NGnius

@NGnius@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Telegram will integrate Elon Musk's Grok A.I into the app⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for letting us know to delete Telegram!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord unveils Discord Orbs, a new in-app currency that users can earn by completing Quests, which reward participants who interact with ads⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Is Revolt federated? I thought it was only FOSS

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fortnite returns to iPhone app store in US, ending exile imposed by Apple⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re going to misinterpret the scope of “whatever they want” at least be creative about it. I think they meant they wanted to be able to install tractors on their iPhone. Bonus points if it made cool transformer noises.

  Clearly they actually meant any iPhone program/app.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s quite compelling but I still can’t find any official confirmation of that information. The BashSquare website doesn’t mention any employees but does mention the app (and their website is on the G Play store). IMO the information you’ve provided is enough to confirm it uses some of the public boycott list, but could still be omitting things (though very unlikely; that would be a wild Israeli misinformation campaign).

  The boycott website doesn’t provide barcode prefixes for companies to boycott, which means there is still some information that isn’t verifiable, and it’s one of the more crucial parts of the app’s functionality (if you’re not scanning barcodes you could just use the website). I did manage to find a way to look up barcode prefixes but there was no mention of a public API so it makes me think that either they’re part of the app (see qualms about open/verifiable dataset) or the app is using some proprietary API/scraper to get that info.

  Thanks for the info!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately that has no bearing on whether the tracking is active

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d be inclined to agree if it wasn’t broken down into more detail than what I actually shared. The app includes ads and one of the trackers is Google AdMob, so that’s definitely not anonymous tracking. It’s also impossible* to be sure whether the other two trackers, Google Crashlytics and Firebase Analytics, are anonymous.

  *without reading the source code, at least

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the sort of app that really needs to be open source or at least open dataset. Right now there’s no way to see if their data is reliable. Aurora Store tells me that app has tracking in it (minor, but still, ewww), which is also concerning, so I’m not going to install it to find out if that information is at least provided in-app.

  Oh also it’s developed by this super generic-looking company BashSquare. Overall not very confidence-inspiring.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft blocks emails that contain ‘Palestine’ after employee protests⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Being against your work supporting genocide seems pretty work-related to me. At best, it’ll just destroy their company culture (not that I’m convinced it’s good to start with). Optimistically, I hope everyone who’s hard to replace quits and finds a better job somewhere that cares about more than infinite financial growth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DRM-Free OnlyFans Downloads See Widevine Project Nuked From GitHub⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve mirrored it to my own git server too git.ngram.ca/mirrors/cdrm-project I will ignore DCMAs because I (and the server) don’t live in the USA.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top 25+ Resume Objectives for Students from All Backgrounds [2025 Complete Guide]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the first and only post by the account, so it’s not worth interacting with

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Servo vs Ladybird.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We are discussing what someone would use when writing about a hypothetical person.

  And that changes it how? It’s insulting to misgender someone, though I can understand how you’d think that there’s no harm in insulting someone hypothetical.

  I suggest you do some research on the history of language

  Per your suggestion, “they” has been used to refer to a singular person since the 14th century. “He” is currently masculine-only. I apologize if you misunderstood my use of “never” to refer to things around the 18th and 19th century (when it apparently was considered bad to use “they” in the singular) when I presumed that their was an implicit limit to modern usage of English.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Servo vs Ladybird.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone with undetermined/unknowable gender would use the pronouns they/them, never he/him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roblox open sources Cube 3D, the first version of its AI foundation model for generating 3D objects, trained on licensed and public datasets and its own data.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This sounds like open weights but not actually open source (which requires an open training set), but we can only hope they are true to their promises when they actually release it. Bonus points if they also release how much energy they wasted to train it and how much energy it wastes to run it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anthropic used Pokémon to benchmark its newest AI model⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Twitch Plays Pokemon is still better

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paul Butler – Smuggling arbitrary data through an emoji⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Interestingly the article about steganography does not mention the term even once.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Backdoor slips into popular code library, drains ~$155k from digital wallets⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Victims are all SOL, in more ways than one