadhams@tooters.org)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jan-2024 10:04:05 UTC Jeremy Wadhams

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     @mcc yeah I don't want to knock NAT, that was an amazing insight with a zillion uses. But IPv6 *was* ready before my christmas tree needed an IP address 😂

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   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jan-2024 10:04:06 UTC mcc

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     • Jeremy Wadhams

     @jeremywadhams I do think NAT broke the world, but NAT was already an established concept before ipv6 was ready.

   • Jeremy Wadhams (jeremywadhams@tooters.org)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jan-2024 10:04:07 UTC Jeremy Wadhams

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     @mcc omg yes. I've been wondering recently if slow IPv6 adoption, which forced all homes to use IPv4 NAT, which makes things that should be done on LANs counterintuitively easier to do through a central public service, accidentally broke the entire world.