Rikj000
@Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de
Full stack developer and privacy advocate. I like to keep the mentality, if you can program one language well, then you can program in any language!
- Comment on Do you have to be a tool and screw with me while I'm eating? 5 weeks ago:
Raccoon thoughts:
Nooo muh grapes! D:
…
Well guess you really want some,
fine you can have that one.Human:
Does not take gift
and continues harassing coon :c - Comment on Valve ban advertising-based business models on Steam, no forced adverts like in mobile games 2 months ago:
That’s nice and all,
but when will they tackle loot boxes?That shit has pushed plenty of minors into gambling addictions, but they don’t crack down on it, since they get a sweet cut of it all.
Valve in general isn’t the worst company,
but they’re far from innocent as well. - Comment on How one YouTuber is trying to poison the AI bots stealing her content 2 months ago:
If the fines regarding to it are in proportion with the revenue of the business, then it likely would make a lot of them think twice about doing so.
I agree that it’s hard to enforce the rules,
and that some would still ignore them.
However updating the rules give the abused people a chance of getting justice/consolidation for their stolen work, and diminishes the chance of companies breaking the rules.It would not combat bit torrent (P2P) piracy.
But that’s also not that important imo.
Most pirates are rather poor folks,
just trying to watch/play some content which they can’t afford, they make up for a rather neglible amount of the profit that can be had.However it would combat billion dollar companies that would use pirated content to train LLMs to sell further. All they need is x1 internal whistleblower about doing so, and they could be fined with an amount larger then the risk is worth.
- Comment on How one YouTuber is trying to poison the AI bots stealing her content 2 months ago:
No copyright law seems dangerous to me,
why create content if you can just steal it,
and earn on the back of the original creator without consequences?I think I’d rather see it updated instead.
E.g. To hold AI companies and users accountable.
So they need explicit approval of copyright holders before they’re allowed to train upon / use their data. - Comment on Authorities urge U.S. citizens to use encrypted messaging apps to combat Chinese telco hackers 4 months ago:
This is actually quite good news!
Hear me out though.Encryption has been under attack by government instances for a while now.
They always aim to weaken / backdoor it,
so that they can spy on all their citizens.China abused the backdoor implemented by the US government,
which sends a message across the world,
being: “Do not backdoor encryption to spy on your citizens, or other countries might abuse it”Hopefully this will put a stop to governments attacking encryption, at least for a while,
since now they’re reminded of the risks which it brings! :) - Comment on How to improve your Lemmy experience 5 months ago:
That’s true,
but hey, filtering and blocking out 90% of the unwanted/negative content is already way better then getting blasted by the full 100%! :D - Comment on How to improve your Lemmy experience 5 months ago:
Bliss for mental health indeed,
been doing this for a while now,
zero regrets. - Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
Spying on you :P
That’s why I replaced it with MicroG:
microg.org - Comment on is iceraven a good fork of firefox? 7 months ago:
Happily been using it for a few years by now.
The enhanced privacy, extension and about:config support are great features to have.
- Comment on Nintendo Issues Multiple DMCAs On The Modding Site 'GameBanana' 10 months ago:
*Nintendont
The lawsuit company which makes games on the side strikes again.
- Comment on Nvidia is now worth $102M per employee 10 months ago:
= AI bubble
- Comment on Was it hunter2 or hunter3 11 months ago:
I won’t disclose where I store mine.
But I’d recommend to:
- Not backup your PW manager’s database + key file in the same location
(That would decrease security, x1 data breach would allow them to easily brute force your PW DB since they’ll have the key) - Not go with a PW manager that does not allow you to choose a location where you desire to backup to (Seen plenty of mainstream PW managers getting data breached by now, so going with a cloud, which is not solely used for PW managers, has an advantage imo, since they tend to be less targeted by hackers)
I’ve been happily using KeeWeb + Keepass2Android for years now:
- Not backup your PW manager’s database + key file in the same location
- Comment on Was it hunter2 or hunter3 11 months ago:
2 words for you: Password Manager
Get around to using one :P
I only remember my password to my PW manager, which additionally is encrypted with a key file to increase security.
The rest of my PWs are 128 character long random generated PWs, with capitals, numbers, special characters etc…
- Comment on WTF is up with the Tik Tok Ban? 11 months ago:
No matter the nationality,
spyware is not okay…Never has been, never will be.
It’s a form of oppression,
and an invasion upon your rights (to privacy). - Comment on WTF is up with the Tik Tok Ban? 11 months ago:
Is that shit finally banned?
Never signed up, but happy to see that brain rotting app go away.But I wouldn’t stop there, imo all GAFAM (Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft) spyware should get the boot.
- Comment on Why did they move the comments to the right 1 year ago:
Eww, still using the official spyware?
Why not try out a privacy respecting frontend?
www.privacyguides.org/en/frontends/#youtube - Comment on Kids Online Safety Act gains enough supporters to pass the Senate 1 year ago:
Figure out which politicians are behind this.
And throw them out since they are trying to take away your rights (to privacy).They are looking to apply mass surveillance upon you guys wrapped into a “For the kids safety” package as usual…
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Thank you for sharing that link.
And man happy to be on tchncs lately! :D - Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Hope my and other instances will de-federate from Threads/Meta.
We don’t need that spyware giant in the fediverse…
- Comment on Why school didn't teach you about money | Answer In Progress 1 year ago:
Oh I see.
Still thank you for teaching the next generation.
It’s under appreciated,
but oh so important work that you’re doing,
keep it up! :) - Comment on Why school didn't teach you about money | Answer In Progress 1 year ago:
Shouldn’t you report that to the head of school?
He should be able to know in which grade that topic should have been teached.
And then slap the corresponding teacher on the wrist for not doing their job correctly?
- Comment on Why school didn't teach you about money | Answer In Progress 1 year ago:
Sure you can’t prepare students for everything life will throw at them.
They don’t even teach basic economics, like what is deficit spending, what is fractional banking, and how it lead to hyper inflation every time throughout the history of humanity.
That’s what I call keeping people intentionally dumb about the topic.
- Comment on Why school didn't teach you about money | Answer In Progress 1 year ago:
I disagree with under funded,
all students need is 1 course on the matter,
1 teacher a few hours a week,
which is not crazy expensive.