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- Comment on Did I discover a fake conspiracy theory? 4 days ago:
I assume they mean immediately after, like if someone was standing nearby already. Its a little different if you drive past them, stop the car, get out, go back ti them, and then discipline
- Comment on Did I discover a fake conspiracy theory? 4 days ago:
It used to be more common for people to discipline kids that aren’t theirs for something obviously wrong. It wouldn’t usually involve grabbing, unless it was to move them out of the way of a moving car like in the story. Now there is a lot more pressure on just the parents since it’s frowned upon to discipline others children. Whether or not this is better, idk
- Comment on LibreOffice blasts 'fake open source' OnlyOffice for working with Microsoft to lock users in 6 days ago:
The financial incentive would be open and standard document format to ease development and provide reliability
- Comment on Brave CEO claims news about Brave Browser tracking its users is “fake news” 1 week ago:
They explain it a bit more in the article:
According to Brave’s published technical materials, ad matching occurs locally on the user’s device. The browser downloads an ad catalog and selects relevant ads based on interest signals stored on the device. When a user views an ad and qualifies for a reward payout in Basic Attention Token (BAT), the confirmation process uses blind signatures to validate the event without revealing browsing history or identity to Brave’s servers. The company has repeatedly stated that it does not build centralized browsing profiles and cannot link ad activity to specific individuals.
I don’t use nor recommend Brave to people, but if advertising is going to be done this seems like the way it should be done.
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxis Reportedly Crashing at a Rate That's 4x Higher Than Humans 1 week ago:
If there is a massive object in the road and you stop on the highway, and someone rear ends you, the person rear ending you is at fault. The person behind you needs to leave enough space to be able to stop, and needs to be paying attention for any emergency braking situations. Regardless, these aren’t on the highway
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxis Reportedly Crashing at a Rate That's 4x Higher Than Humans 1 week ago:
a crash with a bus while the Tesla vehicle was stopped
Okay, idk why we would blame this one on the self driving car…
a collision with a heavy truck at 4 mph, and two separate incidents where the Tesla backed into objects, one into a pole or tree at 1 mph and another into a fixed object at 2 mph.
The difference is a lot of these are never reported when it’s done by a human driver. I very highly doubt the rate is 4x higher than humans. I’m not saying the self driving cars are good. I am just saying human drivers are really bad.
- Comment on Having grown up on sci-fi I always knew there would be people who reject robots and AI on a visceral level, I just thought it wouldn't be me. 1 week ago:
It can if you have a different definition of AGI. EZ
- Comment on You probably can't trust your password manager if it's compromised 1 week ago:
I don’t think it should be disappointing. Bitwarden welcomes third party security testing, especially given it is open source. The tests done were just tests, and the issues were already fixed.
- Comment on Parents opt kids out of school computers, insisting on pen-and-paper instead 1 week ago:
I don’t work for a school, but I apply default policies to stop tracking/telemetry on all the company computers. I wasn’t asked to, nor do my coworkers seem to care nearly as much. So the answer is probably that it will entirely depend on the IT admin they hired and how much they care
- Comment on What's stopping youtube from just going full authoritarian and mandate DRM for all their videos in attempt to prevent people from downloading it or block ads? 1 week ago:
From a quick google search, seems like you can disable hardware acceleration to record with OBS. Or you can use other dedicated software. And thats not even covering the bypasses that can likely be done on Linux
- Comment on What's stopping youtube from just going full authoritarian and mandate DRM for all their videos in attempt to prevent people from downloading it or block ads? 1 week ago:
This is different, and doesn’t address screen recording.
HDCP uses three systems:[5]
- Authentication prevents non-licensed devices from receiving content.
- Encryption of the data sent over DisplayPort, DVI, HDMI, GVIF, or UDI interfaces prevents eavesdropping of information and man-in-the-middle attacks.
- Key revocation prevents devices that have been compromised and cloned from receiving data.
It would stop someone from playing DRM content to an unauthorized TV, but does not mention anything about screen recording your own device. There are some built in protections for preventing an application from being recorded but I have no doubt there are bypasses
- Comment on What's stopping youtube from just going full authoritarian and mandate DRM for all their videos in attempt to prevent people from downloading it or block ads? 1 week ago:
The original post is about Google
- Comment on Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer("An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me"); pulls story 2 weeks ago:
Anyone that buys a news agency wants to maintain/increase click through and retention. They are going to continue to cater to their demographic, no matter who buys them. Billionaires literally care about one thing. They don’t care what the news site is saying as long as it keeps people reading and coming back. They would tank the entire company if they tried to convert it to right leaning media.
They are going to make right leaning media to get click from the right, and left leaning media for the left. They are not going to leave a dollar on the table. If you can find a right biased article from CNN, please do share.
- Comment on Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer("An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me"); pulls story 2 weeks ago:
Is AllSides more accurate?
- Comment on Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer("An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me"); pulls story 2 weeks ago:
CNN is a left biased outlet. That’s not controversial to say.
- Comment on Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer("An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me"); pulls story 2 weeks ago:
They admitted wrongdoing: arstechnica.com/…/editors-note-retraction-of-arti…
- Comment on Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer("An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me"); pulls story 2 weeks ago:
They put out a retraction: arstechnica.com/…/editors-note-retraction-of-arti…
- Comment on The Department of Homeland Security Is Demanding That Google Turn Over Information About Random Critics 2 weeks ago:
You saying youtube is the only way to make money?
Literally in my comment that you quoted, I said there are other ways to make money. I said “making money by some other contractual means.” meaning non-youtube related methods for making money.
Look, if you are watching youtube, you are supporting youtube first. That is a fact, it is inescapable.
This whole reply chain is about using non-youtube clients. Literally not supporting youtube, or the creator as a consequence. If you use a non-youtube client and pay the creator director, you bypass supporting youtube in a monetary fashion at all.
There are not alternatives, because people are still supporting youtube. There are options. People aren’t going to go to websites anymore? Ok, oh well, its dead. Sorry.
This is just a lack of understanding on the scope of the requirements for video hosting on the scale of YouTube. To let anyone upload as much as they want whenever they want entirely for free? There are soooo many reasons why there are no other real options. It is cost. Virtually no other company has the capability to do what YouTube is doing. With how successful YouTube is, if it were even remotely possible, plenty of people would be doing it. The only other company that might have the ability to compete would be Amazon, but it literally would not be profitable for a long time, and that doesn’t solve anything for this conversation since Amazon is no different from Google.
The closest we get is platforms like Nebula, but that is very different. That is for established creators to be able to post either more in depth content, or exclusive content for a more reliable revenue source. Without YouTube (or a YouTube alternative), how would one become established enough to be able to join Nebula in the first place?
The worst part and you glossed over this: they have no contract. Their livelihood could be gone in a day if youtube decides to drop them, or reduce their pay, or even promote someone else. It is a bad business plan.
I didn’t directly mention it, but I did say they could make money in some other contractual means. That still applies if they lose their job overnight with youtube. But also, Nebula could stop get enough subscribers to be able to afford their creators and go under, virtually losing that revenue source overnight.
What gets me is you act like other jobs are way better, when there are literally massive layoffs happening in the US right now.
“Their livelihood could be gone in a day if Amazon decides to lay them off, or reduce their pay, or even hire someone else.” is also just as true.
At the end of the day: Why the hell do we care so much about passive activities like watching people?
Ignoring the conversation on the value of entertainment, Youtube is more than just entertainment. It is an incredibly large source of knowledge. Watching people is how so many things are learned. I am talking in person teaching, mentorship, training, lectures, conferences, presentations, and even videos. If you want to do something you’ve never done before, it would be done best by watching someone else do it first, and then attempting it yourself. When you attempted it, you may have missed some things, so you can rewatch to reinforce what you missed. This applies to videos and non-videos. It would be far less efficient to skip the watching/learning, and go straight into the doing. It would take longer to figure out and achieve a comprehensive understanding. Could it be done? Sure, eventually. But there is literally a famous quote for that:
“Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.” ― Otto von Bismarck
- Comment on TikTok Refuses to Confirm or Deny That It's Providing User Data to ICE 2 weeks ago:
It is well and truly E2EE. They have a page on their site dedicated to what information they have given to courts/government bodies: signal.org/bigbrother
- Comment on TikTok Refuses to Confirm or Deny That It's Providing User Data to ICE 2 weeks ago:
They have a page dedicated to everything they have given over to the US government: signal.org/bigbrother/
Signal themselves cannot decrypt the messages, so they are literally not able to provide any substantial information to the government. They can literally only provide two timestamps, when the user registered and the last time they connected to the server.
the only information we can produce in response to a request like this is the date and time a user registered with Signal and the last date of a user’s connectivity to the Signal service.
- Comment on TikTok Refuses to Confirm or Deny That It's Providing User Data to ICE 2 weeks ago:
The attack chain is as follows: the threat actors masquerade as “Signal Support” or a support chatbot named “Signal Security ChatBot” to initiate direct contact with prospective targets, urging them to provide a PIN or verification code received via SMS, or risk facing data loss.
Should the victim comply, the attackers can register the account and gain access to the victim’s profile, settings, contacts, and block list through a device and mobile phone number under their control. While the stolen PIN does not enable access to the victim’s past conversations, a threat actor can use it to capture incoming messages and send messages posing as the victim.
That target user, who has by now lost access to their account, is then instructed by the threat actor disguised as the support chatbot to register for a new account.
Don’t give your signal PIN to someone via text? And even if you did, they still don’t have your message history.
- Comment on The Department of Homeland Security Is Demanding That Google Turn Over Information About Random Critics 2 weeks ago:
Choosing to be on YouTube for money is so stupid. They have no contract.
Most people are not choosing to be on youtube for money. They are on youtube to make videos, because they enjoy making videos. However, they need money to survive. If I like their content, and want them to make more content, then they need money. Otherwise they have to spend less time making videos and more time making money by some other contractual means.
The only way to get them to move on is not supporting them, on YouTube.
You believe people making videos on youtube should move on and do, idk, real work or something? However, if that person has an audience that enjoys watching their videos, they very clearly want them to keep making videos. Them “moving on” would be the exact opposite of what they want.
If you’re under the impression that they could move to a non Google owned video streaming platform, there is no real option. People could make their own websites for their own videos, but viewers are not going to go to a hundred different websites. Not everyone’s content fits Nebula’s platform. There is no platform that can host videos in the same way YouTube can. Maybe one day peer tube will be good enough that we can realistically use that to spread the load of video hosting, but we are not there yet.
To suggest that YouTubers need to move on is truly wild. Especially given Nebula is made up of YouTubers.
- Comment on The Department of Homeland Security Is Demanding That Google Turn Over Information About Random Critics 2 weeks ago:
But maybe directly support the creators you watch. They shouldn’t also suffer because of Google
- Comment on 'Fake it till you make it' insinuates fakers stop being fake, once they make it; reality seems to suggest otherwise 3 weeks ago:
It’s often about imposter syndrome. People don’t feel like they belong, when really they often are the same as their peers. So if they just pretend like the belong they can keep the facade until their imposter syndrome goes away.
- Comment on Why do horses allow humans to ride on their backs? 3 weeks ago:
the very fucking obvious answer that satisfies both questions is, “they don’t have a fucking choice”
You are comparing two things that are categorically different. Horses are not moral agents like people are, so slavery literally cannot apply. No animal has moral choices. We do not arrest an animal for breaking laws, because laws cannot apply to an animal. The issue with riding horses is one of welfare, not consent or freedom.
- Comment on Why do horses allow humans to ride on their backs? 3 weeks ago:
Are you saying those slaves are basically animals? Or that horses are basically people? I’m assuming you’re more so going for the latter, which is still a wild idea. They are domesticated animals, not people.
With your logic, just think of all the enslaved cats and dogs being forced to live in homes with lots of pets and constantly be fed and loved. Does animal cruelty happen? Of course. But to suggest domesticated horses are being enslaved because people have ridden horses for 5,000 years is truly a wild take.
- Comment on AI controls is coming to Firefox 3 weeks ago:
It’s there for me. It seems like they took away the “View image” option, which would open the image in the same tab rather than a new one?
- Comment on AI controls is coming to Firefox 3 weeks ago:
The feature would likely need to be enabled to take advantage of such vulnerability in said feature.
- Comment on AI controls is coming to Firefox 3 weeks ago:
I mean, there is a single button to disable all AI
- Comment on If you have one, how much do you pay for a domain name? Any cheap registrar recommendations? 5 weeks ago:
Should be 87 cents