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Because if you need a written confirmation that may conditionally not be given, you don’t actually have the right.

First of all you don't need it. Secondly, the regulation even states that the right is granted automatically anyway. Technically, the rule had been in place for the past 45+ years anyway - even when there was mandatory military service! - so it doesn't make any practical difference.

Then they should remove the law this weekend. Apparently it is bureaucracy without purpose after all?

> Apparently it is bureaucracy without purpose after all?

No it's not without purpose at all. The purpose is to know who could be drafted in a timely manner should the need arise. There's currently 2 major wars - sorry "special military operations" - happening, one of which in Europe.

A certain government involved in one of these simultaneously calls for allies to assist while at the same time openly questioning half a century of military alliances. So maybe this helps to understand why regulations like this make sense - even for people who never lived through a time when there was mandatory military service and take their own security for granted.


It has a purpose: to be ready when/if needed.

At the moment, the law has no teeth since they cannot stop anyone from just leaving without return ticket, and nothing happens when you return. Of course it would be very easy to change that, and that's the reason why it exists.

I went through SOC2 Type I and II. I’d say that most of that stuff is necessary, like splitting environments and so on. That doesn’t mean it’s anything close to sufficient to avoid being hacked.

It’s a framework to give you the direction, then if employees are careless (or even malicious), no security standard is complete enough to protect a company.


Not to be pedantic about the topic but SOC 2 is an auditing standard, not a security framework. It defines what you’ll be assessed against but it doesn’t tell you how to build your security program. You’ll find the prescriptive controls in real frameworks like ISO 27001, NIST CSF, or CIS Controls which do give you a structure for implementing security.

The thing is very simple: when watching TV I need to adjust my schedule to the shows I'd like to watch. With youtube (or any streaming platform), I can see them whenever I want, the platform adapts to my schedule.

Of course there are some exceptions, for example when I want to watch my national football team, I'd like to watch it live. Luckily, that won't be a problem anymore this year (Italy).


You used to be able to set your VCR to record the show at a certain time (and skip the ads by fast-forwarding). DVRs exist too. We have lost a lot of freedom.

I don’t think the schedule argument is a strong one these days. DVRs have been around for decades now, and built into satellite and cable services too. In fact, some TVs even have DVR functionality built in.

What annoys me is when streaming services release shows on a weekly basis. Which makes them just as inconvenient to watch as traditional broadcasting.


you could just, like, watch it the next day

do you need to binge all of the episodes at once?


But my point was that you cannot watch it the next day. You have to wait until the following week.

And why shouldn’t people binge all the episodes at once? If that’s how they want to watch a series then who are we to say it’s wrong?

Let’s also not forget that the entire point of this tangent was people wanting to watch shows on their own schedule.


They will eventually catch up, that’s the hope to avoid a techno feudalism in which too much power is in too few hands.

Old Veneto saying

    Ci non fa gnente, non sbaja mai
Translated

    Whoever does nothing never makes mistakes.
Even if, in this case, I really think that Apple has left something important behind, for example the STT of Siri is way behind Whisper and that was released in 2022!


Scarlett 2i2 has been amazing for me, I’d say unbeatable in terms of quality/price ratio.

This isn’t accurate, Palantir business model includes mass surveillance for military/security purposes; if a company is concerned with privacy should think twice before handling it to Palantir, even if with all the assurances they might give in terms of data governance.

> This isn’t accurate, Palantir business model includes mass surveillance for military/security purposes;

You realize that this is not mutually exclusive with what I just wrote?

Palantir builds software for military and security purposes. But the customers don't give this data to Palantir, custody of this data remains with the customer.


Even if Palantir only "processes" the data you have to assume they are making their own copies of it if they want to

It's not like tech companies deserve the benefit of the doubt when it comes to trust anymore, if they ever did


> Palantir builds software for military and security purposes. But the customers don't give this data to Palantir, custody of this data remains with the customer.

How is that possible if Palantir software runs on machines Palantir controls?


1. on prem 2. extremely strict data controls, if one of palantirs big customers found out data got leaked people are going to prison

Amen.

People seem to struggle with the concept of private datacenters these days. Palantir customers tend to be the sorts of orgs that are pretty paranoid about their data, and they wouldn't be handing it over to some schmucks without being confident that those concerns were addressed. Militaries and governments generally aren't fuckin around with things like intelligence data, so I think it's reasonable that Palantir is able to make a convincing case to the world's most paranoid orgs that their data isn't being sent anywhere (and it'd likely be air gapped anyway).

Just because everything you touch is in the cloud doesn't mean other orgs aren't still building their own datacenters and then buying software to run inside.


You think people go to prison for this sort of thing? How laughably quaint.

yes

am close with a few employees there


The on prem solution is probably 2X TCO of the hosted solution. I'm sure many orgs that should be strictly "on prem" are running hosted solutions due to budgetary concerns.

Heh, the fact that they aren’t mutually exclusive is the problem. Why give someone with mass surveillance ops in other domains access to yet another domain?

This is like saying a Swiss bank would share your secrets because shady people use Swiss banks. No. Confidentiality is literally built into their business model. Getting caught sharing customer data is one of the fastest ways for their business to crumble.

How many times are we gonna have to see businesses get caught sharing customer data before we learn to not just trust them?

What software from what companies do you use to store your personal data?

Being a customer of a bank and being in a Palantir dataset is not the same. The people in the data are not the customers of Palantir.

I’m sorry what? Confidentiality is built into palantirs business model? Do you even know who Palantir is? Your analogy makes zero sense

What’s up with all these Palantir shills in this thread


How does it not make sense? Companies all over the world trust their proprietary data with Palantir platforms. There’s no way they would do this if they thought Palantir was actually sharing data without their approval. If they were found out to have done this, companies would cease to trust Palantir and stop working with them

Palantirs main function is collecting massive amounts of data and mining it.

You and all the trolls in this thread can keep playing dumb


It’s definitely interesting, I already see a scenario in which vendors try optimizing their prompts for this kind of AI agents.


They’re trying to solve it by making it easier to get Markdown versions of websites.

For example, you can get a markdown out of most OpenAI documentation by appending .md like this: https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/libraries.md

Not definitive, but still useful.


They should create a benchmark and compare AI against the best possible DJing state of the art: Mexican wedding DJs :)


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