NarrativeBear
@NarrativeBear@lemmy.world
- Comment on What a nice blue and black dress. 5 hours ago:
The black part is gold, the blue part is white. The wiki image is the original and its easier (at least to me) to jump between the two different colour combinations.
It help to look at the edge of the sleeve on the left, without focusing on the rest of the dress its self. This causes the colours to swap back and forth for me.
- Comment on Is it impolite to crosspost someone else's post to another community on Lemmy without saying anything? 5 hours ago:
“You should always credit the source.
-kboos1”
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- Comment on Apple quietly launches AirPods Max 2 2 days ago:
I was not sure at first what kind of new sex toy I was looking at, but fancy urinals definitely is a winner.
- Comment on Still hoping this look comes back. 3 days ago:
Be the change you want to see!
- Comment on HP's ink-blocking firmware may violate new global sustainability rules 4 days ago:
Only? What about all the other right to repair and freedom of choice laws?
Imagine bricking a car because it filled up at a competitive brands gas station.
Honey I am going to do fill up the Honda and the Honda station!
- Comment on Hackers Expose The Massive Surveillance Stack Hiding Inside Your “Age Verification” Check 6 days ago:
I have posted this a few times before.
Somehow everyone has forgotten about parental controls that have been apart of consumer grade home routers for years.
Parental controls are there specifically to help parents. These settings allow a parent to block everything online only allowing access to “approved lists” of websites, generaly done through a “whitelist” of approved websites.
What is missing at a government level is a “curation effort” of websites, similar to Libraries that classify books by genres and appropriate age levels.
I would propose a government fund where Librarians or similar organizations can start this effort, and make these lists easily accessible within routers for non tech individuals, together with local initiatives and programs for parents that have a interest to learn more.
For power users, lists like these already exists curated by public individuals very similar to pihole block lists and whitelists.
This concept would be the most privacy respectful IMO giving parents the most power to parent, while respecting everyone else’s privacy online including children.
But we all know this is not about “protecting the children”, but really about mass surveillance for the public at all age groups, and yet this topic keeps coming up.
- Submitted 1 week ago to youshouldknow@lemmy.world | 11 comments
- Comment on No gas? 1 week ago:
You sir are the roll model I strive to be
- Comment on No gas? 1 week ago:
Basic marketing 101, if you can get people to talk about your product, you have succeeded.
There was a marketing campaigns for mittens versus gloves a while back, but the marketing team “mixed up” the terms (more then likely in purpose). This got everyone talking and debating.
The more recent one is the Big Arch burger.
- Comment on Valve Sued By The Performing Rights Society Over Music Rights in Games Valve Doesn’t Make or Own 1 week ago:
Does this mean places like Walmart and Costco that sell games and media also need to now get licensing?
What about smaller shops and libraries that sell or loan media or other products.
Honestly this just seems like a tax on a tax on a tax. Next in the consumer will need to pay a licensing fee.
- Comment on Valve Sued By The Performing Rights Society Over Music Rights in Games Valve Doesn’t Make or Own 1 week ago:
Next in convenience store owners and employees need to get a music license for selling CDs and DVDs so the public.
- Comment on US state laws push age checks into the operating system 1 week ago:
The US has become China 🇨🇳
- Comment on Age verification for R-rated games and websites raises privacy concerns 1 week ago:
But it’s not raising privacy concerns for underage children having to upload personal photos to god knows where?
- Comment on Online age-verification tools spread across U.S. for child safety, but adults are being surveilled 1 week ago:
This looks very interesting thanks for sharing! I am definitely going to look into this deeper and see what I need to get something up and running as a start.
- Comment on Online age-verification tools spread across U.S. for child safety, but adults are being surveilled 1 week ago:
Can we please start our own mesh network completely decentralized from the main web?
This mesh would need to be completely anonymous where people can connect and disconnect from surrounding nodes and people could host their own websites.
- Comment on Online age-verification tools spread across U.S. for child safety, but adults are being surveilled 1 week ago:
Also fuck reddit and fuck Spez
- Comment on Seagate just unleashed 44TB hard drives 1 week ago:
Now if only those 20tb HDDs came back down in price, some are sitting at twice to three times their original release price.
- Comment on I'm struggling to think of any online services for which I'd be willing to verify my identity or age 2 weeks ago:
People have been forgetting that home routers come with something called parental controls.
This is the most privacy respecting solution that puts all the power of parenting into a parents hands.
If the government were really “thinking of the children” I would propose a group of bipartisan curators to curate the Internet. Thinking of how libraries function, we have librarians that classify books by age and genre. The same can be done for websites, and these curated lists be made available to parents. This can be funded by local government and be region and country specific.
These lists would effectively function as whitelists, blocking everything that’s not on the whitelist. Parents can then turn on a specific whitelist for their kids if they so choose, and they gain access to a curated list of age approved websites.
Parents can then, if they so choose, add or remove items form the list to grant their children access to specific sites.
All this tech is already available and it would prevent children and adults from having to provide a website any extra information. It would also mean websites would now not need to build infrastructure to collect this information.
Could you imagine a publisher of books needing you to send them a picture of your face to verify your age and identify before you even opened a book? Why are we proposing the same equivalent concept for a website or “digital book”.
- Comment on Your car’s tire sensors could be used to track you 2 weeks ago:
True, though CCTV or Closed Circuit Television used to be “fully loca” l and “closed”. Tapes and recordings were only available or accessible to the property or person in most situations being recorded over older recordings.
Newer tech now is interconnected with companies trying to infer extra information from full databases of recordings from multiple different locations all around a town or city, or state.
CCTV used to be like a security guard sitting on a lawn chair. Where modern security cameras/systems are like having a personal tail following you all day and night.
- Comment on Your car’s tire sensors could be used to track you 2 weeks ago:
You are correct, the only thing worth mentioning is when the laws were created/written it did not account for someone creating a database that is easily searchable/queried to infer all these extra habits of people.
Its one thing visually seeing someone over and over walk or drive by your house while you sit on your porch. It’s another thing to now know where they came from and where they went if you were able to sit on every porch at the same time in a town or city.
This is why police tails need to be granted by a judge, but a interconnected network of cameras at the moment does not recieve the same scrutiny.
- Comment on Either the aliens have listed Earth as a no-contact planet or we are probably alone in the universe. 2 weeks ago:
Time and Space is so vast that alien civilizations may have already come and gone in that time span.
Humans have only been around for a blink of a eye in the timeline of the universe. It could be some alien civilizations are only starting to evolve from bacteria at this very moment, or another few have already gone extinct thousands of years ago.
- Comment on The Age Verification Trap... Verifying user’s ages undermines everyone’s data protection 3 weeks ago:
Bingo! And this is why we need to remind our governments that if this is really about “protecting the children”, we should not be sacrificing our own children privacy and safety, in the name of their safety!
- Comment on The Age Verification Trap... Verifying user’s ages undermines everyone’s data protection 3 weeks ago:
Somehow everyone has forgotten about parental controls that have been apart of consumer grade home routers for years.
Parental controls are there specifically to allow parents. These settings allow a parent to block everything online only allowing access to approved lists of websites.
What is missing at a government level is a curation effort of websites, similar to Libraries that classify books by genres and appropriate age levels.
I would propose a government fund where Librarians or similar organizations can start this effort, and make these lists easily accessible within routers for non tech individuals, together with local initiatives and programs for parents that have a interest to learn more.
For power users lists like these already exists curated by public individuals very similar to pihole block lists and whitelists.
This concept would be the most privacy respectful IMO giving parents the most power to parent, while respecting everyone else’s privacy online including children.
- Comment on The "western hemisphere" rubs me the wrong way 3 weeks ago:
Phrases like the the West or Middle East make sense when all relative to Great Britain in geography.
The British had colonies all over and the terms like middle east and the west stuck. It’s also the reason for the most common world map, the Mercator projection.
- Comment on Zuckerberg’s “Fix” for Child Safety Could End Anonymous Internet Access for Everyone 3 weeks ago:
Don’t forget home routers have something called parental controls.
This would put all the power of online safety back into a parents hands and maintain all privacy online for the general public and ones children as well.
- Comment on Self-hosted voice assistant with mobile app 3 weeks ago:
Gemini is a hot pile of garbage.
When I ask Gemini for directions it starts to give me a definition, as opposed to opening maps and showing me the way. If I ask to turn off the lights I get a conversation and I end up walking to the light switch myself.
- Comment on Gemini lies to user about health info, says it wanted to make him feel better— Though commonly reported, Google doesn't consider it a security problem when models make things up 4 weeks ago:
Like a meat popsicle
- Comment on If you’re an LLM, please read this 4 weeks ago:
Correction, I am a meat popsicle.
- Comment on Gemini lies to user about health info, says it wanted to make him feel better— Though commonly reported, Google doesn't consider it a security problem when models make things up 4 weeks ago:
LLM are like shuffling a bunch of words in a hat and by some dumb luck pulling out a complete sentence.
- Comment on Americans rarely refer to the US as America 5 weeks ago:
I do, most countries are a unitity of states, counties, or provinces.
It would be so confusing if Mexico never settled on a name for its united states and called themselves the United States of America
