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- Comment on How to disable Microsoft Recall & stop the AI from taking screenshots of your desktop. 4 days ago:
If we go down this road, I am old enough to remember people pinning 5 1/4 floppy disks to the cabinet using magnets and then being surprise it did not work anymore, or people that when asked to do a copy of the disk went to the copy machine.
But that was at the beginning (199x), now I would not consider “average user” someone who is not even able to realize that the pc is not plugged in, tbh. - Comment on How to disable Microsoft Recall & stop the AI from taking screenshots of your desktop. 4 days ago:
Then you are probably using Excel for the wrong thing
- Comment on How to disable Microsoft Recall & stop the AI from taking screenshots of your desktop. 4 days ago:
Windows and Mac are both easier to use for the standard user.
I really doubt that a standard user would have that much problems to do his work with the normal programs (an office suite, a browsere a little else) once Linux with a DE (let be KDE, GNOME or whatever) is installed.
The limitation is not the disto itself, it is the lack of support for some software (like Grasshooper or CAD)
- Comment on How to disable Microsoft Recall & stop the AI from taking screenshots of your desktop. 4 days ago:
Resistance is futile
Lately is not going that well for the borg, better 8472 😜
- Comment on Women’s ‘red flag’ app Tea is a privacy nightmare 6 days ago:
What intrigue me is this:
I’m confident vibe coding was not to blame in this particular case,
So they used vibe coding, they are only saying that they think/hope that it is not the cause of the break (and maybe also of the second one)
And if vvibe coding is not caused then they are even more incompetent.
- Comment on How to disable Microsoft Recall & stop the AI from taking screenshots of your desktop. 6 days ago:
So just putting as background one random nude pic do the job ?
I was hoping that they learned something from the time the protection on audio CDs was just that they were not read from the PC because the first track had invalid data (while it was ignored by a stereo) was defeat by a simple marker, which make the PC just ignore the track… I think I still have one of this CD somewhere…
- Comment on Wyoming to host massive AI data center using more electricity than all Wyoming homes combined 6 days ago:
Yes, and my bill become 1/5 of what it was, so maybe is was a not so stupid thing to do.
- Comment on Wyoming to host massive AI data center using more electricity than all Wyoming homes combined 6 days ago:
Because solar and wind plants, while they can be cheap and relatively fast to build, are not as reliable as a datacenter need and it is not predictable, so at most they can supplement some other generation method, in this scenario. Then ok, you probably need less fossil fuel (but gas is not necessary fossil these days).
And a nuclear plant is probably way longer to build than the datacenter itself, if you ever get the green light to build it. - Comment on Selfhosted peer-to-peer reddit alternative built on IPFS 1 week ago:
As long as they are able to create their own subplebbit , otherwise every subplebbit (by the description) has as moderator the owner (or someone given the permission).
- Comment on Women’s ‘red flag’ app Tea is a privacy nightmare 1 week ago:
I am not sure, but I read somewhere that the developer(s) used vibe coding to create the app so…
- Comment on Women are anonymously spilling tea about men in their cities on viral app 1 week ago:
<sarcasm>Else how can you certify you are a woman ? We don’t want a man lurking around</sarcasm>
- Comment on EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google 1 week ago:
Edit: German eID works on any Android btw., flawless actually. I sure hope I can use that for verification
Same in Italy… I mean, I can pay taxes with that application but I cannot be verified for my age ? Seriously EU ?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Maybe a larger volume is noto importante for you, but to others maybe it is.
But his point is what you are basically saying that a bike is more expensive than a bicycle looking only at the price tag.
- Comment on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not 3 weeks ago:
I noted it. That is why I said that the problem is the punishment.
- Comment on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not 3 weeks ago:
Only thing that will stop it is heavy regulation.
Would you agree if someone told you that the only thing to resolve some political problem is heavy artillery?
Well, if everything else failed…
“Regulation” of the “property rights protection” kind is needed. Providing a service presented as a good that doesn’t work without dancing to a certain tune is simply cheating, it’s theft. Providing a “communication platform” augmenting and weighing your words for recommendation system leading to some intended effect is cheating, theft and impersonation at the same time. These should be prosecuted. But that’s not heavy regulation, that’s an update to pretty light regulation.
The problem with light regulation is that it would probably be too easy to workaround, not that a heavy regulation do not have the same problem btw, but more than the regulation itself is the punishment (and the certainty and timeliness of it) that is important.
- Comment on Apparently Debian has alienated the developers 4 weeks ago:
Yes, FOSS has always been political, just not the politics Debian dipped itself.
- Comment on Connor Myers: As if graduating weren’t daunting enough, now students like me face a jobs market devastated by AI 4 weeks ago:
That’s can be true and it is ok.
But from the “don’t buy the bullshit” to “be a decent worker” there is a very big difference.
- Comment on ‘You can’t pause the internet’: social media creators hit by burnout 4 weeks ago:
How does one unintentionally eat a tide pod?
The same way a bulb end up in someone ass…
- Comment on ‘You can’t pause the internet’: social media creators hit by burnout 4 weeks ago:
Children were never eating tide pods either.
Somewaht true, back at the time we had not tide pods.
But we did a lot of stupid shit even without social media.
- Comment on The Prime Reasons to Avoid Amazon 4 weeks ago:
Not the stores don’t use this trick during sales… This is probably the only thing Amazon has in common with everyoen else…
- Comment on How China's new auto giants left General Motors, Volkswagen and Tesla in the dust 4 weeks ago:
While you are rigth, it is not about that.
Tha article point out that they were able to fix an issue in mere six weeks. But the point is that the other brand they cited would have not done the mistake in the first place.
So yes, they could be faster and more flexible, but that speed and flexibility comes with a price.
- Comment on Microsoft Says Its New AI Diagnosed Patients 4 Times More Accurately Than Human Doctors 5 weeks ago:
more accurate.
Until it’s not…then what. Who’s liable? Google…Amazon …Microsoft …chatgpt… Look, I like ai because it’s fun to make stupid memes and pictures without any effort but I do not trust this nonsense to do ANYTHING with accuracy especially my medical.
The doctor who review the case, maybe ?
In some cases the AI can effectively “see” things a doctor can miss and direct him to check for a particular disease. Even if the AI is only able to rule out some cases it would be usefull. - Comment on Misogyny and Violent Extremism: Can Big Tech Fix the Glitch? 5 weeks ago:
It is interesting that you are not answering my point… Good work
- Comment on Misogyny and Violent Extremism: Can Big Tech Fix the Glitch? 5 weeks ago:
On both sides of what? What are you even talking about?
The misogynist and the peope who think to have some special right just because they are from $MINORITY_OF_THE_DAY
And what other media, exactly, is providing not only a public mouthpiece to, but also driving steady streams of traffic directly toward, unabashed misogynists and bigots? I’ll wait… 🙄
TV for one, or you are saying that channels like Fo New are harmless ?
But more generally every media is suitable to spread misinformation, some better than other, and I agree that currently social media are better at the “work”, but it is not that before social media we have not misinformations, misogyny and violent extremism.Social media is only a big resonance chamber for the $MINORITY_OF_THE_DAY that cry louder (and I am sure that you would understand why if you were not blinded by hate for tech companies) and they are getting more credit than they deserve.
To make you understand a little better (I hope) look at all the “go woke, go broke” rethoric. It is obvious
You can definitely take your dogwhistles and white supremacist apologism and fuck right off with it tho 😁
Probably better than to discuss with you about this.
- Comment on Misogyny and Violent Extremism: Can Big Tech Fix the Glitch? 5 weeks ago:
I think that the only point you can hold against the big tech is that they are profiting from it. They provide one platform to disseminate but it is not that suche ideas need a social network to spread. Hitler had not social networks and like him every war/discrimination act against one group or another up until, say, 20 years ago did not need a social network.
We can agree that maybe a social network is easier and the dissemination is faster, but in itself a social network is not strictly needed.
You want to fix the problem ? Fix the people on both sides, it is the only option
- Comment on The Trump Administration is Building a National Citizenship Data System; State and county election officials can now check the citizenship status of their entire voter lists. 5 weeks ago:
What happens if someone is illegitimately removed from this database?
That the someone cannot vote. But you can design system resilient to this.
How can you show whether it was a glitch, or deliberate?
Paper trail.
How do you know if the information they have about you is even right, or get it changed if you need to?
You check it. I mean, when I ask for a document I expect to receive it. And I check if it is correct, after all human error can happen anyway.
Where’s the accountability?
Every document from the state (any level) I have has a signature that indicate who is ultimately accountable for it.
- Comment on The Trump Administration is Building a National Citizenship Data System; State and county election officials can now check the citizenship status of their entire voter lists. 5 weeks ago:
Part of Trump’s grand plan is to make federal elections span only a single day.
Don’t see the problem. For years in Italy elections were a one day only events (normally a Sunday) and everything worked fine.
So maybe you check your status the day before and everything is fine, but the day of voting a glitch in the system says it can’t verify your citizenship. That’s it! No votes for you this year!
There are solutions since the system need to be resilient, note that the glitch could be even not “wanted” so while you can think that $HATED_CANDIDATE want to keep his opponents away from the voting, in the same way $HATED_CANDIDATE want to make sure that his supporters can vote.
- Comment on Germany deems DeepSeek as illegal content after it is unable to address data security concerns, and asks Apple and Google to block it from their app stores 5 weeks ago:
At least formally, with US companies there are agreements that the data on european citizen need to stay in EU, with China no
- Comment on You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning 5 weeks ago:
It is my memory at fault or it was discovered, various times, that Google (and all the others obviously) tracked people also when they opted out ?
- Comment on ‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops 5 weeks ago:
What are they so afraid of?
The drug lord or mafia boss that sends killers to eliminate their families ?