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- Comment on [Louis Rossmann] Brother turns heel & becomes anti-consumer printer company 3 hours ago:
Enshitification is the word of this century
- Comment on Microsoft has pulled back on over a gigawatt of planned data center capacity, suggesting that they do not think there is a growth future in generative AI 3 hours ago:
It’ll balance out. I’m old enough to remember many web tech being this way from flash, to Bluetooth to Cloud.
- Comment on [Louis Rossmann] Brother turns heel & becomes anti-consumer printer company 12 hours ago:
It’s funny how far ahead 3d printers are in terms of consumer experience, everything is open, everything works and the tech is like 300 times more complex.
2D printer companies should be shamed to death.
- Comment on When making a post that fits multiple communities, should I just pick the most relevant/popular one or repost to the other ones as well? 1 day ago:
This is an easily solvable problem if the front end could just group posts with the same link
- Comment on When making a post that fits multiple communities, should I just pick the most relevant/popular one or repost to the other ones as well? 1 day ago:
Oh no you might see something twice - unusable!
- Comment on Nokia to deploy the first cellular network on the Moon 2 days ago:
That’s not a bad bet. Clearly telecommunications infrastructure is not going away and even radio towers are never going away until physics finds an alternative.
I do kinda miss Nokia’s creativity tho
- Comment on 25 arrested in global hit against AI-generated child sexual abuse material 2 days ago:
Nah the argument that this could real “pedophile culture” and even encourage real activities is really not that far fetched and could be even true. Without very convincing studies do you take a chance where real kids could soon suffer? And I mean the studies would have to be really convincing.
- Comment on Avowed made me scream to my doctor: “I am a wizard!” 2 days ago:
Ah man now I really want to play the game
- Comment on Nokia to deploy the first cellular network on the Moon 2 days ago:
Nokia still exists?
- Comment on Nokia to deploy the first cellular network on the Moon 2 days ago:
People really not feeling this in the current climate for sure
- Comment on Zapier says someone broke into its code repositories and may have accessed customer data 3 days ago:
certain customer information had been inadvertently copied to the repositories for debugging purposes.
As someone who assisted with rolling out a project based on Zapier I’m not surprised. The incompetence of this platform is frankly quite incredible and committing customer’s private data for debugging is just a next level fumble especially in the age of LLMs when data obfuscation is literally 1 prompt away.
- Zapier says someone broke into its code repositories and may have accessed customer datawww.theverge.com ↗Submitted 3 days ago to technology@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Comment on Sergey Brin says AGI is within reach if Googlers work 60-hour weeks 3 days ago:
Dude who’s done nothing of importance since bouncing off google throwing words like that 😄
- Comment on Linux royalty backs adoption of Rust for kernel code 1 week ago:
I feel like better tooling is a safer bet. I know people hate on AI here but tooling that can detect flaws in C memory management would be basically as good as Rust itself.
- Comment on How is the Stock Market keeping it's value after *points to everything*? 1 week ago:
Stock market is basically meme gambling these days no different from crypto. Its not a reliable indicator of anything.
- Comment on Digital Fingerprinting: Google launched a new era of tracking worse than cookie banners | Tuta 1 week ago:
Yes, and even before js fingerprint happens the connection is fingerprinted through HTTP and TLS protocol fingerprints as each system is slightly different like supporting different encryption ciphers, different http engine and how requests are performed etc.
So even before you see the page itself the server has a pretty good understanding of your client which determines whether you see this captcha box at all. That’s why on public wifi and rare operating systems (like linux) and web browsers you almost always get these captcha verifications.
The more complex the web becomes the easier it is to gather this data and currently the web is very complex with no sight of stopping.
- Comment on Digital Fingerprinting: Google launched a new era of tracking worse than cookie banners | Tuta 1 week ago:
It’s super effective but there are very few real use cases for it outside of security and ad tracking. For example you can’t replace cookies with it because while good fingerprint is unique it can still be fragile (browser update etc.) which would cause data loss and require reauth.
Usually fingerprint plays a supporting role for example when tou do thos click here captchas that’s actually just giving the browser time to fingerprint you and evaluate your trust to decide whether to give you a full captcha or let you through. So fingerprint is always there in tbe background these days tho mostly for security and ad tracking.
As for court cases and things l like GDPR the officials are still sleeping on this and obviously nobody wants to talk about it because it’s super complex and really effective and effects soo many systems that are not ad tech.
- Comment on Digital Fingerprinting: Google launched a new era of tracking worse than cookie banners | Tuta 1 week ago:
The first point is flawed and even TOR doesn’t execute javascript because it’s impossible to catch everything when you give the server full code running capabilities.
The second point is more plausible but there’s an incredible amount of work to do to fix this. Like, needing to rework browser engines from ground up and removing all of the legacy cruft. Brave is not capable of this and never will be no matter what they advertise because it doesn’t have it’s own engine.
That being said, these tools will get you quite far against commercial fingerprint products especially ones used for Ads but that will also ruin your browser experience as now you’re just solving captchas everywhere 🫠
- Comment on Digital Fingerprinting: Google launched a new era of tracking worse than cookie banners | Tuta 1 week ago:
No. Anything that executes Javascript will be fingerprinted.
That being said it depends who are you fighting. For common commercial tools like Cloudflare fingerprinter it might work to some extent but if you want to safeguard against more sophisticated fingerprinting then TOR and no JS is the only way to combat this.
The issue is that browsers are so incredibly complex that it’s impossible to patch everything and you’ll just end up getting infinite captchas and break your browsing experience.
- Comment on Digital Fingerprinting: Google launched a new era of tracking worse than cookie banners | Tuta 1 week ago:
This has been the case for years. I develop fingerprinting services so AMA but it’s basically a long lost battle and browser are beyond the point of saving without a major resolution taking place.
- Comment on How important is flirting within the dating scene? 2 weeks ago:
People generally enjoy that stage of a relationship the most so you can do your own math here.
- Comment on What keeps Americans from being mad about the state of their country? 2 weeks ago:
I think we’re just on a down wave globally. In early 00s we got social media which helped to organize people and lead to real actionable ideas. The bad actors figured it out and took control of our tools and now people are waiting for a new opportunity.
I think Americans need a strong leader and something to break the camel’s back. Everyone’s who’s angry now doesn’t have a good “deal” for risking exposure and their complacency because the failures are just too recent.
- Comment on Invariant (AKA Indie Half-Life/Black-Mesa) 3 weeks ago:
Zero information about the developers on the web. Not a good sign
- Comment on Laws only matter if you're not rich. 3 weeks ago:
llama being free “open source” model is kinda good though?
- Comment on Laws only matter if you're not rich. 3 weeks ago:
I really hate how “tech bro” has become a catch-all slur against for anyone working in tech by the tech illiterate.
- Comment on Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months 3 weeks ago:
Let me explain my point of view - it’s not about giving money to Google but showing the business that there’s a viable monetization strategy that isn’t locking down content or fighting ad blockers.
Let’s say there is no Youtube premium and everyone has an adblocker then google has no choice but to fight ad blocking harder or lock down the content because Youtube starts to bleed money. Now some lazy people pay for Premium and we have this little golden mean where everyone can kinda use the platform kinda freely which is a pretty good compromise if you ask me.
- Comment on Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months 3 weeks ago:
I know all the tools but I’d rather support Youtube which has ben an incredible service for me and I think it’s a net good for the society so it should remain sustainable.
- Comment on Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months 3 weeks ago:
Tbh YT premium is well worth the asking price though I wish it subsidized the free experience as that’s much more important for the platform.
- Comment on What is the weirdest argument you’ve overheard? 3 weeks ago:
I speak Russian due to having lived under Soviet occupstion and constantly overhear Russian tourists while traveling in Asia and honestly I wish I couldn’t understand because they argue over the dumbest shit. Now I’m in Thailand and the theme is price measuring everything down to the cents. I get that Russia is going through an economic crisis but why you’re traveling at all then.
- Comment on Teslas turn toxic as sales crash in Europe and the UK | EV sales in the region are growing, but not for Tesla 3 weeks ago:
The TSLA crash going to be glorious, can’t wait.