circuscritic
@circuscritic@lemmy.ca
- Comment on The best browser for privacy? 19 hours ago:
Which is why I have my Firefox based browsers on Android set to only open up private windows.
But that’s not how I normally use web browsers, so yeah, sandboxing does matter if you have more regular browsing habits, such as not using incognito all the time.
- Comment on The best browser for privacy? 1 day ago:
I that depends on how much privacy you get when your browser can’t properly sandbox and provide site isolation.
- Comment on The best browser for privacy? 1 day ago:
Why do you think GrapheneOS uses a Chromium fork as a base for its browser, Vandium?
Its because Firefox on Android is seriously lacking in security relative to Chromium.
I use Firefox based browsers on my desktop, but for Android, I mainly stick to chromium-based ones, such as Chromite and Vandium.
If you’re insistent on using Firefox on Android, then IronFox.
- Comment on Landmine casualties globally hit 4-year high as states exit ban treaty 1 week ago:
They are just too useful of a defensive weapon.
I don’t mean they can’t be used a belligerent party, but their role is to defend an area and deny access, and they’re really good at it.
That’s not me justifying their continued use, just explaining why they’re still used.
If you’re a European country with a Russian border, you’re now certainly looking at using technologies perform similar role that are a treaty compliant, but much more expensive, or simply leaving the treaty.
- Comment on Aluminium OS will be Google’s take on Android for PC 1 week ago:
That wasn’t built around agentic AI integration.
This will be.
- Comment on YSK about SearXNG - an open metasearch engine 1 week ago:
At best, DDG results are only 33% less shitty than Google’s, but the UI is 2000% better.
- Comment on US | Survivors on ‘narco boat’ targeted by Trump order were blown apart after Hegseth verbal command to ‘kill everybody’: Report 1 week ago:
Stop, I’m choking on the irony.
- Comment on Australia | Teenagers sue over social media ban for ‘violating their right to communicate’ 1 week ago:
Social media is not the internet.
Social media is a privatized mass-spying and manipulation tool that directly and intentionally destroys the mental health of its users.
- Comment on US | Survivors on ‘narco boat’ targeted by Trump order were blown apart after Hegseth verbal command to ‘kill everybody’: Report 1 week ago:
I sorry that I live in reality.
I’m sorry that you want to pretend that when Democrats get back in power, that they’re going to hold these criminals to account.
But most of all, I’m sorry that you still have faith in the system so much that you are casting shame on anyone reminding people that the Democrats are not our saviors, and that it’s up to us.
- Comment on US | Survivors on ‘narco boat’ targeted by Trump order were blown apart after Hegseth verbal command to ‘kill everybody’: Report 1 week ago:
Remind me, who was the last non-centrist Democratic President?
- Comment on US | Survivors on ‘narco boat’ targeted by Trump order were blown apart after Hegseth verbal command to ‘kill everybody’: Report 1 week ago:
Misread your comment the first time.
What is my type?
Again, I have lived through many transitional elections and I’ve seen this cycle many times before, so I’m sorry saying out loud the reality of our broken two-party American political system is hurtful to you.
What I’m actually eager for, is to stop that cycle, and to stop it, you must first acknowledge it.
- Comment on US | Survivors on ‘narco boat’ targeted by Trump order were blown apart after Hegseth verbal command to ‘kill everybody’: Report 1 week ago:
That’s not a both sides argument.
That’s someone who’s lived through many cycles of American hot potato, and is under no illusion as to who the Democrats are, which is not the same as the Republicans, but still their own lesser brand of banal evil.
- Comment on US | Survivors on ‘narco boat’ targeted by Trump order were blown apart after Hegseth verbal command to ‘kill everybody’: Report 1 week ago:
They’re called elections.
And before you tell me Trump is going to rig them, they just lost the last batch of them.
So please take your civil war bullshit somewhere else.
- Comment on US | Survivors on ‘narco boat’ targeted by Trump order were blown apart after Hegseth verbal command to ‘kill everybody’: Report 1 week ago:
When Democrats inevitably take power again, and refuse to prosecute these war crimes, remember this to remind yourself that they are the enemy as well, even if not the immediate one.
- Comment on US adults social media usage by platform 1 week ago:
Why do these studies include YouTube as a social media network?
Might as well include Medium.
- Comment on I analyzed 200 e-commerce sites and found 73% of their traffic is fake 1 month ago:
It’s systemic, and whether or not it’s perpetrated directly by big tech, they are the primary beneficiaries i.e. increased ad sales.
This is a problem that requires regulation, which means it will not be addressed meaningfully, as that won’t happen anytime soon.
- Comment on People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads 1 month ago:
Not entirely true, but necessarily false either.
Projectivy launcher for Android TV is great and will remove home screen ads, and provide a much more streamlined interface overall.
Apple TV is really nice though, clean, smooth, and stable. I honestly would recommend that to most people, especially if they already have Apple products.
- Comment on kurzgesagt – AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel 1 month ago:
I have no idea what you’re going on about.
It’s not a matter of betrayal, revealing one more facet of society that is controlled behind the scenes right by private equity.
Whose work was I shitting on? I was shaming people who were down voting the very informative video showing, with sources, private equities quiet takeover of major YouTube channels.
Maybe you should review the comment thread and see if you meant to respond to someone else, because that’s the most charitable explanation I can come up with for the rationale behind your very odd remarks.
- Comment on kurzgesagt – AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel 1 month ago:
I didn’t single out any particular YouTube channel for individual scorn. My comment was in reference to that very well sourced video about private equity buying up / investing YouTube channels.
- Comment on kurzgesagt – AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel 1 month ago:
The video which made the accusations, not me, provided sources for all of their claims.
Did you even look?
Sorry, that was rhetorical, obviously you did not look.
- Comment on kurzgesagt – AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel 1 month ago:
Anyone down voting this should be ashamed of themselves.
Like deeply and personally ashamed.
The type of shame that follows them for the rest their lives, because that’s how scummy you’d have to be in order downvote someone shining a light on how private equity is buying out major YouTube channels.
Something that I was entirely unaware of, and appreciate your comment regarding.
- Comment on Someone Is Sending Fake Letters To T-Mobile Customers Shaming Their Browsing History 2 months ago:
Sounds like someone purchased, or otherwise gained access to, T-Mobile’s targeted customer advertising and profile data.
Or, the kind of data tracked by phone number through any number of data harvesting applications that data broker’s sell.
If it’s the latter, it’s possible they have a grudge against T-Mobile, or this is an early stage of a larger plan.
Or maybe it just is for shits and giggles.
- Comment on does the quality of downloaded youtube video increase after being downloaded? 2 months ago:
That’s why it’s so important to always store your backup media inside your refrigerator for cold storage.
- Comment on does the quality of downloaded youtube video increase after being downloaded? 2 months ago:
I don’t know where you’re from, but for the Americans who are confused by the term cold storage, their talking about refrigeration.
- Comment on YSK that 55% of Gazan Children has suicidal thoughts in a 2022 report 2 months ago:
They tried several times, and that was before Israel had a nuclear triad.
So, no.
- Comment on Reddit Mods Sued by YouTuber Ethan Klein Fight Efforts to Unmask Them 2 months ago:
No one goes to bat this hard for someone they don’t support.
Maybe the rest of the people here. Don’t know Ethan’s past, but I have a good idea.
And no, I’ll never feel bad for, or side with, the pro-genocidal open pedophile that is Ethan Klein.
- Comment on Reddit Mods Sued by YouTuber Ethan Klein Fight Efforts to Unmask Them 2 months ago:
Hello Ethan, I didn’t know you were on Lemmy.
Got to say, I’m not a fan, you seem pretty fucking psychotic.
- Comment on Zuckerberg hailed AI ‘superintelligence’. Then his smart glasses failed on stage | Matthew Cantor 2 months ago:
That’s my point, I don’t use LLMs for those operations, and I’m aware of their faults, but that doesn’t mean they’re useless.
So yeah, I look forward to the AI bubble popping, but I’m still going to use LLMs for type of tasks they’re actually suited for.
I don’t think many people on Lemmy are under the the spell of AI hype, but plenty of people here are knowledgeable enough to know when, and when not, to leverage this useful, but dangerously overhyped and oversold, piece of technology.
- Comment on Zuckerberg hailed AI ‘superintelligence’. Then his smart glasses failed on stage | Matthew Cantor 2 months ago:
Ask the model to confirm the answer and it will correct itself, at least when I’ve tried that.
I’m sure there’s a mathematical or programmatic logic as to why, but seeing as I don’t need LLM’s to count letters, I’m not overly interested in it.
Regardless, I look forward to the bubble popping.
- Comment on Keir Starmer in crisis as Labour drops to 16% in devastating new poll 2 months ago:
The Democrats never fail us, we just continually fail them.
Which is also a sentiment extremely popular on Lemmy.