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- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 3 hours ago:
If that isn’t already shorthand for “whenever, wherever, whatever” it should be.
- Comment on Proton releases a new app for two-factor authentication 4 days ago:
I don’t view it as simply compromised or not. How a password is compromised is relevant. The vast majority of issues aren’t somebody gaining access to your logged in machine. Passwords are nearly always compromised from a server mishandling data.
That means in most cases 2FA near a password is not likely to be an issue. I’m not saying I recommend it, but it does change the risk evaluation.
- Comment on Switzerland plans surveillance worse than US 1 week ago:
First I’m finding out a ligature exists. Awesome.
- Comment on Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC 1 week ago:
Truffle Shuffle 🤮
- Comment on ChatGPT advises women to ask for lower salaries, study finds 1 week ago:
FWIW, Anthropic’s models do much better here and point out how problematic demographic assessment like this is and provide an answer without those. One of many indications that Anthropic has a much higher focus on safety and alignment than OpenAI. Not exactly superstars, but much better.
- Comment on Junior dev's code worked in tests, deleted data in prod 2 weeks ago:
They should have used all caps. Then it would have listened. Oh wait…
- Comment on Like clockwork, Peacock is raising subscription prices again 2 weeks ago:
Peacock is NBC / Comcast. Colbert was on CBS / Paramount.
- Comment on YSK: If you set up a Lemmy instance, and follow the Docker setup instructions to the letter, it will send lemmy.ml your admin password during the setup process 3 weeks ago:
Nix and Docker / container runtimes are completely different animals. Each is good at what they do, but those are vastly different things, with some overlap. If you want to share a kernel but use fewer resources than a VM, containers can do that. If you want to go further and completely isolate, you can use microvm’s like firecracker.
I don’t follow what is wrong with that. Maybe you mean it’s use where people use it specifically as a package manager. I agree with that, but even then it has its handy place.
- Comment on Exclusive: OpenAI to release web browser in challenge to Google Chrome 3 weeks ago:
Also Servo is now under the Linux Foundation. Both this and Ladybird are very exciting.
- Comment on On July 7, Gemini AI will access your WhatsApp and more. Learn how to disable it on Android. 4 weeks ago:
I got a privacy update for Gmail tools too. It used to be to enable smart tools you needed to allow google to read your email. That does stuff like automatically add calendar events for flights and such.
Now you must also allow the email to be read by their AI services too. I can’t recall precisely how it was worded, but it was an easy decision to keep the “smart” features off.
I mean, I really just use Gmail as the email address I give to sign up for sites and such, but would be good just not to have it one day.
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 5 weeks ago:
If only there were a word, literally defined as:
Made by humans, especially in imitation of something natural.
- Comment on Zero-day: Bluetooth gap turns millions of headphones into listening stations 5 weeks ago:
I hate that. I’m looking at you Healthline. I hate that it’s always so high in the results.
- Comment on You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning 5 weeks ago:
Not liking Apple for ethical reasons is one thing, but thinking they don’t make good products surprises me. I think the current generation of MacBooks are some of the best computers ever sold.
- Comment on Trump social media site brought down by Iran hackers 5 weeks ago:
By denying access to resources in a primary region, one might force traffic to an alternate infrastructure with a different configuration. Or maybe by overwhelming hosts that distribute BGP configurations. By denying access to resources, sometimes you can be routed to resources with different security postures or different monitoring and alerting, thus not raising alarms. But these are just contrived examples.
Compromising devices is a wide field with many different tools and ideas, some of which are a bit off the wall and nearly all unexpected, necessarily.
- Comment on Trump social media site brought down by Iran hackers 1 month ago:
Disabling network security and edge devices to change the properties of ingress can absolutely be a component of an attack plan.
Just like overwhelming a postal sorting center could prevent a parcel containing updated documentation from reaching the receiver needing that information.
- Comment on Trump social media site brought down by Iran hackers 1 month ago:
Can be a component of it.
- Comment on American attitudes about AI today mirror poll answers about the rise of the internet in the '90s 1 month ago:
AI is a superset of transformers which is then a superset of LLM’s. I think I’m making the same point as you, that in the broader sense “AI” can be useful.
- Comment on American attitudes about AI today mirror poll answers about the rise of the internet in the '90s 1 month ago:
It also helps with tons of complex tasks in the sciences like finding new protein folding algorithms.
- Comment on SpaceX's Starship blows up ahead of 10th test flight 1 month ago:
Falcon 9 has launched over 500 mission with a very high success rate. Of course the bulk of advancement should be coming from NASA and we need to spend more there, but SpaceX is putting up big numbers in successful payload lifts.
- Comment on Streaming overtakes cable and broadcast as the most-watched form of TV 1 month ago:
What year is this?
- Comment on Trump team leaks AI plans in public GitHub repository 1 month ago:
Interesting that you chose Reddit as an example. They have a fascinating origin story with respect to data mart. Early Reddit had just two tables: Thing and Data, where Thing was metadata about types and Data was a three column table with: type, id, and value.
Wrap your head around that. All of Reddit, two tables. A database couldn’t be less normalized (final boss of normal forms) and they did it in an rdb. So horrific it’s actually kind of cool.
- Comment on VPN Registrations Increase by 1,000%, less than Hour After PornHub Blocked France From Accessing its Website. 1 month ago:
- Comment on Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all. 1 month ago:
Yeah these comments have the three hallmarks of Lemmy:
- AI is just autocomplete mantras.
- Apple is always synonymous with bad and dumb.
- Rare pockets of really thoughtful comments.
Thanks for being at least the latter.
- Comment on Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads 1 month ago:
Jesus. Delet this.
- Comment on Google is going ‘all in’ on AI. It’s part of a troubling trend in big tech 2 months ago:
“Bad” is SN’s claim to fame. Everybody hates it. Apparently, the worse they make it, the more companies will throw money at them.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
No, people do it both ways and you’ll even find both techniques by the pros. But anybody claiming it makes them more even I really don’t think is thinking it through. By adding the extra cut across those natural layers, you’re actually making to very small bits when the crosscut is near the layer boundary.
That’s why I think it is not only easier but superior not to add the crosscut.
- Comment on Stack overflow is almost dead 2 months ago:
100% understood and agreed. I don’t want to defend the bad behavior. It is out there among questioners and in the experienced community alike. Just saying it is possible to find quality help there.
- Comment on Stack overflow is almost dead 2 months ago:
I see this hot take often, and it isn’t entirely without merit, but it is mitigated by moderation; in some Stack communities better than others. I’ve been an active member for many years, and in my view it goes like this.
If you contribute a question without reading the rules and How to Ask a Good Question, you don’t provide minimal reproducible steps with code, post images of code, etc. you may get flamed out of town. And that may feel bad and it may be mean if the questioner didn’t know to read those. But they are there for you.
If, however, you ask a thoughtful question, give examples, show what you’ve tried, etc. you definitely can get quality, courteous help.
Doesn’t change that video killed the radio star here. The show is over.
- Comment on What does it mean to ‘accept’ or ‘reject’ all cookies, and which should I choose? 2 months ago:
It’s good enough for me.
- Comment on Apple executives ban Fortnight from the App store 2 months ago:
What are you on about? What you said simply is not true. At least, I’ve not once heard an Apple user state they wanted to be told what they were allowed to use. You either believe that, which would be stupid, or you don’t which would be disingenuous. You pick.
It may be a scumbag company, or its users a cult, but that doesn’t stop what you said from being stupid.