Apple just announced that more iCloud storage services (including photos) can be fully encrypted. Thankfully does not appear to include the problematic client-side CSAM detection/snitching. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/12/apple-advances-user-security-with-powerful-new-data-protections/
The recently agreed text of the Declaration of Digital Rights and Principles lacks clear definitions and overlooks existing good proposals.
It is incomprehensible that #FreeSoftware has been left out of such a benchmark text.
level 0: if it can be done with webtech, it should be done, and should be done with webtech
level 1: if a website needs to get browser permission to do something, then it's something that shouldn't be done by a website
level 2: if it requires the user to turn on javascript, then it shouldn't be done with a website
level 3: if it can't be done on stock w3m then it shouldn't be done on a website
level 4: it shouldn't be done on a website.
Hot take:
As somebody who loves computer-generated bullshit,
LLMs are not better enough than Markov chains to justify the extra resource use or implementation difficulty, & are good for exactly the same set of tasks (generating plausible sounding bullshit from a curated corpus & generating autocomplete suggestions from a curated corpus)
They sure don't make them like they used to.