RecallMadness

@RecallMadness@lemmy.nz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't like em? Ghost em⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Dig it. Dig it. Love cannot attach itself to binding ugliness.

  Dig it. Dig it. Execute economic slave.

  …

  Ok maybe not the best lyrics for a dating app.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facebook Allegedly Detected When Teen Girls Deleted Selfies So It Could Serve Them Beauty Ads⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the sort of thing machine learning algorithms are pretty good at at.

  Coupled with however many millions of interactions a day, you would have no problem correlating changes to your algorithm against increases in revenue.

  But. It’s often not that impressive. Humans are equally good at noticing patterns.

  All it takes is for one person at FB to see their wife or daughter delete a post, ask them “why did you delete that post” and take away from the response of “It made me look fat” to go “there’s a new targeted ad that’ll get me a bonus”.

  In a similar vein, 80% of your banks anti-fraud systems isn’t deep learning models that detect fraudulent behaviour. Instead it’s “if the user is based in Russia, add 80 points, and if the account is at a branch in 10km of Heinersdorf Berlin, add another 50…. We’re pretty sure a Russian scammer goes on holiday every 6 months and opens a bunch of accounts there, we just don’t know which ones”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Car safety experts at NHTSA, which regulates Tesla, axed by DOGE⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This isn’t foolproof.

  The same car might be manufactured in multiple factories for multiple markets, to multiple levels of certification.

  Your “new car” in one country, could be the previous years European model if the euro regs have changed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you dislike your dependency on Android? To the rescue comes Mobile Linux "PostmarketOS" - Funded via Donations, Focus on Reliabilty for 2025⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the reason I haven’t given it a chance.

  Not that I’m unwilling, but with no common hardware, I’m reluctant to go out and buy something.

  I can go buy a pinephone for postmarket, but won’t work for sailfish. I can get an Xperia for sailfish, but I’m out of luck for postmarket.

  Not to mention, I’m reluctant to drop a chunk of cash on aged hardware, whose successor doesn’t look to be as well supported.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why can't we go back to small phones?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But can it run a degoogled Android rom well?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah silly us.

  We spent a decade hating on IE, it’s slowness, poor support for any standards, plugins that fuck your shit up, etc.

  But it was obviously the best because it had that huge market share.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Could you imagine the enshittification cries if they did this. “Mozilla to add subscription model to your browser”.

  They have other products that have subscriptions you can pay for to support the company.

  Instead of using Mullvad, use Mozilla VPN (it is literally exactly the same, you just pay Mozilla not Mullvad)

  If you’re a web developer, Subscribe to MDN Plus.

  Hate spam? Firefox Relay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t believe Mozilla doesn’t have the best interests of the browser at heart, I believe that they do think their browser is the their number one product.

  But that’s the problem. It’s free software, going up against a juggernaut whose browser is just another side project to drive engagement with their core product.

  A juggernaut who just so happens to be one of Mozilla’s primary source of income. All it will take is a little bit of legislation somewhere in the world to make that deal less attractive and Mozilla could be dead in the water. And it will take all of those forks with it, paving the way for Google to become the true web Hegemony.

  Mozilla needs to diversify to ensure they can continue to provide stewardship to the browser.

  But trying to make money in 2025 just seems to summon the enshittification brigade.

  Free software is not free. Someone has to make it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Digital Fingerprinting: Google launched a new era of tracking worse than cookie banners | Tuta⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Further: the Canvas API doesn’t have any requirements on rendering accuracy.

  By deferring to the GPU, font library, etc, tracking code can generate an image that is in most cases unique to your machine.

  So blocking the Canvas API would return a 0. Which is less unique than what it would be normally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Digital Fingerprinting: Google launched a new era of tracking worse than cookie banners | Tuta⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Iirc, Websites can’t query addons unless those addons manipulate the DOM in a way that exposes themselves.

  They can query extensions.

  Addons are things installed inside the browser. Like uBlock, HTTPS Everywhere, Firefox Containerr, etc.

  Extensions are installed outside the browser. Such as Flashplayer, the Gnome extensions installer, etc.