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- Comment on Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, lawsuit claims 17 hours ago:
Code Name: Go Fish!
- Comment on Jack Dorsey claims Bluesky is 'repeating all the mistakes' he made at Twitter 1 month ago:
I’ll have to dig it up tomorrow, but that was an illusion to a mountain climbing injury he sustained at some point earlier in life (to an arm) that left him in constant pain. He was able to function by mentally mastering the discomfort which he credited to meditation or something like that.
I believe it was an interview that aired on NPR at least 5 years ago.
I’m with you. When I saw The Saint as a kid it seemed like the perfect plan. Do crimes and retire when you hit 5 million ;-)
Seriously, I think it’s a widespread addiction. You see your nest-egg turn into millions and then billions… it’s got to be a rush.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey claims Bluesky is 'repeating all the mistakes' he made at Twitter 1 month ago:
It’s length does indicate he’s a successful man of means…
- Comment on Jack Dorsey claims Bluesky is 'repeating all the mistakes' he made at Twitter 1 month ago:
Wasn’t this guy hired to be some kind of poster-boy CEO because he has a highschool masturbation related injury that causes one of his arms to constantly ache? Why is he giving everyone business advice now?
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 1 month ago:
Which is why I used the former as an example and not the latter.
I’m not trying to make a general case for AI generated code here… just poking fun at the notion that a few errors will put people off using it.
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 1 month ago:
[…]will only take a few hallucinations before no one trusts LLMs to write code or give advice
Because none of us have ever blindly pasted some code we got off google and crossed our fingers ;-)
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 1 month ago:
At this point I’m assuming most if not all of these content deals are essentially retroactive. They already scrapped the content and found it useful enough to try and secure future use, or at least exclude competitors.
- Comment on Mullvad VPN: Introducing Defense against AI-guided Traffic Analysis (DAITA) 1 month ago:
Thank you. It’s good to know I have a few options.
- Comment on Mullvad VPN: Introducing Defense against AI-guided Traffic Analysis (DAITA) 1 month ago:
I can’t honestly say I’ve ever had much trouble with it either. No trouble receiving files at least… there wasn’t much outbound traffic, but that could just have been a lack of interest :-)
I’m happy with Mulvad’s service and now that the initial shock and indignation is wearing off I’ll probably stick with them.
Besides I read about their new traffic obfuscation and I’ve got to give that a try. We need proactive innovation like that, now more than ever.
- Comment on Mullvad VPN: Introducing Defense against AI-guided Traffic Analysis (DAITA) 1 month ago:
Thanks for the tip, I’ll check them out.
- Comment on Mullvad VPN: Introducing Defense against AI-guided Traffic Analysis (DAITA) 1 month ago:
Hum… this was one of the original reasons I signed up with them. I totally missed them dropping support. I’m not mad about it because I don’t torrent much anymore, but it’s still a pretty lame excuse.
I want all my services supporting maximum fuckery at all times as a matter of general principle.
Any alternatives that you know of?
- Comment on After 16 years, Ecobee is shutting down support for the original smart thermostat 1 month ago:
Yeah. Although they were honestly long past their prime, and I wasn’t using them anymore so it’s hard to be upset.
They could even be set in RSTP mode before they dropped support from the app, so they could still be useful.
- Comment on After 16 years, Ecobee is shutting down support for the original smart thermostat 1 month ago:
They just killed my nest cameras, but the thermostat is still supported. I was planning on replacing it with an ecobee this year just because API access is kind of a pain but this is giving me some second thoughts.
- Comment on [Serious] What is project 2025? What kind of risk is involved? 1 month ago:
Honestly the best summary I’ve read so far and I actually downloaded the PDF 😬
- Comment on New Federal Rules Protect LGBTQ People From Misgendering, Bathroom Bans 1 month ago:
I like that they went with the second most popular generic article image. Sharpie-on-glass-block-diagram was really getting a bit stale.
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 1 month ago:
I’m really loving this journey for them 🥰
- Comment on Drone maker DJI facing U.S. FCC ban — the national security risk and part China-state ownership are key issues 1 month ago:
So your contention is that because Congress our most learned body of intellectuals… fuck it, I’m not in the mood tonight.
- Comment on Stop Using Your Face or Thumb to Unlock Your Phone 1 month ago:
I think they were victims of their own success weren’t they? Gawker was already kind of a tech-tabloid, happy to report rumors (which were often true or at last truth adjacent).
That kinda made them popular with both hardboiled techies who wanted to know when my shit was going to come rolling down, and regular folks who just wanted some good gossip… maybe wanted to touch our feet or whatever ;-)
With that success and the capital investment it garnered Gawker bought up all the good tech news sites.
Unable to produce meaningful content for that many sites on the limited budget their investors demanded Gawker invented the listical. And humanity wept —and kept clicking for some damn reason 🤨
Many years passed and the listical was clearly dying, so Gawker sought out a real zinger to boost their profile… I’m a bit hazy on the details, but it sounds like Peter Teal fucked them up the ass with Hulk Hogan‘s penis. 
At least that’s how I remember it ;-)
- Comment on Stop Using Your Face or Thumb to Unlock Your Phone 1 month ago:
Take a deep breath and tell us how you really feel ;-)
I got here a bit late and it seemed like there was some decent discussion going on. Practical advice on how to lock various phones.
Some high quality pasta about how to survive the coming civil war ;-) Honestly good advice for anyone considering civil unrest there.
It’s small, but what’s really missing here? Someone dragging up the constitution? Being forced to incriminate yourself is wrong and any evidence gleaned should be inadmissible. Cops shouldn’t manipulate people into giving up their rights… but that’s the country we live in.
Reddit was a wash in low effort feel good upvote nonsense too. It just got buried faster.
To each his own but until I have time to post a bunch of high quality content, I’m not going to complain so bitterly.
- Comment on Stop Using Your Face or Thumb to Unlock Your Phone 1 month ago:
Ya know… I hadn’t see anything by them in so long I forgot.
- Comment on Drone maker DJI facing U.S. FCC ban — the national security risk and part China-state ownership are key issues 1 month ago:
Oh I’ve built a few over the last 10 years. There’s a lot to be said for what DJI has accomplished over that time. I doubt it would cost me less that 10K to make something that has all the features they offer in a $2K package. And it would take months for a prototype.
- Comment on Drone maker DJI facing U.S. FCC ban — the national security risk and part China-state ownership are key issues 1 month ago:
What’s your point?
There’s a handful of valid notions in there, but they apply to the vast majority of apps people download.
It’s a choice. You could get the same technology from an American company for… 50-80K if you’re lucky and will to roll up your sleeves and learn some sophisticated GIS software (not included).
Or you could get the DJI for… let’s call it 6K including a nice laptop and let the evil orientials know the layout of your hazlenut orchard. Oh nooooos! Spooky scary!
The Uyghur thing is a problem for me. And I would need to understand that better before I buy something. If it’s a case of the Chinese government asking DJI to provide surveillance tech, I’m not sure that’s a request they can deny. If it’s DJI using slave/forced labor, fuckem.
- Comment on Stop Using Your Face or Thumb to Unlock Your Phone 1 month ago:
The article pretty plainly says the guy was coerced into entering his password. So the headline feels a bit manipulative.
- Comment on Confused Reddit Users After Coming to Lemmy (Apparently) 1 month ago:
Thanks for explaining this… something about it being kind of democratic (?) makes it more amusing than irritating.
Lemmy still feels thin compared to the colossal poop-chute that was Reddit.
Knowing that the spurt of new furry porn in my all feed, is the result some new Lemmite fast-fingering the subscribe button is kind of delightful :-)
- Comment on Confused Reddit Users After Coming to Lemmy (Apparently) 1 month ago:
And I’ve died laughing :-) Thank you for that.
P.S. No idea why I just got a notification for this.
- Comment on Drone maker DJI facing U.S. FCC ban — the national security risk and part China-state ownership are key issues 1 month ago:
Question is: do I buy one now and risk them bricking it out of spite… I guess as long as I don’t update the firmware? I don’t actually know how their geofence works.
This is lame. They already crammed remoteID™ down our throats :-( Although this will do way more to curtail drone activity it’s demonstrably not going to stop anyone from doing anything really bad.
- Comment on Confused Reddit Users After Coming to Lemmy (Apparently) 2 months ago:
There has got to be a Whack-A-Mole joke in here somewhere.
But yeah… same bud.
- Comment on Why I ditched Gmail for Proton Mail 2 months ago:
Everyone’s creepy uncle… to creep to fail… this wants to be a Weinstein joke, but not today :-(

- Comment on Why I ditched Gmail for Proton Mail 2 months ago:
I value my privacy and have an extra $7 to blow every month.
Bleep boop, this summary has saved you 99.9%… just kidding i’m not a bot and have no idea what the article says ;-)
- Comment on How much maintenance do you find your self-hosting involves? 2 months ago:
That must be why it stopped working ;-)
Does 48 hours not getting a reverse proxy working count?
It’s FreeNAS and I don’t really hoast anything but the plex server… so 48 hours.
If deleting files counts 10 days a year, if not 1 day a year.