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Cake day: October 5th, 2023

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  • I found a number of articles specifically stating that video games and software remain illegal. Unfortunately I couldn’t pinpoint the specific part of the law as they appear to br written in French and was running into hurdles with Google Translate character limits that I couldn’t be bothered to work around.

    I’m not sure if it’s explicitly illegal or if music, videos, etc are explicitly exempted, or if software etc is different due to terms of service for example.

    Furthermore, it’s illegal for anyone to record your IP address torrenting a work and track you down that way as it violates Swiss data protection laws.



  • I don’t think it’s literally a search and replace but a part of the prompt that is hidden from the user and inserted either before or after the user’s prompt. Something like [all humans, unless stated otherwise, should be ethnically ambiguous]. Then when generating it’s got confused and taken it as he should be named ethnically ambiguous.












  • If you have an idealogical reason not to (like majority of the users in privacy based communities) then you already have your answer and you can read them in the comments.

    I’m going to be different here and answer from a practical perspective and say that sigh yes it’s probably fine to use WhatsApp if you already use Instagram.

    By this point Meta already knows more about you then you’d probably feel comfortable with. They’re very good at micro analysing every little signal you generate when you use their platform. I think it’s somewhere in the realm of $30 per user per year they make off the average Instagram user. That’s the value of how much data they have on you.

    WhatsApp users are not monetized so there’s less incentive to track you to that extent. Also, WhatsApp messages are mostly end-to-end encrypted. You are giving up your phone number but they probably already have it.

    If it were the other way around and you already used WhatsApp but not Instagram I would say NO. But as it is, WhatsApp does not represent a meaningfully significant decrease in your privacy if you already habitually use Instagram.