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- Comment on Is Vine back? Short-form video-sharing app Divine opens to public 33 minutes ago:
Nostr was made by cryptobros (including Head Bro Jack Dorsey) basically for exchanging cryptocurrency.
Everything @Sxan@piefed.zip said about it, I agree with
- Comment on There's No Reason to Buy a New Phone Anymore 1 day ago:
Globally, the size of the industry could reach $153.4 billion this year…
For reference this is the “Second-hand Electronic Products Market”; I’ve never heard it referred to as an industry but I guess it is. And good. It’s deserved. Phone manufactures certainly don’t deserve credit for mediocre devices.
as Nabila Popal, a senior director at the International Data Corporation, reminded me, prices reflect demand: If people keep buying up the used gadgets, those prices are bound to shoot up, too.
Hopefully it’ll be less extreme than with desktops/RAM, though. Phones are at least single units that aren’t so easy to be hoarded or cannibalized for the most expensive parts in them. Most people who want a good phone won’t go out and buy 4-8 mediocre ones. Most people who want a good phone can settle for a popular flagship across several years manufacture, which might have been leased out previously.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Facebook users are the parents, aunts, uncles, and technologically illiterate friends of uBO users :)
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Website seems kinda sus (via Reddit)
My experience with StackSocial is mixed. Yes, I did buy MS Office Professional 2021 from them, and successfully downloaded the software, and the product key worked for me. The software functions as expected. However, I started getting massive amounts of spam, mostly from east European countries, in my inbox. I had to block the spam country codes on my email provider’s webpage (Yahoo) and route the email from Stack Social, which they send out multiple times per day, to my Junk folder automatically. It took a while to get rid of most of the spam. I still get an odd one here and there after 2 years.
I’d take the deal if I knew it was basically a donation towards whoever’s maintaining the filters, I’m just not sure about where that cash is going.
And in a case like this I’d want to use a disposable email address and disposable card for the actual purchase. Which I have (hooray) but most people may not
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I don’t like this thought process for all the reasons I listed above. I hate Facebook, but I have friends who either appreciate it or need it for things like work.
But even if you consider all Facebook users to be inferior by nature, this blocking won’t stop on Facebook. If it works, why would it?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
It’s a small team, they do great work and keep the internet functional for a huge chunk of us, and they’re burned out. It’s a defeat.
Putting work into blocking any ads is phenomenal, and tackling Facebook as long as they did is heroic, full stop. I’m a little bummed that there seems to be no way to donate to the uAssets team.
However no one who uses adblock should be using Facebook either, it’s a garbage platform that is literally 97% ads.
I hate Facebook with a burning passion, but I believe it’s important to keep blocking ads on it because
- Philosophically, ad blockers aren’t just for niche websites, they are supposed to be general-purpose content blockers for literally everybody, which is part of the purpose of web browsers: to be a user agent. (I saw a lot of people use this point back when Google was contemplating implementing Manifest V3, which ultimately prevented as users from using a browser the way they chose)
- I bet a lot of people who use content blockers are not nearly as invested in privacy technology as us, which is perfectly fine, especially if it provides a gateway into being more aware.
- The more normalized content blocking is (e.g. if it’s even for Facebook boomers who don’t care about privacy), the harder it is for it to be written off as some niche activity.
- Comment on Judge rules Meta caused "public nuisance" and must fund mental health treatment 1 week ago:
Meta said it will appeal the ruling, telling media outlets, “We work hard to keep people safe on our platforms and have been transparent about the challenges of identifying and removing bad actors and harmful content.”
Meanwhile in the real world:
According to the Wall Street Journal, in 2018 an engineer in charge of one of Facebook’s community integrity teams, David Erb, found that “the most frequent way adults found children to prey upon” was People You May Know. The Journal also reported that a few days later, Erb found that Meta was planning to add encryption to Facebook messages, something that would prevent the company from fixing the problem, threatening to resign in protest. He was placed on leave not long after, eventually leaving.
- Submitted 1 week ago to technology@beehaw.org | 39 comments
- Comment on Ford's affordable EV pickup is named Fathom, and it will start at $28,350 1 week ago:
frunk trunk (frunk).
- Comment on The size decrease of fast-food over the last 5 years. 1 week ago:
It’s basically a synonym for “calories”
- Comment on The offline messaging apps challenging internet shutdowns 2 weeks ago:
Thank you so much for the Columba recommendation! I played around with it enough to connect two devices over Bluetooth LE, and I assume if I had the extra hardware, I’d be able to use a LoRa radio with it too (looks like the option to flash it is simply built into the app).
I might need to look into the privacy implications of turning on a Bluetooth radio at a local event when a lot of recommendations say you should leave your phone at home, but this at least seems promising if somebody had a second device specifically for these things.
- Comment on The offline messaging apps challenging internet shutdowns 2 weeks ago:
I want to like it, but
- the learning curve
- the extra hardware requirements
- the state of the software ecosystem
- the (lack of) reliability in my experience
- schisms with even choosing how to communicate
all make it feel to me like a project for comfortable hobbyists at hackathons, not a serious protest communication tool.
- Comment on AI-generated stories rated better quality than human-written ones, study finds 2 weeks ago:
I think you’re taking the doomer narrative a bit too seriously, especially with that final paragraph. The prominent pushers of said narrative usually have something they want to sell, or a real-world issue to distract you from. Some (Yudkowsky) from their cults, some (Altman, Amodei) to enable monopoly or drive profits. Short stories do not an AI apocalypse make.
Sources need to be vetted and held to account when they are wrong or make unfalsifiable statements.
- Comment on AI-generated stories rated better quality than human-written ones, study finds 2 weeks ago:
I like how story pair #1’s AI just took the prompt and basically kept repeating “yeah, them’s fish” over and over without any attempt at significance
- Comment on Microsoft CEO Touts His Own DIY AI Project To Wall Street and His 20 Million Followers 2 weeks ago:
Satya, I don’t think you can use the AI as a scapegoat for collecting sensitive data, when you’re on video bragging about being the one plugging it in.
- Comment on OpenAI finds evidence other AI agents escaped containment as it widens hacking probe 2 weeks ago:
“Anthropic is getting all the news cycles about their agents breaching containment*, quick let’s leak some more stories too!” - Sam Altman probably
* there was no containment to breach, the chatbots had full internet access to begin with
- Comment on Anthropic says its own AI models breached three companies during security tests 3 weeks ago:
How can I give you a billion dollars fast enough?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I absolutely second this.
Somebody in this thread - among insistence that nobody would ever behave badly in DMs - posted a public call to " expose “ any friends of AdmiralPatrick.
Over sixty people read the message calling a person “cancer” and gave it a thumbs-up. No pushback from the righteous people here.
It’s not lost on me that it’s identical to what AdmiralPatrick did - calling his enemies bigots and probably using it as justification for DDOSing db0. Or that “expose” is the euphemism used by people who do the doxxing to feel less dirty about their behavior.
- Comment on Stop Talking To Me, Google Search 3 weeks ago:
Not sure if this makes it inherently bad because it’s still not in the US, has a decent privacy policy, and the ads are contextual to your search, not targeted at any identity.
- Comment on Stop Talking To Me, Google Search 3 weeks ago:
Are websites still protected by Section 230 when the results are editorialized on the fly by an LLM?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Why are you running around to random posts and notifying me about random accusations you’re making at me? I’ve made my criticisms of AdmiralPatrick clear, you’re just trying to do this weird obsessive witch hunt thing @godsammitdam@lemmy.zip . Stop, please.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I appreciate your goodwill in calling for “exposing” someone when that word means “doxxing” in many contexts, and in saying the 4chan “pizza” call is not relevant. I’m sure people could march up to you holding a swastika screaming “blood and soil” and you’d think they were just a Hindu fan of dirt and medicine.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
You were casually referencing a “pizzagate codeword” that meant… what exactly, @godsammitdam@lemmy.zip ?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
What do you think “cheese pizza” means as you referenced it, @godsammitdam@lemmy.zip ?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
@tutter@lemmy.blahaj.zone, the doxxing enthusiast @godsammitdam@lemmy.zip is making the exact kind of barely veiled threats that would be expected. If you think there’s an innocent explanation, you need to be the one to provide it.
Otherwise, for literally no reason, @godsammitdam@lemmy.zip is proving the allegations to be true.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
you ignored my comments on your other posts and instead answered here
The comments that were identical and would have required you to stalk my profile to find them?
you’re effectively running cover for the tesseract dev
I see you priming your doxxing threats to go on the attack against someone who dared question you.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I’m glad you asked! godsammitdam@lemmy.zip later referenced sending pizza to people who disagreed with him, which is a physical address locating threat as old as 4chan.
If you were asking genuinely, this would bother you.
And if you weren’t…. I’m sure the people looking to paint Lemmy in a bad light would appreciate your inauthenticity.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
They are threats, @godsammitdam@lemmy.zip. The “pizza delivery” doxxing method is over a decade old. That is a threat to expose an address.
What validates this degree of hate in your eyes? What causes you to threaten the livelihood of people who don’t agree with you?
Simply saying I do not believe your extremism should be welcomed here?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I’m not disappointed by you. I realize hatred will exist in any community of political extremism. I’m disappointed by the lack of people who refuse to acknowledge your open and public threats as threats.
Even as a survival instinct, people who love your hatred should act offended by you, and to pretend you’re a fed and not an authentic member of their group.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
who you’re protecting… we might’ve found another right winger to expose.
As I expected: by questioning your witch hunt, you’ve added me to your list of targets. You’re just replicating Candace Owens in your genuinely deranged vigilantism. As you defend her behavior.
I remember the use of ordering pizza as an explicit method for demonstrating you doxxed people. Seriously, why are you acting like this? Even if you’re the most morally correct leftist on earth, you are also the most gross. Or to put it in a way leftists understand: the most obvious fed, the brightest glowir.
