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- Comment on WhatsApp is adding the ability to save contacts within the app independently from your smartphone’s address book. 3 weeks ago:
Or reinforce your walled garden and strengthen user lock-in?
- Comment on Syncthing Android app discontinued 3 weeks ago:
This is sad. Google Play should never hold this weight the self hosted community. For Android users dedicated to open source software, F-Droid is the target.
I don’t think SyncThing users would have much issue with the app disappearing from Google. Doing away with Google is the goal.
- Comment on Mystery creator of Bitcoin identified, new HBO documentary claims 1 month ago:
Hal Finney, no?
The software engineer, cryptography expert, and cyberpunk who received the first ever Bitcoin transaction and had a neighbor named “Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto”?
- Comment on Someone Put Facial Recognition Tech onto Meta's Smart Glasses to Instantly Dox Strangers 1 month ago:
Surely the original “someone” is Meta. Good to have a redundant system I guess /s
- Comment on Headlamp tech that doesn’t blind oncoming drivers—where is it? 1 month ago:
This problem desperately needs to be fixed, but the solution isn’t some expensive, over-engineered laser LED matrix. The solution is basic headlights that don’t blind people. You know, like every headlight that existed in the US until a few years ago.
Surely it’s not an insurmountable task to use a cheap LED bulb with the optics to give the beam proper directivity—i.e. not direct the beam into the eyes off oncoming drivers. Maybe even make it replaceable with a screwdriver. Call me crazy.
- Comment on 'Russian spy agency forgot to pay its bill’: Did a delinquent ChatGPT account expose a pro-Trump Russian bot campaign? 4 months ago:
This is a major problem for all democracies, and LLM driven troll accounts probably do exist. But this xitter post is a fake error message. It’s clearly a troll.
Blocking fake accounts would help with the misinformation problem, but it’s a cat and mouse game. It could ultimately give additional credence to the trolls who slip through if the platform is assumed to be safe. The reality is that there will always be ways for fake accounts to avoid detection and to spoof account verification. Making it harder would help, but it’s not a comprehensive solution. Not to mention the fact that the platform itself has the power to manipulate public opinion, amplify their preferred narrative, etc.
The solution I’ve always preferred is the mentality the 4chan community had when I was younger and frequented it. Basically, and I’m paraphrasing:
Everyone here needs to grow up and understand that no post should ever be presumed to be true or legitimate. This is an anonymous forum. Assume that everything was written by a bot or a troll in the absence of proof that it wasn’t.
I think people put too much trust in social media precisely because they assume that there’s a real person behind every post. They assume that a face and a few photos gives an account legitimacy, despite the fact that it’s trivial to copy photos from a random account (2015/16 pro-Trump Facebook style) or just generate all of the content from scratch with AI (to avoid duplicate detection).
Trust itself is driver of misinformation. On social media, people should only fully trust posts made by people they know. That is the simplest and most comprehensive solution to the problem.
- Comment on Humane AI Pin: much-hyped gadget rocked by bad reviews 6 months ago:
Who exactly was hyped about this?
Personally, I typically want my interactions with technology to be quiet. I don’t want it talking, and I don’t want to be talking to it.
- Comment on OpenAI Announces that GPT-4 Turbo with Vision Is Now Available In The API 6 months ago:
This sounds like the open source LLM community
- Comment on Reddit wants to raise $748M with IPO, sets value at $6.4B 8 months ago:
The best part is that this whole thing is about having the “opportunity” to purchase reddit stock at its IPO price. This user generated content farm wouldn’t dare give away equity for free to users responsible for the site having any past, present, or future value.
I’m not a finance person, but the only gambling I’d do on this company is hope that Wall Street pumps the price post-IPO so I can short it.
My understanding is that the value of each reddit user is priced roughly at $2. A Facebook user is priced at roughly $40. Their only options to maybe be profitable are more enshittification, more users, or both. Or, you know, not paying hundreds of millions of dollars to the execs of an RSS feed with voting and comments.
- Comment on Activists set to protest Tesla Germany factory’s expansion days after sabotage attack 8 months ago:
Great to have this context
- Comment on Activists set to protest Tesla Germany factory’s expansion days after sabotage attack 8 months ago:
Elon is a megalomaniacal cunt, but I was wondering why environmentalists of all people would push to limit electric vehicle production. It seems a little brain dead while we’re actively watching the climate warm at a much higher rate than was predicted when I was young.
Anyway, this is about protecting their water.
Environmentalists also worry about the pressure the factory puts on the local water supply and the risk of contamination.
- Comment on How to use phone microphone with Bluetooth FM transmitter? 10 months ago:
Hm, yeah it works fine for me. I could never use the built-in mic on one of those cheap adapters
- Comment on How to use phone microphone with Bluetooth FM transmitter? 10 months ago:
I’m not sure if this is a stock Android feature or Samsung specific, but I have the ability to disable using my cheap Bluetooth adapter for calls under Bluetooth settings for the device
Image - Comment on The FTC is reportedly looking into Microsoft’s $13 billion OpenAI investment 11 months ago:
What happened is that the FTC is taking on Amazon in court as we speak:
- Comment on It’s Still Easy for Anyone to Become You at Experian – Krebs on Security 11 months ago:
Do you mean Equifax?
- Comment on Exxon, Apple and other corporate giants will have to disclose all their emissions under California's new climate laws – that will have a global impact 1 year ago:
Actively contributing to this community being dumb and irrelevant I see. Trust me, I’ve already left. Eternal September has arrived.
- Comment on Exxon, Apple and other corporate giants will have to disclose all their emissions under California's new climate laws – that will have a global impact 1 year ago:
Yet you are, however, following a direct mirror of reddit right here in this community. Fully automated for your convenience.
- Comment on Exxon, Apple and other corporate giants will have to disclose all their emissions under California's new climate laws – that will have a global impact 1 year ago:
The other posts aren’t very related to technology either, and that’s my point. There was a time before Lemmy, when /r/Technology was focused on delivering news about new technology. Not tangentially related news about pro climate laws. Not the politics of social media companies. Not Elon Musk spam. Technology. /r/Science was vastly different in the past as well. In general, these communities had much more substantiative content with nuanced discussions in the comments from experts in relevant fields. Lemmy was a bit like that as well in the past. But unfortunately bots like this one started reposting all of the drivel from Reddit to the main Technology community, drowning out content with more depth. I want communities that I can genuinely learn from. I want to feel hesitant to comment, because everyone in the room is smarter than me. I miss that version of the internet.
- Comment on Exxon, Apple and other corporate giants will have to disclose all their emissions under California's new climate laws – that will have a global impact 1 year ago:
This news is as related to technology as a weather report citing rain in Silicon Valley is relevant to technology. It doesn’t fit the sub.
- Comment on Any idea what Google are doing? Is this because I dont use Chrome (use Firefox)? I've no adblockers. 1 year ago:
I actually didn’t realize it supported anything other than YouTube. TIL
- Comment on Exxon, Apple and other corporate giants will have to disclose all their emissions under California's new climate laws – that will have a global impact 1 year ago:
Please elaborate on the technological advancement that was made here
- Comment on Exxon, Apple and other corporate giants will have to disclose all their emissions under California's new climate laws – that will have a global impact 1 year ago:
This is not a post about technology.
- Comment on Any idea what Google are doing? Is this because I dont use Chrome (use Firefox)? I've no adblockers. 1 year ago:
NewPipe has been my go-to for years. Available on F-Droid with regular updates.
- Comment on Techies are paying $700 a month for tiny bed ‘pods’ in downtown San Francisco 1 year ago:
Techies?
- Comment on X’s privacy policy confirms it will use public data to train AI models 1 year ago:
Can we let this platform die quietly and stop bombarding the feed with Elmo spam?
- Comment on LLMs are surprisingly great at compressing images and audio, DeepMind researchers find 1 year ago:
Gavin Belson has entered the chat
- Comment on Backdoored firmware lets China state hackers control routers with “magic packets” 1 year ago:
I think this is fair, but man the retaliatory tariffs for NSA backdoors would be atrocious
- Comment on Building Meta’s Threads App (Real-World Engineering Challenges) 1 year ago:
Gergely Orosz Sep 7, 2023 Paid
- Comment on The enshittification marches on – use Signal [WhatsApp] 1 year ago:
Yeah, no, I’m right. This is always how it starts, and these new Channels “partners” will definitely be a revenue stream in the future if they aren’t already. Your view is naive.
- Comment on The enshittification marches on – use Signal [WhatsApp] 1 year ago:
I also find it crazy that people don’t understand the value of privacy. Telling people that Nissan wants to sell information about your sexual activity seemed to wake some of my social circle up. But only in the context of Nissan, which almost certainly doesn’t have that data. Meta almost certainly does.
What sort of roadmap are you looking for in Signal? It does everything I need it to do, personally.
