kautau
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- Comment on uBlockOrigin is porting uBOL to iOS 13 minutes ago:
Agreed. For apple I imagine the biggest issue is that a system-wide ad blocker means that all of the AdAttributionKit and StoreKit stuff might get blocked and therefore it’s never an API they’d open to other general apps because it’s less revenue. That being said though, like I said VPNs can filter requests.
And the APIs already exist
support.apple.com/guide/deployment/…/web
But it’s exclusive to MDM providers which pay apple a boatload of money and are specifically integrating your app with an enterprise deployment scheme. Maybe the EU can rally to get apple to open up these APIs to power users
- Comment on uBlockOrigin is porting uBOL to iOS 2 hours ago:
It’s going to be safari only. There’s no API on iOS for system wide blocking unless it’s a third party VPN server filtering network requests.
- Comment on uBlockOrigin is porting uBOL to iOS 2 hours ago:
Agreed, but just to clarify as the above commenter said, it is safari-only. VPN based ad blockers are basically the only way to block ads throughout iOS and they are all subscription based unless you are grandfathered in (like the early adblocker pro subscription mentioned above).
- Comment on uBlockOrigin is porting uBOL to iOS 2 hours ago:
The only way this will work as of now (at least in the US, I’m unsure how extensions may work on a third party App Store with the newer EU regulations) is if you use safari only. iOS allows for safari extensions from the App Store which already have things like ad blockers, but they definitely do not run within any third party apps. The code is certainly likely to be open source, but I definitely don’t see chrome/brave integrating it as part of their app bundle. Perhaps Firefox? In any case it’s up to each browser vendor to provide their own ad blocking system. For complete system wide adblocking on iOS you pretty much need a VPN.
- Comment on In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance 2 days ago:
It appears so. The commenter said they saw a video, I said it was the first link in the article. I didn’t post a video nor make claims to its validity.
- Comment on Meta is now a defense contractor 3 days ago:
Meanwhile the top comment
- Comment on When a person follows you and watches your every move, it's called stalking. When companies like Meta do it, it's just called collecting user data. 3 days ago:
- Comment on Let my Duolingo streak expire cos I don't want to give them any more AI training for free and this popped up 🙄 3 days ago:
Lol it’s almost even more extreme and has a common trope I love. “Hey I got this spam text…”
“Burn all your devices. Remove yourself from the grid. Scrub your identity. Purchase a single burner phone. Root it and install Graphene. Yes it’s hard. Google it. Wait, don’t google it. Search for it elsewhere. Amass money somehow without using technology. Cut off your family ties. You need to move to another country. You will need a work visa to move to most countries. But to get that you will need an accepted job in advance. And to have that you will probably need to access technology. Instead, buy a fake passport, because very few countries will just let you ‘move somewhere’ with a ‘menial job.’ Once you get there, develop passive income streams and quit your job. After you have been a landlord for two years you will finally know what it’s like to claim that being a landlord is a real job because you need to talk to tenants and file paperwork natively for an hour or two a week.”
- Comment on Let my Duolingo streak expire cos I don't want to give them any more AI training for free and this popped up 🙄 3 days ago:
Having heard very mixed things about Duolingo’s actual usefulness, does your wife speak or write well in any of the languages she’s used the app to learn?
- Comment on Let my Duolingo streak expire cos I don't want to give them any more AI training for free and this popped up 🙄 3 days ago:
At one point it was gamification to tie the reward center of your brain into continuing to train using the app. Now it seems that it’s half that or half en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_pattern to get you to pay to keep that reward system going.
- Comment on Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit 3 days ago:
Even if it is purely a math question though, it never specifies “Their pizzas are the same size.” The student literally answered how this is possible in a reasonable way that satisfies the mathematical requirements, when the teacher is expecting an impossible answer of “it’s not” after saying in this scenario that Marty did in fact eat more.
- Comment on In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance 4 days ago:
It’s the first link in the article
- Comment on I'd love to know 4 days ago:
I am happy that in the interest of their health meat workers have replaced their smoke breaks with fart breaks. While not exactly the compromise the union wanted, it does give the worker a small mental break and the deli company does have to source less sulfur
- Comment on The terms "Mother's Day" and "Father's Day" is very anxiety-inducing for people who have been abused/neglected as a child. 5 days ago:
Which just keeps the cycle of “My retirement plan is having kids,” which generally leads to people not having kids to enrich new human lives and make new beings that learn and improve from their parents, but rather to systemically guide new humans through enforced potential financial success in the self-interest of a high return when retirement comes.
- Comment on AI Training Slop 6 days ago:
Here’s the report:
- Comment on AI Training Slop 6 days ago:
True, though for now paparazzi photos generally are “here’s the celebrity in real life doing [x]” whereas AI is “celebrity never did this thing and we applied their image / voice to it like they did.” Really difficult for celebs to shut down tabloid or fan ai-generated garbage, but I think the bigger issue for them right now is film or music studios just using their likeness to keep the profits churning
- 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 1 week ago:
They already do pay-gate useful functionality, this is just an alternative revenue stream
- Comment on Amazonian tribe that received Starlink satellite internet sues The New York Times, TMZ, and Yahoo for $180M over defamation and more, claiming a viral 2024 NYT story smeared members as porn addicts. 1 week ago:
Yeah I think it’s also because instagram prohibits linking directly to onlyfans, so for many it exists as an intermediary where the can still have that link but it’s not direct.
- Comment on The Telegraph has deleted this sob story 1 week ago:
That’s true, I didn’t mean getting in a prestigious university was rare from a state school, but rather those are certainly the “exceptional students” considering the stringent acceptance requirements. I only explained why rich parents would spend the money on private schools to give their child an edge. There are certainly cases where admissions are allowed because of family lineage or sizeable donations.
As far as I know you can only apply to Oxford or Cambridge, and furthermore you can’t apply to more than five universities in the UK except for rare occasions.
- Comment on The Telegraph has deleted this sob story 1 week ago:
Only if your kids have excellent grades or are star athletes or otherwise exceptional. Most of this ends up as networking, where the rich parents meet other rich parents and eventually someone with connections is involved when it’s time for the kids to go to university, and because rich people like it when other rich people succeed because they want “the right kind of people” at the universities they send their kids to (sometimes) they’ll help grease the right palms.
- Comment on Amazonian tribe that received Starlink satellite internet sues The New York Times, TMZ, and Yahoo for $180M over defamation and more, claiming a viral 2024 NYT story smeared members as porn addicts. 1 week ago:
- Comment on 100% people who drink water die 2 weeks ago:
Yeah it’s really sad. And when they overdose it’s very traumatic for those around them because of what happens
WARNING: GRAPHIC
Tap for spoiler
- Comment on 100% people who drink water die 2 weeks ago:
These people are such addicts that like 90% of their piss is this stuff, it’s crazy
- Comment on Microsoft is putting AI actions into the Windows File Explorer 2 weeks ago:
Likely in pretty much every case they are taking files that you perform an AI function on and uploading them to their cloud.
I said the few exceptions might be very low effort work that could run on the new NPU chips coming with some PCs. But I doubt they would event do that because it’s passing up the opportunity to use consumer data to train their models.
So yes, if you use an AI feature, MS is taking your file(s) and training it’s models on it
- Comment on Microsoft is putting AI actions into the Windows File Explorer 2 weeks ago:
I’m not sure what you mean. I’m saying that this work is almost for sure being sent to Microsoft’s servers, which is certainly a bad thing. That is burning anyone who uses it
- Comment on Microsoft is putting AI actions into the Windows File Explorer 2 weeks ago:
Just because the UI exists in file explorer doesn’t mean the data processing is happening locally. It’s likely happening on MS’s cloud. Maybe some actions happening locally on new machines with NPU chips
- Comment on Anthropic launches Claude web search API, betting on the future of post-Google information access 4 weeks ago:
Yeah the outcome of all of this is just
- Comment on Former Palantir workers condemn company's work with Trump administration 4 weeks ago:
They didn’t give a shit until their company was in the public spotlight, that’s all that matters
- Comment on Second US Navy jet is lost at sea from Truman aircraft carrier 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on OpenAI abandons plan to become a for-profit company 4 weeks ago:
what does the last shareholder get?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool_theory
Once the bubble pops they’ll rugpull the same way they do crypto. Either that or it will grow so large that they convince someone to aquire them wholesale
