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Formerly u/CanadaPlus101 on Reddit.
- Comment on The most invasive cookie/tracker option is listed as “Platinum” while the most privacy-respecting option is merely “Silver” 22 hours ago:
Man, they really are trying everything to get you to click the magic button.
- Comment on Engineer proves that Kohler’s smart toilet cameras aren’t very private 2 days ago:
Not shocked. The fact other people might be shocked just tells you how out of control trust in the magic boxes and the people who sell them has gotten. When they collect something more sensitive or embarrassing, people just assume the security and regulation is tighter to match.
- Comment on My Car Is Becoming a Brick: EVs are poised to age like smartphones. 1 week ago:
Putting aside from the implied EV context, I’m not sure I’d go that far. They were repairable, but had a lot of proprietary design in them as well.
I would still go with one of the “legacy” manufacturers, though.
- Comment on My Car Is Becoming a Brick: EVs are poised to age like smartphones. 1 week ago:
FairCar when?
- Comment on Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing the economy 1 week ago:
X to doubt.
About the “hurting the economy” part. Replacing more stuff = more economy is a well-known economics fallacy and they should know better.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Oh? What else have they said? I didn’t know there was a reputation for fibbing.
- Comment on 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
Wow, I’m surprised that got it up that high in a practical application.
- Comment on 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
Wasn’t Element going to integrate into it as well?
- Comment on Youtube can detect VPNs now... the fuck? 5 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 5 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 5 weeks ago:
A link, because I don’t see one in this very clickbait-feeling source.
- Comment on 5 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? 5 weeks ago:
That seems like a failure on their part. Buy more exit IPs.
- Comment on Youtube can detect VPNs now... the fuck? 5 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? 5 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Dope. This one is new to me…
- Comment on AI couldn't create an image of a woman like me - until now 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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’ 2 months 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’ 2 months 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’ 2 months 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 2 months ago:
I mean with malice aforethought by a particular person. Foreseeable or unnecessary accidents are still accidents.