GasMaskedLunatic

@GasMaskedLunatic@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australian Government gets a taste of what everyday people have to deal with in terms of data breaches as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's mobile phone number released online⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The solution is simple then. Allow businesses to maintain a phone number for people who watch ads on TV. Not like businesses getting spam calls is that big an issue. Though I’m certain they’d be very enthusiastic to have the unique contact QR feature available for tracking in web ads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australian Government gets a taste of what everyday people have to deal with in terms of data breaches as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's mobile phone number released online⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Phone numbers need to be memorable. A disposable unique contact does not. You can print a QR code, easily save it to a device, transmit it via nearly anything with a connectible screen. Of course you would want to launch it with alongside phone numbers, not in place of it, but this is what should be the next ‘innovation’ in cellular communication.
  That said, it does pose the problem of contacting someone with a phone that isn’t your own, perhaps from jail. I’m sure they would never suggest putting an emergency contact chip in your hand for your own health and safety. No government would ever suggest something so silly. /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australian Government gets a taste of what everyday people have to deal with in terms of data breaches as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's mobile phone number released online⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Your device and account credentials are unique enough to identify you on the carrier-level. Ultimately, every time you share your contact info, it should be a unique code (QR would be convenient enough) generated by your cell provider. If it’s ever leaked, you just notify your carrier to burn it, and give the contact a new unique code. No two people should be given the same contact, and all of the contacts are simply correlated to your device by the carrier. Additionally, when sharing contacts via QR, they could be modified on the device-level to include e2e encryption keys, thus further securing the transmitted information, not at the trust-me-bro carrier level, but at the user-verifiable device level. If the carrier gets hacked, reset the identifiers, associate the new one in your text app to keep conversations going, and move on like nothing happened. You’ll still be better off than if your phone number was leaked. It’s not perfect, but it’d be a hell of a lot more secure than what we have now.

  In other words: What if a billion dollar company made Signal, but with cell towers, and not as good?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Slightly better than Vegas. Unfortunately, plenty of people are okay with Vegas odds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube Music is testing AI hosts that will interrupt your tunes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a good idea, but will certainly be enshittification given its innovators. I’d love an AI host to introduce a song every fifteen minutes or so when I’m listening through Jellyfin where it wouldn’t include ads. Given YouTube’s history with ads, that’s probably all the AI host will be. random celebrity voice And now, for the best tune you’ve heard all day, brought to you by Ozempic. Feeling fat? I saw you delete that selfie. Talk to your doctor about getting thin- I mean Ozempic today! cue Fat by Weird Al

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google will use hashes to find and remove nonconsensual intimate imagery from Search⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Literally nothing. It will be applied more nefariously after it’s been proven capable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dem Orders Congressional Probe Into Epstein and Peter Thiel’s Relationship⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Good. Anyone with ties to Peter Thiel should be investigated thoroughly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Collective Shout Purge Sees Horror Games In Crosshairs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Involving the MasterCard Mafia in your puritanical crusade is next to criminal. The only solution is to [CONTENT REMOVED FOR VIOLATING RESTRICTIONS AGAINST ADVOCATING VIOLENCE].

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, their read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, their browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Good. I’ve been disabling this shit in about:config for one decade too many.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta Says it Made Sure Not to Seed Any Pirated Books⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What a relief. I was really concerned that they may have given somebody else a copy of the books they found useful enough to download themselves. /s Fucking bottom-feeders.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Academic papers yanked after authors found to have used unlicensed software⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Science is not valid if it is not expensive. Gravity does not exist unless Adobe gets their cut.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does the PC gaming industry still use such deceptive pricing?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This will be true in the future, but you are absolutely incorrect today.