WhyJiffie
@WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on 🤔 Interesting 18 hours ago:
the point still stands. they are allowed, we are not, and we need to hide doing it.
- Comment on 🤔 Interesting 22 hours ago:
We need to figure out why humans are so quick to all clump up as one submissive blob, who follows the will of whoever claims to have power.
because people like when decisions are made for them, and they don’t have to think to make those decisions for themselves.
- Comment on 🤔 Interesting 22 hours ago:
they can still impersonate you. the checkmark has lost its meaning when everybody has it.
- Comment on 🤔 Interesting 23 hours ago:
And the US government is doing anything
isn’t doing anything
- Comment on Ubisoft Co-Founder Claude Guillemot Dies In Plane Crash 1 day ago:
I am fully aware that trying to be a good human results in bad humans taking advantage of me often. I am not blind to it. But being a good human means that is going to happen for as long as bad humans keep being bad humans.
Being good to bad people does nkt make you better. It makes you be easier to be used.
- Comment on Me after Jerboa announced it is ending support 2 days ago:
but it’s asking a little much of users to start direct dowloading apks or whatever
you don’t need to be manually downloading apks. get a proper app store, like f-droid, and install jerboa that way.
I don’t get it though. uploading apps to the play store has already required devs to prove their identity for quite a long time.
- Comment on I'm doing my part 2 days ago:
this just proves wunami’s point
- Comment on I found pre-installed (unremovable) malware on my phone, and ESET doesn't seem to be checking system apps... (Ulefone Armor 24) 5 days ago:
you can’t just remove everything by google that way. the google mobile services package is intehrated to the system in such a way, that uninstalling or even just disabling some of the core google packages will make it bootloop. I don’t know the specifics, but if you want to tinker, have a look at the opengapps installer. see what it is exactly doing in the package for your android version, and try to undo them manually with root. be aware though that its an unofficial project, manufacturers don’t use it, but trying to remove opengapps results in the same situation, so its installer can help you make sense of how is it installed.
- Comment on I found pre-installed (unremovable) malware on my phone, and ESET doesn't seem to be checking system apps... (Ulefone Armor 24) 5 days ago:
From listed domains, with help of
stringsI found launcher(dot)szprize(dot)cn, although it doesn’t seem to resolve to anything at the moment.it could have other records, like TXT records or something else. It is usable as a channel for one way communication
- Comment on How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done? 1 week ago:
probably depends on the person.
- Comment on Why do asbestos roofs have so much moss? 2 weeks ago:
Fortunately thay’re pretty safe for most of their lifetime unless you break tgem or they start falling apart.
what about the hailstorm?
- Comment on Astronomers seek global ban on space advertising 3 weeks ago:
they shouldn’t seek a global ban on it?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
good luck cancelling commands after rebinding Ctrl+C. it sounds like a good idea, but it isn’t. Ctrl+C/V is acting differently in the terminal for a reason.
most terminals have bindings for Ctrl+Shift+C/V, though!
- Comment on Videogame pirates tell other pirates to shut up about it after Subnautica 2 developers are taunted with illicit copies 5 weeks ago:
not half of that is true.
- Comment on Tech support for mum 5 weeks ago:
yeah. but in my experience, people just have a hard time using it. especially when they only need it rarely and don’t have the need to learn it. and it doesn’t help that it’s redesigned every year.
- Comment on Tech support for mum 5 weeks ago:
its just as usable with KDE, but depending on distro you might need to install the server part yourself.
but also these are LAN only solutions, and VPN. for actual remote access you have to forward ports but I wouldn’t do that for risky things like that. Instead use rustdesk, but even teamviewer would be a better idea
- Comment on Tech support for mum 5 weeks ago:
rustdesk
- Comment on Tech support for mum 5 weeks ago:
not really a problem. it stays unlocked, and for when she occasionally needs to log in again it will be printed on a paper
- Comment on how things become science 2 months ago:
tbh I don’t get how it’s output isn’t already filled with brand names
- Comment on Samsung is shutting down messages — alternative to Google's messenger? 2 months ago:
I think we are mostly charged by the minute, and some plans have a certain amount of free minutes and messages, but I don’t know if that also applies to foreign calls. nowadays I rarely use phone calls though, so I may not be completely up to date
- Comment on Samsung is shutting down messages — alternative to Google's messenger? 2 months ago:
I would love to use JMP chat, but they only give a canadian or usa phone number. I guess that would be very expensive for others to call, besides being very unusual
- Comment on In this modern world of AI, with devices everywhere having microphones, is it even safe to satirically joke and banter with a friend anymore? 2 months ago:
But lets assume that your microphone is recording everything you say to some llm, and everyone else too. imagine the shitshow it must be to sort all that data, considering how unreliable llm are. There is no way to know for sure what the original meaning and intention of words is without actual human confirming it. there would be so much constantly going on that even with decent automation it would be nightmare to manage, i think.
filtering for interesting words in a transcription would go a long way. I’m not convinced they would need an LLM for this. keyword based targeted advertising was a thing for quite a fewyears before LLMs became widespread.
I have occasionally tried to investigate if my phone is listening even though it doesnt indicate so, but i havent noticed anything that would point to that.
I have friends of all ages who are not really technically adept, and not caring much about privacy either, but who tell me from time to time that it’s like facebook is listening, because of some ad they saw on there. I still don’t have any clue how are they pulling that off, and I hear it too much to accept it being a coincidence.
but I don’t use facebook, I refuse to use their apps, my phone is clean from google too, while theirs is littered with every garbage in addition to the factory bloat, so I can’t do much to figure it out
- Comment on What is a good alternative Android app to Micro$oft Lens (to scan and concatenate images as pdf)? 2 months ago:
also on fdroid: f-droid.org/packages/org.fairscan.app
- Comment on Asked LA Fitness to cancel my membership, they offered to freeze it for $10/month instead 2 months ago:
TIL that a single ’ is a feet. but what’s a "?
- Comment on What's going on with the Systemd age verification stuff? 2 months ago:
well, poettering’s new company amutable is pretty suspicious in its intentions
- Comment on What's going on with the Systemd age verification stuff? 2 months ago:
thats cool until you find out the reason for that is he founded a company that’s goal is to turn desktop into locked down android.
- Comment on Why do we eat dessert? 2 months ago:
well in that case, why do we eat dessert when we do?
because that’s when you are home and maybe not in a hurry. says a lot.
- Comment on That's the feeling. 3 months ago:
it will lose support for windows 10 before that happens
- Comment on Anyone has videos of JD Vance getting booed? I can’t find proper booing videos, but those supposedly exist 4 months ago:
why did you disable that for it? genuinely interested
- Comment on Anyone has videos of JD Vance getting booed? I can’t find proper booing videos, but those supposedly exist 4 months ago:
guess what, you don’t need to install 2 foss apps into separate android accounts for that