matlag
@matlag@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Dumb glasses 27 minutes ago:
You obviously know nothing about fascism.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 29 minutes ago:
In this case, the ratio is probably of 100:1 or 1000:1 people in my favor. So if it comes down that, see you outside!
- Comment on Dumb glasses 16 hours ago:
Let’s say hypothetically that he assaults you, you sue him, then he raises 200k$ for his defense through crowdfunding because I bet the majority of people don’t want creeps to record them secretly. You’re still confident in your odds?
- Comment on Dumb glasses 16 hours ago:
When you say “fascist”, you do realize that fascism involves crowd control and these glasses are a dream for a fascist regime? All the speech about “cameras everywhere is ok” falls right in the authoritarianism thinking, that’s just a step from fascism.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 16 hours ago:
It’s absolutely legal to film them as you said, and it is absolutely legal to speak up. If that makes them uncomfortable, that’s entirely their problem, isn’t it?
- Comment on Dumb glasses 16 hours ago:
Nope. These things can certainly take pics regularly and still last.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 16 hours ago:
But everyone here advocating violence seem to have forgotten how to do democracy.
A lot of changes in democracies happen following violent events. Violence is unfortunately one of the very few effective method to raise attention on an issue.
The law hardly change spontaneously.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 16 hours ago:
If you use a Meta smartglass, the “sharing” is out of your control.
It’s actually going to be interesting when a smartglass wearer has to explain a judge they didn’t know it was recording and uploading pictures or videos.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 18 hours ago:
- Comment on Dumb glasses 18 hours ago:
He won’t even know he’s doing it. Why would anyone assume wearers have any control on these smartglasses and what they upload?
- Comment on Dumb glasses 19 hours ago:
If I spot one in a public place, and I start filming them while shouting “Are you recording a video right now with these smartglasses?”, I guess that would be totally fine, right? No reason to make them uncomfortable, because they’ll be in their right.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 19 hours ago:
The proliferation of cameras in public is not a good thing. I am yet to see data showing it reduces criminality (supposed to be the intent), meanwhile it’s a massive surveillance system.
And the fact that a given situation is bad is hardly a good argument to promote making it worse.
Meta collects data on everyone: from contact info in cellphone through their apps, uploaded photos, videos etc. If you don’t have an account nor consent to anything, they will just not show the data, but will still build the profile combining different sources and feed it to its algorithms.
It has been a well known practice for many years.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 19 hours ago:
Most likely either the glasses are in a state of recording, or the wearer has no idea what it’s doing. Damned! After so many scandals, people still assume Meta will do what it claims and not trick its users! Fool me once, shame on you! Fool me twice, shame on me! Fool me 42 times, more, please MOOOOORE!
- Comment on Antiwoke Straight of Hormwin 2 days ago:
YoU wOkE tRaItOr! IrAn iS 2 wEeKs aWaY fRoM hAvInG nUkE! aNd WMD! aNd iNvAdE IsRaEl! aNd tHeY eAt bAbieS!
- Comment on Antiwoke Straight of Hormwin 2 days ago:
Sometimes, as leader, you need to make some hard calls! (hard for others, of course!).
- Comment on Instagram quietly drops end-to-end encrypted chats 5 days ago:
Metadata. They would still know where you were, for how long, who you talk to, when and from where. Then they combine these info. ex: you call your pop and mom, théir fridge broke down, and you start receiving ads for fridges. Was Meta listening?? No: pop and mom hinted the fridge was down (Google search or other), Meta has established your family links a long time ago, and you usually visit them after a longer than usual conversation (as they have an issue and yuu go help). Here: you fridge’s ads.
- Comment on Instagram quietly drops end-to-end encrypted chats 5 days ago:
They could always do that, and basically anything you can read on your phone, they can access if they need.
Encryption is a math thing: generate a pair of keys: one te encde, one to decode. I broadcast the one to encode (“public key”), and the whole world is tu use it to send me encrypted messages. I keep the decoding (“private key”) only for myself.
In client to erver encryption, we exchange keys with the server through which go all the comms: it decodes my messages and re-encodes them for my contact.
In e2e, the key exchange is between contacts: the server does not have the private keys.
In Meta, the proprietary app can send your private key to the server and then they know what you wrote. You have no way to know it doesn’t do so!Opensource audited software is the only way to make sure.
- Comment on Instagram quietly drops end-to-end encrypted chats 5 days ago:
You may want to revisit that
- Comment on Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing 6 days ago:
No, it’s not robust. It may work for your TV, but it can be worked around.
DNS is like a phone directory for Internet: it translates domain name to IP addresses. If you block the DNS (what pihole does), it blocks the directory access. But if the IP address of the servers are hard-coded in the firmware, the TV does not need a DNS, it can reach the server directly.
To trick the TV, you need to restrict the IPs it can reach. It might be delicate: it probably tries to ping some comme IPs to check it’s connected, then call the brand’s server for ads/updates/etc.
- Comment on Silicon Valley is buzzing about this new idea: AI compute as compensation 6 days ago:
“People like you aren’t in for the money!” – always and only said by people who are in for the money
- Comment on Viral anti-masturbation app exposed sensitive user data 1 week ago:
After the initial amazement, reason kicked back in: of course there would be an app for that, and of course some people would use it and share their intimate life with a company they know nothing about, because it has a bold line “We value your privacy” somewhere on its website.
- Comment on Samsung's latest update is a serious gut punch to Galaxy power users 1 week ago:
As long as they don’t encounter any resistance, they have no reason to renounce their enshittification process.
Will the sales slow because of this? Unlikely. I would assume the power users are in the noise.
Will they make more money? Probably, either through their own data collection and brokerage, or from third party editors paying to have their app bundled in the OS.
So, no catch! (for them…)
- Comment on US state laws push age checks into the operating system 1 week ago:
I’m tired of people falling for this kind of shit every single fucking time.
Authoritarianism is never passed through a bill overnight. It’s one step in the wrong direction after another, multiplied N times.
This is a step in the wrong direction. After that you’re one step away from “improving the verification” and you would reject that step only if you have nothing bad to hide.
Do you remember when it was only a few cameras to evaluate their efficiency? Now they’re everywhere and are to use AI for behavior assessment and face recognition.
It’s the same pattern every fucking time!
- Comment on Oracle Layoffs: Tech giant to slash 30,000 jobs as banks pull out from financing AI data centres | Company Business News 1 week ago:
Years ago, they were the go to solution for databases. No CIO would ever be fired for picking Oracle over competitors regardless the pain that would follow, same as having Windows as the OS on all employees computers.
If there’s an issue with the world’s most popular solutxon: “Shits happens, we all know”, if there’s an issue with that alternative solution: “You see what bappens with your toy-thing? Let’s be professional and use a professional solution!”.
Years have passed, the alternative slowly made a name for themselves, but OracleDB didn’t evolve much because of inertia and the high maintenance that locks existing customers.
So now they’re going all-in on data centres for AI, that means to me the end is near.
- Comment on NVIDIA could enter the desktop CPU market with performance equal to AMD and Intel 1 week ago:
If the tariffs last, emergence of some smugglers is unavoidable.
Add to that that they would be tracked by Kash Patel’s ruined FBI, and the risk assessment is even more in favor of smuggling.
- Comment on We messed up with the Windows 12 article. What we got wrong and how it happened 1 week ago:
Somewhat this mistake makes me think PCWorld is genuinely synced with MS at QA level.
- Comment on How to I prove to someone that the U.S. moon landing wasn't staged? 1 week ago:
No technical rational explanation will ever get to them.
Most are there because they want to belong to a community, and because they like the idea of being right where everyone else is wrong, so that they’re the important ones for once.
That’s how you get to them: feed their need to belong, and their need to find enough self-esteem some other way.
- Comment on there is a special place in hell for these scientists 1 week ago:
I know there is no real association between the game and real life. It’s more a question on the mindset of the researchers. I’m sure there are other games that would fit their needs.
- Comment on It's all SO simple! 1 week ago:
A combination of sugar subsidies, market penetration of transformed food while the food industry figured they could make their customers sugar-addict, the start of GDP and minimum salary drifting away from each other, meaning poor households no longer able to afford quality food, and running through 2 or 3 jobs doesn’t leave you much time to cook.
So, in a summary: that’s completely a personal responsibility issue.
- Comment on there is a special place in hell for these scientists 1 week ago:
Am I the only one who wonders why, in a world where there are already concerns about machines rebellion, when we train rats, robots and a bench of neurons to play a game, it HAS to be Doom, we can’t think about another, non-violent, or let’s be bold: non-destructive game??