ExtremeDullard

@ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org

• Meta’s AI rules have let bots hold ‘sensual’ chats with kids, offer false medical infowww.reuters.com ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man Charged With Assaulting Federal Agent With Sandwich in D.C. | A video showed a man repeatedly calling a group of officers “fascists” before throwing a sub sandwich at one.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What a wasted opportunity to throw a taco at them…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flipper Zero 'DarkWeb' Firmware Bypasses Rolling Code Security on Major Vehicle Brands⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I have tried to record / replay my FIAT keyfob with my F0, and it did unlock the car once. Then I spend a bunch of having the remote lock replaced.

  I’d like more evidence that this works reliably before attempting the same thing again…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Inverse Thinking] How do I make sure my place gets messy again after I thoroughly cleaned and organized it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My answer to this is: don’t clean and organize anything. Wherever my wife lets me get away with it, it’s been working great for me for the past 35 years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft equipped Israel’s "indiscriminate" Palestinian surveillance operation with Azure cloud tech, claims report⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm, what does that remind me of I wonder…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Citizen Lab director warns cyber industry about US authoritarian descent⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  the people running the show are *also* bumbling fucking morons.

  The morons in and around the White House aren’t the ones running the show. They’re puppets, and the puppetmasters are the Heritage Foundation. And THEY are anything but morons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Citizen Lab director warns cyber industry about US authoritarian descent⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  descent into a kind of fusion of tech and fascism

  This isn’t new.

  One of the defining traits of fascism is the private sector is in cahoots with the government. In fact, that’s the root of the words fascism: fasces in Latin means bundle - the bundling of state and private interests.

  Corporations have no principles and no morals: whatever will make more money, they’ll ro-ro with. When it takes colluding with an authoritatian regime, they have no problems getting onboard.

  The danger today compared to IBM helping the Nazi is of course that today’s computers are vastly more powerful than mechanical tabulators. This is going to turbocharge the dystopia orders of magnitudes.

  And finally, people have been lulled into a false sense of security and convinced to give away a lot more personal information than they should’ve for the past 25 years - the “I have nothing to hide, why do I need privacy?” fallacy. Now they’re going to find out why they should have been careful. I almost want to say “I told you so” every day, having been called a paranoid crackpot for the past 25 years, but it’s so sad and so too late that this isn’t anything to gloat about…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man in court accused of lacing sweets with sedatives before summer camp children fell ill⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  White English man harms a child, silence.

  Prince Andrew is English and white, and he’s still making noise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man in court accused of lacing sweets with sedatives before summer camp children fell ill⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why did he do this? Spite? Noisy kids? The article makes no mention of pedo shenanigans, and from what I gather, he poisoned the children but didn’t hang around waiting for them to fall asleep to take advantage of them. Weird…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The White House Rose Garden was replaced by pavement⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was expecting it to be vulgarly gilded. The orange utan is letting himself go.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zuckerberg says people without AI glasses will be at a disadvantage in the future⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Zuckerberg can keep his dystopian digital world and shove it. My digital world is free of surveillance and doesn’t require AI anything - let alone glasses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have most people never seen a full starry night sky⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I live way up north in the boonies. My first neighbor is 5 miles from my place. Our sky is perfectly clear with zero light pollution. We get all the stars and the northern lights too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Fediverse moderation, even more Draconian than Reddit?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably some tankie administrator of one community read your comment in another and decided to preemptively ban you. I’m banned from multiple tankie communities I’ve never even set foot in myself. Not that I care 🙂

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Fediverse moderation, even more Draconian than Reddit?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The solution is: when you get banned for no good reason, block the community - or the entire instance in extreme cases of craziness like Hexbear or Lemmygrad. Then it disappears from your Lemmy experience entirely and you never need be frustrated ever again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Fediverse moderation, even more Draconian than Reddit?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you get banned from tankie communities? Because that’s ridiculously easy. Those people are fucking crazy.

  Don’t fret it. View it as social Darwinism: whichever communities banned you for posting what you thought were reasonable comments, you probably don’t want to partake in anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hand cranked and twisted⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  so, no Quinoa?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wayland Will Never Be Ready For Every X11 User⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve switched to Wayland a few weeks ago on my new laptop and it took me quite a while to figure things out, but mostly it’s functionally complete for me compared to X.

  The main difference is mostly that it’s really complicated to achieve simple things in Wayland, like nesting Wayland servers or remoting Wayland sessions, but that’s mostly because there aren’t convenient, ready-made, universal solutions to do these things in Wayland yet - which, I agree, after 16 years of existence of Wayland, is utterly stupid.

  But after working on it for some time, it’s all there for me. The only thing that I really miss is a decent RDP server that works in Sway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nobody in webdev knows what graceful degradation is anymore⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  that and fucking ads galore

  And trackers.

  And Javascript that give you the time in the page, as if you didn’t have a clock on your desktop.
  And Javascript that give you a fake chat window to talk to a shitty AI nobody wants in the bottom-right corner. And Javascript to annoy you with GDPR shit everybody absent-mindedly click away anyway. And Javascript to inform you that the site uses cookies, as if it mattered since it won’t work without cookies.

  And of course, all that is done by loading megabytes and megabytes of shit recursively from a kajillion nested addresses because web "developers couldn’t code tight code if their lives depended on it. All they do is import pre-chewed shit that act as trojans for more trackers and more ads to serve up barf people by and large don’t give a shit about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nobody in webdev knows what graceful degradation is anymore⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Funny, from my standpoint, more functional JavaScript almost always feels like service degradation - as in, the more I block, the better and the faster the website runs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Copilot Rooted to Gain Unauthorized Root Access to its Backend System⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Easy fix: don’t use Copilot. Even when it’s not exploited, it’s good advice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI video is invading YouTube Shorts and Google Photos starting today⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Youtube shorts - aka the Tiktokization of Youtube.

  I can’t stand the format. Luckily, they can be filtered out in third party players.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump Media Is Now a $2 Billion Bitcoin Bet⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Now would be a very satisfying time for the crypto bubble to collapse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta’s Body-Reading Wristband Is Getting a Lot More Sophisticated⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I won’t wear the Facebook body-reading wristband because I don’t want creepy Zuckerberg reading my body - or anything else about me for that matter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DOGE staffer with access to Americans' personal data leaked private xAI API key | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ouch. But who hasn’t?

  I haven’t. Committing keys in git repos is beyond sloppy. Whoever does it needs to be fired immediately.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Internet regulation is entering its hall pass era⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The best thing that could happen to the UK is that most internet sites just didn’t bother and stopped serving the UK. Kind of like how some US sites decline to serve up pages to European visitors because they couldn’t be bothered to be GDPR-compliant.

  Unlike Europe though, the UK isn’t big enough to matter all that much. So if a large enough number of sites stopped catering to UK visitors, the authorities would quickly backpedal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DOGE staffer with access to Americans' personal data leaked private xAI API key | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem is, they’re a bunch of talentless clowns with nefarious intents and access to your sensitive data.

• DOGE staffer with access to Americans' personal data leaked private xAI API key | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are password managers secure to use?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t use them. I make the effort to remember my passwords - or rather, my recipes to recreate any complex passwords.

  The only safe storage form for your passwords is your noggin’. The next best thing is probably a password manager - although that depends on how trustworthy whoever coded it is - but it certainly isn’t as secure as using your brain if your brain works properly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ride-hailing giants’ electric promises are stalling worldwide⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not true: electric buses are a great success in Europe. They qualify as ride-hailing and as electric vehicles 🙂

  What’s not doing well is the antisocial ride-hailing electric transportation model that requires one huge vehicle per person so that person doesn’t have to sit next to someone else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who's the most ridiculed POTUS of history?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would say Trump. The problem is, ridiculous come from the Latin for laughable, and fascism is no laughing matter.

  Next in line would be Dubya. He was a bit less fascist - although Gitnoi detainees probably beg to disagree - but more amusing.

  So I vote for Dubya, despite the fascism.