PrivacyDingus
@PrivacyDingus@lemmy.world
- Comment on FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies 2 weeks ago:
any way of slowing things down or wasting resources is a gain I guess
- Comment on FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies 2 weeks ago:
nepenthe
It’s a Markov-chain-based text generator which could be difficult for people to implement on repos depending upon how they’re hosting them. Regardless, any sensibly-built crawler will have rate limits. This means that although Nepenthe is an interesting thought exercise, it’s only going to do anything to things knocked together by people who haven’t thought about it, not the Big Big companies with the real resources who are likely having the biggest impact.
- Comment on Why Gen Z Is Ditching Dating Apps 1 month ago:
dis mf said females
- Comment on BuzzFeed is taking on Instagram, TikTok, X with a new social platform designed to spread ‘joy’ 1 month ago:
- Comment on AI dating is about data, not love: How to resist the tech takeover of romance. 1 month ago:
building a profile assisted by a bot meeting people mediated by a bot knowing what to say mediated by a bot knowing when to pop the question mediated by a bot learning how to raise your kids mediated by a bot
brave, new, world
- Comment on Brave now lets you inject custom JavaScript to tweak websites 1 month ago:
guessing this is a money-from-google take, or something about some of the telemetry stuff firefox collects, or the fact they’re not really focused on their browser and keep putting their efforts into AI products or other flights of fancy. To be fair they’re all good takes; I mainly use Firefox, but they also have some deep issues.
- Comment on Sonos Plans to Launch Apple TV-Like Streaming Box 1 month ago:
keep bundling content in little services which cost an extra 10 dollarydoos a month and i’ll keep telling people to walk the plank and saying ARRRR
- Comment on Google must sell Chrome to end search monopoly, justice department argues in court filing 4 months ago:
to me, shaving Android off their business (suggested next step if this fails) would be way more impactful
- Comment on 'Ouest-France' becomes first French newspaper to stop posting on X 4 months ago:
X the everything (except the guardian, ouest-france etc.) app
- Comment on Bluesky Social surpasses 19 million users as more celebrities leave X 4 months ago:
the right’s echo chambers (X, Truth Social) seem to have done very well for their abilities to succeed as a movement
- Comment on Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe 4 months ago:
we have moved to musk hating but i fail to see how all of it could be characterised as nonsensical; there are elements for sure
- Comment on Arc Browser - Changing focus when the main product isn't even finished? 5 months ago:
the arc of browser is long, and bends towards techbro nonsense
- Comment on WhatsApp is making a massive change to the way it saves your contacts 5 months ago:
OH BOY THAT SOUNDS SWELL AND DEFINITELY NOT A DATA GRAB
- Comment on Encrypted Chat App ‘Session’ Leaves Australia After Visit From Police 5 months ago:
yeah, hard disagree, 404 are the best outlet in the tech game at the moment
- Comment on Using AI generated code will make you a bad programmer. 5 months ago:
came here to post this
- Comment on What websites still feel like the old internet? 5 months ago:
people often say they can find this kind of thing via my employer, Mojeek: www.mojeek.com
- Comment on Google is testing verified checkmarks in search 5 months ago:
that might be useful i guess if google hadn’t shredded every tiny piece of trust we had in them
- Comment on Meta smart glasses can be used to dox anyone in seconds, study finds 5 months ago:
it is annoying when they do that; i would, however, venture that these glasses probably give people a way of doing things more surreptitiously, even though this article doesn’t explore that
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
the massive negative number here gives me a lot of hope
