amju_wolf
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- Comment on Tech companies put on notice as Australia passes world-first social media ban for under-16s | CNN 2 weeks ago:
That’s just the reality of doing business on the Internet.
That’s just not true. You can absolutely get by on the internet remaining pretty much anonymous, as it is. Very few services need (and verify) your personal data; when they do it’s basically always when it’s government-mandated, and it’s for things that have a “physical” equivalent.
i.e. creating a bank account online requires your actual ID, but so it would if you tried to do it “offline” in a physical bank (and you largely have a choice on whether or not you do it online).
Then you have stuff like online shopping and such where most people probably use their actual personal information but you don’t have to and it’s generally not checked.
This is an unprecedented change, where suddenly for access to a free service someone needs to ask for and validate some very private details. And it fucking sucks.
While Australia’s new legislation is ham-fisted and poorly thought out, the intent isn’t wrong and there’s broad consensus for it (77% approval in Australia). We need to do something about the uncontrolled exploitation, manipulation and endangerment of minors by social media services.
That’s the issue though; I agree that something needs to be done, but you need to do it more or less correctly on the first try or you’ll probably make it even worse.
- Comment on Tech companies put on notice as Australia passes world-first social media ban for under-16s | CNN 3 weeks ago:
Someone still needs to create that digital token from your ID, which means someone’s still using and storing your data, and potentially selling it or having it leaked.
- Comment on US justice department plans to push Google to sell off Chrome browser 4 weeks ago:
Who would realistically buy Chrome that wouldn’t degrade the consumer experience?
Hopefully noone, so it would lead into more fragmentation in the browser space, which is a good things.
- Comment on US justice department plans to push Google to sell off Chrome browser 4 weeks ago:
The manifest v3 changes primary give a lot of security and privacy changes that stop extensions from doing a lot of questionable things in the background on all your page you visit. But that does stop ad blockers from doing a lot of what they currently do - blocking in page elements and modifying the pages you visit.
It also killed a lot of other genuinely useful extensions.
And if security is their main concern they should have spent resources on making sure the extensions they themselves redistribute are safe, not on killing a huge chunk of extensions. Sorry but you’ll have a very hard time convincing anyone that getting rid of ad blockers wasn’t their primary motive.
But it does not block them from blocking page requests so ad blockers like ublockorigin lite can still function in a more limited capacity to block ads.
It completely changed how they do this, and made it way less effective and more limited. All completely unnecessary from a security standpoint.
- Comment on Pocketpair reveals specific patents featured in Nintendo's lawsuit against Palworld 5 weeks ago:
Algorithmic patents amount to patenting maths which, by very longstanding precedence, is not a thing, for good reason.
You absolutely can patent “math” (well, more like physics) IRL. What matters though is that the invention actually has to be novel and non-obvious, and IMO it should also be harder to patent if it’s in a segment like software where costs of development, iteration and “research” are generally extremely cheap. Like, it should have a way higher bar for the “novelness”.
And I would not allow any kind of software design patent (use copyright or trademark to protect that).
- Comment on you filthy casuals wouldn't understand 2 months ago:
Considering those scanners usually register as keyboards and just do a dumb input “typing” it shouldn’t even be hard, lol.
The worst part would probably be picking a barcode scheme where the inputs make sense…
- Comment on Walmart's use of digital price tags signal the future of retail shopping, but consumers are worried 3 months ago:
That sounds very illegal, yeah. You can’t advertise a price and then charge something different. It doesn’t matter that the person didn’t notice it. At that point you might not have price tags at all (which is also illegal, just FYI).
- Comment on Ask ChatGPT to pick a number between 1 and 100 8 months ago:
It generates code and then you can use a call to some runtime execution API to run that code, completely separate from the neural network.
- Comment on What games do you think are unfairly snubbed when talking about the best games of all time? 11 months ago:
For the people who do find out about it and it hooks them enough sure, it’s not really forgotten or underrated. But I still think it’s kinda obscure / not well known?
- Comment on What games do you think are unfairly snubbed when talking about the best games of all time? 11 months ago:
Where are my Outer Wilds boys at?
- Comment on Value of X has fallen 71% since purchase by Musk and name change from Twitter 11 months ago:
As easy as it is to hate what he did to Twitter I wonder how much of that original value was just “VC hype” and now people see it for the failure it has always been like all social media in a way. Turns out it’s pretty hard making money out of non paying users.
- Comment on Umm I think I'll just delete you instead 1 year ago:
Yep… And you can’t donate to Firefox development. You’ll only fund the nonprofit and its goals, the money doesn’t go to Mozilla Corporation who do the actual development.
- Comment on Umm I think I'll just delete you instead 1 year ago:
Firefox doesn’t even accept donations. Mozilla Foundation does, which is a related nonprofit, but it crucially does not fund any firefox development and legally cannot do so.