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- Comment on 21 hours ago:
Yeah, but they were talking about building out WhatsApp third party compatibility on top of it.
There already was Element One, which bridged to a bunch of things for a small subscription fee, although it had to break E2EE to do so. I’m finding a lot of broken links now, though.
- Comment on This Spiral-Obsessed AI 'Cult' Spreads Mystical Delusions Through Chatbots 1 day ago:
Wow, I’m surprised that got it up that high in a practical application.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
They let OpenWhisper do the underlying protocol, so it’s solid. Beats the shit out of a plain text message anyway, and people might actually have it.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
Wasn’t Element going to integrate into it as well?
- Comment on Youtube can detect VPNs now... the fuck? 2 weeks ago:
Well, you can put your DNS requests over the proxy as well, so kinda a skill issue. I don’t know if people do though - you’re the professional.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Now that I’ve actually looked at it, what they did exactly is make an apparatus with continuously adjustable resolution and try to get people to distinguish two fairly similar clips until they couldn’t anymore.
Actual maximum pixel-per-visual-degree values varied quite a bit based on colours involved and the like.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
A link, because I don’t see one in this very clickbait-feeling source.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
It sounds like the study actually did include display distance, and gave different requirements depending.
- Comment on Youtube can detect VPNs now... the fuck? 2 weeks ago:
That seems like a failure on their part. Buy more exit IPs.
- Comment on Youtube can detect VPNs now... the fuck? 2 weeks ago:
Because all the videos are still there.
If that seems like a self-perpetuating problem, it’s because it is.
- Comment on Youtube can detect VPNs now... the fuck? 2 weeks ago:
It seems like most people will believe any technical-looking message shown to them.
- Comment on Spit On, Sworn At, and Undeterred: What It’s Like to Own a Cybertruck 4 weeks ago:
Like, libertarians? I have to think anyone seriously down the chud rabbithole would be embarrassed to even ride in one.
- Comment on Spit On, Sworn At, and Undeterred: What It’s Like to Own a Cybertruck 4 weeks ago:
Looks like somebody’s backpedalling on a definite political statement after it became personally inconvenient.
- Comment on Viral ‘Cheater Buster’ Sites Use Facial Recognition to Let Anyone Reveal Peoples’ Tinder Profiles 4 weeks ago:
It’s still possible to be off of the digital surveillance grid, but it is hard and a small subculture at best. I’m in it.
The Clarke book brought up elsewhere had the the right idea, but the wrong manifestation.
- Comment on Viral ‘Cheater Buster’ Sites Use Facial Recognition to Let Anyone Reveal Peoples’ Tinder Profiles 4 weeks ago:
It’s a logical conclusion of facial recognition and mass indexing existing that anywhere remotely public you put your face is just public.
I have less of a problem with that than the fact an illusion of privacy is created anyway. Now we have a whole part of our economy that exists because people don’t really understand it’s there.
- Comment on Viral ‘Cheater Buster’ Sites Use Facial Recognition to Let Anyone Reveal Peoples’ Tinder Profiles 4 weeks ago:
Dope. This one is new to me…
- Comment on AI couldn't create an image of a woman like me - until now 4 weeks ago:
Image generation often happens in a kind of region by region way, too, so not just continuing the arm might be hard.
It’s annoying that she asked ChatGTP why it was doing that and they reported the answer uncritically.
- Comment on The AI bubble is 17 times the size of the dot-com frenzy and four times the subprime bubble, analyst says 5 weeks ago:
Hmm, the graph given is sus. The trend starts before the AI sector was really a thing.
- Comment on Everything we know about Ferrari’s first electric vehicle 5 weeks ago:
Damn, so you could basically drive like a madman and not lose any power because of it.
- Comment on Everything we know about Ferrari’s first electric vehicle 5 weeks ago:
with a maximum regen deceleration of 0.68 G before the carbon-ceramic friction brakes take over.
That sounds like a lot. Is that a lot?
- Comment on Why Conservatives Are Attacking ‘Wokepedia’ 1 month ago:
Ah, okay. So it comes down to a strict definition of “belief” which requires total certainty. I’ve seen it used that way before, but when I say I believe something, I never mean there’s no chance I’m mistaken.
- Comment on Why Conservatives Are Attacking ‘Wokepedia’ 1 month ago:
I think one can take that even further. It’s possible that the fact that people who rely on truth and morality (which is a human constant if not a natural one) converge, is the whole reason either one has a place in our society. Almost all our instincts lead us away from them, otherwise.
So do you believe in an objective reality, or not? You said a couple of opposite things there.
- Comment on Why Conservatives Are Attacking ‘Wokepedia’ 1 month ago:
It’s kind of a tale as old as time. If there’s a socially correct way to think, and at least two people, they’re inevitably going to disagree on which way that is at some point, and splinter into subfactions that hate each other.
Lemmy has examples of this already.
- Comment on American media is freaking about homicides on transit 1 month ago:
I mean with malice aforethought by a particular person. Foreseeable or unnecessary accidents are still accidents.
- Comment on American media is freaking about homicides on transit 1 month ago:
I suppose, although bus collisions tend to have a pretty low fatality rate as well.
- Comment on American media is freaking about homicides on transit 1 month ago:
Ah yes, what a masterpiece of a campaign. Although other Canadians I’ve shown it to seem horrified.
I could be wrong - they clearly happen. But it takes relatively more effort to get run over by a train than a car whizzing by a sidewalk driven by literally whoever.
- Comment on American media is freaking about homicides on transit 1 month ago:
Am I missing something, or was that the point of this post?
- Comment on American media is freaking about homicides on transit 1 month ago:
I mean, they are pretty rarely on purpose.
The bar for accidental transit deaths is probably even lower.
- Comment on President Trump suggested people shouldn’t feel sorry for Joe Biden over his cancer diagnosis 1 month ago:
And somehow, the Democrats don’t learn.
- Comment on No thanks 1 month ago:
Exactly.